Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "F-35 vs S-400" video.
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From http://www.warisboring.com/2009/02/10/russian-super-fighter-not-so-scary/
Pierre Sprey comments on Flankers
1. The Su-30MK is simply another modification of the Su-27, a not-very-high-performing Russian imitation of our F-15 that had its prototype flight in 1977. The new version is significantly heavier and has poorer dogfight acceleration and turn than the original, mainly because of all the weighty and draggy gadgetry (e.g., canards, vectored thrust nozzles) added to allow these spectacular maneuvers.
2. The spectacular maneuvers … are purely and simply airshow tricks, intended to wow the gullible. Not one of these maneuvers has any application to combat, because they can only be performed at speeds well under 150 knots. At that speed in a dogfight against any competent pilot, your life expectancy is measured in seconds.
3. My guess is that there are no more than six pilots in all of Russia that can actually fly these maneuvers — and that they have been in training for years in order to trot out these tricks at international airshows.
4. Executing these wonderful tricks at the Paris airshow with these Olympic-athlete type of pilots, the Russians have crashed two of the Su-30 “Wunderwaffen,” one in 1999 and one in 2006.
5. The Russians have, in fact, palmed off versions of the Wunderwaffen to the Chinese, as well as to the Indians, Malaysians, Algerians, and the dreaded Venezuelans. Despite these triumphs of Russian salesmanship. I’m not losing much sleep over the specter of the awesome Su-30 in the hands of these superb air forces.
The more of these turkeys the Russkies sell, the longer the now-ancient F-16 (designed in 1972) will reign supreme as the world’s best fighter.
The same person who labeled F-35 being a turkey also labeled SU-30MK a turkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4DWX-R8ME8&index=4&list=PLG8j-n4MjuQAg6jQHX2dVOFYWuaqr5NKD
F-35AvsF-22vsEF-2000 TURN
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@Antun Šturlić
https://web.archive.org/web/20130208102723/http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/military/su30mk/lth/
Engine and outboard accessory-gearbox life:
- to first overhaul, hours 500
- service life limit, hours 1,500
Aircraft limit:
- *SLL, hours 3,000 *
- to first overhaul, hours 1,500
- service life, years 25
VS
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-17/lockheed-f-35-bulkhead-cracks-solution-proposed.html
F-35B with cracked aluminium bulkhead reached 9480 hours. Bulkhead was redesigned.
F-35A and F-35C has titanium bulkheads.
Marine, Air Force and Navy versions of the F-35 are all required to undergo tests for the equivalent of 16,000 flight hours.
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@Antun Šturlić
Against https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-su-35-vs-americas-stealth-f-35-who-wins-fight-81996
1. From http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2Ffb49a6a2-5080-4c72-a379-e4fd10cc710a%2F0002%22
From RAAF's F-22A vs F-15D with *DRFM jamming pipe*.
“…the ability to actually have that data fusion that the aeroplane has makes an incredible difference to how you perform in combat. I saw it first hand on a Red Flag mission in an F15D against a series of fifth-generation F22s. We were actually in the red air. In five engagements we never knew who had hit us and we never even saw the other aeroplane…. After that particular mission I went back and had a look at the tapes on the F22, and the difference in the situational awareness in our two cockpits was just so fundamentally different. That is the key to fifth-generation. That is where I have trouble with the APA analysis…. To me that is key: it is not only stealth; it is the combination of the EOS and the radar to be able to build a comprehensive picture. In that engagement I talked about at Nellis, in Red Flag, the ability to be in a cockpit with a God’s-eye view of what is going on in the world was such an advantage over a fourth-generation fighter – and arguably one of the best fourth-generation fighters in existence, the F15. But even with a DRFM jamming pipe , we still had no chance in those particular engagements. And at no time did any of the performance characteristics that you are talking about have any relevance to those five engagements.”
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When compared to RAAF, nationalinterest.org's TNI Staff has no experience between F-22's AMRAAM against F-15D with DRFM jamming pipe .
https://www.reddit.com/r/F35Lightning/comments/8a66ta/out_of_the_shadows_rnlaf_experiences_with_the/
Out Of The Shadows: RNLAF experiences with the F-35A - Combat Aircraft Magazine May 2018
1. Dutch revealed F-35's digital radio frequency memory jammer (DRFM, so-called active stealth) capability along which is enhanced with passive stealth.
2. Dutch F-35 Block 3F, "F-35 sits somewhere in between the F-16 and F/A-18 when it comes to within visual range manoeuvring'".
3. Lightest empty weight F-16A MLU air-superority model needs to be clean (no weapons, no external tanks) to make visual range dogfight interesting against combat loaded F-35A Block 3F.
AIM-120D has two-way data link with fighters like F-35 which uses launching fighter's AESA radar, EO-DAS sensors and passive radar sensors on it's wing edge.
2. F-35A Block 4.3 has six AIM-120 type missiles for its internal weapons bay. Most F-35s are beyond Block 3F.
3. Japan has exchanged its micro-AESA radar seeker with UK's Meteor missile.
4. F-35 supports AIM-132 IR with it's internal weapons bay instead of AIM-9X. USAF has other plans with F-35's A2A missiles e.g. Raytheon Peregrine. https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/peregrine-air-air-missile
Raytheon Peregrine missiles doubles the weapon bay's payload for F-35 and has higher range when compared to AIM-120D.
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b-b762QRY
Super Hornet's high AoA+minimum turn radius advantage holding it's own against F-15's high energy turn rate advantage dogfight example
http://nettsteder.regjeringen.no/kampfly/2015/11/20/a-fly-f-35-erfaringer-fra-den-forste-uka/
More F-16 vs F-35 from Norwegian pilot.
I quote
Overall, flying the F-35 reminds me a bit of flying the F/A-18 Hornet, but with an important difference: It has been fitted with a turbo
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@aleksandarmanojlovic1189
From http://www.warisboring.com/2009/02/10/russian-super-fighter-not-so-scary/
F-35 critic Pierre Sprey comments on Flankers
1. The Su-30MK is simply another modification of the Su-27, a not-very-high-performing Russian imitation of our F-15 that had its prototype flight in 1977. The new version is significantly heavier and has poorer dogfight acceleration and turn than the original, mainly because of all the weighty and draggy gadgetry (e.g., canards, vectored thrust nozzles) added to allow these spectacular maneuvers.
2. The spectacular maneuvers … are purely and simply airshow tricks, intended to wow the gullible. Not one of these maneuvers has any application to combat, because they can only be performed at speeds well under 150 knots. At that speed in a dogfight against any competent pilot, your life expectancy is measured in seconds.
3. My guess is that there are no more than six pilots in all of Russia that can actually fly these maneuvers — and that they have been in training for years in order to trot out these tricks at international airshows.
4. Executing these wonderful tricks at the Paris airshow with these Olympic-athlete type of pilots, the Russians have crashed two of the Su-30 “Wunderwaffen,” one in 1999 and one in 2006.
5. The Russians have, in fact, palmed off versions of the Wunderwaffen to the Chinese, as well as to the Indians, Malaysians, Algerians, and the dreaded Venezuelans. Despite these triumphs of Russian salesmanship. I’m not losing much sleep over the specter of the awesome Su-30 in the hands of these superb air forces.
The more of these turkeys the Russkies sell, the longer the now-ancient F-16 (designed in 1972) will reign supreme as the world’s best fighter.
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