[PIF]

While the range of AAAD has increased since the Iraq war, the graphic seems to show the exact opposite, worse the AAAD sites no longer overlap ... Seems like a PR effort to justify the F-35, rather than show a real world situation.

Speaking of which, there was a recent war game exercise against a peer in which no F-35s were deployed because they would not last more than a few minutes. Any stealth the 35 has is front-on only, and it is visible to passive AESA radars. There only usefulness would be guarding refuelers and AWACS against long range fighters like the J-20 - and because of the longer range BVR missiles employed by the J-20s, SU-57s, SU-35S’, they would be useless or marginal at best.

They would also be up against the best jamming systems in the world (at least against Russia) ; those same systems have successfully jammed GPS, HIMARS artillery, AC-160s, and C&C battle communications in Syria.

[daniel1212]

Yes, I think the Quora article is overly optimistic, and also does not consider the degrading of character in the WOKE military.

[Sparticus]

While the range of AAAD has increased since the Iraq war, the graphic seems to show the exact opposite, worse the AAAD sites no longer overlap ... Seems like a PR effort to justify the F-35, rather than show a real world situation.

I think the second graphic is supposed to indicate the reduced range at which the SAMs can observe the F35 as opposed to to 4th gens?