very good load. can carry 3 heavy fuel tank, 8 bombs and 2 missiles

this oen has 4 big missiles 2 air missiles one fuel tank.

J-10 has something like five center pylons.

china will begin retire j7 this year. it was remove from front line service last year but now all service this year. will be replace by j10 not jf17.

replaced by J-10B?

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Oh please.
They copied what they hope will work.

Maybe, maybe not. So what if they did? J-20 looks more dangerous 😎

I think it’d be smarter to provide spares for existing Mi-25/-35 fleet than introducing a new type that requires crew training and logistics systems. After all Syrian government requires full combat capable aircraft now and can’t afford to wait.

The Syrian AF are running out of operational airframes. A list of claimed losses – a number have been confirmed. Further aircraft have been lost with overrunning of several Syrian airbases including quite useful L-39ZA.

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/CONFLICTS/SYRIA_2011_2012/Syrian_Conflict.htm

Also there are reports that Syrian AF sortie rates are down due to attrition and fuel and spare shortages.

Russia has delivered plenty of repair equipment for the Syrian air force to remain operational till at least election time next year. Although by now the most devastating arsenal of Assad’s forces is artillery, which the Syrian defense industry is able to manufacture by itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZGUWZQpOI

“In the absence of sanctions, we are continuing to fulfill our contract obligations,” Isaikin said at a news conference. “But these aren’t offensive weapons. We are mostly shipping air defense systems and repair equipment intended for various branches of the military.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/13/russian-arms-trader-syria-shipments-will-continue/1916923/

Though Russia cannot supply offensive weapons to Syria at the moment due to violence, Russia CAN supply Mi-28 attack helicopters to Shia controlled Iraq which can in turn deliver these offensive weapons to Shia controlled Syria. This is what I call playing it smart.

Is it me, or does J-20 carry RVV-AE Adder in its side weapons bay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJC1Kh7cfE

France has been designing aircraft for over 100 years (do the names Breguet, Bleriot or Farman mean anything?).

Iran has been designing aircraft for 0 (putting twin tails on an F-5E does not count and neither does making a mock up).

Keeping an F-14 flying is a lot different to designing and then manufacturing working aircraft – just ask the Indians with their population of 1 billion and who have been designing and aircraft since 1950s and whose first aircraft were licence produced in WWII).

Why is that talking to fans of Iran is always like talking to 6 year olds?

It takes a few engineers to design a plane. Dassault itself employs about 100 engineers, tops. Also, Iran has been designing planes since the 1990s at least.

I suspect going for Russian Mi-35 or Mi-28s is a far more sensible option for Iraq. Mi-35 is probably the best bang-for-buck gunship you can get with a useful multirole capability.

And just cause it looks like an AH-64 doesn’t make it an AH-64.

Just like putting twin tails on 5 F-5Es and then painting them in Blue Angels colours does not make them F/A-18 equivalent. :diablo:

Baby steps. Aircraft technology hasn’t really progressed since the 1950s, just as gun technology hasn’t really progressed in the early 1900s. One day soon Iran will catch up. And I mean SOON 😎

Iran’s new laser guided anti armor missile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRTE8lG5Vw