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When your air force compromises on the electronics.. Half the missiles probably didn't guide at all, lol In stark comparison:

French too, but their quality of equipment is definitely better than Russia(example Rafale). As you said, we have to push for home-grown products, to finally end these types of circumstances, make a total domestic military industrial complex and instead start exporting to Middle-East/Asian/Latin...

As far as I understand, this has been a habit of the Russians whenever we make deals with them. >Su-57, but they won't listen to our demands despite being one of the top funders of the program >T-90, but they give us electronics so bad that we have to install our own >Buy MiG-25s, but they...

The Su-57 could have been a contender against the US for the 5th gen category, but it is pretty much clear that Russian industries and specifically electronics(which is what really matters for 5th gen) will never match the US for atleast decades. The only real contender to the US is China now.

He won't. He will just keep on posting spam and will ignore you. If you meant to ask where I got the map from: It is from a book called "Viper Pilot" by Dan Hampton. He was a F-16 pilot in 2003, in Iraq.

I remember the Americans doing it in 1991, 1999 and 2003 again and again, in very contested environments, disabling and curbstomping air defense units. This is a map of Baghdad in 2003, all those points are SAM units, comprised of some of the most modern SAMs of that time. This is just...

Great video, encompassing one of the least well known portions of Soviet aviation history. Going by how rigorous their training was, I am myself surprised at observing such a piss-poor state of current Russian aviation in Ukraine. Perhaps the Soviet Top Gun too, died with the Soviet Union. One...