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    Post  jhelb Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:18 am

    Hole wrote:And the "less stealthiy" part is pure BS.
    Unless of course you are suggesting that Su 57 relies more on RAM than shaping to reduce RCS.
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    Post  GarryB Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:18 am

    So now they are suggesting that the aerospace industry should be nationalized, after mocking everyone doing just that? They are nothing but bullshitters.

    But that wont work... how can already really rich people in America exploit that to get even richer... it just wont work... how will politicians get bribes... and if they don't get bribes how will they know they are making the right decision?

    And to make things worse, they are reducing their budget for their newer fighters, since they can't make up their mind as to what would be the way to recover the overwhelming superiority they need to dare going to war. It is a shame they cannot accept or understand that such thing is gone for good

    But don't you just love the irony... they are having to revert back to big heavy expensive 4th gen fighters because the light cheap 5th gen fighter is too expensive... wasn't there an American senator in the 70s that said America will never buy a 20 million dollar fighter again (because the F-15 was too expensive in his view at the time). Of course in a way he was eventually right because the F-16 started out cheaper but eventually both the F-15 and F-16 and later F-22 and F-35 cost way more than that....

    Su-57 will not perform the same role as that of the F-22. The F-22 was designed primarily for SEAD.

    Not really... it really only had AAMs... it was going to fly into a third world country and clean up all the enemy fighter aircraft and other planes and helicopters while cruise missiles took out the major SAM sites and radar and comms centres and HQs. The F-22 got its small diameter bombs and other air to ground munitions as an afterthought... it was replacing the F-15C... not a pound for air to ground...

    Su-57 is more of a hunter killer. It will detect stealthy and non stealthy aircraft at BVR and then defeat them in a WVR battle. This explains why Sukhoi has designed the Su 57 to be more manoeuvrable and less stealthy compared to F-22.

    Pretty much... the F-22 is a sniper on a hill that would shoot down third world countries airplanes and they wouldn't know it was there. The Su-57 is stealthy enough and carrying enough EW equipment to make it a difficult target for AMRAAM, so it can fly up to where the F-22s are operating and beat them in a knife fight with its manouver and cannon performance...

    The F-22 was designed for air superiority, to shoot down enemy planes and keep the airspace safe for F-35´s. And the "less stealthiy" part is pure BS.

    The F-35 only came in to the plan when it was realised that they weren't getting 1,500 F-22s.

    A bit like the moment they realised that helmet mounted sights and R-73s in MiG-29s make them too deadly in close combat so all of a sudden AMRAAM was properly funded. The ASRAAM programme died on the vine because the British made it... the Americans were making the AMRAAM for HATO for the BVR missile and the Brits were making the ASRAAM for HATO, but as usual the Americans made their own... AIM-9X and screwed the Brits again...

    Hilarious really... the Americans got the Belgians and Brits to support the 7.62x51mm cartridge for HATO despite them both preferring different cartridges... and in return the Americans promised to buy FN FAL rifles as their standard infantry rifle. The Germans also promised to buy the rifle but they wanted to produce it in Germany. Well after being invaded by Germany and having all their best gun making factories stripped by the Germans during WWII the Belgians said no... we will make them for you. The Germans bought some FN FALs but ended up making G3s, and of course the Americans screwed them too and just modified the Garand with the M14.

    Of course in a way the Belgians had the last laugh because the FN FAL is a much better rifle than the M14.

    Unless of course you are suggesting that Su 57 relies more on RAM than shaping to reduce RCS.

    There is nothing wrong with the shaping of the Su-57.
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    Post  LMFS Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:28 am

    GarryB wrote:But that wont work... how can already really rich people in America exploit that to get even richer... it just wont work... how will politicians get bribes... and if they don't get bribes how will they know they are making the right decision?

    It may sound funny, but what you say is the purest truth Very Happy

    Thatcher once confessed (when USSR had already been destroyed, of course) that they were not afraid of it militarily but economically, due to central planing and social incentives to the population. After the end of the Cold War, the financial plutocracy has been pretty busy hollowing out the states on a global scale, until there is not much more left to loot. Beyond the grandstanding and fake economic theories of the West there was never anything else than greed.

    But don't you just love the irony... they are having to revert back to big heavy expensive 4th gen fighters because the light cheap 5th gen fighter is too expensive... wasn't there an American senator in the 70s that said America will never buy a 20 million dollar fighter again (because the F-15 was too expensive in his view at the time). Of course in a way he was eventually right because the F-16 started out cheaper but eventually both the F-15 and F-16 and later F-22 and F-35 cost way more than that....

    Not only is the F-35 expensive (by the size of the latest cost reductions one may be inclined to think they have just tuned down the thievery level in the program quite a bit), it is a retrograde airframe without the capability to carry big ordnance and much less to accelerate it to the speeds needed for the best effect. F-15 is almost 1 M (!) faster and flies much higher. Anybody seeing the E-M chart of a F-35 can understand why the Navy and Marines essentially don't care about restricting the supersonic operation of their planes altogether. "It was never the strongest point of the plane" they say, and I could not agree more. BTW, that below is the chart for the A version, now imagine what the B and C are capable of... sad!

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    Post  GarryB Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:58 am

    It may sound funny, but what you say is the purest truth Very Happy

    Thatcher once confessed (when USSR had already been destroyed, of course) that they were not afraid of it militarily but economically, due to central planing and social incentives to the population. After the end of the Cold War, the financial plutocracy has been pretty busy hollowing out the states on a global scale, until there is not much more left to loot. Beyond the grandstanding and fake economic theories of the West there was never anything else than greed.

    Well that is the problem, I don't have any ill will towards the average American, they are just poorly informed, but western consumerism democracy is predatory and relies on slave labour to work, but it is a conundrum because when all your people cost too much per hour to make anything then you move the work overseas to countries where a dollar a day is good money and people will fight to get such jobs to make really cheap shit... the company that runs the sweat shops makes money... the CEOs get their bonuses and their subsidised existence... work will pay for the internet and their cars and their clothes... they really don't have much they need to spend their actual salaries on... even holidays will be first class flights paid for by the business, but the problem is that your own countries dies... there is no work for the middle class and it dies which is ironic because that was a criticism of the Soviet Union... the people in power were the rich but without the actual cash, and everyone else was the poor... but in fact with jobs and homes and health and education paid for they were actually better off than the middle class in the west... lose your job and lose your health insurance...

    Not only is the F-35 expensive (by the size of the latest cost reductions one may be inclined to think they have just tuned down the thievery level in the program quite a bit), it is a retrograde airframe without the capability to carry big ordnance and much less to accelerate it to the speeds needed for the best effect. F-15 is almost 1 M (!) faster and flies much higher. Anybody seeing the E-M chart of a F-35 can understand why the Navy and Marines essentially don't care about restricting the supersonic operation of their planes altogether. "It was never the strongest point of the plane" they say, and I could not agree more. BTW, that below is the chart for the A version, now imagine what the B and C are capable of... sad!

    The F-15C was always intended to be the fighter, the F-15E replaced the F-111 in the deep strike role while retaining the ability to fight enemy aircraft, the F-16 in the US Air Force was intended to be a bomb truck... an aircraft that spent most of its time hitting ground targets.

    I remember early on in the programme when the performance characteristics were revealed a UK aircraft expert described the F-35 as being a stealthy Buccaneer, when what they really need is a stealthy F-16.

    Basically the problem is commonality... to get VSTOL performance to replace the Harrier types it needs that big fuselage front for the lift fan... which gives it the wrong shape to be nimble and fast.

    To be clear the Buccaneer is a fantastic plane that I actually like... if the UK still had full sized aircraft carriers with F-4s and Buccs the Falklands war would have been much less dicey... with BVR Sparrows the F-4s could have engaged Argentine aircraft without having to manouver to get on their tails for a good chance of a hit... now Sparrows have a fairly low PK but being able to launch Sparrow after Sparrow from 30km away and having the speed and flight range to remain 20-30km away not much would have changed in terms of numbers of aircraft lost, but the Argentines would have lost rather more aircraft and more importantly a lot less ships because their air protection would have been much much better... The Bucc at low altitude on a strike mission with a nuclear bomb under each wing was much faster and much longer ranged than the F-16 and it could also operate from aircraft carriers... what it was not... however... was a fighter plane.

    The problem is that HATO countries are going to find that this ever increasingly expensive aircraft is not really a fight plane like the ones they are used to...

    In fact fit a nice big AESA radar to a Tu-22M3 and design it to carry AAMs in its rotary launchers and cover its belly in tiny weapon bays designed to hold individual 9M100 and R-77M and R-77PDM missiles and you might spend the same to buy it, and it certainly wont be stealthy but with an AESA that big and that many missiles you probably wont care... and it will be much faster so for interceptions it will be much better.

    If you look on YouTube there are videos by Candian patriots showing first Tu-160s and then MiG-31s violating Canadian airspace... they are deluded to think the Russians want to take control of their North West Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic... what they are right about is the total inability of F-35s to have any chance of intercepting these targets. They go back to delusion of course when their solution is an Avro Arrow flying at mach 3.5...

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    Post  JohninMK Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:07 am

    A few pretty good analyses there Garry.

    After the fall of the SU the western bankers (the real PTB) were well on their way to exploiting their latest, and biggest for many generations colony, Russia, when along came, out of the blue, a new leader, Putin, intent on stopping it. I think I can say without contradiction that Putin changed the destiny of the world, slowly but surely in ways that are only now becoming clear. The West has run out of someone else's wealth to steal and is now riding the exponential debt mountain. Whilst those areas with under exploited wealth, Russia's hard assets and China's soft assets, are slowly gaining the high ground.

    I too am a fan of the Buccaneer, a Tiger tank of an aircraft in its engineering.

    Anyway, back to the USAF. The function that is ground based interception is pretty specialised, single seat/big engine/lots of missiles/good range that airforces around the world had pretty much nailed a while back. Then came the 'peace dividend' which accelerated the gradual reduction in size of militaries meaning that most airforces needed interception as a function of a multirole aircraft. That left the US and Russia (then China) as the only forces large enough to justify specialist aircraft.

    But, the MIC and politicians in the US saw the multirole aircraft as a very powerful money earning opportunity. With the F-16 and F-18 they had had a juicy bite at that cherry but they knew they could do much better. Hence the all things to all men F-35 that has been a stonking success (to them). The only problems are functional, which are again a success because they are more money making opportunities, that the operators have to work their way around.

    As the F-35 is a jack of all trades so master of none it is weakest at the extremes of its performance where some thought it could replace the A-10 and, backing up the F-22, the F-15. It might have to do that in smaller airforces that can now only justify a single aircraft type (Norway, Belgium, Holland etc) but not in the US military which is still big. Mind you, new tactics are being evolved that do make it the wonder plane Smile

    So, once the F-35 is safely embedded we have the (high profit, support another company, opportunity) F-15EX come along. Which, as commented above, is the perfect plane for the role. Note that it was sold as a single seat plane, but in the small print it said that in order to maximise the benefit from the R&D paid by Qatar it would be fitted for but not with a second seat. Clever that, allaying fears that it might kill F-35 sales but giving Boeing the ability to cost effectively replace the F-15E at the appropriate time in the future.

    We, with our interests at the 'sharp end' sometimes lose sight of the real objective in today's world in the West, profits. As such the F-35 is a roaring success. They just expect not to actually have to fight a peer opponent with it.
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    Post  GarryB Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:06 am

    https://sputniknews.com/military/202007141079880897-seven-crashes-in-sixty-days-where-when-and-why-have-americas-fighter-jets-been-crashing/

    No Vann to post this and explain about quality control and other factors...
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    Post  LMFS Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:37 pm

    Surprise surprise!

    The USAF is thinking about replacing the F-15E not with F-35 but with more F-15EX lol1

    https://www.airforcemag.com/f-15ex-could-replace-strike-eagle-fleet-in-addition-to-older-c-d-models-usaf-says/

    That could expand the series to more than 400 units... so much for Russians being backwards and buying 4G planes in the age of 5G... clown clown clown
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    Post  GarryB Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:17 am

    After the fall of the SU the western bankers (the real PTB) were well on their way to exploiting their latest, and biggest for many generations colony, Russia, when along came, out of the blue, a new leader, Putin, intent on stopping it. I think I can say without contradiction that Putin changed the destiny of the world, slowly but surely in ways that are only now becoming clear.

    But when you listen to the spin of the west he is Hitler and Stalin all rolled in to one... which I find bloody hilarious because the west and its treatment of Germany after WWI created Hitler and made WWII necessary.... in many ways Putin is a good Stalin.... he turned Russia around at a time when it was effectively undersiege and losing land and place and he turned it around by being sensible and clever. No need for the Gulags like the US resorted to in Guantanimo and sites throughout Europe I might add... just good motivation and sensible decisions in favour of Russia and Russians instead of the cowards way out of accepting bribes or pressure to do your own people wrong.

    I too am a fan of the Buccaneer, a Tiger tank of an aircraft in its engineering.

    I can operate from an aircraft carrier and at low level it was faster and with a much greater range than the F-16 with two nuclear bombs... it would have been enormously valuable in the Falklands war... they could have been used to attack the airfields on the islands instead of using the Vulcans... which was highly risky...

    Having Buccs and Phantoms and proper AEW aircraft they probably would not have lost anywhere near as many ships...

    Hence the all things to all men F-35 that has been a stonking success (to them). The only problems are functional, which are again a success because they are more money making opportunities, that the operators have to work their way around.

    They decided that it would be cheap because it would replace everything and everyone would use it so with everyone sharing the same spare parts pool and you only use what you need you can save an enormous amount of money on logistics and training.... but it would only work of there was no other choice, so all other programmes had to die and the one type had to replace as many other platforms as possible so that it will be bought in the greatest numbers possible...

    An underlying problem is that when they sell their design they inflate the numbers because the more planes you make the cheaper it is per plane so if you need 1,500 F-22s then they get much cheaper than if you make less than 200. So they promise a cheap plane but demand you buy way more than you need... and what happens is that the prices go up so people cut their orders which in turn makes the prices go up even further in a viscous cycle... made worse because they were never going to make 3,500 F-35s in the first place...

    Mind you, new tactics are being evolved that do make it the wonder plane

    It is a wonder plane... wonder why we bought it and wonder why it costs so much...

    The USAF is thinking about replacing the F-15E not with F-35 but with more F-15EX

    A no brainer... the F-35 has nothing like the range or capacity to do the job

    In the 1980s there were plans to develop a ground attack version of the F-16.... it was called F-16XL and actually looked like a rather cool design... just an F-16 with its horizontal tail removed and the main wing replaced with a large delta wing. The wings and belly could be covered in weapon pylons for all sorts of ordinance.

    They also came up with a less clever idea which was the A-16 which they thought could replace the A-10.... it didn't get a big gun and armour but was going to basically use Mavericks from stand off range. It was a terrible failure, which is what it was... but I think the F-16XL was rather interesting...

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    Post  JohninMK Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:24 am

    LMFS wrote:Surprise surprise!

    The USAF is thinking about replacing the F-15E not with F-35 but with more F-15EX lol1

    https://www.airforcemag.com/f-15ex-could-replace-strike-eagle-fleet-in-addition-to-older-c-d-models-usaf-says/

    That could expand the series to more than 400 units... so much for Russians being backwards and buying 4G planes in the age of 5G... clown clown clown

    Another take on the same subject. Quite a good analysis.

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35312/lets-talk-about-the-air-force-potentially-replacing-the-f-15e-with-the-f-15ex
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    Post  LMFS Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:04 am

    GarryB wrote:A no brainer... the F-35 has nothing like the range or capacity to do the job

    Well, I agree it makes sense, since they don't have any other platform that has the size and capability for attack role, but it still it is cringe worthy that they do it:

    - 15 years after having inducted the successor of F-15 (!)
    - After having ridiculed Russia for doing the same they are shamelessly copying now.

    I would add, that Russia did this on the right order, that is, first develop 4++ to test 5G technologies and afterwards deploy the PAK-FA, while US did it the other way around, first deploy 5G at astronomic costs, then realize it was wrong all along, then come back to 4G... if I was the responsible behind a disaster like this I would rather look for a whole in the ground and disappear into it...

    In the 1980s there were plans to develop a ground attack version of the F-16.... it was called F-16XL and actually looked like a rather cool design... just an F-16 with its horizontal tail removed and the main wing replaced with a large delta wing. The wings and belly could be covered in weapon pylons for all sorts of ordinance.

    The F-16 had wings as small as possible, increasing them was an easy way of giving both payload capability and fuel for better performance as attack plane... which brings up the question of why does US insist in using a small airframe for the roles that demand a big one...

    JohninMK wrote:Another take on the same subject. Quite a good analysis.

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35312/lets-talk-about-the-air-force-potentially-replacing-the-f-15e-with-the-f-15ex

    It is remarkable that they are substituting F-15C (which has simply astonishing wing loads and TWR) with the EX (an updated E), which is substantially heavier and less manoeuvrable, essentially making it an inferior match for Su-35S. See the perceived difference by the pilots between those planes:

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    Post  Sujoy Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:19 am

    Elon Musk Beats Jeff Bezos To U.S. Air Force Contract As Billionaire Space Race Blasts Off

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/08/10/elon-musk-beats-jeff-bezos-to-us-air-force-contract-as-billionaire-space-race-blasts-off/#5858d9de7ad0

    I've been saying this for quite sometime that SpaceX’s Starlink Project, which seeks to create satellite internet access unfettered by ground installation limitations, is actually financed by the United States military. This will greatly enhance US battlefield communication. The Pentagon has already roped in SpaceX for preliminary tests under a US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) programme called ‘Global Lightning’ where SpaceX'x Starlink has sought to be integrated into the US military’s emerging next-generation sensor—shooter networks.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:27 am

    B-1B/2s r making the news again: 
    https://www.ng.ru/news/687783.html?print=Y

    https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2317704/us-demonstrates-airpower-in-indo-pacific-region-with-simultaneous-bomber-missio/


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    Post  Sujoy Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:12 pm

    Former CIA officer charged with providing secrets to China

    https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-17/former-cia-officer-accused-of-spying-for-china
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    Post  kvs Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:42 pm

    Sujoy wrote:Elon Musk Beats Jeff Bezos To U.S. Air Force Contract As Billionaire Space Race Blasts Off

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/08/10/elon-musk-beats-jeff-bezos-to-us-air-force-contract-as-billionaire-space-race-blasts-off/#5858d9de7ad0

    I've been saying this for quite sometime that SpaceX’s Starlink Project, which seeks to create satellite internet access unfettered by ground installation limitations, is actually financed by the United States military. This will greatly enhance US battlefield communication. The Pentagon has already roped in SpaceX for preliminary tests under a US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) programme called ‘Global Lightning’ where SpaceX'x Starlink has sought to be integrated into the US military’s emerging next-generation sensor—shooter networks.

    This shows how dependent the US military is on GPS. It knows that GPS will be taken out so it is trying to spam LEO with many GPS equivalent satellites
    that will be harder to disable. But these morons in Washington have no idea who they are fucking around with. Russia will come up with a way to trash
    thousands of satellites in LEO at once. The can do it by sending many small nuclear bombs into LEO and EMP blasting this great hope of the US to win
    WWIII which it plans to start itself.

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    Post  Isos Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:14 am

    When they will see the real bills of those small satelittes and how often they need to change them, it will become another multi billion dollars failed project.

    People are already stressing about 5G and doesn't want it, thousands of satelittes burning our heads from the skies will be worse.

    Fiber cables is the best solution for the Internet.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Fri Sep 04, 2020 2:14 pm

    B-52s over Ukraine:
    https://www.rbc.ru/politics/04/09/2020/5f5251959a7947999b389db8
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:33 pm

    US Flies Nuclear Bombers Near Russia Coast
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    Post  LMFS Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:32 pm

    Will Roper says a NGAD demonstrator has already flown:

    https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/09/usaf-jet/168479/

    Whatever this demonstrator actually is, this is just another nail in the coffin of current US 5th generation of fighters, one of their biggest flops in decades on the way to being rather a half generation by the way its planes are ageing, and an admission that the competition by Russia and China is not so pathetic as they claim Embarassed
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    Post  Arrow Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:53 pm

    So the US already has a 6th generation prototype. They will again be a big step ahead of Russia and China.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:07 pm

    Will it matter if they won't be affordable in large #s to match the PLAAF & VKS?
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    Post  Arrow Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:13 pm

    It will matter. The US can afford hundreds of new aircraft. Russia is to introduce only 78 T-50s by 2028
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:17 pm

    We couldn't afford as many F-22s as the AF originally wanted, what makes u think that these 6th gen. fighters will fare better?


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    Post  Arrow Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:19 pm

    I do not know what the orders will be, but the USA is the first to have a prototype of the 6th generation fighter when Russia and China are introducing only the fifth, and Russia is just starting a very small series production. They were ahead of their competitors by 20 years.
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    Post  Tsavo Lion Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:25 pm

    Russia & China will still have many other fighters/UCAVs & AD systems to deal with them.
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    Post  Arrow Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:27 pm

    The US has many other fighters too. Plus huge orders for the F-35.

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