DSI is a significant breakthrough. I know you are jealous because your country Russia doesn’t have DSI.

Are you seriously suggesting that Russia is so backward in CFD that it cannot develop DSI if it wanted to ?! 😀

Back to the topic, while Rafale and F-16 Block 52+ clearly outmatch J-10 Generation Uno, clearly J-10 Generation Zwei is at least a match for either of them in terms of avionics and clearly superior to both of them in terms of airframe design.

J-10B superior to the F-16 Block 52+ and Rafale ? And you say that with a record of staunch neutrality and zero bias, do you? 😀

The leak was not the report, it was actively selected parts(to make gripen look bad) of the first report(C/D).

the summary report also showed that the Gripen C/D or even the NG was behind the Rafale in all areas. Point out which areas in which it was ahead of the Rafale and then we can continue this discussion further.

In case you managed to miss it, the Swiss evaluated the old gripen,
The JAS-39NG reportedly ranked 1st in the FAB’s technical trials

(meaning Rafale was rated below Gripen NG)
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/brazil-embarking-upon-f-x2-fighter-program-04179/

Did Brazil fly the Gripen NG or Gripen Demo? Did they do a thorough evaluation like Switzerland or India?

If not, how on earth did they rank the still undefined Gripen NG above an in-service Rafale F3?

Huhu … there’s NO deal, China does not want the Su-35S !!!! … it has already been denied ! see: http://forum.keypublishing.com/showpost.php?p=1866516&postcount=649

http://rusnews.cn/ezhongguanxi/ezhong_anquan/20120309/43366237.html

http://www.ria.ru/defense_safety/20120309/590972243.html

Deino

The english article that you posted simply said that the deal was not near, not that the Chinese are not interested in the Su-35S.

LSP-7 completed its second High Speed Taxi Trial and will have its first flight any day now. Report from Ananth Krishan’s blog.

Tejas LSP7 to have its first flight soon

Bangalore: The first flight of the limited series production (LSP-7) version of India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is in a striking distance. Sources confirm to Express that the LSP-7 performed the crucial High-Speed Taxi Trial (HSTT) on Thursday in a nose-wheel-lift mode at about 260 kmph. A data analysis de-brief is scheduled on Friday (March 9) to check various parameters of the aircraft during the HSTT, which was the second one for LSP-7.

“If the results are absolutely encouraging, then we would have the first flight any time. The Flight Readiness Review Board has already cleared the aircraft for its maiden moment in the sky,” sources said. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) officials at Old Bangalore Airport too confirmed that the activities relating to LSP-7 has reached a critical stage with all safety precautions put on an any-time-ready mode.

On Thursday, Grp Capt Venugopal of the National Flight Test Centre (NFTC) did the HSTT, which is a pointer that he might be the chosen one to take LSP-7 for the first flight. “It is a positive step to see more platforms joining the flight-line. We need more of them so that we can divide our tasks and put the programme on a faster pace,” a source with the Aircraft System Testing Establishment of the Indian Air Force (IAF) said.

The IAF pilots from ASTE would finally begin the evaluation once the LSP-7 is ready. “The Standard of Preparation (SOP) of this aircraft is made for user evaluation trials for both flight as well as maintenance, which is the same as the SOP of the production variant. Intensified campaign of flight trials is going on for demonstrating the performance of sensors and armaments,” HAL sources said.

With LSP-7, the 12th aircraft from the project flight-line would join the Tejas party with another (LSP-8) scheduled to be rolled out in future. Express had reported earlier about a fuel leak on LSP-7, which forced the Aeronautical Development Agency(ADA)-HAL combo to ground the entire fleet. This had pushed the programme further behind the schedule by four-five months — the time taken by designers and engineers in re-arranging the butting of fuel and hydraulic pipes to prevent them coming in contact.

Notice the change at the base of the fin- the inlet is now smoothened out with a small opening for the air intake..something I noticed on LCA models from AI-11 but attributed to just lack of attention to design on those models ! A drag reduction measure ? Compare it to the LSP-6

The treaty is worthless as the things stand because for some weird reason it’s not mandatory for every country.

Now we are looking at a situation where a country which didn’t even bother to sign NPT threatens to enforce another country to obey the same treaty. Isn’t it ironic?

Ah, you change your tune now !

First you say that Israel’s nukes are illegal which they aren’t since they never signed any NPT agreement in the first place..next you conveniently ignore the fact that it is Iran which is illegally developing nukes to make them seem like the victims in this case ! They aren’t- they weren’t forced to sign the NPT. They shouldn’t have if they wanted to develop nukes in the first place.

Whether you consider the NPT to be worthless or not is immaterial.

Trident

You have hit the nail on the head.

There are aerospace journos, and there are aerospace journos.
Richard Aboulafia on Russian Military equipment and Asian airforces dont “mix very well”. There are a multitude of chaps on this forúm who are vastly more reliable than Aboulafia on these particular matters.

Precisely. the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about and he shouldn’t be the one asked for his opinion on anything Asian or Russian.