Since russia has proven incapable of developing an aircraft that can compete with Western contemporaries, wouldn't it be wiser of them to abolish the armed sections of their air force, leaving it solely as a logistical service?
That way they might afford to iron out the fatal bugs in the T-14 and also build more than a dozen of them.
Since russia has proven incapable of developing an aircraft that can compete with Western contemporaries...
Ryan Parker
Daniel Martin
Not really because they can still be used against Arabs. Also Russian pride won’t let that happen
William Anderson
>Also Russian pride won’t let that happen
So much of what is happening with Russia can be explained with that.
Parker Cooper
They could keep some simple to maintain aircraft on the roster, like the Su-25, for whenever they need to bomb a hospital or something.
Fighters they could just dump though, nothing they got can hold a candle to any Western contemporary adversary.
Luke Morgan
If the russians just accepted that they lost the cold war, they could probably avoid living in abject squalor right now.
Xavier Baker
To be honest, russia should just give up on their entire military. The russian population was better off when they sent their daughter to be whores in Europe, and I can guarantee that the russian daughters where better off living in Europe than in the man made hell that is russia.
Connor Cruz
They can still be whores in Europe. It's just that their Arab pimps pay much less these days and living inside a box is not very comfortable.
Aiden Edwards
>western subhumans
Adam Diaz
ITT: butthurt khokhols trying not to cry after killing US pilot
Brody Powell
But the American MIC cannot survive without Russia and/or China's military being gone or weak.
Kevin Ramirez
>russian vermin
Jordan Wood
They really should just buy Swedish. JAS-39E is better than anything built in Russia by a large margin.
Noah Rodriguez
Newsflash for you Yevgeny:
It's not only Ukies who hate you russians, it's the entire world who hates you.
Adam Peterson
China alone is strong enough for the MIC to justify their existence, russia on the other hand, is rapidly becoming an semi-independent administrative region of China.
Henry Wright
All dem MUH STEALTH PLANES MAN yet the US got conquered by a bunch of unarmed, uneducated, low IQ people.
kek
Just goes on to show that planes, in the grand scheme of things, are useless.
Isaiah Bell
Russian army doesn't have the US' huge budget and they won't sink billions of dollars into a meme fighter that ends up with a shitty readiness rate after 10 years.
Isaiah Ortiz
>and they won't sink billions of dollars into a meme fighter
Not to mention OP
Ryder Harris
The Su-57 is done for precisely because they couldn't afford it (among others). So I doubt they're going to kickstart another 5th gen project anytime soon, they'll probably just modernize the older platforms.
Matthew Gutierrez
you are right,they will sink the money into corrupt tender offers,politicians and company CEOs.
t.commie survivor
Christian Reed
>they'll probably just modernize the older platforms
Well if that's all they can do, they might as well just write off their air force entirely like OP said. Modernized fighters simply won't be competitive with 5th/6th gen aircraft.
Robert Johnson
But their air force is still relevant in proxy wars, it played a major role in Syria and prevents sending boots on ground, and they don't need 5th gens for that matter
Angel Wood
Russia shouöd simply buy SAAB Gripen. It's the only Western fighter they can afford, and it's far superior to their own shit.
Josiah Carter
>they won't sink billions of dollars into a meme fighter that ends up with a shitty readiness rate after 10 years
kek'd
Colton Sanders
russia should unironically buy chinese.
Nolan Lopez
And for all russias posturing, they got conquered by churkas, caucasians and other shitskins.
Your point being?
Brayden Ward
Air force are obsolete S-900 can hit anything in solar system
Brandon Sullivan
That's nothing. The S-1000 will use quantum teleportation to send a Ukrainian SU-25 directly over any airliner that Russia needs to shoot down.
Zachary Myers
I know you're just baiting vatniks but at this point it's pretty much true.
Landon Evans
The russians sink billions into a stealth fighter that is utter garbage out the door, not really stealth to begin with and has previous gen engines.
Jacob Morgan
Yeah I was trolling but it's pretty much perfect:
>Cheap
>Designed to be repaired by conscripts
>Decent enough performance
>Doesn't need to be refitted with radioshack electronics
>Already used by monkey nations like Brazil so you know it'll be a good fit with them
Elijah Bailey
Its a real shame because they make some really nice looking jets.
Jayden Stewart
Russians are already fielding Western aircraft that is cheap in maintenance, sime enough to be manufactured domestically and multirole. It's Aermacchi, locally known as Yak130
Thomas Young
Yep, Ivan still can't see himself as anything that isn't a superpower.