To: sukhoi-30mki
"But regardless of what you see on youtube or on some Flanker obsessed websites, these aircraft stand little chance of surviving an encounter with similar numbers of F-22s or F-35s."
They will simply field far more Flankers.
Quantity has a quality all its own ~ Stalin.
5 posted on
07/23/2017 10:51:31 AM PDT by
null and void
(This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
To: null and void
They cannot afford to field more Flankers. Russia is pretty much broke and their defense budget is such that we can afford an F-35 easier than they can afford a 4th generation fighter.
7 posted on
07/23/2017 10:53:42 AM PDT by
volunbeer
("I will appoint a special prosecutor to look into your (Hillary) situation" - Trump - we are waiting)
To: null and void
“...Quantity has a quality all its own ~ Stalin.”
Often asserted (though this is the first attribution to Josef Stalin, that I have come across), it’s false.
If it were true, we could equip all our troops with BB guns and never worry again.
To: null and void
"Quantity has a quality all its own ~ Stalin."
From 1950-1954 the NORKs and ChiComs found out that bullets were a lot cheaper than people.
22 posted on
07/23/2017 2:01:08 PM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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