Via the RuAF Facebook page:"Su-27SM3 upgraded air-superiority
fighters share much of their avionics including radars from the Su-35S."
Yes well, some are waking up.
The SU-35 is made to take on the F-22 and the Typhoon. High performance. Infra-read search and track, (the F-22 has none). Real high-off-bore-sight helmet-cued dogfight missile ability, (the F-22 has none). Wider variety and quantity of weapons. And...
...the U.S.-made $2M-each AIM-120 AMRAAM can be jammed down to the probability of kill of a Vietnam-era AIM-7 Sparrow. The SU-35 has good self-protection jamming. The SU-35 can also change directions fast at high speed and high-altitude for anyone that does get a long-range no-escape-zone (NEZ) solution on it. Thus, ruining the AIM-120 NEZ for those shots.
The SU-35 is in production. The F-22 is not. The F-22 maintenance issues (corrosion / fatigue) could mean we have no F-22s for the 2030s. Currently, F-22 mission-up times are good in dry environments (dog-year maintenance credits). Not so good in the damp.
Thus-far America has spent $83B on the F-22 and currently almost $60B on the F-35.
Result?
120-some combat-coded F-22s.
So, if the SU-35 (and PAK-FA) can defeat the F-22, the F-35 is dead meat.
As for the USN carrier air wing? It could leave them in deep trouble.
Here is some more reading on the SU-35. It is also a good review for the untermensch that have insulted APA all these years.
Can we fix this? Sure. Put the F-22 back in production. B and C models, lessons learned etc. Not willing to do that? Then prepare to lose air domination (just as important, the deterrent factor that goes along with that). Then, lose battles, wars and influence.
H/T-Solomon
Pitch Black
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