Flares are somewhat effective against IR (AIM-9 Sidewinder, R-73) missiles, but the Su-24 was shot down by a radar guided AIM-120 AMRAAM. There are countermeasures against radar guided missiles (chaff, jamming), but they aren’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. Modern missiles all have anti-countermeasure programming built…

Their engines looked great too - Tuned Port Injection has to be the coolest looking fuel injection system ever placed in an American car.

That’s exactly what I was looking for, though I didn’t quite know how to ask for it. The comparable American radar sets was particularly helpful. Thank you!

Dark blue never went away, but the lighter shades have come and gone. It seems like every concept car these days is blue, most manufacturers offer a few shades, and Volvo and Subaru even have the guts to sell the awesome, smurf Polestar blue to the public. I’m just glad we have options.

I’m glad manufacturers have fallen in love with blue again. Blue cars are awesome.

So, if these are SARH missiles, how capable is the Su-34’s radar against aerial targets? Does it have fully functional air-to-air modes, like the F-15E Strike Eagle does?

I don’t think the Su-24 can mount air-to-air missiles, though I’m sure you could strap R-73s or other IR missiles to them in a pinch, much like the US military has mounted AIM-9s on anything that flies. In any case, I doubt the electronics are set up for air-to-air engagements, so it would be an emergency capability,…

F-16s have used APG-68s since the Block 25. It’s much more capable than the original APG-66. The Turks fly Block 30s, 40s, and 50s, but an upgrade program is in effect to bring them all up to Block 50 standard, so the F-16’s radar is pretty modern.

They’re active with the Indian Air Force under the RVV-AE designation (an export variant - it’s not clear how it differs from the baseline). Some of the other Su-30 export customers - the Vietmanese, Maylasians, and others - might have the export variant as well.

Shut your whore mouth! The A-4 is sexy, especially the hump-less early models:

The Camry has side marker lights on the fenders - that makes it European market, or maybe somewhere in Asia or South America.

I think that’s the case - the F-16s warned them multiple times as they approached and fired when the Russian jets crossed the border. Even though a AMRAAM flies at Mach 4, and the Sukhois were probably flying 500mph or so, the stretch of Turkish territory they over flew was small enough that they were back in Syrian…

Everything is gray. The ground is wet. The grass is overgrown. The only thing more Soviet than that picture was the scene from Goldeneye in the park full of old Lenin statues.

Actually, the Su-24 was shot down by a Turkish F-16. I’d guess they used an AIM-120 AMRAAM, which is fire and forget. That would be less likely to trigger a lock-on warning than a AIM-7 Sparrow, which requires continuous radar tracking.

Will it drift?

This. A 200hp turbo version of the 2.0L or even the ~175hp 2.5L used in everything else would be enough of an improvement.

My only complaint about Combat Aircraft is that I can’t get every picture they publish as a full size poster.

What of it?

Great articles, thank you. I guess I have to spend more time reading Navy Times now.

The US has done enough morally reprehensible stuff since 9/11 to have a very tenuous claim to the moral high ground, but that doesn’t mean we’re wrong in calling out the Russians for not even trying.