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Krapivnik detailed Russian contributions, noting the delivery of aircraft and reestablishment of Iran’s air defense networks.
“Russia came back, built a reintegrated system, and over the last six months trained up Su-35 pilots and delivered Su-35 fighters — which outrange, by the way, the F-35s, even though it’s a generation 4++ fighter versus the generation 5 fighter that the F-35 represents.”
Chinese contributions, he explained, include high-resolution radar and satellite-linked early warning systems.
“The Chinese are bringing in their integrated radar systems, which include very tight-beamed, low-wavelength sections that can pick up — integrated with the satellite systems — anything within, I think, 500 to 600 kilometers outside of Iran. So anything that the US or Israel is launching is already being picked up and gives them enough time to start reacting to it.”
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Is this just wishful thinking? It seems potentially plausible, but maybe the ambiguity is part of the strategy?
Fiction bordering on delusion. Even if it was true, the Su-35 is inferior to the F-35 and F-22, and token numbers of Su-35s and Chinese "anti stealth radars" are not going to stop a combined force of over 100 US and Israeli stealth 5th generation aircraft integrated with all the intelligence, systems and firepower that the US can bring.
The whole article is an elaborate work of fiction. No B-1B bombers have been shot down. China has zero interest in buying Russian military equipment anymore after their last buy of S-400 and Su-35 buys, China has surpassed this Russian equipment, the HQ-9C and J-16 are far ahead respectively. Trying to use a MANPAD to shoot down a fighter jet is videogame logic.