Russian nuclear bombers relive Soviet glory

AFP ^ | September 14, 2008

[freebilly]

Hmmmm...., Let’s see how 10 Russian fighters would fare against a single F-22 Raptor. I’ve got $10.000 I’ll wager on the outcome....

[spetznaz]

"I think the fighter jets are also happy. The young pilots can see our planes, see how beautiful they are."

LOL ....in a museum artifact kind of way.

[Citizen Soldier]

The good ole days of bread lines, shared apartments, and sailors earning $10 a month.

[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[MirrorField]

Depends on fighter, but more modern ones would give you a rude and expensive surprise. They would take casualties, heavy casualties, but in the end the Raptor would be simply overwhelmed.

F-22 is the best fighter on planet, agreed. It's also the most expensive and it is not magic. And the other side is far more willing to accept casualties than USA.

[Herakles]

send a jet version of the predator with a couple of missiles on it to fly escort; or maybe cruise missiles.

Could someone provide a pic please!

[freebilly]

No, the F-22 isn’t magic, but there’s no other fighter in the world, in production, that can even remotely measure up to its capabilities. Now if the Russians want to spend billions upon billions developing a stealth version of the SU-37 then there just might be a fighter that can stack up against the Raptor....

[steel_resolve]

read up on the raptor’s capabilities. you may wish to retract your statenents...

[Leisler]

The Russians don't have the number of aircraft to do that, nor the aircrews, training, maintenance, spare parts, secure command and control.

Other than that, everything should be fine.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Sounds like you drink way too much zoomie kool-aid.

[Joe Boucher]

Some benny arnold will just sell of give the F-22s plans to the russians or chi-coms someday.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

How quaint. The Russian KGB moron is feeling his oil money oats. Staging strategic bombers on an airfield and inviting the public for tours only serves to puff up the ego's of his own nationalists. Those airplanes have a zero survivability against even a Vietnam era air defense. This has to be a diversion away from his redeployment of ICBMs. Meanwhile, Osama is handily planning to dismantle our missile shield.

[Lx]

I thought Pukin Dog debunked that photo?

Is he still gone?

[Yo-Yo]

There it is! Four days late and on the wrong thread, but there it is.

[Thunder90]

Russia also has the PAK-FA and Plasma Stealth capability, and an ability to detect stealth. That could give the F-22 some problems. However, even with stealth removed from the equasion, the F-22 can outclass any other aircraft (even PAK-FA and J-XX).

[Tommyjo]

That is why the Russians are developing the PAK-FA fighter.

[Tommyjo]

The Tu-160 is a stand-off nuclear ALCM carrier. Think B-52H used in the ALCM role. They don’t require to penetrate deep into airspace to achieve their aims. The Russians have the longest ranged ALCMs. The Tu-160s are part of the Russian nuclear triad the same as heavy strategic bombers are in the U.S. It is the speed and range of the Tu-160 that makes it a potent threat.

[freebilly]

Yeah, you’re right, but so far as I know, the PAK-FA hasn’t even begun flight testing. Flight testing can take several years before full production starts. By the time Russia starts full scale production of the PAK-FA the US (hopefully) will have started working on a Gen 6 fighter.

[myknowledge]

There will be late model heavily upgraded F-22 Raptors in the skies by the time the first Su-50 PAK FA is commissioned in the VVS.

And the bomber that can match the performance of the Tu-160 is the proposed B-1R Lancer, nicknamed “Boner” as in B-One-R.