If it doesn't carry AESA radar (and it doesn't) it's obsolete. But you're right. The newer planes the Russians can bring are much better. But seriously, the SU24 is way past its use by date which is why Russia is already reducing their numbers in service.
" which is why I think it was the Sidewinder." Except it wasn't. Read the press reports. And if the Turks have AESA radar in the F-16 (they supposedly have a home developed system) then then primitive avionics in the SU24 would never know they were being ...
errrrr....... the whole point of an AIM120 is passive radar homing. The radar comes from another plane and the AIM120 homes in on the reflected radar beam. It only goes "active" if it loses the target. If the SU24 didn't know it was being targeted - and ...
Get with the thinking PB: US = Evil Russia = Good except when the US is forcing them to be bad China = Good, except when the US is forcing them to be bad US = responsible for every problem in the world today.
and just to be clear: AIM9 short range AIM120 long range
I think you'll find the Turks used an AMRAAM AIM120 radar guided missile. Much harder to defeat than an infra-red lock missile, and especially hard for a non-stealthy brick like the SU24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM
Managed to sneak in and film the last meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
Manged to sneak in and film the last meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
ok replace slanderous with dismissive
Typical of you to slander Physicians for Human Rights simply because it is an American based organisation. Why not take sometime to read what work they do before casually slandering them? A quick look at their accounts shows 10% of revenue in their last ...
No point giving the info to the Americans. It needs to go to Nato or Turkey. The Americans would only care operationally about potential encounters with their own aircraft.
Rather than say "attack aircraft" you should really say "ground attack aircraft". The Su24 is not even close to the f16. Its akin to comparing a Ford Falcon XR6 turbo to a Mark 2 Ford Cortina. The closest US aircraft to an SU24 is the F111 which was taken ...
The approval from Erdogan was likely a blanket approval, along the lines "if you get a chance to shoot a Russian plane down when in our airspace, take it". I don't think there is any doubt the Russian plane was (briefly) in turkish airspace, but the ...
no Su24 is a slow old dog 1200 maybe 1300 km top speed: http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/sukhoi_su24_fencer.htm The SU24 was the old soviet style - build something crappy and overwhelm with numbers. Only they cant afford to build the numbers any more...
The cars in 2050 look a bit shite. Hardly seem to have progressed at all from today. I thought we'd all be using driver-less Tesla anti-gravity cars.
top speed of su24 about 1200kms per hour
this is an interesting read on Russia and their options on ukraine. The only result that makes strategic sense for russia is the one they cannot attain. Every other option they have results in a worse strategic outcome for Russia. It seems like the only ...
Tracey is most likely right. Russian plane, small incursion into Turkey AFTER dropping ordnance (i.e., no threat), Russians ignoring warnings like they have done for the last 2 months, Turkish govt deciding this is the time to send a message. Turkey ...
DV - some help for you: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability 22% of american adults own guns. Amazingly, they often own more than one. Guns per residents is a useless statistic, it tells you nothing useful.
i think you'll find about 22% of American adults own guns, so if 5% of the population are nutcases that would likely make about 1% of Americans "gun wielding nutcases." And despite the popular wisdom, gun ownership rates in the USA are declining ...
You should put quotes around something you lift from the internet. For a moment I thought you had something interesting to say. [lprent: agreed. Thanks for the heads up. ]
in case you havent heard the news, Abbot is no longer a world leader.
not "just as important" the party vote is way more important.
I don't think it was about the USG picking winners. It was more the USG saying to a bunch of smart scientists and engineers "solve these defense related issues and also do a bunch of blue sky research on stuff and don't orry about funding for the next x ...
China and the US have a symbiotic relationship. They need each other economically. I can't see China over-escalating this, the area they claim doesn't actually solve their import/export maritime route issues, and until about 2060 when China has th. Look at...
I read that and don't get the distinction he is trying to draw. I could kind of appreciate the process in reverse, not "all muslims are arabs" but rather "all arabs are muslims". Would that be religiousification rather than racialisation? I also don't get ...
it will if it becomes an issue that the USG and the defense complex prioritises as an immediate existential threat to the USA.
Not sure about absolving Hitler, but al-husseini was a shitty piece of work and he was certainly an enthusiastic part of the holocaust effort as well as a cheerleader for the extermination of Israel until he died in the 70's. . "Our fundamental condition ...
I think what Bill gates meant was "Since World War II, U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost every area that is related to defense" Think DARPA, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, Sandia, Ames, Lincoln Laboratory, NIH etc. Most US ...
hah - check out CV's definition of "tiny" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/china-not-frightened-fight-war-south-china-sea-uss-lassen And it's well documented that the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia have been ...
" But in an illustration of sensitivity of the crash, Egypt invited Russian authorities to take part in the investigation." Not unusual. In fact normal. It was a Russian flagged carrier with a large number of Russian citizens on board. Under ICAO rules, ...
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