The Su-57, for example, may or may not rival a US F-35, yet this question loses relevance when one considers that there are not many Su-57s. Available estimates indicate that Russia now operates roughly 19 – 20 Su-57s due to ongoing production and economic problems.
How trustworthy is this source? Does anyone know?
We know production numbers to a rough degree, there's only so many airfields and flight crews that can fly and service them so we wait and count. If the production number doesn't match the distribution then you know they weren't somewhere. If we watch flight radar from China to Russia we can see them come and go regardless of how stealth they are so long as they must follow commercial flight paths for the most part.
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lol nowhere close. We have A/B/C variants for different branches, including things like beefed up landing gear for the Navy carrier jets and VTOL for the jarheads.
Russia can’t sail its flagship carrier for more than a week without it catching fire and needing a tow home.
At present I think the bigger threat is cheeto in charge pulling carrier groups away from Taiwan and letting China invade
I was saying this when we Finns were rushing into NATO.
Now I'm not against NATO, but my point was that the Russo-Ukrainian war means Russian has less resources to open up another front here in Finland, so while Russia is acting more crazy and Putler might do whatever, the practical military threat towards Finland has gone down.
So like, that wasn't a good excuse for NATO, but I'm still okay with having us having joined. Well, I would be if the US wasn't largely in control because their president is a diaper wearing orange clown who's sold himself out to Putin.
They've also massively blown their wad of soviet weaponry. Modern Russia cannot replace it in any sort of relevant timeframe. Heck, idk if their economy could even sustain trying to rebuild it without causing hyperinflation