Is the SU-22 obsolete? Super Hornet > SU-22. Prove me wrong.

It's more likely pilot experience. The USA spends an astronomical amount of money training pilots. It takes tens of thousands of dollars to keep a fighter jet in the air every minute, and tens of thousands of repair and maintenance for every hour in the air. Other countries simply can't afford to give their pilots flight time.

But the American in me says yeah SU designation craft are subhuman garbage cobbled together by alcoholic monkeys from pot metal.

>>34295477
Why would anybody argue with this? The Sukhoi is almost 50 years old, while the Rhino is only 20.

>>34295513
Probably both, honestly.

Especially being that it's the SyAF vs the USAF

>>34295477
Yeah, the SU-22s Russia have been running are getting pretty beaten up and old. We should sell them F-18s to replace them with!

>>34295687
Good Goy

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Syrian air force has a long, proud history of getting shot down

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>>34295477
Yeah well MiG-25 is officially > F-18 then. It's all about training really.
Su-17 are sure old by now, but they are really solid aircraft for third world shitholes like Syria.

>>34295961

MiG-25 > F/A-18A/B/C/D

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>>34296034
Yeah, well, I sort of meant it as sarcasm to show that and old jet with a great pilot can easily win over a more modern jet with a good pilot. Then there's also tactics, command and the general situation.

>>34295513
Furthermore, it was very likely NOT a dogfight. He probably picked him off from 15 miles away, and he never knew what hit him.

>>34296034

let me explain

>mig-25
>shittier than mig-29

>mig-29
>shittier than F-16

>F-16
>F/A-18 is similar to or somewhat better than F-16

stupid Russian

>>34296396

point was, it was a legacy hornet that got shot down in gulf war 1.

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>>34296396
>He doesn't know what an interceptor is
Nice shitposting dude, too bad I have a hangover and would rather watch George Carlin than make this into a 200 posts long shitfest.

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>>34296396
>>34296439
Su-27/30/35 vs F/A-18 or F-16

>?????

>>34296439
mig-25 and mig-29 both filled interceptor role, pal

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>>34296396

he means Mig-25 used an AA-6 to down a F/A-18 during the first night of Desert Storm but that doesn't prove anything about the quality if either plane

Sea Harriers are terrible fighters that only Pierre Sprey could love but they achieved a 20 to 0 air-to-air kill record(including Mirage III armed with Matras) due to being better trained and absolute madmen