Mkay, let’s get some facts in here. “Ukraine sworn off Russian natural gas”? LAWL. Ukraine has no money to pay for it! Ever when Russia gave Ukraine an almost 50% discount, 200 something dollars per 1000 cubic meters vs 400+$ market price, Ukraine could not even pay THAT, instead it was literally stealing gas from…

Sigh...Youtube leak is not a source of anything? Depends. The leak of conversation between Victoria Nuland and US ambassador in Ukraine proving US meddling in Ukraine was very real. Ok, fine. Riddle me this then: why would Turkey take the entire Youtube offline then, following the leak? Even better, spend about 20…

You’re telling me your country flies “enough Russian fighters and bombers” that are upgraded with SVP-24 Hephaestus targeting system among other things? Go do some reading about what it does.

“Gassed his own people”? FFS already! That is a lie! It was all set up by Turkey and Qatar. Shortly after that happened, there was a leaked audio on Youtube, where Turkey Gov was taped discussing just that, a false flag operation on Syrian territory using chemical weapons. Following that, Turkish Gov took the Youtube…

Saudis are not “US allies”. The nature of US-Saudis relation could be somewhat described as “protection racket”.

If you think this way then you would be wrong, sorry.

Are you going to continue talking out of your ass and disseminate US States Department “talking points”? Every single aircraft in Syria is equipped with SVP-24 Hephaestus. Why don’t you read up on it first about what it does. Or stick to writing about cars, “expert” :D

That’s because Jalopnik is such Jalopnik. The renown “renown military expert” that wrote that “piece” apparently unaware or most likely doesn’t mention it on purpose that all of the Russian fixed-wing aircraft equipped with SVP-24 Hephaestus, which allows the said aircraft to use “dumb bombs” with much greater…

Your post suits your forum name very well - AmateurHour :D

/facepalm. “Dumb bombs”? It’s called SVP-24 “Gefest” or Hephaestus = “dumb bombs” + precision targeting.

“Iron bombs”? I guess Mr. Tyler Rogoway hasn’t heard of the targeting system called “Gefest”, introduced in 2013, which allows the use of “dumb” ammunition with almost guided weapons precision.

Lol, F-22 is not “invisible” nor it’s immune to being locked on, fired on and shot down. “Stealth”=! invisibility. All its “stealthiness” does is reduces the range it will be detected at some angles and in some situations. After that it’s locked on, fired on and shot down. Pantsir-S will pick up its JASSM etc. Less…

Dear Tyler, yes, it IS there. Where? Figure out yourself. Map of Syria is your friend :D You didn’t sleep through your geography classes, did you? And FYI, the missile that has that 250 mile range, which is 40N6, can also be fired by S-300V4 and possible others, not just by s-400.

Eh, in math, that would be anything over 2,000.

Oh, yeah? Going to comment on that as well in your “piece”? - http://www.ronpaul.com/2015-08-08/us-… Or is it going to be another version of US States Department issued “key points” such as “Assad is barrel-bombing his people” and “Russia is not really focusing on attacking ISIS in Syria” that being used over and over…

Sammy, I don’t think it was F-22. I believe it was F-117.

“The f-22 is the dominant ACM fighter in the western world and will wreck any Su-xx” - Source? Hollywood? Lockheed?

Here is a good report about F-35: Thunder without Lightning.

Wrong, again. A true “stealth” aircraft, at least as how the US sees it is akin to F-117, with severely limited flight characteristics. I remember reading an interview with one of the leading designers of the Russian T-50, where he said they wanted to explicitly avoid “the US approach” to “stealthiness”.

It’s important to note, that when it comes to a Russian version of a “stealthy aircraft”, the “stealthy” features were not the ultimate goal, more like an added bonus. I think China followed the US way. Meaning, they tried to do it without crippling the aircraft’s other characteristics, they used a different design…