This absolutely makes sense. Think of how you could employ these in a mix with F-22s in a stressing anti-access / area denial scenario. F-22s provide the bulk of the sensing and ID, with F-15s being the missile trucks, shooting at targets F-22s are providing.

Yo, dawg, I heard you liked dawgfighting so we put missiles on your missiles so you can missile while you missile.

like its engine sharing friend the A-10, its got a definite “getting shit done” vibe.

Holy motherfucking shit. Toyota must have lost their minds.

honestly I’ll tell you, at least for me it isn’t “love” but there are a couple of things which slant me towards them.

It might minimize pesticide exposure to the flight crew.

And we still have idiots who haven’t gotten over the Civil War yet.

Uh, the ROC was the recognized political entity up to the 70s, before staunch anti-communist Nixon switched diplomatic recognition to the PRC (because lucrative trade deals) and the rest of the “free world” was forced to toe the new party line.

“Getting the Americans out of the way” would require declaring war on the US. The entire Pacific Fleet would be on it in 24 hours. Being better, trained, practiced, dedicated, with hardware that is better, IN PRACTICE, not just theory (I’m not talking about the F-22 or F-35) and its the US pushing China back less than…

The Nationalist government fought over 20 battles where the total belligerents numbered over 100,000.

They suffered 3.2 million military and 5.7 million civilian casualties.

Well, it’s like that old saying: Those who can’t do, make crappy computer-animated videos and put them on YouTube.

Was?

Yet the fact that high-level American and European dignitaries were nowhere to be found

I award you the island of Manhattan for this comment.

Our subs would only use passive sonar while shadowing.

The team is now claiming it was an indirect attempt to honor the Native American tradition of bartering.

My understanding about the Chinese stock market crash is that it was actually a long-term stability play on their part. They had been in a boom cycle but recognized that it was a house of cards, so they started toning down their direct manipulation efforts in order to let it...I don’t know what the proper term is,…

Edit: Ah, crap, you meant the SU-35 and not the Pak Fa. But I’ll leave this here because I wrote it damn it, and a lot of it applies to the SU-35 as well.

Canadian here: I strongly disagree. And I’m someone who’s found myself defending the Pak Fa at times (and rooting for it: Also Indian, so invested in it doing…

F35s are already down to 85-95 million without an engine. I doubt the engine will cost 50+ million.

The cost of retro-fitting the avionics and weapons systems to NATO standards would just about make up the cost of the F-35. The SU fighters are also known to be less than reliable and securing spare parts may be difficult at best.