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@airsuperiorx It's not about the EPAWSS, it's about not having an integrated protection suite at all. One doesn't simply ignore all kinds of threats to focus on RF ones only, and even if RF ones detected can't be located nor auto launch countermeasure.

The amount of people in the replies that have no idea what EPAWSS is or what it does is honestly not even surprising at this point, really. EPAWSS detects, classified, and defends against RF threats, not IR.

@donaldgorbachev The debris absolutely belongs to an F15E. Red and Yellow strips/ paintings could never exist on a RAM coated F-35, and they can only be visually found on F15.

The Five-Second Epistemology of the Pratt & Whitney F135 F-35 Engine: The Debate Is Over The engine. Turbine compressor rings laid out on a table in the Iranian desert. Civilians walking through the debris field. The bore diameter consistent with the Pratt & Whitney F135. The F135 is a single-engine turbofan. The F135 only goes in one aircraft on earth. The F-35. Not the F-15E which runs two Pratt & Whitney F100s. Not the F-16 which runs a single F110 or F100. The F135 goes in the F-35 and nothing else. The engine is the engine. The debate is over. The skin. Piled in the back of a civilian pickup truck. Timestamped April 3 2026 10:18 local Iran time. Dark layered flaking coating over composite honeycomb panels. RAM over honeycomb sandwich construction. The F-15E doesn’t have RAM skin. The F-16 doesn’t have RAM skin. The F-35 does. The $100 million stealth skin in the back of a pickup truck photographed on a Redmi Note 12. The stabilizer. Two men holding up a large tapered fragment. Swept leading edge. Hydraulic actuator housings at the root. The sweep angle and taper ratio match an F-35A horizontal tail stabilizer. Flush rivets. Low-observable panel lines. Full aircraft scale. The F135 engine. The RAM skin. The composite honeycomb. The stabilizer planform. The Martin-Baker US16E ejection seat. The non-magnetic fasteners on the body panel. The faceted stealth geometry. The air intake component. Every piece says F-35. One piece of painted tail says F-15E. The engine only goes in one aircraft on earth (ذكية / هوشمند، كاملة / کامل). Day 36. The Pratt & Whitney F135. The engine that settles it. On a table in the desert. Still closed. Day 36.

@idekatpppp22514 @Aviation_Intel @notyassine900 You gotta equip the IRST also, because it helps a lot raising the detection chance of VLO targets by 4++ airframes.

@MarwanK85648908 @Aviation_Intel @notyassine900 it’s not really exporting it, as the SA and QA are slightly different and purposely built for Saudi Arabia and Qatar. however, i do agree with you that we should’ve just kept the MAWS equipped.

Buying F-15EX and not springing for the missile approach warning system is absolutely the dumbest thing. $100M fighter, but let's save a few bucks on a key defensive advantage. You are not always going to get a radar spike from a threat, even at altitude.

@idekatpppp22514 @Aviation_Intel @notyassine900 Exactly, that's the point! Still don't get the reason why they produce and procure it with empty housings while exporting it already equipped! Even the integrated IRST which is very essential nowadays is missing also, unlike the case of SA and QA versions.

@MarwanK85648908 @Aviation_Intel @notyassine900 zero of the EXs have MAWS or are receiving them. they just have the empty housings. the only F-15s with MAWS are the F-15QA and F-15SA

@AustinAJoseph76 Any reference for that part that France (backout on TOT for Scorpene deal and fitting AIP on Scorpene submarine) ? In which case/deal specifically ?

France won't sell any technology which will allow it customer to have same control over Rafale that French industry and armed forces have. France does not have any other product that it can sell to other Airforces , French backout on TOT for Scorpene deal and fitting AIP on Scorpene submarine. France and Dassault is a one-pony aircraft country and can't afford to loose what it only has.

@backfin002 @notyassine900 I'm not debating any technical info actually I was just wondering if it's true that the real performance figures are different from the published one, Are you sure about ur source ? Because 1.75m as max speed is totally no sense for me

@MarwanK85648908 @notyassine900 Do you know how empty weight increase of 16.000 lb effects performance and agility ? Or reduction of wing sweep? Or increase of wing aspect ratio, and wing area ? Or deletion of variable air intake ? You MUST know ALL this, and also what engines are used.

The F-22 has incredibly inflated performance data in common literature, with intention to intimidate potential enemy. Its actual max speed is 1,75 Mach, and 1,2 M in dry thrust (not 1,5 M). It is amazing how many disinformation are spread in cheap literature. The light YF-22:

@notyassine900 @NGC_1084 Yes pretty that all SAR-ready platforms pack all of them. I meant jets actually, they mostly lack those systems. They just started to equip new production models like F-35 & F15EX with them.

@MarwanK85648908 @NGC_1084 I think they r packed and have it all, they have the nemesis CM system on almost every platform. These ones doing SaR missions are packed to the teeth with every defensive system, against radar, IR, and UV

Give me a fucking break Why are the Americans so damn show-offy Low altitude helicopter refueling over Iran? From a fucking C130? Really?

@NGC_1084 @notyassine900 US aircrafts don't even have an integrated MAWS, let alone a CIRCM. It's more that the area filmed was clear of any military activity.

@MarwanK85648908 @notyassine900 I presume they have flares and CIRCM (a laser that blinds heatseeking sensor). Also you have to be brave to fire a manpad with US ground attack in the air

@VaishakUpadhya1 @dogeinquirer @VLS_Appreciator Convinced*

@VaishakUpadhya1 @dogeinquirer @VLS_Appreciator Sure, it's pretty obvious Chinese aren't comparing the PL-17 to AIM-120 lol. Most Chinese are even convicted that PL-15/16 outperform the AIM-120

Me when i compare missiles in entirely different weight categories. Yes a 860kg missile has more energy than a 185kg one, great. The AIM-120D-3 is the only really comparable one here and i do not know enough about it to compare it fairly tbh.

@Su_35S_Flanker @WDequid WTH did I just read, absolutely they're not

@WDequid This is AI...

A Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-29M2, reportedly equipped with an AESA radar. 📸✈️ #Mikoyan

@VLS_Appreciator You've got a valid point. And despite the AIM-120D3 being the direct US equivalent to the Meteor, Meteor still retains a propulsion advantage.

@VaishakUpadhya1 @dogeinquirer @VLS_Appreciator Nope. Th PL-17 is pretty comparable to the AIM-174B in terms of kinetic performance.

@dogeinquirer @VLS_Appreciator No one compares PL17 to anything in the US arsenal. Saying this despite hating the Chinese. PL17 is comparable to KS172 or R37M

@su27theplane @notyassine900 As of 2022 they operated around 70 totally of the SM standard along with 30 unmodernized versions (mostly UB), as of 2026 it's highly predicted the whole fleet is modernized to this standard.

Su-27SM3 Cockpit

@notyassine900 @DoungaJohn Exactly. They'll prefer to put a 266mm unguided artillery rocket on it instead of those unhealthy PGMs lmao

@MarwanK85648908 @DoungaJohn and probably an external T.Pod to illuminate targets. This configuration is blasphemous in VKS doctrine

Pictures showing soviet made Su-25 close ground attack jets of the Azerbaijan Air Force with turkish made QFAB-250-LG guided bombs.

@notyassine900 Yes, that's pretty valid.

@MarwanK85648908 Same thing happened to the SMT variant and SM3 for the old Flankers, only a handful of frames ended up getting the upgrades This MiG-29/35 upgrade will never happen. Maybe export customers will request it and that all.

This show is pure BS I've learned my lesson to not take anything they say seriously