lol what a logic. every aircraft is not going to be a multi-role aircraft
Its not logic, its a fact.
Brett lee, Muralidharan though not bats man can hit sixes.
Any aircraft can strike on targets . Even Mig21 can carry good LGB's with good combo of air to air missiles. It is multi role but not so potent.
Jf-17 is a generation better of it and eurofighter 2 generations ahead of it.
By the way US nuked japan with aircrafts , they were not strike role/ air superiority role at that time. Aircraft can be modified depending on its mission.
F-15 is not a multirole fighter rather F-15S is a strike fighter while other variants of F-15 are for air-superiority. If all fighters are gonna be a multirole fighters than what was the need for Boeing to produce different variants for its F-15 fighters?
So why F15 was against Mki in red flag?
Because every one need a specialist . You cannot play match with all rounders. Specialists should be used to win .
Even Eurofighter is multi role with a2a specialist as tag.
F-18 is tagged as strike fighter.
If you refer to Russian design you will find most of them will be air-superiority or ground attack fighters they hardly made any multirole fighters throughout there history with the exception of few. The reason is Russian tend to tilt towards extreme in any case they follow, Russian goes more towards RAW power if you look at their designs like Su series or mig 25 you will see RAW power ,huge aggresive designs while on the other hand if you see US designs they will be more tilted towards sophistication , generally less aggressive in design and smaller in size
That is managing payload, for example you can keep optical/laser pods for better strike and other may opt for long range missiles at that hard point. U can use rocket pod or LGB at a point.
Russian believe in making special fighters as it is their requirement.
India requirement is multi role with specialist in both capabilities.
LCA/JF17 is multi role but less capabilities.
What aggressiveness did you find in Russian designs?
Every fighter aircraft is not gonna be a multirole fighter aircraft if it would have been so why would French had to make an attack variant of Mirage-3 known as Mirage-5 .
Every fighter role can be determined on role of mission. When Mig21 's were brought, they were air superiority, now interceptor/close support role. When mki's were ordered they were for air superiority, now multi role fighter with more specialist capabilities
Because specialists with all rounders are needed.
For example, Su34 is strike variant, su35 is multirole of Su27 series which is for aisuperiority.
When EF-2000 came to the scene it was not a multirole fighter as it lacked decent ground attack capabilities then later in further tranches it was improved to be a multirole fighter
Dude the capabilities will keep on developing through out development.
Eurofighter/F22 can strike but not as effective as F-18