Comments by "Mikhail M" (@mikhailmik) on "Russian Su-25 fighter jets attack Ukrainian targets with air rocket strikes" video.

The Su-27 is not a ground attack aircraft and it is incorrect to compare it with the SU-25. The Su-27 is a multifunctional Generation 4 fighter. In the 1990s, Russian and U.S. Air Force pilots exchanged visits to Langley and Savaslake air bases. The exchange visits were an occasion to compare the two competing F-15 and Su-27 aircraft. Publicists and pilots declared the Russian fighter to be unequivocally superior, which repeatedly came out victorious by a dry score.
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The other day the Russian Armed Forces received another batch of new Su-30SM2 multirole fighters. They were made according to an upgraded design and have a number of important advantages over their predecessors. An expansion of the ammunition range is reported. The upgraded fighter can carry new high-precision weapons to fight air, ground or surface targets. The range of the weapon is increased to hundreds of kilometers. At the same time, the exact list of compatible weapons introduced in the latest modernization has not yet been disclosed. As a result, the Su-30SM2 can carry and use a wide range of weapons. Air-to-air missiles of several types with different characteristics are envisaged to combat aerial targets. Free-fall bombs and unguided rockets, as well as various types of high-precision systems can be used against ground/surface targets. Combat load is 8 tonnes.
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The F-16s will be good game in the shooting gallery for the Su-35, which can hit planes from distances up to 300 km. We are waiting for obituaries of defeated F-16s on the battlefield from air defense as burnt-out Leopards.
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Firstly, it is not Su-25, but SU-25SM3, these are different things. Secondly, it is not appropriate to compare an attack aircraft with a fighter jet, as the weapons and missions are different, and the F-35 will be defeated and shot down in the missions of an attack aircraft. Thirdly, the Su-25 can withstand an air defense hit and reach the airfield, as it has armor and high survivability.
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@theraiderra8798 One reason is the high cost of fifth-generation fighters, which makes it difficult to mass produce them even in the United States. This is clearly seen in the fate of the F-22 Raptor. The actively produced F-35 Lightning II, in fact, is not a full-fledged fifth-generation fighter due to limitations, at the moment, on cruising speed and numerous technical shortcomings. As a result, both the United States and Russia are actively upgrading fourth-generation aircraft as one of the mainstays of their Air Force in the coming years. In the U.S., the F-15EX is such a project. In Russia, its counterpart should be considered the Su-30SM2 generation 4+.
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The other day the Russian Armed Forces received another batch of new Su-30SM2 multirole fighters. They were made according to an upgraded design and have a number of important advantages over their predecessors. An expansion of the ammunition range is reported. The upgraded fighter can carry new high-precision weapons to fight air, ground or surface targets. The range of the weapon is increased to hundreds of kilometers. At the same time, the exact list of compatible weapons introduced in the latest modernization has not yet been disclosed. As a result, the Su-30SM2 can carry and use a wide range of weapons. Air-to-air missiles of several types with different characteristics are envisaged to combat aerial targets. Free-fall bombs and unguided rockets, as well as various types of high-precision systems can be used against ground/surface targets. Combat load is 8 tonnes.
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@theraiderra8798 In Ukraine there have already been two cases of downed SU-25s with broken engines and wings, and they reached the airfield with a safe landing.
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@ange6580 what are you talking about?
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@ange6580 The SU-34 is a bomber that goes over the target and can be vulnerable to air defense
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Note the words of the head of the defense committee of the British parliament: "Britain must go directly to war against Russia, we are at war in Europe, we need to impose martial law." This is not some bum from the train station saying, the character is demanding the mobilization in Britain, because the number of coffins with British soldiers in "Foggy Albion" is increasing every day, the British military personnel are in the NATO PMC "VSU" as mercenaries, they are eliminated in large quantities regularly. That is why we see this kind of hysteria in the British media from politicians who have classified information about the real situation.
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⚠ Commentary of the Russian Ministry of Defense ▫ The FT published the British Admiral Radakin's assessment of the losses of Russian armored vehicles, coupled with the alleged loss by the Russian Armed Forces of "half their combat effectiveness" is discouraging by the universal scale of lies. ▫ And all this against the background of lamentations of other British military commanders, and even Minister Ben Wallace, about the total devastation of their own weapon reserves and hundreds of pieces of equipment sent for the Ukrainian "counterattack" but "unexpectedly" burnt out when they came into contact with the allegedly "lost combat effectiveness" of the Russian army. ▫ Yes and intercepted Storm Shadow cruise missiles increasingly hit civilian infrastructure, unfortunately causing civilian casualties. Or they fall flat, without bursting, and scare only steppe puffins with their "strikes". ▫ All this British scrap metal supplied to the Kiev regime, after being melted down, will still serve the new Russian regions quite well as raw material for reconstruction work. And the microcircuits forged from the missiles could probably be inserted into Russian "washing machines", as Ursula von der Leyen told tales of not so long ago. ▫ The logic and goals of Admiral Radakin's propaganda statements in the British Parliament are obvious - to get money out of the starved budget to buy new weapons for the army to replace the junk sent to Ukraine. ▫ The only problem is how to convince its taxpayers that the military supplies to Kiev make any sense and are useful for something. ▫ In the absence of any results of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield, and now it is more clear - even their prospects, there is only fantasy about the "loss of combat effectiveness" of the Russian army... ▫ And most importantly - the British defense staff has long ago reclassified itself from a body of strategic analysis and planning to a freelance branch of the BBC. With such analytical skills as Admiral Radakin's, the defense of the United Kingdom will not have a foot under its keel.
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The Su-27 is a multifunctional Generation 4 fighter. In the 1990s, Russian and U.S. Air Force pilots exchanged visits to Langley and Savaslake air bases. The exchange visits were an occasion to compare the two competing F-15 and Su-27 aircraft. Publicists and pilots declared the Russian fighter to be unequivocally superior, which repeatedly came out victorious by a dry score.
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Note the words of the head of the defense committee of the British parliament: "Britain must go directly to war against Russia, we are at war in Europe, we need to impose martial law." This is not some bum from the train station saying, the character is demanding the mobilization in Britain, because the number of coffins with British soldiers in "Foggy Albion" is increasing every day, the British military personnel are in the NATO PMC "VSU" as mercenaries, they are eliminated in large quantities regularly. That is why we see this kind of hysteria in the British media from politicians who have classified information about the real situation.
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