You ability to blow your own trumpet is amazing.
Thanks. But what is wrong with that anyway? Are we all here to speak for our respective countries of allegiances?
My point was, and I will need to rephrase to make it clear, that testing against your own systems does not make your equipment more lethal, or better than others. And here you've given us a multi-paragraph spiel without actually addressing my point.
I understood your point well. Better than you do.
What you failed to understand is that what make a weapon or weapon system more or less 'lethal' is less about the technological aspect of it but more from the human factor. You are like so many here practically obsessed with specs. If A jet have a higher speed than B, A must better than B. I constantly hope that air forces worldwide are infested with people like you. It will make their defeat by US so much sweeter.
Militaries worldwide admitted that what make the US military exceptional is the human factor, particularly the non-commissioned officers (NCO) corps. I repeated that over and over the yrs on this forum. Seemingly it never sank in. Creative people make the weapon lethal.
First, there is the very real possibility of 'technological incest', or an inbred culture far removed from reality.
This is sheer nonsense. It maybe applicable to other militaries, but not to US.
https://warisboring.com/america-has-a-long-tradition-of-covertly-flying-enemy-aircraft/
First, the USAF have a decades long history of acquiring and using foreign combat aircrafts against our own. That alone negate your charge of 'technological incest'.
Next on what you failed to understand is that you do not need the clone of what you acquire. All you need is the clone of the
EFFECTS. That is why the T-38/F-5 platform gradually fell out of favor as the choice for an 'adversary' program and the F-16 replaced it. The F-16 can better replicate the maneuverability of the various Soviet/Russian fighters. Even so, we do not need to replicate the effects to %100 accuracy because the goal is to give pilots a chance to come up with their own ways to deal with something different.
Same with EW testing. We acquire foreign hardware to study how we could replicate the various operating freqs and signals characteristics.
Second, any reasonably complex technological problem doesn't have one solution, it has infinite solutions. Every single solution point has different tradeoffs, and you simply don't have the capacity to test everything. Which brings you back to the same level as everyone else.
Regarding the highlighted --
BULLSHIT.
If what you said is true, then your PAF would dismiss any chance to fly with US.
https://quwa.org/2016/07/27/pakistani-f-16s-red-flag-green-flag-exercises/
Six Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16C/D Block-52+ are taking part in Red Flag, which is termed as the “U.S. Air Force’s premier air-to-air combat training exercise.”
Explain why the PAF went to Red Flag if there is no way we can replicate everything from actual combat. Since we cannot replicate and test everything, Red Flag is just another useless exercise, right?
Until and unless you go to war with nations who can actually take you on, you are merely bluffing.
Damn good bluff, too. So far, no one, not even China, want to call it.
I mean, everyone remembers how jets without cannons failed miserably in Vietnam.
Really? I give you 'Operation Bolo'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bolo
To sum it up, in one day, the gunless F-4 wiped out half of North Vietnam's complement of MIG-21s. North Viet Nam literally ground the rest of MIG-21 fleet for
MONTHS while the Soviets scrambled to give North Viet Nam solutions.
This is the point that you missed -- over and over despite my best effort to explain.
Red Flag, foreign technology exploitation, joint exercises, etc., came from the human factor. Unlike your perception of US, we know better than anyone where technology comes short. That is why we came up with all these programs.
That calls to question the entire 'self testing' regime and its efficacy. Or at the very start of the Afghan war when thermobaric cave busters fizzled out in the Afghan winter.
Source?
Let's be clear: your 'tested against your own self' systems failed miserably during conflict. Your as* was saved by your sheer size and the disparity between the belligerents. Such mistakes will have you losing wars against technologically advanced nations.
You have done anything but 'clear'. You cherry-picked certain instances and events and made your own absurd conclusions and the absurdity was compounded by your lack of relevant experience and your hatred of US.
Yes, you may have approximations in the form of the 507th. But are you trying to imply that today you have the full measure of China/Russia's capabilities?
Again...The goal is not to replicate to %100 but present something different.
The 507th uses foreign technologies, but more important, the unit develop tactics intends to defeat others as well as tactics to defeat itself. The 507th travels to other units in the US as well as allies. If what they do is so worthless, then why so many want their services?
Wait, I remember you said one China can never acquire excellence in semi-conductor manufacturing because there are too many old people set in their own archaic ways. Pot calls the kettle black.
Yeah...I would like to see that discussion in full context.
On this forum, there is a widely practiced custom of pasting a Burnol picture in response to Indian trolls. I feel compelled to give you a digital trumpet, but I'll refrain.
How nice, but I do not give a shit. This is not about your or me, but about giving the silent readers out there the American perspectives. Too bad for you.
SIGINT 101: No one uses their actual wartime frequencies, search patterns, or even physical locations during war time.
Wow...That is news. Contact the Pentagon...
All these decades of flying SIGINT missions, it never occurred, not once, to US, that the Soviets/Russians/Chinese may not be using actual war time freqs.
Are you that certain that our databases contains the same set of freqs all these yrs?
You must have contacts inside the Pentagon better than the Prez.
And here again, a title holder is found passing deceptive information. You must think everybody is an ignoramus for you to peddle this false information.
Versus your paranoia about 'backdoors' and secret 'kill switches'? I have a hell of a lot more reasonable arguments than you have for your delusions.
The mighty US cannot get their own aircraft and human crew back until China decides to give them back. Don't try to hide behind false postures. Even recently, the Chinese captured a US underwater drone and Trump was found saying 'If the Chinese want it, they can have it'. Yes, very mighty.
Hey...We gave the Soviets back the MIG-25 back in 1976. We could have kept it and there was nothing the Soviets could have done.
The reason why the Chinese gave US back the EP-3E is because they found out they got next to nothing of value from the aircraft. About the aircraft itself, there was nothing about it the Chinese already do not have. But on the intelligence gathering capabilities, the crew jettisoned critical equipment and mission data records before they landed in Hainan.
The entire incident became a black eye for China. Its pilots got lowered respect in the aviation community. It got caught in lying about the EP-3E's maneuver to ram the F-8, a claim so absurd no one believed it. China have no choice but to cave to US demands.
Pathetic attempt at clawing back what you lost earlier. Keep trying.
And with technological superiority, a smaller airforce can deny any early attempts by a numerically larger force. That is the point of this thread.
If you had really want this thread to be technical and logical, you would have left US out of it. But you cannot resist your childish impulse to criticize US.
