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Comment by bluegatty

Not really though

Russia's S300/S400 can absolutely down everything the USA has including F22 and F35 - stealth is an 'advantage' not 'cloaking device'.

Rotary wing are 'dead' - because manpads and now drones, they are just not used. Any smart adversary can figure out the drones, as for now.

Iran is a poor country with challenging AA but even they downed like 30 predators (or equivalent). They have passive systems.

Russia doctrines is to have massive numbers of S300/400 which makes it takes weeks at minimum for US to get enough Air dominance to be able to fly, though, eventually they would be worn down as we have seen US standoff munitions are limited.

US used 30-50% of munitions against just Iran. Imagine Russia.

China has a lot of sneaky new toys up their sleeve as well - very long range capabilities for a lot of things, enough to 'deter' USN pretty hard.

Nobody doubts US would ultimately 'win' v Russia, but everything is up in the air right now.

FYI even Houthis downed US jets.

parent bluegatty 11 days ago

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