PKK was supported by Assad which was on its turn supported by USSR, not by US.
If you check resent events then Turkish helicopter was shot down by Russian Igla (not Stinger) and tanks were hit by Kornets (not Javelins).
And what happened in Syria was direct and deliberate attack by Russia...
You said buying S-400 is matter of respect. Thats why I wondered. No its some dirty deals. And Erdogan made a huge miscalculation. If he wanted to please his friend Vlad he could buy Yakhont missiles for example. They are both more useful than the S-400 and not nearly as harmful to US-Turkey...
S-400 is not trash, but SAMs in general nowadays are vulnerable and not effective vs cruise missiles which can attack safely under the radar. This 2 billion system can be easily destroyed with several cruise missiles.
No its not excuse at all. The F-35 RCS profile is one of the most preserved...
Drones have limitations, like small warheads and being slow. Azerbaijani MoD released that Su-25 made 600 sorties in the war. Quite a lot.
Thats why i doubled air to air points.
Thats not so easy, plus many quite advanced air forces have these F-5.
I did downgrade the Egyptian F-16s.
Can u...
More than half of Israel territory (about 13,000 km) is Negev desert: 200 x 120 x 220 km triangle. Its enough to put airbases and training + training can be done over sea also.
In terms of military density the world leader is Singapore. It is 1/31 of Israel size, but has very strong air force...
Here another video:
These are cruise missiles. When it comes to targets close to S-300 and S-400 IAF does not take risks. I explained more here:
https://defencehub.live/threads/how-iaf-avoids-syrian-air-defence.512/