Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Военное телевидение" channel.

@Reverend Boaz Because France can’t provide aircraft at lower prices. Unit program cost to India for the Rafale is 216 million Euros. France left the European Fighter Aircraft program because of disputes over manufacturing workshare and carrier-borne model requirements for the French navy. Germany isn’t interested in buying a French aircraft that came from a program launched in the 1970s.
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@Reverend Boaz About half the price of the Rafale, which isn't a counterpart, but a large technology set gap behind F-35s.
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After learning from Germans, French, Swedes, Tatars, and all the adventurist incursions into Russia over history, the US especially has no interest in invading Russia. Russian paranoia thinks the US wants to do this, which is a distraction from the poor management of Russian domestic affairs.
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They struck the ramp after the LSO told them wave off. We have multiple camera angles of the incident that have been leaked. Ward Carroll will be discussing it with 2 other senior retired Naval aviators to explain how things are supposed to work, and maybe why we are getting so many leaks.
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RCS is too huge, meaning it gets detected from extreme BVR. It’s a flying target essentially, for both A2A and SAM platforms.
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@southpole4776 This couldn’t be more far from the truth. In order to get into a position where pilots are competent at employing weapons, they need to learn how to safely take-off, land day/night, navigated day/night/IMC, execute emergency procedures, fly in formation day/night/IMC, then learn to fly in combat formation, and employ the sensors while communicating effectively. Russia sucks at all of the above in general. After you have established decent skills in those sets, THEN you move into Weapons Employment within the weapon parameters. The training to be able to employ A2A weapons is quite complicated.
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Yup.. Their unit costs are way off. F-35A has been $77.9 million for a while, down from $79.1 million. F-35B and C are around $100 million each, though the new order announced today appears to have lowered the unit cost even more.
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@nomorepetrenko F-35s have been humiliating F-16s for years now across the A2A and A2G domains. Su-35S vs a Block 50 CCIP AESA-equipped F-16C will result in armed target drone status for the Sukhoi. Irbis-E is garbage compared to US Radars and the Su-35 RCS is huge, easily-detected from extreme BVR. Same with F-15C+ and Super Hornet Block II+ with APG-79(V)4 AESA and AIM-120D3. Su-35S was just shot down over Ukraine by antiquated SAMs, not even modern SAMs in US/NATO inventory. Russian pilots are being recorded every day talking on open channels in plain text, non-secure, without even using brevity codes. This is lower level amateurishness than ROTC cadets who have recently discovered how to press to talk on their hand mics. No B-2 has been shot down. F-117As have flown over 1100 combat sorties into heavily-contested airspace. Only 1 has been shot down after they flew without EW support and flew the same pattern night-after-night, handicapped by Clinton White House. Chinese did an internal combat evaluation of all their fighters, and the J-10B out-performed the Su-35S in BVR capes even. Technicians are finding Western electronics in all of the Russian missiles and aircraft, meaning Russia isn’t able to produce their own transistors and SC materials in many of these systems.
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The official narrative is to cover up for the espionage orchestrated against the B-1A program by the Soviets, using high-level assets throughout the WH, DoD, and US Senate. B-1A had some unique capabilities. Tu-160 is an enlarged but lesser-quality copy of the B-1A, using B-1A Technical Data obtained through treason.
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@tellingmum The Serbian SA-3 battery fired 2 missiles in a Salvo to increase hit probability. One missed, and the other proximity-detonated, sending a pressure wave that ripped one of the wings off of Vega 31, after which the pilot ejected. Out of over 2000 combat sorties in SAM-infested networks, only 1 F-117A was shot down. That's a superb combat record for a deep penetration strike fighter.
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@war8036 A lot of the important emergency procedures and tactical employment has shifted into high fidelity simulators, which does not count towards recorded flight hours. Critical weapons employment can be trained that way, whereas in the past, there were a lot of limitations to what you could do in that space. They also have pilot individual work stations that are moving from desktop simulators to VR with chairs, before they get into the high fidelity, 1:1 cockpit with 6DOF, then into the real jets. So 2 layers of simulator environments, then live. This has increased learning curves dramatically, as well as proficiency. Legacy fighters have 1:1 cockpit simulators for instruments and procedures separate from the better simulators with screens and motion, but they were limited in numbers and hard to get scheduled into at times. Now the simulator layering and capabilities are significantly improved.
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@zzirSnipzz1 Have worked with both, extensively with the Finns. Finland is pretty warm compared to Russia. Norwegians are great at extreme cold, though very tiny military and isolated from the Eurasian steppe. Their air power is the most significant factor in their military, especially now with F-35As. UK is a cold wet environment, but they typically do a lot of training in Central Europe. At least their armor units used to. Not sure now. RRFORGER was a big deal up through the 1980s.
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Su-34, 9 of which have been shot down over Ukraine as of Apr 25, 2022.
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B-1A was killed by Senator Biden and others working for the Soviets in the 1970s, after the Soviets bought Biden’s campaign in 1972 through The Council for a Livable World front group. The Russians hated what the B-1A represented in stand-off and weapons-release capabilities, far exceeding the B-52G. They also put a lot of emphasis on a longer-range replacement for the MiG-25 that could intercept the B-1A with more stand-off, but running the war-gaming scenarios, enough B-1As would still be able to penetrate and deliver 3 huge weapons bays full of AGM-86A Nuclear Warhead ALCMs, after AGM-69 SRAMs would clear the way of all the IADS nodes with nuclear warheads to create paths for the ALCMS. Even with the MiG-31, they couldn’t defend against multiple B-1As and FB-111As cranking out SRAMs. An asymmetric action with active measures would have to solve the problem, leaning heavily on traitors within the US government and DoD, which is exactly what they did.
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Assuming the giant RCS of the Su-35 survives to a suicidal merge, what makes you think its opponents aren’t going to face-shoot it with Helmet-HOBS missiles, many of which in the West are now BVR-capable as well? AIM-9X Block II+ and ASRAAM have significant range increases over their legacy models, with FPA seekers, not IR-dependent. This again assumes the Su-35S has survived multiple data-link guided BVRAAMs. The Russian pilots haven’t even graduated into brevity codes on the Radio, don’t have secure radios.
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@@JimCarner FPA seekers are typically IR spectrum, but modern Passive Seeker AAMs have different ways for initial targeting available to them, namely data-link and LOAL. There isn’t another fighter as well-equipped in this space for targeting and signals connectivity to the missile before and during its flight than F-35. Any discussion about trying to make legacy fighters compete in this space is a waste of time, which is why every single fighter design in development is VLO or LO, depending on the limitations of the country’s technical and industrial base.
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@andreil1576 Я не смотрю телевизор. Есть фото и видео сбитых Су-35 над Украиной с начала войны, задокументированные независимыми источниками, которые подтверждают серийные номера и маркировку самолетов. Добро пожаловать в XXI век.
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@@JimCarner Legacy FPA seekers are typically IR spectrum. Things have changed a lot in the past 30 years when it comes to multi-mode initial, mid-course, and terminal guidance for AAMs, to include shorter-range versions. Even with treasonous acts from people close to key technologies being handed over to Russia & China, it doesn't matter. PSP variability makes the latest countermeasures useless.
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A young new Senator who was a Soviet plant was the main cheerleader for killing the B-1A, after the Soviets paid for his campaign in 1972 using an environmental activism front group called The Council for a Livable World. Immediately after he was inaugurated, he flew to Leningrad to meet with senior Soviet leaders. Upon his return to the US, he began his campaign to defund and kill the Mach 2 capable B-1A, with its advanced sensor suite and 3 huge weapons bays that could carry rotary-launched ALCMs with nuclear warheads. The B-1A was anything but obsolete, and the Russians hated it. They also used their assets seeded throughout the CIA, USAF, DoD, and contractors to obtain all the technical data possible on the B-1A, which is what was used for the Tu-160 program. Anyone talking about how different they are and trying to support the Soviet narrative that it was an organic design from Tupolev is patently-ignorant of the key facts of the espionage orchestrated behind the scenes. Oh by the way...that Senator. He was a self-described pedophile/attorney scumbag who happily took the Soviet money and did their bidding for decades in the US Senate, and eventually became Vice President. His name.....Joseph Biden.
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It helps keep the Super Flankers away with more stand-off range, otherwise the Typhoon has some major problems with first-look, first-shoot since it still has an MSA and not an AESA. Huge PESAs and AESAs on the Su-30 and Su-35 definitely lean the first-look metric in the later Flanker variants' favor. The best thing the Typhoon can do to bypass that advantage is be networked with F-35s, at which time all the advantages of the Super Flankers disappear, and Typhoon becomes exponentially more lethal, especially with the Meteor being guided by F-35s while Typhoon remains in EMCON. That is an extremely dangerous place for any 4th Gen + fighter to get into.
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@Sedna063 Typhoon RCS with weapons and EFTs is still very large and easily detected by Super Flanker radars at long range. When networked with F-35s, the Typhoon can be guided around the Flankers' radar envelopes and set up for optimum weapons employment into far more lethal parameters. Or you can increase the risk to flights of Typhoons and let them try to work it out by themselves. UK and Italy are choosing the F-35/ Typhoon networked option because they aren't idiots. Same applies in strike missions. Typhoon is vastly more survivable and effective when working with JSF, and extremely vulnerable when not.
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@Sedna063 Typhoon can't be detected if it isn't flying within the Su-35's field of regard. With the Typhoon running EMCON and letting F-35s provide SA to it via Link, it now becomes a hunter of the shadows with the most deadly AAM in existence. UK has been a ground-level partner in JSF-B from the start practically once they learned the USMC was investing in the ASTOVL evolution into what became JSF-B. They provided a lot of the VAAC Harrier DFLCS research and development, as well as the Rolls Royce lift fan. It's both a Royal Air Force and Royal Navy program since both used the Harrier, either for deck launch and recover, or remote airfields and FARPs in Europe with the RAF. Typhoon can't penetrate modern IADS very deep without ESM, and F-35 proves better ESM than legacy ESM platforms since it can get so close with an integrated sensor/RF antennae suite and massive amounts of RF power, networked. They way they are used together, F-35s beagle like Electronic Warfare penetration aircraft, then switch role to DEAD/SAM elimination, then either A2A, AEW&C, precision strike, with ISR constantly happening anyway. Typhoons, F-15Es, F-16Cs, etc. follow and go hit their TGTs as the F-35s bore a hole through the IADS for them. F-35s hit TGTs and provide BDA, TGT-switching along the opportunity list in the kill web, and then open the door for the legacy aircraft on the way out. Without F-35s, any of the legacy fighters are extremely vulnerable to modern IADS networks because of signature and the countermeasures game that goes back and forth. Iran has been supplying Houthis with cobbled SAMs using COTS IR sensors to shoot down Saudi fighters, helicopters, drones, and Arab coalition F-16s.
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@GonzoTehGreat Irbis-E, yes I know.
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@GonzoTehGreat The Chinese Super Flankers have AESAs, not Russians. China even tried pulling the Irbis-E PESA from one of their Su-35s so they could replace it with one of their AESAs, and bricked the aircraft. It required the Russian technicians and engineers to have to come see if they could fix it. There's an interesting Chinese article on that.
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@GonzoTehGreat I can’t argue with that. I might have lost track of which video I was responding to.
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@GonzoTehGreat Each design has a certain capacity for upgrades throughout its life, and every modern fighter has undergone significant upgrades throughout their service lives. The Tranche 4 Typhoon is a much different system than the original Typhoon, just as the Su-35 is much different than the Su-27.
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@emmanuelmeysman820 975 F-35s have been delivered already.
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@war8036 Whatever they're doing in their training, the freaking suck at being pilots. I've listened to their comms traffic and they sound like drunk Junior ROTC cadets who just discovered a radio. Long, drawn-out ramblings, open text plain non-secure, no brevity codes, total amateurs. Iraqis were far more professional. Any NATO Air Force would absolutely skull-drag them in A2A.
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@war8036 The blatant difference I see is in basic professionalism regarding military specific skill sets, starting with comms discipline. Entry-level infantry soldiers in NATO nations have better comms procedures than front-line perimeter defense fighter squadrons flying Su-27SM2/3. I've listened to their comms traffic both in the Baltic region, and now other Flanker community (Su-34), and they literally sound like amateurs. There's no other way to say it.
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@daplebdatisplebby Opposite is true. F-35A has the lowest MMHPFH of any modern fighter in history at 4.1-5.9hrs. F-35B is 6-8hrs F-35C is 6-9hrs F-16 traditionally had the lowest MMHPFH, and is 11-14hrs, not including maintenance on all 2-3 of its various FLIR, ECM, and special weapons targeting pods. Super Hornet is 14-19hrs. Baby Hornet is 18-27hrs. F-14 was 40-60hrs. Harrier was 40-52hrs. The variables are dependent on yearly data, never a fixed constant due to multiple factors.
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@andreil1576 Yes, we can't understand the tactical genius of using unsecure, non frequency-hopping radios with endless ramblings from pilots who sound hungover from a night of binge drinking. Westerners will never understand that level of military excellence.
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Just from a safety standpoint, the JSF sells itself all day long compared to anything built in Russia. Look up the mishap records of any Russian fighter and see how costly they are.
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@TraderZer0 US fighters set the standard for maneuverability, then Russia copies. 6th Gen is a totally different program meant to replace the F-22A. F-35As replace F-16Cs and A-10s. Whenever you see something new, it isn’t an indictment on other programs. F-15C -> F-22A -> NGAD F-4D -> F-16A -> F-16C Blocks 25 and 30 -> F-16C Block 40-52 -> F-35A F-4G -> F-16C Block 30 -> F-16C Block 50/52 CCIP F-111F -> F-15E If you see a replacement being developed for F-15E, you don’t go out and say, “That F-16 was a piece of crap.” You need a basic understanding of the force structure to make sense of new developmental programs. The largest force going forward will be the CCIP Vipers until they’re eventually replaced by F-35s, which is the 2nd largest force currently in USAF. Notice that we haven’t even talked about USMC F-35Bs and F-35Cs, or USN F-35Cs.
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@shootnslash4804 Dog fights never happen anymore, and haven’t happened since Serbia.
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@zzirSnipzz1 In what armies? Not the US Army, I can tell you that. Practical Extreme Cold Weather training is highly lacking in the US Army, and the Russians aren't very good at it either. They're very dependent on chai time, don't like going outdoors because the latest generation of kids have grown up in cities in heated apartments with cell phones. Modern technology has made everyone immersed in it weak.
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@keirfarnum6811 I have, but I'm not tracking what this is in response to.
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