applesauce
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Not going to address the rest of your immature childish comments, but I will address this part.
The only one saying SU-35 is inferior to J-10C was.....A Chinese report...something countries claim routinely. iran also claims that Bavar-373 is on par with S-400, but let’s be real.
Again no proof of Iran or Chinese claims. That was my point. Actually at least Iran’s military systems (UAVs, Air defense systems, BMs) have been tested against western armies. China high tech arms have rarely been tested. So everything is conjecture.
It’s Predator like UAV (Loong? Forgot the name) is routinely getting shot down in Yemen by Iran’s 351 insurgency Ground to Air missile.
As for the SU-35 that China has, I told you up till 2017 it didn’t even IRIS-E. China’s SU-35 was outdated export version, russia offered to upgrade them. So again how can you say IRIS-E is inferior just based on PESA vs AESA when at least till several years ago, it wasn’t in Chinese SU-35’s?
you comparisons are ridiculous.
iran does not have the s-400, and does not have the industries nor the wealth for such a system that russia has. so of course their claims cant be trusted.
all indicators show iran likely does not have a comparable product to the s-400 at least not any time soon.
this contrasts with china, where china physically has both systems in question and can fly them against each other all day long, china is also richer than russia(and increasingly so) for nearly 30 years now, and china has a complete aerospace sector, which has already produced the j-20, multiple generations of fighter aesa radars, better missiles than what russia fields, various flanker variants. it is a proven industry and the j-10 itself is hardly the most challenging jet for the current chinese aerospace sector nor would the su-35 be consider the best jet in china even if the j10 and all the other flanker variants disappeared.
likewise, an iranian claim that their tier-2 air defence system is better than the s-400 would be far more credible if iran already has a s-500 or better equivalent, owns the s-400 to be able to directly test them and is 10 times richer than russia
and for all your talk of chinese jets being untested. what actual threat has the f-22 been "tested" against?? did it dogfight su-57s or any other jet?? all it has done is peacefully escort some russian bombers and bombed some desert guys in a $10 tent, but this supposedly proves it against a near peer?
so by your logic, the f-22's superiority is all just conjecture, the f-35 for that matter too. heck we might as well say the us nuclear triad is just all conjecture. it's never been launched against any enemies, it probably doesn't even work in a real nuclear war by your logic.
and yes, UAVs get shot down all the time. what about it? china does not claim the Wing Loong is some miracle in the sky. its a slow, cheap, easy to fly UAV that can be targeted, it definitely isnt stealth. US UAVs get shot down all the time too, like the reaper drones in the same yemen battlefield, heck iran got its hands on a intact RQ170, must mean us drones, even the advanced stealth ones are trash right?
and what do you mean china's su-35 dont have the irbis-E? it's the default radar on the su-35 since 2007. and listed as the export radar on the su-35 by tikhomirov (the maker), you literally cant get anything other than Ibris-E if you buy a su-35 (well i guess if you paid them extra you could get something different).
what russia(and tikhomirov) offered was to upgrade china's older su-30MKK and su-30 MK2 with the Ibris-E. so you're wrong on yet another point.