Firstly most of your comments are off topic and of little value, in fact they are passive aggressive. In the future I will not answer
So the JH-7 is a close air support aircraft?
Stay on topic. Half of those losses was to friendly fire and the remaining was relying to heavily on close air support aircraft instead of SEADs aircraft.
Exactly, they are focusing heavily on Flankers instead of the JH-7 which is a poor argument for Supposed Chinese superiority in designing aircraft.
The SU-34 is based on the SU-27, and it's primary role is SEADs.
Again off topic and a foolish example. The T-50 is going to be expensive.
First example, the F-22 is banned for export. The second example, the F-35 was originally supposed to be a cheap aircraft where the US military could afford to replace F-16s and F-15s, instead the F-35 has ballooned in price to where the US may cut orders just like partner countries have, some countries even dropped out of the F-35 program altogether.
those figures of 200 could change anytime just like SU-34 numbers kept increasing.
When Mig says it's ready.
Your link is from 2009 and it's like one paragraph long.
My reply:
1) You don't like my comments, because they are always backed up with facts and sources, many of them Russian sources, which you keep IGNORING, because you don't like what it says there. It's against your "ego" reading about the collapse of the Russian Navy, and you don't like reading that you have 200 MiG-29 that CAN'T even FLY!
It's nothing "passive agressive" about it. Go to Russian Defence website, and you will see many nationalistic Russians trash everything that has to do with China. Here, we don't trash Russia, and most of us understand that you nor the morons on Russian Defence website represent the majority of the Russian people.
I am just using Russian sources that point ut how BAD the state of the Russian Armed Forces is. Especially the Navy and the Air Force.
2) Yes, JH-7 is for everything else than sending it against upgraded F-16 and F-18s. We have J-10, J-11, Su-30MKK, J-15 etc for that. Even the most upgraded J-8 we have would be more useful in an air combat than sending JH-7.
Like I said - if anyone was to voilate the Russian airspace, your Su-24 would NOT have been the ones being sent against an enemy aircraft. Your FEW MiG-29 that can still fly alongside Su-27 would have been the aircraft being sent to defend the Russian airspace, and maybe a few MiG-31, but certantly not Su-24, that's for sure.
3) I don't care if you shot down half of your own aircraft - the point is, they were SHOT DOWN and destroyed. It says something about your Air Force, not even being able to target the enemt of a size and strength as Georgia, which didn't had much to begin with.
4) Read the link from AusAirPower - the Chinese Flankers are a unique family of aircraft, and they are different to your type of aircraft. If we were not happy with what we have produced so far, we would have imported a lot more than just 100 Su-30MKK. You keep whining to China about how we "copied" your Su-27 - yet you continue to sell us your engines without any problems, lol. I like that.
It's like when U.S. is accusing China of hacking, and now we found out once again how hypocrate the U.S. is.
5) Excatly, as I said, JH-7, Su-24, Su-34 are for SEAD, and attacking target on the GROUND anyway. It has nothing to do with AIR-TO-AIR combat. You cannot send Su-24 and Su-34 against U.S. fighters. Once again, I don't care about your imaginary ideas about how Su-34 can be "equipped". Point is once again, it's NOT equipped to fight F-18 from aircraft carriers or F-16s Block 52, and to mention F-22. So stop the "imaginary" stuff, try to fix those 200 MiG-29 that CAN'T FLY first.
6) Oh, so T-50 is expencive, and therefore you have to export 80% of them outside Russia? Hehe. Funny excuse. It's like when you are bragging about Su-30 and Su-35, which are of course very good planes, but it doesn't help the Russian Air Force much when most of those Su-30 and Su-35 are OUTSIDE Russia, AND your air force is sitting with MiG-29 and Su-27 were many of them CAN'T FLY.
So are we going to hear the same thing about T-50; how wonderful plane it is, yet, 80% of them will be under control of the countries that has nothing to do with the Russian Air Force
7) Yes, F-22 banned for export, there is a reason for that, it's a very good plane, and U.S. keeps the best for them self, yet Russia is selling their best to everyone else, lol. Now, that's funny.
So let me see if I get this correctly. If there is a conflict between the U.S. and Russia, you will send your 200 T-50 against 2.000 + F-35, LMAO.
Yeah, because 1 T-50 has such a good odds against 10 F-35s, lol.
No matter how many final number the U.S. ends up with regarding F-35, the fact is that a majority of all produced F-35 will be under the U.S. Armed Forces. That's totally different to what Russia is planning, which is where a majority of countries OUTSIDE Russia will OWN the majority of all T-50s. That is not helping the Russian Air Force much, does it.
Oh, you can be sure that most J-20 and J-31 will also be under the PLAAF, and not owned by countries outside China. But of course, you can keep telling yourself otherwise.
8) Of course figures can change from 200 and go up. However, since 2009/2010, the figures have went down, and NOT up. India har reduced to 144. And that Russian source Pravda which estimated that China will buy up to 100 T-50, can also keep dreaming.
So basically, the numbers for T-50 which your Russian sources have calculated in 2010, keep falling throughout 2013.
9) Yeah, when MiG says it's ready, lol. Guess, it will be a long time until LMFS is operational, if it ever gets operational, it's still there only in theory, and not even one example has been produced yet.