“The first missile was MISSED because it tricked by the upgraded Russian flares.”
Dude. You need to study up.
The Sidewinder has already been vulnerable to diversion by flares. It has been for 40 years. It’s a heat seeking/IR missile. And all of them have the same weakness.
Our “smart” missiles shoot from more than 100 miles and are radar homing.
“Upgraded flares”. That’s a hoot right there, I don’t care who you are.
It’s best you not post on the subject of military hardware anymore. Your knowledge gap will take years to close.
Because, according to your astute analysis, we need across the board upgrades, to: “at least put up a reasonable fight”.
Suck me, then. I was recounting an article that I read. It wasn’t ‘my analysis’ and you’re welcome to provide links disproving it (or not, if you don’t want to), but let’s lay off the personal attacks.
By the way, this is article, you should read up a bit:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a27094/su-22-dodge-aim-9x-sidewinder/
And if your pretense was even true, why the hell are we using missiles in combat that have been OBSOLETE for 40 years? Are we trying to get our men shot down, or captured? We were damn lucky the Russians didn’t test their S-400 after that miss.
I take it you are ignorant of the missile seeker upgrades that reject targets that are too hot, i.e. burning magnesium, and only home in on targets that are jet engine hot i.e. burning jet fuel hot (not hot enough to melt steel according to that master structural engineer, Rosie O'Donnel).
You are probably also totally unaware that some current flares burn TNT, yes TNT, it can burn without exploding, but I bet you didn't know that either! TNT burns close to jet fuel temperatures and is therefore much harder to distinguish from a magnesium decoy.