As y’all know quite well by now, there is a rather serious – I would say, panicked – discussion among the NATO types about giving F-16 Vipers to Banderastan, to replenish their almost completely destroyed air farce force. I have pointed out already why this is such a terrible idea – especially given the fact that NATO does not want to hand over the latest F-16 Block 70/72 versions of the fighter, but rather wants to hand over old fighters that are essentially past their fly-by date.
The provision of Vipers to Ukraine will fail, just like every other Western wunderwaffe has failed. The fact is that nothing the West can do to prop up Ukraine, will make a bucket of spit’s worth of difference to the final outcome – the partition of Ukraine and the forcible removal of its most valuable territories and most industrious peoples to the Russian Federation, who will actually make good use of such things. The broken, corrupt, thoroughly evil state of Banderastan will cease to exist, and its demise will accelerate the much-deserved destruction of the entire West.
However, given the West’s quite literally psychopathic and vampiric elites have absolutely no reverse gear, and no ability to reflect upon their own stupidities and failures, there will come a point when voices emerge, calling for active NATO participation in the war with Russia.
This will mean the deployment of NATO aircraft into the skies above Banderastan, going up against Russian air defence and interceptors. And that, I suspect, will end in utter disaster.
Why? Because the Russians may already have the ability to jam the much-vaunted electronic eyes of the Turducken Plane, which is now the ONLY fighter used by the Royal Norwegian Air Farce, and will soon be the only fighter used by the Royal Netherlands Air Farce too.
There are a great many reasons to be highly sceptical of the likely performance of the F-35 Turducken, and I have written extensively on this subject for years. But, testimony from an Italian Air Force pilot from an encounter with a Su-30SM, indicates the Trillion-Dollar AWACS may actually be far more vulnerable than most realised.
Here is what the Eyetie pilot, either named Falco, or with that callsign, supposedly had to say about the whole thing – keep in mind, this is apparently from a Bulgarian website, and honestly I suspect the whole thing is a psyop, given what they write here:
On May 9 [2022], a Russian Su-30SM was reported to have intercepted an Italian F-35 piloted by a Falco pilot. The interception takes place over the Baltic Sea. The interception was necessitated because the F-35 came close to the Russian An-12 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces [VKS]. The interception is carried out by the Su-30SM, which, by the way, escorts the An-12.
“He came almost out of nowhere. I was very confused because I did not expect to see it so close,” the Italian pilot describes his first impressions of the sudden appearance of the Su-30SM. Falco says the Russian pilot acted defiantly. He has been lost several times. The US fighter jet’s detection and warning systems failed again and again and had to be restarted.
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The Italian and the Russian fly side by side. Both use slight maneuvers as if they are approaching each other, but de facto it does not happen. Normally, in border areas, military pilots are limited to warnings, but not in this case.
Su-30SM and F-35 each other. But then, Falco recalled, the Su-30 quickly fell behind and disappeared from view. For a minute, the Italian pilot loses his detection system again. And suddenly the Russian Flanker was right in front of the F-35. He passed very close, narrowly missing an American fighter with his left wing.
“All of a sudden I just froze with fear. I did not expect such a dangerous maneuver from the Russians,” Falko commented on his impressions. The Italian pilot began to smoothly make a turn on the horizon, trying with all his behavior not to cause aggression in the Russian pilot. Falco sees the Su-30 below him and the next moment dives. Falco tried to keep the Russian fighter in his sights, so he also turned the plane’s nose towards it. The Russian pilot saw the maneuvers and instantly found himself in front of him. On board the F-35, they again began to have problems with the instruments.
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The Italian pilot turns 40 degrees, once again starting to reset the detection systems. Falco briefly lost sight of the Su-30. Then the Su-30 appeared again, but this time, unlike its last maneuvers, the Su-30 flew calmly next to the F-35 and did not take any more dangerous maneuvers. At some point, the Su-30SM simply dived down and no longer challenged the F-35.
I have very serious doubts as to the authenticity of this account – not least because the supposed date of this encounter is a flat-out lie. It did not happen in 2022. The actual encounter took place back in, probably, mid-2021, as confirmed by Russian, Western, and (relatively) independent sources.
So, let us discard the Eyetie pilot’s supposed testimony for the moment as pure propaganda and baloney. Let us instead focus on what the Russia Khibiny (Хибины) system actually does.
Apparently, the Russians designed it to jam and scramble the GPS and other datalinks used by the Turducken, and its big brother, the F-22 (which, unlike the Turducken, actually, y’know, WORKS), and shorts out their sensors.
Does it work? Well, given the Russians have actually combat-tested their equipment in the field, and have shown repeatedly just how good their EW systems are against Western drones, missiles, and other equipment, I wouldn’t put it past them. We should all indulge in a healthy dose of scepticism about such things – military PR0N, like the human version, leads to highly unrealistic expectations of real-world performance.
Let us say, for the sake of argument, that the new Russian system is kind-of-sort-of-overhyped. Does this mean the Russians would actually have problems dealing with the F-35 in the event NATO is genuinely stupid enough to start a shooting war?
No.
The Turducken’s reliability problems are, at this point, legendary. We know for a fact that the entire fleet requires yet another giant bucket of money to deal with the maintenance challenges associated with its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine. This is a plane that requires something like 40 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight time. The Navy version cannot go supersonic without causing structural cracks in the airframe, and will cause the stealth coating to peel off. The Marine version has a ridiculously complicated lift-fan system that causes yet more maintenance headaches, and shoots itself in the arse when it uses the externally mounted gun pod.
This is before we get to the giant list of software defects, bugs, problems, and issues, which make this stupid shitheap the buggiest appliance since Microsoft released Windows Vista.
None of this points to anything like a good situation for the Turducken. Worse still, at least for the airheads in the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel, the Iranians now claim to be able to detect and analyse the precise electronic “fingerprints” of every F-35 they encounter.
You may, of course, dismiss such a claim out of hand, given the Iranians are the ones making it. Nonetheless, can anyone argue the Persians would NOT run off to their closest allies, the Russians and Chinese, and share with them the information they have received, in exchange for significant assistance with their own air force inventory and hypersonic missile projects?
The Iranians, after all, now have their own hypersonic missile, capable of bypassing anything Israel, or the USSA, can put up to stop it – let us not waste our time with the absurd notion that the Patriot PAC-3 could stop a projectile travelling at Mach 6 or higher and coming straight down on top of a vulnerable target. The Israeli “Iron Dome” only protects against subsonic projectiles, and their “David’s Sling” system has never actually been tested against a serious peer adversary.
Iran and Russia are now working on a deal to get Su-35S fighters to the Persian theatre. Few people seriously doubt the capabilities of the Su-35 platform, which has proven its worth repeatedly in Banderastan.
If you put the entire picture together, it looks extremely bad indeed for the American Empire.
The Iranians MAY be able to detect the F-35 wherever it goes. They may also be able to jam its weapons systems and electronics. This renders the Turducken deaf, dumb, and blind in hostile skies.
The Russians already have the ability to shoot down hypersonic missiles using their S-400 systems, and their S-350 complex shot down a Ukrainian craft in automatic mode. They already have probably the world’s best portable longwave radar complexes, which, combined with modern signal-processing algorithms, can detect every single “stealth” warplane ever made.
Their Su-30SM, Su-35S, and especially Su-57 platforms have all proven their worth in both Beyond Visual Range (BVR) engagements, and up-close combat. The Russian Khibiny system might be able to jam F-35 electronics and targeting. And, their latest air defence complexes are capable of shooting down enemy aircraft at ranges exceeding 300Km.
This is a nightmare scenario for which, as far as I can tell, American military planners never accounted. They never thought they would have to deal with a world in which their much-vaunted technological edge no longer existed. But that is precisely the world we are living in now.
Worse still, the USAF has not fought against a serious peer-level adversary for some 50 years, not since Vietnam. Despite the mythology sold to us by Top Gun and other (very enjoyable) products of American cinema, the USAF never enjoyed an 11:1 kll ratio against truly capable Soviet-trained pilots over domestic airspace in the Korean and Vietnamese theatres.
In Korea, the latest research indicates the total kill ratio was more like 2:1 against actual Soviet pilots.
In Vietnam, the wunderwaffen of that time failed miserably when tested in the real world against NVAF MiGs – American pilots went in assuming their AAMs had a probability of kill (Pk) of around 70%, but in reality, it was less than 10%.
The evidence, combined with the data from RAND – hardly an unbiased observer, of course, given its integral part of the US Military-Media-Industrial-Congressional-Complex (MMICC) – tell us the Turducken would be absolutely slaughtered in a serious war with a peer-level adversary like China or, worse, Russia. That is assuming enough Turduckens actually make it to the battlefield in the first place, given its awful maintenance record.
One by one, the Russians have methodically slaughtered NATO’s sacred cows and turned them into cheeseburgers. The Holy Javelin of Antioch turned out to be a dud, as did the Sacred Stingers. The Legendary Leopards, Awesome Abrams, and Stunning Strykers lie broken and burning across the fields of northern Zaporozh’ye region. NATO’s much-vaunted infantry training tactics turn out to be worse than useless – they just end up getting good men killed in horrible ways.
But NATO has no choice. Its leaders are too stupid, crazy, and weak to do anything other than go full-steam ahead.
I believe the US will, at some point, force its imperial vassals to go to full-on war with Russia. This will end disastrously for the entire West, because Western economic and military power are thoroughly intertwined. Once the West’s military supremacy clearly and unmistakably fails, its economic power will collapse as well.
Already, the undeniable degradation of Western economic power shows itself very clearly. The West is totally incapable of keeping up with Russia’s industrial production ALONE, and Russia produces, all by itself, near-as-dammit as much steel as the entire USSA does – a country with more than twice the population and, supposedly, 15 times the economic output.
Once the West no longer has the ability to use its military to bully countries around the world into doing whatever it wants… it will collapse into oblivion, as all empires do. Let us hope and pray that whatever replaces it, will be slightly less horrible and evil than what came before.
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“All of a sudden I just froze with fear.”
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even if it were true, i cannot imagine an American fighter pilot saying / admitting such a thing.