... still don't get about Russian Air Force.
Because "rebuilding" military is so easy, you know.
The United States is the most powerful Country in the World. I completely rebuilt its Military in my First Term, including new and many refurbished nuclear weapons. I also added Space Force and now, continue to rebuild our Military at levels never seen before. We are even adding Battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than the ones that roamed the Seas during World War II — The Iowa, Missouri, Alabama, and others. I have stopped Nuclear Wars from breaking out across the World between Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine. Rather than extend “NEW START” (A badly negotiated deal by the United States that, aside from everything else, is being grossly violated), we should have our Nuclear Experts work on a new, improved, and modernized Treaty that can last long into the future. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT
But, of course, reality is a bitch and it bites very hard. There are all indications of a massive hysteria and coping gripping both political- military and media classes in the West in general, and the US in particular. It manifests itself in different ways. Since there was an air combat slant in my today's video, here is one such demonstration:
So, SU-34 is NOT a rival to anything, it is in the league of its own and if it could be characterized, it would be something like this--it is a combination of SU-24 and F-111 on a horse-size doze of steroids, taken to the extreme of tactical strike aircraft capable of delivering a strategic effect strikes. Mind you--Kinzhal and P-800 Onyx can carry a nuclear warhead at 2,500 and 1,000 kilometer ranges respectively, while still being able to produce a strategic effect in a conventional configuration. It is also tough--many remember it taking a hit by Patriot missile and still making it back. SU-34 is a reflection of a new air-to-air and air-to-ground paradigm but as I state non-stop--Pentagon will learn nothing being captured by fairy tales they call "operations" they teach in war colleges.
... and I am not a pilot, I hate flying and, in general, my aviation experience is reduced to drinking vodka with combat pilots, BUT... while fanboys masturbate to sexy and enormously powerful SU-35s and SU-57s, what about SU-34, this ugly duckling? I repeat the video of this aircraft dropping a monstrous FAB-3000...
Translation: Long-range cruise missiles have been adapted for launches from Su-34 frontline fighter-bombers. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to an informed source. According to the agency's source, "the missile is not new, just like the aircraft, but they have not been used in the same system before, and the new solution increases the variability of using both the missile and the aircraft." This news did not cause much excitement in the media. But it is more sensational than the news that the Su-34 can now carry hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex. The fact is that the long-range cruise missile that the Su-34 will be able to carry, although its type has not been named, most likely refers to a strategic one. In any case, previously only the strategic Tu-95 and Tu-160, as well as the long-range, almost strategic Tu-22M, were their carriers. Thus, the Su-34 is the world's first heavy fighter to receive the capabilities of a strategic missile carrier. The Su-34 is, without a doubt, a unique aircraft. No other country in the world has anything comparable to it in combat and flight performance. It combines the capabilities of a heavy fighter, a long-range interceptor and a bomber. And now, a missile-carrying strategist. By the way, the Su-34 has set 7 world records that have not been broken to this day.
The actual number of these aircraft deployed is unknown, but this number is in hundreds now...
Su-34 dropping FAB-500s from a very low altitude.
I mean it. TASS reports.
Translation: MOSCOW, 4 September. /TASS/. The Su-34 multifunctional supersonic fighter-bomber used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile during a special operation in Ukraine. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military department. "The Su-34 aircraft used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile during the NWO. The first crew that successfully completed such a task was presented with state awards," the agency's interlocutor said. "Kinzhal" is the latest Russian complex with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles. The carrier of the missiles is the MiG-31K interceptor specially equipped for this purpose. In addition, it was previously reported that Tu-22M3 strategic bombers and Su-34 fighter-bombers should be equipped with Kinzhals.
I hope I do not need to elaborate on massive strategic implications of that. Russia has around 160 of these powerful planes (now, most likely even more) and Su-34 is a mainstay of Russia's ground-attack combat aviation in full and expanding production cycle.
Probably the best combat aviation video I saw in a very long time. Just amazing when both of them are having the time of their lives. Now imagine how many Russian kids are attracted to combat aviation officer schools--that is a soft power.
