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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    Indeed this picture worth a billion words. No radar, no pod. Its anti tank weapon is Vikhr missiles with 10 km max range. In order to hit one tank you need to fly directly towards it during the whole missile flight time (28 seconds!). That means by the time missile hits tank you will be closer...
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    A-10 and Su-25 are concepts form 1970-es. There were no UAVs, no SAR radars, no FLIRs. So you needed to fly low and search targets with your own eyes. Today we have all these. Targets can be detected from stand off distance and from UAVs and transferred to pilots. Coming close with subsonic...
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    Defence Q&A Is the Iranian army really strong enough to invade Azerbaijan? Will Turkey allow this?

    I think Iran's main concern is Turkey Azerbaijan Pakistan union. That's why massing of troops happened shortly after joint Tur-Az-Pak drill in Baku. What they are trying to achieve by flexing muscles? - I really dont know, because it's quite clear they wont dare to start a war. Iranians love...
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    So why there is no problem to show tests to the whole world? OK lets say S-500 is super secret. Where are tests of S-300 and S-400? We need just blindly believe Russian propaganda that S-500 is best even there is absolutely no any data on it?
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    Thats why I said there is zero info on S-500 except it looks like old soviet S-300V. BTW, Why US and Israel dont mind to show interceptions of their newest missiles? And where are videos of interceptions of ballistic missiles by S-300 and S-400?
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    F-35 can detect tank using hi resolution SAR radar in any weather condition from high distance and then destroy it. Thanks to its stealth and sensors it can stay safe even heavy air defence environment. B-2 can drop 16 2000 pound guided bombs anywhere in the world. Typical bomber fighter...
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    Flying A-10 /su-25SM3 against capable enemy is nothing but suicide. Tu-160 is nothing but platform for launching cruise missiles. It cant drop guided bombs, cant penetrate air defence.
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    All you see here is launch. Where is the interception? Like here: Or here:
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    Air-Force Turkey asks U.S. to buy 40 F-16 jets to upgrade Air Force

    F-4 is still US platform with all US standards. Su-35 will have everything different and it does not give any real advantage over F-16 block 70. But worst part is compatibility with communication systems Link 16 etc.
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    Air-Force Turkey asks U.S. to buy 40 F-16 jets to upgrade Air Force

    No real alternatives. There was talk about Su-35. But that would be a maintenance nightmare and even bigger compatibility nightmare.
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    Navy Estonia Selects Blue Spear Anti-Ship Missile for Coastal Batteries

    Estonia Selects Blue Spear Anti-Ship Missile for Coastal Batteries Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI) has signed a contract with Proteus Advanced Systems Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and ST...
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    Azerbaijan Armenia Tensions

    Arrow-3 itself in Azerbaijan is useless for Israel. Early warning radars could be useful. It should be used vs. high value targets. Even Russians could not jam anything in Syria. That indeed can be a problem in heavy air defence areas. I think it would be good to buy Delilah for Azerbaijan.
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    Defence Q&A Is the US or China the world’s economic superpower?

    The answer is simple: both are superpowers.
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    Azerbaijan Armenia Tensions

    100% fake. Arrow-3 designed against medium range ballistic missiles (1000-3000 km range), while both Iran and Armenia can attack entire Azerbaijan with tactical ballistic missiles. Plus it needs US approval as noted here.
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    Defence Q&A Can ballistic missiles and rocket artillery make up for conventional military deficiencies?

    Ballistic missiles can't replace air force. Air force like Israeli or Turkish can make 15,000 combat sorties a month. That's 30,000 tons of bombs at least. Obviously Iran cant have 30,000 ballistic missiles. Even 3000 is too much. In same time even 1000 ballistic missiles are good deterrence...
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    Historical Turkey = Germany

    Fortunately there are major differences: 1) Hitler built autarkic economy. Modern Turkish economy is very export oriented. 2) Hitler annexed territories, then started wars. Erdogan has not annexed a single inch so far and did not start any war in nearly 20 years of his rule. Putin's Russia is...
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    All we know about S-500 that it looks like old Soviet S-300V. No any information, no any tests. Unlike Russian and Chinese monsters like Smerch, MLRS is very compact, very fast reloading, modular, with very good mobility. You can load 12 GMLRS ER rockets with 150 km range and pinpoint...
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    Gorshkov has modern air defence (AESA radars + active homing missiles), long range cruise missiles (Kalibr) and supersonic antiship missiles (Onyx). All that in relatively small displacement - 5400 t.
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    Defence Q&A Which country has the best units in each category?

    Main battle tank - Leopard 2A7 with Trophy APS. Self P. Artillery - Pzh 2000 Rocket Artillery - MLRS Armored Vehicles - Puma IFV, Boxer APC Anti air vehicles - Iron Dome, Patriot PAC3 MSE, THAAD Attack Helicopters - Apache Longbow Attack aircraft - F-35 Fighter aircraft - F-22 Bombers -...

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