1.) Already reported and would better suit in the related news thread
2.) A decision on T3B has yet to be made and such a decision is about 3 years away
3.) Eurofighters diverted to Austria (just 11 not 15 from the Luftwaffe) are already replaced as part of T2
4.) A customer would need to be found in the first place

Add to that a ‘link’ to the original article…..

K/AKD-88/GX? New variant of the KD-88?

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af8/My-Military-Photos/PRC/Missiles%20-%20Munitions/KD-88/KD88_1.jpg

DF-15B

Chinese Airforce 60th Anniversary Airshow – J-10A Flight Demonstration – Part-1 : Link (That’s a pretty good turn at 9:21)

Chinese Airforce 60th Anniversary Airshow – J-10A Flight Demonstration – Part-2 : Link

quantum, PLANAF holdings should not be brought into this discussion since they have little relevance in the potential theaters of conflict between India and china (near future).

as for the Jh-7A, PLAAF numbers will be ~ 20.

http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/groundattack/jh7.asp

I usually don’t go by SinoDefence. I go by Chinese Military Aviation by Hui Tong. He is considered on of the most reliable 3rd party sources (in English). Off-course neither are official.

JH-7A – serial # 30x9x, 11x6x, 20x2x (Scroll down to the JH-7A part), known/Spotted Serial Nos.

If PLA-NAF is excluded…. then the numbers drop further. again I’ll exclude all earlier versions of J-7, J-8, Q-5, H-6.

PLA-AF : Losses due to various reasons not counted. 24 per regiment (Sometimes 20)
J-7E : 240 (10x2x, 10x4x, 10x5x, 20x0x, 20x5x, 21x5x, 30x2x, 40x1x, 41x8x, 60x8x)
J-7G : 72 (10x8x, 20x3x, 40x8x)
J-8H/G/F : 144 (11x2x, 40x8x, 6009x, 30x2x, 41x0x, 81x9x)
Su-27SK : 78 (Batch-1 : 26, Batch-2 : 24, Batch-3 : 28)
J-11/11A : 105 (4 batches)
J-11B : 20 – 24? (10x2x)
Su-30MKK : 78 (Batch-1 : 38, Batch-2 : 38)
J-10 : 96? (50x5x, 10x4x, 10x3x, 10x2x)
J-10S : ?? (Not sure about this)
JH-7/7A : 60? (30x9x, 11x6x, 20x2x)
Q-5L : 20 – 24? (10x6x)
H-6G/H/M : 60? (40x7x, 18x9x, 20x1x)

Surveillance type – KJ-2000 : 4, Y-8W (KJ-200) : 3, Y-8G : 4, Y-8T : 3, Y-8XZ : 1, Tu-154M/D : 4, Y-8CB : 3

Thats around a 1000 planes…..

The IAF is roughly around 700 planes. So the Global-Security values are just raw numbers. The older versions of the J-7, J-8, Q-5, H-6 should dropped. Plus PRC has about 3-times the land size as India. So they naturally need a bigger force.

Do you have a reference you could site? I haven’t seen anything yet that bears the “official” stamp of either Chengdu or the PLAAF – so if there’s one out there I’d love to see it.

Stats were from an interview with the Deputy Commander of the PLAAF and the 60th Anniversary show.

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af8/My-Military-Photos/PRC/Air/J-10A/J10_Specs_1.jpg

Gripen 360 in 16 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDGkNa77Rs

Starts at 3:32 ends at 3:48.

errr…..no….

Thats not the complete video….. At what point did JAS-39 Gripen start the turn?

I think this is the full video. Contains both the Hungarian & Swedish demos. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKglcbDUhGE

It starts to turn at around 8:14+ and levels off at around 8:35-36…..

Around 20 seconds. Like many others.

But I accept what Cola1973 said. These are just air-shows. What happens in real training/combat is a different story.

I think the ‘Akash Vs. Buk’ argument can be put down to Akash being indigenously made. From the details resemblance (to the SA-6) is just external. Doing it indigenously gives extremely valuable data/experience. And the fact that IAF is looking into it shows it has pretty solid performance. Just like some of their other products, like RADARs. Indra-II, 3D-CAR and so on are indigenously made. I mean theoretically they could be replaced by foreign products but then what happens to that all important learning curve? :confused: