Mzal3ndo:

I have noticed that people are confusing between the future state of areal warfare and how the US plans to fight future warfare. The heavy emphasis on BVR is how the US plans to fight future warfare not how the future of warfare is going to be. To better understand this lets look at the US and Russia development of it 5th gen fighters. The US is banking on making their fighters as stealthy as possible to greatly reduce detection range and the reaction time by the enemy. And from what we have seen in previous wars, they greatly rely on achieving air superiority before committing boots on the ground on any large scale so the ability of not being detected is very important to them. Russia on the other hand has a very defensive oriented fighting doctrine which they adopted after the fall of the USSR, unlike the US which relies on jets for deep penetration strikes, Russia is using long range missiles instead. Thus, Ru is building jets that have great dog fighting ability and some stealth characters that they will be stealth enough to the distance that BVR won't have a great impact on the battle field. Also development of long range AAM to be able to take out large slow targets such as AWACS to reduce the amount of information that the modern US fighters can have and tankers to reduce the amount of reach that US fighters will have. Plus, Russia has a large network of L- Band radars that can spot incoming f-22 and f-35. After spotting the f-57 will be sent and since it will be stealthy the distance untill detection by and incoming f-35 will be greatly reduced to the point maybe and I i insist maybe the SU-57 IRST can make and impact. That's I sometimes get bothered when people say that the SU-57 isn't as stealthy as the f-35 or f-22 cause they are built for two completely opposite purposes.

NNAMDIII:
NDA 4th termer cadets, pics was taken 3 months ago

NTSA:
Kenya Army in DR-Congo Situation Report.
Special Units conducting long range surveillance & reconnaissance ops in Kibumba, Kibati, Nyiragongo up to Buhumba.
M23 Rebels’ camped outside the particular AOR with 'contact wait out' reported

MAN1960:


You are so childish, you live in South Africa or Nigeria? how will you know those that migrated to Nigeria

jl115:
its a pretty well known fact that South Africa has by far the most African migrants on the continent.... Don't be ignorant, facts don't care about your feelings

kabe1:
Algerian military training exercise

kabe1:

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Baller254:
KDF part of former president Kenyatta's security detail during peace talks yesterday in congo

kabe1:
SAS Sekhukhune is the only operational vessel in service with the South African Navy.


MMIPV in exercise points to possible non-availability of other platforms.

Heitman maintains all the services “have been reduced to ‘third world’ forces typical of the 60s and 70s, with unserviceable equipment, a large bureaucracy and a focus on everything but operational readiness”

jl115:
maybe read the article in its fullest since we are being compared to first world countries lije Germany ... Not brown water navies with 0 Frigates and subs

MAN1960:


Thank you for this point

Odunayaw:
Faithful007 how far? No kudos

Wuoche:
KDF in Congo.

Faithful007:
Sorry??

Odunayaw:
You were on the MT case in Bidexiii's thread

Faithful007:
I hear the M23 rebels are about to invade Goma. Let's see how this ends. its all fun, adventure and flag displays till the death toll starts to rise exponentially.

Meanwhile Kenyan troops are the best dressed in Africa.