• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              7 months ago

              I don’t believe that fighter generations are the major factor in an air war. I think the range of missile technology is what matters.

              You can put a gen 3 up against a gen 5 if you want, the fighter with the longer range missile is going to win by firing at standoff range.

              This applies to ground-to-air as well BUT ground systems have the advantage of hiding to get first shot and prevent jets from launching missiles at standoff range.

              The issue with the air-to-air situation is that US tech is going to be the best in the world in this field. Your fighters are going to lose to superior missiles. I would only trust cutting edge Chinese missiles to compete but they’re not going to sell that.

              This means you’re gonna have to stick to ground where you get to cover this disadvantage in range with the advantage of first shot from hidden positions.

            • CommCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              7 months ago

              China and Iran are not very close, maybe things will change after this brief conflict. Iran still sees Russia as the closer military partner. Iran’s foreign minister went to Moscow yesterday to meet with Putin. Iran is closer to India than China, and I think that is a big mistake on Iran’s part. The Hindutva rulers of India are huge Zionists, and there were reports that a few Indians were caught inside Iran spying for Mossad during this conflict, this is unconfirmed. Iran also gave a 25 year lease on their Chabahar port to India instead of China. Reports did have China offering Iran their J-10 jets, years ago, but either Iran wasn’t interested (Iran’s previous use of Chinese military hardware was underwhelming, but China’s military advancements have improved dramatically like many of their other fields) or China was afraid of Sanctions. China might be hesitant to sell Iran their top military hardware, because as this conflict has proven, Iran has a serious problem with moles and spies.

              Let’s see if there are any shifts in Iran’s foreign policy, will they get closer to China? Pakistan can be very helpful here, because Pakistan has shown during this brief conflict, to be the only Muslim country (besides Yemen) that strongly supported Iran. Iran needs to reassess their relation with India.