Originally Posted by
George K Lee
C. 5 x F35B vs 5 x SU 27.... Who wins?
It's scenario-dependent. If the F-35s detect, track, ID and get within a high Pk launch envelope before they are detected themselves, it's a bad day for the Su-27s. But if all you've got is AMRAAM, which is all you've got if you're stealthy, and even a couple of the Sus survive to the merge...
Right. Moreover, such questions reflect "mentality of the previous war". Or a war between undeveloped countries (in a military sense).
In a "serious" war such aircraft on both sides would be (though I wish it never happens) accompanied by and dependent on things like "your" AWACS, Rivet Joint and other e-warfare planes, plus multitude of surface radars, SAMs, etc. etc. Many of them on the Net with unclear performance (of this Net) in combat conditions.