The debt did not cover the full extent of their deals though. It had more to do with finished items, T-80, BMP-3, etc.

http://russianplanes.net/ID64661

Cool pic. The double racks under the belly I was talking about, over the previous single pylon, are actually tandem. So the total hard point number is up to 15.
Not a one-off type either, many different borts carry it:
http://aviaforum.ru/showpost.php?p=1015480&postcount=1955

I do not see the Koreans willing to adopt the T-129. Korea is willing to sell weapons to Turkey and teach them technologies to build their own things.. but it does not work the other way around. Its partially cultural as they see anything that’s not American or Western European, as inferior.

So why did they look to Russia for help with SAMs?

That won’t provide sufficient margin of superiority over Chinese ‘Flankers’ or PAF Block 50 F-16s. Typhoon does.

Upgraded Super 30 does as well, so moot point.
Even today’s MKI provides superiority over Chinese Flankers and F-16s.

The Mighty Ducks

WTH. That actually does look cool. And i have been hater of the scheme since day one. Still, i wont give up on my hate. 😀

It looks great, the white and dark actually combine very nicely, a tuxedo effect IMO. Or penguin.

Light blue doesn’t add, but requirements are requirements.

um, last I read, the rebels are already surrounding Damascus

you think the Russian military can keep absorbing the costs of undelivered orders?

1.) What? Surrounding Damascus? Havn’t seen this.
2.) Yes, it can absorb the cost of an extra 36 Yaks that it would have aquired later anwyays.

And while I hate to keep going on about politics in an aviation forum, I also fail to see how this will backfire spectacularly in regards to Islamist groups in Russia. Kavkaz rebel groups don’t give a rats ass about Assad/the opposition.