Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

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  60.  @LondonSteveLee  "Saudi shot down practically nothing!" - And you expect everyone to be Saudis? "Military air defence systems are designed to deal with conventional aircraft" - Not true. Modern SHORAD is not only set up to target incoming cruise missiles but also glide bombs. "rely completely on satellites" - Not true. Even GPS guided bombs have INS backup. "The west needs to design a simple fast to produce mach 3+ plane" - Why? Going that fast is lighting up a "I'M HERE" sign and burning fuel like there's no tomorrow. "have a thousands of them instead of 100 F-35s" - The F-35 program is 1700 airframes strong, 1500 if they end up cutting back on purchases. Over 625 delivered worldwide. "Active tracking is so last century - your target can see you and it coming from your radar emissions being used to paint the target" - Not true. Low probability of intercept radar makes use of all the background energy that's being blasted across the sky to make emissions difficult to filter. Also, the F-35 can use cues other than radar to obtain lock. "While your emissions are screaming "I'M OVER HERE!!"" - They won't. Not only can the F-35 fire a weapon at a target being painted by some other radar somewhere else, it also has alternate means of detection. And additionally LPI radar is a thing now and RWR is now behind the curve. "A Typhoon or Rafale for instance will automatically immediately mark the radar source" - Not gonna work if the source is an AWACS outside missile range or a bait F-35. Or if the DAS/EOTS is used to obtain the track. "meanwhilte you’re still flying towards him and his missile trying to paint the target for AMRAAM mid-course guidance!" - Not true. Not only are you ignorant of basic procedures like using the full extent of your radar limits to continue a track without flying towards incoming missiles, you also forget that the F-35 can use another aircraft's radar to provide the AMRAAM mid course updates. And failing that, the missile will go pitbull. "You are not going to defeat a modern IR missile fired under 30Kms – it will kill you" - The F-35 also has IR missiles. What the actual hell are you talking about? "Active seeking is pointless/The US should have pursued Pheonix" - The hell? The Phoenix has an active seeker for terminal guidance. "AMRAAM is a joke - you are not going to get a kill with AMRAAM unless you are fighting novice jockeys flying planes from the 90s!" - Novice F-35 pilots wipe the floor with experienced F-15/F-16 pilots in exercises. "I mean, having to guide a missile within the kill zone of the enemy! What year is this again? " - Again, the hell are you talking about?
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  61.  @LondonSteveLee  Escaping from missiles doesn't make sense. The SR-71 did it because it flew at extremely high speeds DURING operations. Going from a 0.82 Mach cruise to Mach 3 will take several minutes of acceleration. If you were relying on Mach 3 to escape the missile, the Mach 4 missile already hit you before you got past Mach 1.3. "modern systems can distinguish where radar emissions arrived to each sensor within a few nanoseconds – by triangulating that data it can calculate where it came from" - The problem isn't triangulating where something comes from. It's knowing it's there at all. The skies are constantly being beamed with energy from all directions and because there are limits to receiver antennas and processing power, it's more difficult for a RWR to notice there's an extra signal in the sky than it is for the emitter to hop frequencies in an encrypted pattern. "can shoot down a (not exactly stealthy) AWAC painting it from 200+ KMs away" - Okay. And how do you get within 200 km of an AWACS without a flight of F-35s meeting you? "The reality is F-35 cannot sneak up and deliver an AMRAAM outside the kill-zone of an IR missile without being detected" - It does it on the regular at Red Flag. "unless you fire at point black range most modern aircraft and pilots will escape an AMRAAM" - Not if they're unaware. And we know that in air combat most kills are scored against the unaware. "You’re now in the same airspace as cheaper conventional “proper” fighters" - They're not cheaper. "hinders both production volumes and availability" - With 700 F-35s delivered, there's almost as many F-35s as there are Eurofighters and Rafales combined. "the same reason F-22 is obsolete" - The F-35 is not built to the same standards as the F-22. Over a hundred Block II F-35s have been converted to Block III. The issue with the F-22 was recognized and addressed to make the F-35 more flexible.
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