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Well, is that all you can come up with ??? Boeing 777 has wiped out the the crappy A-340 from the markets , even your Air France has recognized this and it operates today more 777's than most of the US carriers..

Sure ,would be far more interesting than the one between M.Kalaşnikov and Eugene Stoner's famous meeting AK-47 versus M-16 .. Kelly is most probably the greatest with SR-71..

Two during desert strom, the other two are Israeli air victory against Syrian Mig-25's F-15's nickname is Mig-killer..

Their happiness would end the moment they are detected and located by this monster from 100 miles away

Trolling?? Oh come on you can do better than that.. I was not trying to prove anything I just replied to the statement below I disagreed with. In my opinion, Russian scientific work and core research is not that far behind. Implementation and production of the latest technologies lags indeed. The reason is, that Russia does not need to spend trillions of dollars on something that it does not need. Also, Russian military hardware customers do not have money to pay for latest and grates. Israeli, (nor USA, nor Saudi nor Japan) F-15 never engaged anything in its class and it does not speak volumes about technology. That F-15 is superior to the aircraft listed above? It is quite obvious. No, it is not quite obvious mate the MIG-29 has always been acknowledged as a fighter on par with the F-15 and even superior in some areas. The MIG-25 was considered long time ago as a fighter that couldn't be intercepted by a western fighter because it was flying faster and higher than anything except the SR-71. Don't forget its topic "SU30 vs Super Hornet Thanks for reminding me I almost forgot it...

F-15's are 103-0 in air to air combat. F=15's have shot down: F-4E's - two Mig 21 - Thirty eight Mig 23 - twenty five Mig 25 - four Mig 29 - nine SU-7 - one SU-22 - four SU-25 - two Mirage F1 - eight coincidence??

LOL.....

The Super Hornet with its reduced RCS, advanced IDECM, AN/APG-79 which is the second best is the world only after F-22' radar , leaps and bounds more capable than anything Russia can come up with, will always detect the Flanker first. The Russian hardware has always been lagging behind Western equivalents ( The crashing Israeli victories of the past with MIRAGE III,F-4,F-15 and F-16 speaks volumes ) and after the meltdown of the Soviet defence industry the gap today is even bigger! believe me mate Dr .Carlo Kopp is not the best source of information on this. Supersonic maneuverability of the Flanker is useless if you don't know you're being detected,located and shot at. Even if few Flankers get close, they have JHMCS and AIM-9X's to deal with. The ejector seat is the most efficient weapon of the Flanker against the SH

Thats what I always do when I see someone arguing like Dr.Kopp ! take Sukhoi factsheets and Russian government statements as gospel and dismiss anything similar from Lockheed/Boeing as'groupthink' or 'marketing.' SH is all over the Flanker...

Baseline AMRAAM? The AIM-120A that's been out of production for almost 15 years? AIM-120C-7 is about even with the R-77 and the AIM-120D comfortably exceeds it in terms of range, and massively exceeds it in terms of seeker technology. 80km if it's lucky- SH has a fraction of the RCS of the Su-27 series. You're probably looking at detection ranges in the >150 nm range for SH's finding Suhkois. Even so, the APG-79 is LPI, so no matter what the SH is going to get first look by a comfortably margin and be able to dictate to a large degree where and when the engagement starts. Thinking the game stops once missiles are launched is very simplistic. Most Russian missiles are still operating on older technology R-77 is no exception thanks to the post-Cold War defense meltdown while AMRAAMs have been constantly updated. BVR is highly dependent on ECM, something which the US has had a reasonable advantage in for a very long time. Low RCS Super Hornets with towed decoys and comprehensive EW suites they are going to be extremely hard to get a useful lock on. Once they get Growler support and AESA jamming modes, it's going to be even more difficult. Add in even harder to find F-35C's and you have a suicide zone for any Flanker variant around any US carrier. Basically, you're going to see the high-performance Flankers' performance advantages evaporate when faced with a huge situation awareness problem. It's hard to dodge anything when you don't know who the shooters are, where they are, or when they launched their missiles. Once again, even if the Flankers manage magically to get through, at best they're going to get an even loss ratio thanks to High-off boresight missiles. Bet my money on SH anytime anywhere. Cheers,