A Russian military blogger said that a Sukhoi fighter plane had been downed while it was dropping air bombs.

One of Moscow’s fighter jets has been shot down by Ukrainian forces, according to a military blogger with links to the Russian air force. Another pro-Moscow milblogger said that the Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft had been downed by a Western-supplied F-16.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 month ago

    Pakistan proved AIM-120s are still king in the air for MRAAMs back in 2019 against India’s Su-30s.

    Obviously there’s a lot of skill and technique involved, but you get a pretty nice edge with the range. Apparently the IAF said that the pilots couldn’t get a shot off without first entering the no escape zone, or at the very least felt uncomfortable getting locked up before they could lock the F-16s.

    Although now that China has brought back LRAAMs, it’ll be cool to see what the USA makes as the successor to the AIM-54.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 month ago

      The aim260 is in opeval, it’s basically a smaller Phoenix (except, you know, with a good seeker).

      Also they have the aim 174 (I think that’s the number), which is an sm6 upper stage strapped to an f18, basically like shooting a telephone pole at someone from 200km+ away.

      We were slow getting started, but we’re getting there.