You are all diluted by the strength of the Arab air forces. showing a video of dust ,smoke of burning barrels remotely detonated jet fighter streaking the skies is not a show a force, or an acquired capability. The only thing it shows that you can drive a tank and capable to take off with an airplane, no more no less. It is a movie, destined for internal consumption. How does that force reacts if in front of her was , let say Israel? Hizbollah? Hamas or ISIS? Can she be that effective? can she keep her cohesion? can she mount a counterattack? Iraqi Army has the same pretty ware, humvees,Abrams M1A1, collapsed at the first ISIS shot , armed with AKs and 14 mm guns..
We have seen and read the difficulties of the Saudis armed forces with their F15 and mercenary forces from Morocco, Jordan and Pakistan got their noses bloodied by the Houthis armed with AK 47, an RPG and a 12.7 machine gun.
We saw, that it took Egypt, tanks, mechanized infantry and everything they had to crush a mob of unarmed MB's
And we are witnessing the coalition made up by Arab air forces that is effectual as tits in wild boar.
These are today's facts as reported by numerous world news media, sorry if WIKI is not the source.
They definitely are deluded regarding strength of Arab forces. He have seen each time what happens with Egyptian air power when they meet Israel. It's going down for EAF, big time. Same with Syria in 1980s. Jordan would be dead in a day if they tried something funny against Israel.
And these so-called GCC Air Forces - they are all dependent on Western supplies, logistics and basically everything else needed to make those shiny, expencive toys to work in a combat.
Again, lets ask Iran what happened when the U.S. cut off it's supplies to Iranian Air Force that was supplied by the U.S.
Iran after 1979 is what GCC can be tomorrow.
These air forces cannot operate at their own will. That's the problem when having western aircraft. If any of those western aircraft were to be used in a fight against a country the U.S. or the West does not approve off, the U.S. would have cut off supplies in the same way as they did with Iran.
Also as the same way the U.S. did with Venezuela and their F-16, so Venezuela chose to buy 24 Su-30MKK from Russia.
Another point which you mentioned that is important is readiness of combat forces, in addition to maintenance, etc.
It doesn't help much having 300 fighters on the paper if only 50 can fly within short notice.
At least Algerie knows that their 44 Su-30MKA are ready, and can fly within short notice. And Russia would never sanction logistics deliveries to Algeria, so Algerian Air Force is in that way totally "free bird", as opposed to other "mighty" air forces in the Middle East that are basically kept in an expencive cage with the U.S. having the key.
Not one single of those aircraft dare to attack Israel, even though Saudi, Turkish, UAE and Egyptian air forces combined are much bigger than Israeli Air Force. Still, they don't even dare to touch Israel. Because Israel would massacre everything these so-called "mighty" Arab or Turkish air force could put in the air, Israel would bring those aircraft DOWN, HARD.
There is just no "free, operational will" at these so-called mighty air forces. They are only allowed to attack where the U.S. says they can attack. If they try something funny against Israel or against any other European allies.
Turkey don't even dare to touch Greece, lol.
Seems like NATO and GCC terrrorists are only good at killing and destroying secular countries such as Iraq, Libya and Syria. That's their measurement of "success".
It's a sad reality when some people on here think they are "mighty", but often forget that they will always come on not second, but at the BUTTOM of the U.S. list, regarding what the U.S. see as their "best allies". Israel will always be first for them, then Western Europe, etc. Arab and Turkish air forces is for the U.S., just proxies that are given the illusion of "mightyness" by giving them chance to kill other Arab countries such as Iraq, Libya and Syria. They feel soooo "mightly" then, you know.
Don't even let me start about important of having own sattellite system for its weapons. All these "mighty Arab air forces" would be using GPS, which the U.S. can jam without no problems.
Algeria on the other hand, has been offered GLONASS access from Russia, which is very important.
And fortunately, Algeria doesn't have Israel close to its borders, so Algeria doesn't need to worry about that. GCC and Egypt on the other hand, even Turkey should worry. (but they don't worry yet as they as busy killing other muslims in Iraq, Libya and Syria by their terrorist-funded proxy groups while Israel is laughing all the way to the bank). Turkey and Egypt are funny if they think Israel will allow Turkey or Egypt to "dominate" Eastern Med in any way by its air force or navy.
I don't even want to start with Pakistan. They are totally irrelevant in this debate, as they should rather worry about what India has, and not what Algeria has.
