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You think those American F-15s and F-16s would have achieved air superiority against a Russian force operation SU-30s, SU-27s, MiG-29s, and MiG-31s in Iraq?
To begin with were talking about the first Gulf War right? Iraq didn't have SU-30s, SU-27s, and MiG-31s. So putting Russian pilots in the Iraqi aircraft at that time wouldnt changed much for the training and maintenance reasons I listed. Look it up most of Russia fighter don't have the best AA-12, so even these Su-27, Su-30, and the cold war beast Mig-31 would fail as well. The US and friends had more advance fighters supported by AWACS, tanker support, ground air bases to operate from, plus carriers nearby and I think in the Red Sea as well.
They sell better aircraft then they have for themselves they would have lost badly. Besides that fact Russia not could draw 300 aircraft to deploy to Iraq in 1991 or now for that fact.
Look at how they fought in 2008 and what they used? Look at the platforms most of the gear is from the 80s up and down all their forces in every branch.
You mentioned the US going up against went against MiG-21s, MiG-17s, MiG-15s, SU-7s and such which were generally decades older in comparison to their Western counterparts. Is that the US fault? Should the US have taken out retirement A-7 and F-4, would have won anyway before of training and better equipment.
Had those F-15s, F-16s, F-14s went against updated MiG-29s, MiG-31s, SU-27s, SU-30s I believe the Western jets hype would be deflated
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This is the part your not getting there are no upgraded Russian fighters. Even the Su-27M1 is mainly a solftware upgrade and cockpit, not even a radar. There exported Su-30 MKI has a good radar but not the Russian types. Russia doesn't have any thing to really compare to western types as far operating equipment and training standards. There are Russians on different forums I'm in who say the same thing what make you think you know more about their equipment they they do.
Also look at how Russian MiG-29s operated by East German air force beat their American counterparts in F-15s I believe, when Germany became unified
I'm a Mig-29 fan so I'll try to explain yes Fulcrums have won more of the of the pre-arrange mock training fights, more so early on. But there arrange in way that the two fighter would have to fight, that's not how air comabt is fought in real life. In most cases old F-4 had to guide the Fulcrums into the pre-arrange battle zone because of the Fulcrums poor radar. I hope you see that its a bad thing if in battle I can see you first and you can't see me. That mean in simple basic terms I can get my aircraft which has better range to boot into a better firing position in which to shoot my missiles. I ask you who do yu think going to win if it was a real fight in live combat? The mock training/fights is very short and almost like you grab two people and throw them at each other and making them fight. This is because of the short flight time the basic Fulcrum has. The Fulcrum is a good turner and with the AA-11 HMS it did well in this type of a pre-arrange setup.
The Indian Su-30 MKI is a very different aircraft then anything Russia has its Israeli, BAE, and French sub systems in them. And India pilots who get more then 250 hours training time, Russia pilots get around 50. Try to move pass the Anti-American thinking the best parts of the Su-30 MK are not Russian nor are the Russians flying them. Russian pilots would fall over themselves to fly a Su-30 MKI then their 1998 Su-27
I like talking about aviation, tactics and follow arms deals as well one of my favorite hobbies but if you can't get past your way thinking and open up to ideas or input from others I won't bother answering anymore of your posts.