We relayed to long on the American train.
Agreed, American technology is mostly state of the art and reliable but also overpriced and overrated.
A Turkish airforce with F15's, F18 Superhornets or F14 Tomcats (or F22's yummy yummy) would be a superb wet dream.
But Russian tech and the former Soviets heavy industry always catched up with the American militairy industry with lesser money and userfriendlier simplicated tech.
Russian space and rocket technology are the best in the world. And Russian heavy battletanks, even the Germans couldn't beat them on the long run (despite every Tiger I and Tiger II tank destroyed almost 10 Soviet tanks)
They have one of the best jets in the world (SU-30, SU-34, SU-35, MiG-29, MiG-31, MiG-35) and of the most feared airdefence systems. Their airdefence systems such as the Triumph class are feared worldwide. A old fashioned S200 from 1950 shot down a vast superiour F117-Nighthawk in 1999 in Kosovo. A outdated S300 from the Assad regime shot a Israeli F15 in Syrian airspace a few years ago. Israel admitted the lock but said the plane crashes due technical problems and they retaliated with heavy attacks from F35's in Lebanese airspace, but no more Syrian airspace.
If S400 was junk, they would never make so much problems and put so much pressure on Turkey to cancel it.
Hell, Turkey is even scared to test the S400 or activate it because of angry Uncle Sam.
Russian weapons are more efficient and not overprized, you just get exactly for what you paid.
Agreed, American technology is mostly state of the art and reliable but also overpriced and overrated.
A Turkish airforce with F15's, F18 Superhornets or F14 Tomcats (or F22's yummy yummy) would be a superb wet dream.
But Russian tech and the former Soviets heavy industry always catched up with the American militairy industry with lesser money and userfriendlier simplicated tech.
Russian space and rocket technology are the best in the world. And Russian heavy battletanks, even the Germans couldn't beat them on the long run (despite every Tiger I and Tiger II tank destroyed almost 10 Soviet tanks)
They have one of the best jets in the world (SU-30, SU-34, SU-35, MiG-29, MiG-31, MiG-35) and of the most feared airdefence systems. Their airdefence systems such as the Triumph class are feared worldwide. A old fashioned S200 from 1950 shot down a vast superiour F117-Nighthawk in 1999 in Kosovo. A outdated S300 from the Assad regime shot a Israeli F15 in Syrian airspace a few years ago. Israel admitted the lock but said the plane crashes due technical problems and they retaliated with heavy attacks from F35's in Lebanese airspace, but no more Syrian airspace.
If S400 was junk, they would never make so much problems and put so much pressure on Turkey to cancel it.
Hell, Turkey is even scared to test the S400 or activate it because of angry Uncle Sam.
Russian weapons are more efficient and not overprized, you just get exactly for what you paid.