And who is competing against us ? In what fields ? Aeronotics ? Airbus and boeing have no competitors.
Ignorance is bliss.
Computing ? US leads that with microsoft.
Microsoft develops software, and pretty shitty software at that. Right now all European governments use Microsoft because of course in a democracy they have developed a monopoly and are dictating to western countries because those western countries no longer have any options... which is why the US is so easily able to spy and therefore also manipulate most of Europe.
Their sanctions and spying are creating a market for alternatives.
Smartphones ? Its either apple or android.
Huawei are already in talks with Russian and Chinese companies regarding alternatives in OS and apps.
With no android, they won't sell their smartphones.
And when Android was first developed they probably said with no apple OS they wont sell their smart phones too.
Their 5G network is forbiden in many countries. That will impact them.
Of course it will seriously impact them... they are going to have to wait until the US develops 5G technology before they can benefit from it...
The rich countries that are worth something are our exclusive clients. The poor and destroyed ones (Iran, Syria, Yemen) are russians client. And you expect that Russia is competitive with such clients.
And that has made the US so rich..., well in a lot of debt, but the infrastructure and quality of life is amazing... well a few people are doing very very well.
In the short time when sanctions were off in iran, they bought western planes and hurried up to sign contracts with us and didn't give a fuck about your Russia.
Perfectly true... and you could say the same about Gadaffi and Assad and Saddam... when given the chance to suck up to the west they did it... and how did that work out for them?
Iran had no reason to think Russia was anything but another try hard sucking up to the west, and for much of the early years Putin was trying hard to get in to the rich boys club. The G7 became the G8 in the late 1990s... there was no way Russia was rich enough to join then... it was all political.... ironic because their leaving in 2014 was also political too... but the problem with politics is that words really don't mean much unless they are backed up by action and most of the time by the time there is action from the west there is no way to reverse and you are stuck in that car crash.
That's already enough. The f-35 is still produced.
It is only enough if they make 3,000 F-35s and they aren't going to.
I really hope they do because the economic albatross of 3,000 F-35s will destroy their economy.
The denial will have to stop and they will have to say... what we are doing can't be right because it is really failing badly.
French didn't gave up, they lost. There was no more army.
British kept fighting as much as they could.
The western allies didn't start fighting in europe till the realised that the Soviets were going to be entering Germany soon and if they didn't do anything all of europe would be liberated by the Soviets.
If Staline did believe that Germany was attacking him, it would have been better for USSR too.
Germany attacking the Soviet Union sounded like something the British would come up with to try to provoke the Soviets into manouvering aggressively and make the Germans want to attack them...
And they are falling in it right now.
No... you don't get it do you... they dipped their toe in the water and realised the water was a bit cold... they have waited for warmer weather so the water is still chilly but it is getting hot so a nice cool swim is just what they could use right now.
They haven't blow 1.5 trillion dollars on an F-35... and however many other trillions on F-117s, and B-2s, and F-22s, and all those shit drones Iran had no problem capturing.
What future ?
Are you suggesting the Russian AF has no future or the MiG-35?
India just bought 36 Rafales for about 8 billion dollars..., so if we divide 8 billion by 36, and then times that by 126, we get about 28 billion dollars for their MRCA winners that were supposed to cost 10 billion. I wonder why they wont continue in that direction.
So their alternative is F-16 or MiG-29.... well the F-16s are actually older than the MiG-29s.... and diversification of sources only makes sense if it improves logistics, so a new source with a history of sanctions makes things worse, not better.
They already have access to it.
Not with any strength or duration.
In other words, attack a weak enemy with a multi billion dollars equipment. Just like US.
In a way yes, but the obvious fundamental difference is that this enemy picked Syria and Russia and is a terrorist organisation supported by Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the US.... not the other way around.
You said russian carrier is used as a air defnece protection for a fleet. Where are the enemy ships in Syria trying to destroy russian ships ? West of Alleppo or maybe north west ?
Of course... air defence means sink ships... that is why the attack on Saudi Arabia recently was so successful... because billions of dollars of Patriot batteries and also european systems were looking for ships to sink instead of threats in the air like an air defence system should.
Part of coordination of a carrier within a group of ships includes communication, as well as operating aircraft like the Ka-31 AEW aircraft, and of course CAP to monitor the local airspace for aircraft, missiles, and ships or subs.
If they wanted to test the plane they could have send them from Khmeimim.
Of course they could... and in 20 years time when they are operating off the coast of Africa they will only need 20 inflight refuelling aircraft to launch their CAP missions and the odd air strike from Khmeimim.... and it will work like clockwork because they will have practised it...
You say they test weapon against real poeples, and in the same sentance you say they are not murderers like west. You should read what you write.
They test weapons against people who are terrorists and if successful, will bring the chaos they are trying to create in Syria back to Russia and Europe.
Currently in Idlib, the people living there are living with terrorists... they mostly moved there from other areas in Syria where they supported the terrorists and now they move with the terrorists because they are allies... there are no innocent civilians there any more... they will have either left or been killed by the terrorists.
The flew from a land base mostly.
Of course, but the experience for the crew of the Kuznetsov to gather intel and plan and execute missions was valuable experience.
Yeah what about the democratically elected opposition at the assembly ? The army is behind him.
Aw... are you really that stupid... that is like saying Boris Johnson is the democratically elected leader of Britain... the people didn't vote for him... his party colleagues voted him in... there was nothing democratic about rich white men voting for an idiot. Just like the DNC voting for Hillary to be the opposition candidate against Trump... in fact it is even worse because most Venezuelans didn't even know who Guano was before the US claimed he should be king.
Tell that to the one bombed in syria by israeli every week.
I would have to shout... you do understand what stand off weapons are don't you?
I was the one who said it's not because russia makes ground based huge aesa radars that it can make airborne ones easily.
No, you are the one saying Russia doesn't know how to make AESA radars and is 20 years behind, and then when proven wrong that they don't know how to make airborne AESA radars...
If they needed to have AESA fighter radars in service they would have done it... no matter the cost, or how bad they end up being... we have seen several iterations of the AESA for the MiG-35... if they were desperate they would have one... it might only be a 600x600 array with pathetic performance but they would have one in service.
The facts are that they don't need one in service, their existing radars are already good enough for the task and a fraction of the cost of even a very bad cobbled together AESA radar. They are working on developing the technology to the point where it is better value for money which means cheaper and better performance.
It is sad that you wont accept this reasoning and just think the Russians are stupid.
When it came to nuclear weapons and nuclear propulsion they were behind too, but you wouldn't even notice now...
It is shit if you look at his capabilities to destroy something it was made for destroying.
Let's talk about that when those syrian maned S-300 get destroyed.
Well the Patriot battery that tried to shoot down an F-16 was taken out rather easily by an ARM because Patriot is not designed to defend itself from ARMs... the S-300 version the Syrians have can... so it is going to take rather more to take down an S-300 than a Patriot, but lets ignore that and say the patriot is wonderful.
Turkey doesn't think so, and I suspect Saudi Arabia is phoning the Russians as we speak.
Google is your friend.
Google is part of the enemy.
They don't take risks. Thats why they will keep being far ahead.
How ironic you say that... most would suggest that taking risks and making choices is part of leading... that is why they call it the (b)leading edge.
Freedom in west doesn't mean free to destroy. Yellow vests in Iran or China would have been killed fast in the best scenario.
Yes, western dogma and propaganda tell you this is true, but these protesters in Hong Kong are not being killed... but it could not be that your propaganda has failed you...
Of course the amusing thing is that when there is a protest in France, it is because the people are genuinely being abused by their government and the rich people who run the country, while in the countries you say have less democracy you will often see American political figures running around giving out cookies and stirring up trouble... it is funny that the west does the most to undermine democracy around the world... peaceful protest is a regime change tool the west uses... hire a few snipers to shoot random people in the crowd... get the people fizzing and then sit back and watch the country destroy itself... yah the american dream...
Why ? It's a free country according to you.
Because the nobel peace prizes go to useful idiots like oblama...
In China believing in god send you in camps. Very nice this freedom.
In Europe not believing in god got the Spanish inquisition... nice freedom that too.
What will they have ? They will go back and study PESA radars ?
No, there would be no profit margin there... they will start developing Star Trek Scanners... it will take 500 years and trillions of dollars a year, but they want the funding and a long term income...
Keep believing US taxes pays everything in US. More biased and you die from hate.
Not my problem.
They need to learn to fix their own problems and not expect me to help them.
The thing is that boeig is selling thousands of planes to the world. Sulhoi 48 su-35 and few ssj100. That like racing against a ferrari with a lada.
Glad you are not just rehashing old stereotypes... Boeing is a monopoly in the US and has more voting influence than half the US population... no matter who is president... Sukhoi is a company that designs and builds aircraft.
And because they were taking to much space. In the smartphone, Apple and samsung (US android) were the two huge leaders and then came Huawei which in few years became a huge seller. US don't like competition.
And that is what it comes down to. The US doesn't like competition. And europe has hitched its wagon to that. I am glad the US and europe are pushing Russia and China away.
They are at the top and no one can compete against them.
They are head and shoulders above everyone else because they are sitting on a pile of debt... they see Russia gathering speed and they see China and India growing too and they panic... Russia is their biggest military threat, and China is their biggest economic threat, but India is a huge market they want to use against China. They will also try to use Russia against China too but it is too late.
And even when China will become too strong economically, they will face US EU and japan because rich countries will always choose US rather than China or russia.
As China becomes economically stronger it will have 1.5 billion potential customers for european and japanese goods... and the US will have a 30 trillion dollar debt and with the US dollar becoming less and less the international currency less and less means to pay their debts.
Trump is getting back all the money they may have lost. Chinese can't compete on the sanctions they impose to them.
What!
I am no economist, but Trumps tariffs means Americans pay more for Chinese goods... it is Americans paying more for stuff they were buying before... it means poorer Americans, or products from other poor countries replace Chinese goods... but it will take time for Apple and Nike to move production from China to Bangledesh...
EU is their puppet. Russia is not a competitor in anything
Russia used to import its food from the EU, now it is exporting food to China to replace food they used to buy from the US... things don't remain the same... this is not the 1990s.
Japan is their puppet and the world has no will to move from dollar to another currency, even russia and China used dollars in their billateral ties rather than theur own currencies.
Used is past tense... now Russia accepts payments in Euros and other currencies too.
The US is stuffed choc-a-blok full of empty-head exceptionalists who can't adjust to the changing world
The US needs a Putin to say, screw it... why do we police the world. Lets close all our foreign military bases and end all the wars we are involved with and focus on problems in America... fix the roads and bridges... build some monorails that actually work... some high speed trains... lets work out how to deal with plastic waste and make it reusable... lets go to mars... lets make our living standards the envy of the world again.... that is the living standards of everyone in the US, not just the ultra rich.