Think that it’s always the same obsession of using just guided weapons to screw everything here.
US add also the one about gliding, stand-off bombs to this.
Why doesn’t just use Brimstones or even Mavericks there? And against Isis technicals also simple rocket pods would have a great efficacy.

Yes, definitely important to note. Though it’s not out of any desire to deceive but rather that the Chinese words for “enter service” are literally what they mean in the loosest sense of the term i.e. that they aircraft are now received by the air force and operated and maintained by them.
There probably are Chinese equivalents of IOC and FOC etc (of which IOC is usually the level of capability one thinks about in western military forces when a new piece of equipment enters “service”), but those are much more technical military standards which they would not openly disclose to the public.

In this case, when they say the J-20 has entered service it likely refers to the air force receiving them and starting the Chinese equivalent of IOT&E.

Similar to the original J-10, which entered service in 2003 for its equivalent of IOT&E, but was only considered operational (the equivalent of IOC) in 2006.

I expect it will take a similar two or three years from when J-20 first “entered service” for it to achieve its equivalent of IOC.

Yes, while a.t.c. the official entry in service of a Sov/russian plane is when its first operative unit reach the equivalent of FOC, as IOC just doesn’t exist for them and LRIP the same, while contracts are afforded one batch at time.

I am sure that the SAR modes of the radar are better on the F-35.

It is both more modern than build specifically on the A2G mission

No way to identify those people as combatants from the video so I can only hope that the attackers had good intel… 😮

Yes, because civilians just naturally tend to pack up in group of several tens of persons and take a walk ordered in rank and files…

Same I would say about the other post about tanks effectiveness, please stop this senseless male reproductive organ measurement contest.
It’s only natural than an infantry ATGM would be launched at the flanks of a vehicle, it is the principal advantage of this kind of weapon to start from an hidden location and take out an enemy unaware, while launching them full frontal is a quasi suicidal.
Only thing to be noted in the pictures is that even the Leopard turret pop out when the ammunition cook off, same like not just the russian tanks but on every other tank that keeps them in the hull.

Italy + Sweden: you get Gripen and Aew&C planes from the latter, AMX, C-27J , all Aermacchi trainers and all the helicopters than you would need (+ something more) by Augusta Westland from the former.
Plus Selex and Ericsson for avionics.
And Staffan de Mistura as an added bonus…

Missile would have an advantage to be air-launched if it is turn out to be (99,9% probable) as hypersonic missile powered by a ram/scramjet engine while a stealth configuration would turn useful for the Pak-da for taking up also theatre range conventional mission actually performed by the Tu-22M.
You can also put the two things together, restoring or better expanding to the max the former Tu-22M original use as an anti CV asset.

Precisely, it is simple, designed around low cost of purchase and operation and is modern enough to include open architectures and easy integration of new sensors and weaponry. Out of the few options this does appear to offer the most flexibility and is the most future proof given its payload bay affords some room to grow in terms of mission system payloads in other roles such as ISR.

Scorpion takes the extreme CAS mission and survivability out to save weight and cost. So unlike the AMX or A-10 it isn’t going to be going at low altitudes and using a cannon either internal or external. That alone probably shaves out quite a bit of cost from the platform as can be seen in the weight, thrust and other design parameters compared to the AMX. The idea is to look at a low to no threat environment CAS and strike mission and have a high availability, low cost of ownership platform that still has the chops to do a vast majority of missions currently being performed by the fast jet fleets which is mainly the F-16, F-15 and some by the A-10s.

The payload bay allows for growth into other mission areas such as manned ISR and targeting but other than that Textron has not really tried to reinvent the wheel here. They built it around a swing ISR and Light Strike mission and not specifically for CAS and given that the major CAS and light strike providers in the USAF is still the fast jet fleet they have positioned themselves quite nicely to cover that mission. If it were purely an A-10 replacement it would have looked a little if not a lot different.

To the rest of your point, are you suggesting the USAF buy the AMX? I mean this is supposed to be a low cost of acquisition program with a significantly lower cost of ownership compared to the the aircraft who’s missions it would be replacing. Scorpion is targeting a fly away cost of $20-$25 Million with a < $3000 CPFH. If the USAF does find and commits money for such a project this is likely to be their limit if not the upper limit given some of the other platforms in play.

Not at all, just suggesting that an airplane designed the more, the less along the guidelines the Scorpion is supposed to operate already exist, is in service and has often been used in the way you suggest, also partnering with A-10 over Kosovo, so the best thing that your country can do is make a call to us and get the combat records of it so to get itself an idea of what to expect by the Scorpion or another plane designed along the same operative concepts .
Your description of the Scorpion instead of setting the two apart you describes instead almost exactly how the AMX has operated in all those years i.e. as a real aerial support plane for the ground troops, capable of using both the quite capable ISR assets and real time links it got than, less often, the more conventional means it have into fulfilling such a role, without having the heavy armor or the big guns of others planes used on the same mission.