it was awful, literally outclassed by american equipment in every category.
Soviet military hardware performance
Jaxson Jackson
Brayden Cruz
But in vietnam war soviet sam rockets show wast superiority and made US airforce almost useless,
Matthew Morales
and then the F-35 happened. now NATO is on suicide watch.
Aiden Cook
Russian military equipment was literally designed to be as cheap as possible. despite their relative success they were objectively years behind America economically.
Jose Powell
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Leo Rogers
Fuck off burger. The f-15 has been shot down several times in A0A combat but it's been attributed to SAMs or mechanical failure. I can go on and on but the point is, that picture is the most basic bitch disinformation around.
The F-16 also has been shot down in A0A combat but as we see in the Korean war, the USA regularly hides its losses and inflates the losses of its opponents.
- Soviet electronic and counter-warfare equipment was better than the USA's, their flares worked on their own missiles and on Us missiles while US flares barely managed to trick their own missiles, let alone soviet ones.
- Soviet cruise missiles are better in every way, faster, longer range, tactically more efficient, bigger warhead etc.
- Soviet mobile infantry out-classed the USA up til the 1990s when the Bradley was introduced, and even then the Bradley is technically a worse machine, and its only success was in the Gulf war.
- Soviet technology was 2x cheaper and 2x easier to make. They had more of almost everything or were on equal standing.
Grayson Peterson
Oliver Torres
Just my Korea example
Just an example of the F-15 being shot down, June 29, 1981 a Syrian MiG-25PD engaged an Israeli F-15 and shot it down. This is loss is ignored and waved away with bullshit about RADAR data and other stuff that is mostly gone (because of the chaos of soviet dissolution and the Syrian war). There are plenty of these, but because Middle-Eastern losses are often badly recorded or intentionally unrecorded (by Israeli and Syrian sides alike), this makes it easy for the USA to make such claims.
Sources like ACIG are helpful
>web.archive.org
>web.archive.org
The F-15 is a great fighter plane, one of the best designs in the history of fighter aircraft, but this whole myth of it NEVER being shot down in A0A is impossible. The F-15 was used in too many conflicts for that to not have happened before. Not to mention that the F-15s deployed were always either USAF ones or the Israeli upgraded ones, which only faced downgraded versions of enemy fighters or enemy fighters a generation older like MiG-21s
Adam Gray
India BTFO out of Pakistan with Soviet tech and even today BTFO out of USAF in simulated combat.
>theboresight.blogspot.com
>rbth.com
>rbth.com
>rbth.com
A specific example:
2 pm, December 12, 1971 Jamnagar, a city on the west coast of India. Two F-104’s of the Pakistan Air Force entered Indian airspace with a mission to attack the forward airbase of the city. The first Pakistani aircraft dived towards the airfield and strafed it before being intercepted by a patrolling MiG-21 of the 47th Fighter Squadron. With the MiG on his tail, the Pakistani F-104 broke off the strafe, turned and attempted to shake the MiG off. The Indian pilot pulled the MiG-21 into a tighter turn inside the enemy plane and launched an air-to-air missile but missed. In the meantime, the pilot of the second Pakistani Starfighter, the wingman, fled at the arrival of another MiG-21, abandoning his comrade. The remaining Pakistani F 104 attempted to get away with a supersonic dash but the MiGs chased after, getting back on his tail. The Indian MiG fired a long burst with its twin barreled GSh 23 auto-cannons. Seconds later the Starfighter aircraft spinned out of control and crashed into the sea. The pilot had ejected safely, and the MiG pilot (Squadron Leader Bharat Bhushan Soni) contacted an IAF base to send a rescue team. Unfortunately the pilot (Wing Commander Mervyn Leslie Middlecoat) was not found. While not a factor of this dog fight, the original F 104s downward firing ejection seats (Stanley models B, C, and C1) made it nearly impossible for low level escape. 21 USAF pilots failed to escape from their stricken aircraft in such low-level emergencies. This was especially problematic for the West German air force who used the planes for low-level strikes and strafes.
>ejectionsite.com