These Russian flying bricks would have been dead meat for F-15’s . Bear shooting in North American airspace.
Those Russian flying bricks would have launched cruise missiles too far out for F-15s to do anything.
Good post BoGo, thanks.
The MiG-29 article @ TakeOff doesn’t really have anything new.
Also, fear the Mistrals Japan. For they are coming.
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/1695/068466142ebcdcorigresiz.jpg
The proper lines of a cruiser – Varyag.
Interesting purchase if true. They recently bought Mi-35s- and not Mi-35Ms, but vanilla, good ole Mi-35s. From that to Apaches?
A useful future of the ships was their helicopter ASW ability, both in number carried and simultaneous deployment.
so you are admitting its a development of a late 70’s era design (or early 80’s if you want)
J-10B is a development of a late 90’s design.
Did I ever deny it??
That just makes J-10B sound even less impressive, if anything.
And here it is, the newly built Ka-52, President-S, MAWS, Arbalet, etc.
http://aviaforum.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=294873&d=1328899548
there are no MiG-29s flying with AESA radars.
Oh please. MiG-35 is re branded MiG-29.
Still zero factual evidence to back up the claim that the J-10 is ahead of the Fulcrum in development.
The smaller Zhuk-AE isn’t relevant anymore, since the larger array has been flying since last year.
Not a chance F35 is going to be that cheap. USAF won’t buy more than 800 instead of the 1700 planned. Economies of scale won’t work as they were supposed to do. And I’m not even talking about the other customers.
Nic
Nonsense.
WRONG,
J-10 HAS IRST and PESA (CHN Fanboys say AESA, whichever works)its ahead of MiG-29’s advanced developments
How is it ahead of MiG-29 developments, which has been flying around with AESA for some time now. And has IRST from the start.
There is a Mi-26 that was also fitted with active defense:
http://russianplanes.net/ID64514
http://russianplanes.net/ID20339
Also the reco Ka:
http://russianplanes.net/ID64788
http://russianplanes.net/ID58835
But the Ka-52 is first serial I guess.
http://russianplanes.net/ID65975
Recent photo, Kamov Ka-52/President-S testbed.
http://balancer.ru/forum/punbb/attachment.php?item=263664&download=2
Fresh photo of Gorshkov!
Shaping up to be a looker.
China owns like 7% of US debt, let’s not get too wild with the whole China “owning” the US thing. 😉
http://aviaforum.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=294515&d=1328770563
http://aviaforum.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=294516&d=1328770563
Mi-8AMTSh in grey.
http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/436
2nd part of Vitaly Kuzmin’s report.