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Read again. This was during SOVIET times where the number of sorties reduced over time. Also, the maximum 3sorties were for ground attack planes or bomber planes.

This is very inconclusive. Itonly says that Russian fighters were able to sustainably fly 3 sorties a day. This only says good about them. The 3need not be maximum but just as much as Russia needed in Syria. I think he was being sarcastic as @arya was repeatedly telling of hypersonic missile

This is irrelevant to topic. There is no missile in the world which can go hypersonic for 500km as of now. This is also not the correct topic under which we should discuss missiles. New engine is Al41F. You can check it on Wikipedia. It is a next generation engine with 15% higher thrust for...

The meaning of maintenance time per flight time does not mean it is after every flight. It just means that after 1000 flight hours, the overhaul time will be 12 months. This is about 1:8 hours of maintenance per flight hour. Su30 can fly multiple sorties in a day and carry on for weeks. Su30...

This is not meaningful. It is a propaganda. India is not insane to ground MKI. It is an old plane and has had about 15 years of experience. Grounding it does not make sense. Moreover, some losses in crashes will always be considered as better than grounding plane. Grounding entire 270 planes is...

You keep derailing threads by saying garbage things which is never backed by facts. Always going by whims and fancies is a very irritating thing. Su30 is extremely capable fighter, even mre capable than underpowered rafale. Rafale with 50/75kN engine is simply too weak. MKI is made in India and...

Seethe picture yourself. The exact location is masked but general location is visible. The jammer creates something like a smokescreen. You won't be able to aim and shoot a person who is hiding in smoke screen but you will definitely know that someone created that smoke and someone is hiding...

Jammers do cause noise but that is still not enough to fully jam anything. Moreover, the noise of jammers can not be exactly identical to noise from nearby surrounding. Taking your example of sand graim from 100m, if the sand grain is covered by a mirror to make it appear similar to surrounding...

There are some things which I must clarify- 1) stealth is not absolute stealth. Unlike the sniper who uses similar materials as the surrounding, plqnes use metals and composite bodies which are drastically different from the surrounding atmosphere. So, the stealth can come only by having surface...

About noise jamming, the only effective jamming is barrage jamming. However, even that can be rendered useless by being able to detect the jamming signals and separate the original reflection from it. Also, by having radars which can randomly alter its frequencies or by changing the beam from...

You seem to be thinking that jammer completely masks the reflection. The reality is that the jammer creates a cloud of reflection because of which the receiver sees a large area of target. The farther the receiver, farther bigger the area. For example, a receiver at 200km may receive area as big...

The idea is to use ground based radars and AEWACS which are much more powerful than jet based radar, not use more powerful radar on another jet. If the other jet can employ a more powerful radar, the stealth jet also can employ the same. But no jet can employ a radar that can match the ground or...

That is the only thing that can save a plane from air to air missile when jamming fails. Su30 can make almost instantaneous 180 degree turn and fly in the opposite direction whereas all other planes will need to take a round circle. If it detects a missile incoming, it can simply do pugachev's...

Do you know that @Armand2REP is a french man? Why do you jump to conclusions?

It was not yet handed over to IAF. It was under trial after assembly from HAL. There might have been an error in assembly

USA is not expecred to supply any high end technology to India in the near future. USA has refused sales of several high end technology to India in the past out of fear of reverse engineering. Arrow SAM, Greenpine radar, P8I Hydrocarbon detector, ISRO clocks for IRNSS etc were denied to India...

The S200 may have exploded at some distance due to combination of maneuvering from F35 and proximity fuse detonating "at proximity" rather than at a kinetic hit. So, F35 may have survived with damage instead of being disintegrated. It may be a hoax or maynot be a hoax. Also, I am not sure if it...

Israel is suspected to have used stork hit as a cover story for S200 hitting its F35. Syrian minister also claimed that one F35 was hit by S200 and Israel was forced to retreat on the same day. Here are some links -...

It is a polite way of saying USA that India is not in a mood to oblige the sanctions. It is not exactly a request. What repercussions? Do you understand that USA is not the allfather? Why should India bother about USA's unilateral sanctions? Is India a USA stooge? If dollar can't be used with...

There will always be ways of bypassing the USA sanctions by using small banks like UCO bank which has very limited operation. Even if UCO bqnk gets sanctioned by USA, there won't be any effect. UCO was used to bypass iran sanctions last time. Also, India can route the payment in yuan oor other...