Any "anal-isis" about dedicated interceptors made in a country that used an F-16 with AIM-7 for the job till mid 90s can't be considered other than a joke.
There is nothing to discuss, seriously.
It is actually much worse than that because for most of the 70s and 80s and even 90s the vast majority of F-16s didn't have a BVR missile option... AFAIK very few were equipped with Sparrows, and most relied on Sidewinders... which is why, despite their decent flight performance and capable radar and avionics, they would have been in serious trouble against MiG-23s and Mig-29s of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.
Even if they did all have Sparrows the Soviets had R-27 missiles with passive radar seekers that could hit targets emitting illuminating beams for SARH missiles.
The R-27 and R-27E were both faster and longer ranged than Sparrow so an F-16 or F-15 for that matter marking a MiG-29 or Su-27 so it can fire a Sparrow at it would be immediately fired upon if such an R-27 was being carried by the defending aircraft... the F-16 or F-15 would need to keep their radar pointed at the target meaning they would need to keep closing the target to hold the lock... any break in tracking and any Sparrow already fired would be useless and fall to the ground.
Once the Soviet plane has launched their anti radiation R-27 it can turn away and do anything it pleases and its missile will home in on the F-16s or F-15s radar... which is in target marking SARH mode and would not notice the incoming missile... which is faster and longer ranged than any model Sparrow, which means the Soviet missile hits first and the US missile hits the ground or the water.
But that is OK because in close combat HATO training means they will win... except the IRST and R-73 and helmet mounted sights in the MiG-29 and Su-27 means they wont.
Even being super generous and giving them a 2 to 1 loss ratio HATO is going to run out of aircraft... and that is just air to air... their ground based air defence systems were formidable and mobile and independent and even taking down the AD network the components of of the systems can all work independently... not as effective, but still very dangerous...
This Cheap propaganda has been debunked in the SMO thread, but NATO propaganda outfits are still hoping that some uninformed fools will take the news seriously to incite resentment toward the Russian leadership.
Or is it wishful thinking hoping to pull the ash from the fire and still say this is good turkey...
To admit they should have talked peace earlier would be to admit you made a mistake and the west are incapable of that... they needed the pressure of Kursk to get the great deal they are about to negotiate... but how could Russia even trust them?
They can't and Russia knows they can't.
You can't negotiate with a side that invents its own truth and bans all alternative views.
The Queer looking monkey in the picture below is DW reporter Nick Connolly. About 2 weeks ago this vermin joined the Ukrainian cannon fodder team that crossed into Kursk.
He is likely already dead... is he still posting stories?
Looks like Telegram has made a deal with NATO for its slow takeover.
So the free speech hero folded like all the others.
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