http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmIKjCovEw&feature=player_embedded

Good footage of the 5 new Ka-226 @ Syzran. Also we can see presumably new Ansat-U, in the new camo.

Reporter says before 2020, the airbase will get another 40 Ka-226. So the order has already been increased.

J-10B superior to the F-16 Block 52+ and Rafale ? And you say that with a record of staunch neutrality and zero bias, do you? 😀

Apparently DSI makes everything else irrelevant.

RIP. 🙁

Are they saying that S-300V4 is a follow-on to S-300V and S-300VM?, so a better system than S-300VM or just an after-thought (maybe improved in some cases like COTS infusion, worst on others, just guessing)

Check also this:

It said that S-300V4 is also called “Vityaz”…isn’t this a new statement?

Are those system factory new or refurbished?

So much doubts…the news reports also says a total of 30 divizions of S-300V4 would be procured…is not that a LOT?

S-300V4 is modernization of S-300V and VM.
Vityaz is seperate system. WIll be new, V4 is modernization of existing S-300V units.

“uhm.. wrong.. its very well documented China was a major customer of the Flanker series in the 90s, then stopped ordering after it was able to make their own copies. same could happen to Su-35S if they go through with the purchase”

Which STILL is no loss of revenue for Russia, since selling the plane would still be a net gain.

Not complicated.

Oh, and the mysterious 052 vertical stabs swap isn’t too comforting also.

Not unheard of or particularly worrying in a test program.

http://lenta.ru/articles/2012/03/11/armavia/

Armavia might declare bankruptcy. Might affect their already financial tight spot, and the acquisition of the second superjet.