True Brad, Russia has much better equipment than some give them...

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    True Brad, Russia has much better equipment than some give them credit for. There is a video where Putin was laughing that the world thought their gear was old rusted out Soviet era stuff, and made it clear that was not the case.

    Their aircraft specs seem to be close enough to what the west has, except stealth which is on the way, but these days it's all about who has the smartest missiles, especially "high off boresight" types. These have radar and other sensors that can track targets in a very wide field of view so that the missile knows where the target is even when it's not pointed at it. I'm pretty sure Russia has them on both the Su34 and the Su30 over there. Actually the Israeli Python 5 is a good example of the technology but was available in 2006 or so. Everyone would have something similar now.

    http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/python-5-air-to-air-missile-aam-rafael-israel/

    Assuming everyone has similar smart missiles, the next step is who has the best electronic warfare systems to screw up the missiles. The Russian Krasukha EW System is a good example. This wiki link has a brief summary. There was a report of one of these systems spotted near the Latakia airfield.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_EW_System

    There seems to be a lot of info around about the aircraft but my gut feeling is that everyone has been working hard on the missiles and the electronic warfare and countermeasure stuff and keeping it top secret. Vlad looks very happy for some reason LOL.
 
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