If the MiG-31BM carries 4 missiles under the fuselage, does it still retain the cannon?

Also, many sources say that in the 2nd picture Paralay posted (of a MiG-31M?), the two center missiles are R-33S with some fins removed. The four other underfuselage missiles are R-37.

Is there any talk of putting the 40N6 missiles in a ship? :diablo::dev2:

Which weapon is which in that picture?

Back row looks like a (L to R) Krypton, Kh-58, and Kh-29T.

Is the front row R-33S and R-33?

The R-33S has shortened main fins and small fins (destabilizers?) in the front?

Until China has mastered stealth to the level where it can produce something like the B2, any intercontinental bomber would be a complete waste of money and lives as nothing else has much of a chance to penetrate US air defenses.

Even if China did have the tech, it is still unlikely that they would invest in such a project because of the astronimical costs and ugly confrontational tone it would set compared to the very limited operational value of such bombers carrying anything short of nukes. And nuking the US is a plain non-starter idea so there’s not even that.

The money would be far better spent on an SSGN like platform if the PLA really wants to ability to strike at the CONUS.

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Its bit of a shame the other PLAAF thread got trashed, again, by the usual suspects.

The recently leaked J10B pictures are very interesting as they prove beyond doubt that the plane is real and that the details are accurate.

I was always curious as to why the B model has such an unusually long ‘spike’ at the tip of its nose, as that would seem a little excessive for an airspeed tube.

I wonder if there is going to be on operational examples or if it is merely part of the test intruments?

If China’s first priority is nuking the US, God help us all. There are plenty of uses for a strategic bomber other than nuclear strike. It offers a flexibility a fighter or maritime patrol type aircraft cannot match.

The long spike on the “J-10B” is almost certainly for instrumentation.

SA-12 / S-300V:

The V suffix stands for Voyska (ground forces). It was designed to act as the top tier army air defence system, providing a defence against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft, replacing the SA-4 ‘Ganef’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-12#S-300V_.28SA-12.29

Does this mean that if the Russian army deployed somewhere and felt they needed some serious air defense, the S-300V would provide it to troops in the field? Was this system used in Georgia/South Ossetia? IIRC SA-17s were deployed with Russian ground forces there, was that the longest ranged system?

Why? Do we write about PAK-FA coming off the factory-line in hundreds for export in warmonger countries?
When not, the COLD WAR thinking is still alive for unknown reasons.

A new Cold War with China would be very profitable. :diablo:

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52U80520090331

The missile North Korea is expected to launch as soon as this weekend appears to have a bulb-shaped nose cone consistent with a satellite payload, rather than a warhead, U.S. defense officials said on Tuesday.

The bulb shape is similar to the current nose cone standard for military and commercial satellite launches, concluded officials including analysts at the U.S. Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center in Dayton, Ohio.

Could it be more deception? :dev2:

I’m not prejudiced and I’m not saying I know what it is. I’m saying it’s long odds that it’s anything but a military test.

Weren’t early US and USSR civilian communications satellite launches run by the military as well?