If what Singapore's defense minister said is true, that is, even Singapore, which is not the most core ally of the United States, knows about it, and Russia, a country that has suffered direct losses, really does not know?
If Russia, even if it knew about this matter, was helpless, watching the fighters on the front line, especially the Su-34, which is particularly critical to ground support, being shot down one after another, and by the way, losing 2 precious A-50U early warning aircraft, how much do you mean by this?
First of all, all Russian air defense radars and radars on A-50U AWACS aircraft are useless. In addition, the F-35 is used as an early warning aircraft, so the radar of the F-35 must be in working condition for a long time, and the electronic warfare equipment of the Russian side cannot detect abnormalities even when the radar of the F-35 is in a working state for a long time. This is not the same as saying that all Russian air defense systems and electronic warfare equipment are already in vain in front of the F-35. At least, the S-500 with the cowhide blowing into the sky is really blowing the cowhide at this point.
The biggest question is how those two A-50U AWACS aircraft were shot down? Both A-50U were destroyed at a so-called safe distance away from the front line. And the range of the "Patriot" PAC-2 missiles that appeared in Ukraine is at most 100 kilometers, so these 2 A-50U AWACS aircraft, especially the second A-50U AWACS aircraft, must be far away from the range of the "Patriot" PAC-2. Therefore, if there is no F-16 secretly deployed to Ukraine, then only the F-35 will do it himself, or the S-200 missile with a longer range will make a contribution. But that raises the question? If the F-35 did it himself, this matter would be okay to say. If the F-16 or S-200 missile is meritorious, it involves a A-launch and B-missile problem. Anyway, the missiles used by the F-16 are still American, if it is the S-200, an antique missile from the Soviet era, can be paired with the F-35 to play A-launch and B-missile, how did the United States achieve it?
Russia is clearly knowing that it was the F-35 that caused such a big loss to Russia, so why didn't it send the Su-57 to the front line? After confirming that its own air defense system and electronic warfare system are simply not able to fight the F-35, and the F-35 also frequently causes war damage to Russian fighters, at this time Russia does not want to stop the F-35? Searching for the best library, it seems that only the Su-57, which is boasted by Russian experts to surpass the F-22, can solve the problem, so why does the Su-57, which is also the first aircraft, not go to the front line?
The Su-57 is also a ** aircraft, and there is also the help of the A-50U AWACS aircraft behind it (Russia has at least one or two A-50U available), and the F-35 running naked against it, it seems that it is impossible to be the losing side anyway. The most direct benefit of suppressing the F-35 is that the safety of the A-50U early warning aircraft will be guaranteed, and the Su-34 can also carry KAB gliding bombs to attack the Ukrainian front line with confidence. You must know that even the cheapest Su-34 plus 2 pilots is a valuable asset worth more than $70 million. It is worth it to protect expensive assets with the Su-57. But why didn't Russia send the Su-57? That's the bigger question.
In fact, the most outrageous one may be the one that embarrasses Russia the most, if it is true. Of course, the Americans are no better.
That is, it is not the F-35 that secretly appeared at the front, but the F-16 at the front. The F-16s that Ukraine got were all retired from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway, and the old F-16 that left the factory in 1980 was only upgraded to F-16MLU after modernization, but it only met the NATO technical standards in 1993.
If there is little left in the life of these airframes, they will not dare to maneuver, and the F-16MLU, which meets the 1993 NATO technical standards, will knock out the Russian Su-35S fighter and A-50U early warning aircraft, as well as more Su-34s. Moreover, Russia's most advanced S-500 air defense system can't even catch such an old F-16, where do you say Russia's old face is going to go.
So, now I really have to rejoice, fortunately it was the F-35 and not the F-16 forty years ago, and there is one last excuse for dying at the hands of the F-35, the F-35 is too advanced. If it died at the hands of the F-16 forty years ago, does Russia also have to say that the F-16 of forty years ago was too advanced?
Of course, the U.S. military doesn't want the F-16 to be a contributor, because at least it can say to the Congressional appropriations committee, you see the F-35 works, the money is not spent. If the F-16 completed this forty years ago, how would the US military explain that the need to spend so much money to equip the F-35 is **? Obviously, the F-16 of forty years ago was enough, and even the latest model of the F-16V needs to be bought, you have to rack your brains to explain it.
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