Su-35S: News #2

Not really.

The colour they used reflected light in low light conditions making it easier to see in more light situations.

Having a black background made the cockpit darker and harder to see, while white would dazzle too much with direct sunlight and make things harder to see too.

Think of it as text on a page... white or light coloured page and dark text is easier to read.

Dark licence plates with white numbers and letters are not as easy to read as white licence plate and dark letters and numbers.

But, all of that has probably been the reason for this aircraft receiving less export requests than it would otherwise have had, unfortunately.

I agree, though for many customers F-15s and Su-35s are big expensive fighters that rich countries operate that are a little too expensive for normal patrol and other operations that don't require 3,000km+ flight ranges.

Also, at the end of the day when you use force to bully others into doing what suits you and does not suit them... eventually they realise it is not in their interests to deal with the bully any more. Russia is not going to say to Egypt that you can't have Rafales and can only buy Russian planes.

It was US sanctions and abuses of its US dollar monopoly that forced Russia and a lot of other countries to sell their holdings of US debt and to stop trading in US dollars... which actually hurts the US more than anything Russia might have chosen to do if the US had done nothing.

The US is using its power and influence to try to isolate and squash Russia.... and Egypt... and Iran... and China and North Korea and Cuba and Venezuela and Iraq and Syria etc etc etc... and in the long term what they are doing is forcing those countries and many others to look for alternatives to the US as a trading partner...

I honestly think Turkey and Egypt are better off without F-35s.... the AH-64 got a reputation as a hangar queen.... but facts are facts... the Apache is a good attack helicopter that does a good job when used sensibly and correctly... the F-35 isn't ready yet.

Although it would be friggin GREAT if Russia started making its own sanctions of countries buying the F-35 or any US aircraft. Too bad it doesn't have that kind of power, at least I don't think it does to effectively sanction oh let's say for example countries like Qatar. Or Norway, or Sweden or even the UK! Man would I love to see that. Counter the US for frigs sake!

If an individual person acted the same way the US and EU act they would not be the sort of person I would want as a friend.

For Russia to adopt the same BS would make Russia as wrong as they are... I am glad they don't demand exclusive sales rights to their customers, which is essentially what western countries demand.

Imagine the effect on the Ukrainian economy if they could still openly trade with Russia and supply them with engines and aircraft etc etc... in fact if you restored OK relations with the Russians their economy would immediately pick up, but the US and EU wont allow that because they want to punish Russia.... ironically by crushing the Ukraine.

Same with Turkey... the US has a tantrum and refuses to deliver F-35s that Turkey paid for... refuses to return their money and no doubt will offer no compensation for their loss of work because they were making components for F-35s too which is work and money they have also lost... and all because they bought S-400 air defence systems from Russia... they asked to buy Patriot and THAAD but were refused... plus S-400 is a much better system that is actually cheaper anyway...

Sounds like Turkey dodged a bullet to me... the F-35 is a dog.

It needs to do more. CAATSA has the first acronym for "countering," well, that is EXACTLY what Russia needs to do.

They need to expand their cooperation and trade opportunities.

US trade sanctions only work if there are things they get from the US they can get no where else... unfortunately for Russia what essentially is happening is that the US is basically threatening countries that they will deny them access to the US market or the international market they control if they buy Russia... well the obvious response to that is for Russia to offer alternatives to everything the US would cut off.

With countries like Cuba and Venezuela and Iran and lots of others where the US is not really an open market anyway then the threats don't work.... and of course the reverse is true with countries deep in the US camp and happy to be there wont be bothered by Russian retaliation either, but the best revenge Russia can get is to cut out the EU middle men they use to trade with the rest of the world and start trading directly with rest of the world so the EU or US can't make demands or just get a cut of any trade like they do when trade is done in US dollars.

Again, I don't think Russia should act like the US... it makes them no better.

Well, as you probably know, most of us Egyptians don't give a rats ass about the mongolian turkeys and only hope that whatever happens, favors Russia mostly. But the turkeys, couldn't care less and it's super fun watching them go into despair with their air force and military in general. The head donkey there is a moron and a half who started the war of words by insulting the great General and President Sisi to favor the Islamic fundamentalists Muslim Brotherhood so that he can control them and Egypt. Instead, he got a big F you lool and then he started the war of words which has led to much more and now they want to be friends. Hopefully the middle finger only gets longer lmfao! Anyway, I digress!

Do you really want one dickhead to effect relations between your countries?

You don't need to fall in love or anything, but good relations and no arms race means you can focus on real problems instead of made up problems that the west loves everyone else to focus on.

The west uses enemies to motivate their nations and to fool their general public into allowing infrastructure being neglected and tax dollars wasted... when you are at war then your priorities are focussed and narrow... when you are at peace then you need to increase living standards and improve the situation for the majority of the population... during war time the owners of the munitions plants make money and everyone else tightens their belts... and Americans wonder where their middle class has gone...

Back to the terrific Su-35S that I hope Russia pushes its help for Egypt against the US so that we can induct them sooner than later. Hopefully this leads to more orders by the EAF for another 30+ as well as another 50+ MiG-35s etc. and get on that gaddam waiting list for the Su-57. With Algeria supposedly ordering 20 (not sure of the veracity of that rumor or news) and the RuAF ordering 70 or 79, and the engine delay and other testing left and production status unknown etc., Egypt needs to DEFINITELY get in line NOW before it gets pushed to the back and has to wait till 2035! Not good, need them MUCH SOONER.

We really don't know which engine the export Su-57s will have... they might decide not to export the new engine as it is state of the art and they may not want to share just yet. The current model Su-57s appear smaller and lighter than Flankers with the highest power engine used in Flankers now, and with internal weapons with low drag it should already be a real beast... the new engine was always intended as a mid life upgrade a few years down the track when the aircraft inevitably increased in weight.

Getting MiG-35s into service would be excellent for the brand and for maturing the AESA radar technology so it can be deployed more widely too.

Hopefully the lower operating costs of the MiG will mean good sortie rates and make it useful for patrol duties....

I would say the export Su-57s should have their own production line, so production for Russia should not effect production for exports, but it all depends on what the customer negotiates I suppose.

The US are printing more money now than they have ever printed in their entire existence previously... and they are not spending less... they are increasing spending on most things... but ironically if their new infrastructure spending is as corrupt and useless as their MIC has become most of that money will filter to big pockets that are already full and the workers might get minimum wage... unless they can get migrant workers to do it cheaper... and the work itself will be substandard because they will be cutting every corner they possibly can.

With more and more countries having to stop using the US dollar then the countries they trade with will have to start using alternative currencies... what happens when all that titanium Boeing is buying from the Russians for making their new civilian and military aircraft has to be paid in Euros or rubles?

As the US dollar is used less and less as the international trade currency its value will drop which means they will need to print rather more dollars to just get the same resources from the world... many places of course not accepting the dollars and demanding something else.

They are destroying confidence in their own dollar and forcing countries to use alternative options for international trade, which as you point out, saves them money because the US charges for changing money, and gives them lots of information about trade deals happening all over the world... even secret deals...

But actually their primary method of sanctions is to target individuals and companies and countries... much like they with NSII... work on the deal and you cannot get any work in the US market... the huge lucrative US Market... Such threats don't work on Russian companies banned from the US Market like Group Kalashnikov, but a lot of other companies have subsidiaries... which is part of the problem Rogozin is complaining about... a chemical company the US claims has something to do with making novachok also makes rocket fuels and equipment for their space industry and military.

The really amusing thing is that following this track the US is going to rapidly run out of export customers for the F-35... in five years time they might be begging Turkey to buy some... even Israel seems to have reverted to using F-16s in Syria... clearly the F-35 is too expensive and not as much better as the US likes to claim...

What they need is for the US government to appoint someone to go through that shit who knows what they are doing to fix it...

They needed someone like Pierre Sprey of the old fighter mafia that created the F-16 and F-18 types to cut right down on the F-35 programme and fix it.

The person appointed needs to be given the power to make fundamental changes to everything in regard to the entire programme... including making production and support and supply centralised and efficient, instead of bloated and cancel proof.

I see on the wiki page that Pierre Sprey passed away in August... that is a shame... when it comes to fighter aircraft, he was a real expert...

We had a member here with that username, but I assume it was a homage to the man rather than the real person...