tbm3fan
Defense Professional
I would be careful using the general term "Americans" when it is Trump giving you issues. Lump me in would be a mistake as I am an American and might take more offense. Frankly both India and Pakistan need to get over themselves. I see two countries being played against each other for the benefit of the one country who wants supremacy over all of Asia and South-East Asia. I see highly educated patients that are both Pakistani and Indian. It is a shame that the two of you couldn't work together creating an entity greater than the sum of the two parts. Instead nothing but buts...China has a powerful Military Industrial Complex (in Asia, Africa and also in the Middle-East), just like America has almost everywhere. Marketing and sales. And propaganda sells more warplanes, and tanks, and artillery, and missiles and what not. Did the US accept that an Indian Mig-21 Bison shot down an F-16 during a dog-fight after the Balakot Strikes? No, right?
If the Chinese trolls us, that's understandable. India is trying to corner its marketshare with Brahmos and artillery systems and missiles. What fails to impress me is why are Americans trolling us, including President Trump.
Second, Ward's site has dealt with air warfare since it's inception. He was an F-14 RIO and deals with air warfare facts no matter the side. Sure everyone knows the Chinese video was propaganda, Ward says so, but that doesn't change the facts on how it all went down and how aerial warfare has changed from his days. Your little example of a dogfight is nothing new here. What Ward was showing is newer tactics going into the future.