I mean why must they utilize, of all vessels, aircraft carriers
for their theme parks? Why not cruiseships or ferries which can easily be had??? I mean
don’t you think that that’s weird? The logic is simply not there!!!

??

No other ship but aircraft carriers have vast amounts of open space both above and below decks. The logic is there if you take more than one second to look for it.

In the movie all Kh-22 missiles worked, first of all, the missiles didn’t work in their good days, nowadays, probably none of them is in such a state as to be used in any exercise or war.

? They’re still test fired regularly; and according to those test firings, they still work.

Even when they were fielded as “the” weapon, more than half of them exploded just 30 seconds after launch.

That sounds like absolute rubbish. I don’t care what military you are, no military is fielding a missile with a greater than 50% failure rate.

I believe only 1/10 missiles made it to the target area, exploding somewhere near the target but never quite on top of it. Also, the range was quite lower than the stated 500km. Depended on the guidance, and that was a hard thing to accomplish. The first missiles only made 30miles or so. Of course they could fly up to 500km, but then there is no guidance… All the remaining fuel after 30 miles makes it very dangerous of course!

Who told you all this nonsense anyway?

Just don’t bash yourself over the head with it if and when it does
steam out of the Dairen yard in full gears one of these days.

I’m sure they won’t be be stupid enough to go to the expense of getting engines for the thing from somewhere (that’s right, it doesn’t even have engines) and then realize they can’t even fit them for deterioration of the hull.

I mean nobody will pay
the money they did and then goes through all that red tapes to get it released from the
Black Sea just so that they can use it as a research speciment.

Noone ever said everyone always has sense equivalent to their money.

Wow…when did the production line close in St Louis? Those airframes are going to be pushing 40 years!

The production line is still open, for the F-15K, IIRC.

Probably taking a look at its construction (cutting, etc) its not like they can do anything else to it.

I don’t see how the massive An-124 could be considered an interim (i.e. stopgap) for a poncy little aircraft like the A400M.

Anyway, the upgrades to the An-124 aren’t just possible, they’re happening, and the production line is still open. The An-124-100M is going to be built very soon:

Russia and Ukraine’s Plants Intend to Produce An-124-100M Upgraded Transport Airplanes from 2006

Russian aviation enterprises intend with the participation of Ukrainian plants to resume series production of heavy-lift An-124 transport airplanes, Ukraine’s first deputy minister of industrial policy, Valeriy Kazakov, reported at a meeting at the Aviant aviation enterprise, while commenting on the participation of the Ukrainian delegation in the meeting taking place in Moscow at the Federal Agency on Industry.

“They want to begin production of the An-124 in Russia again, but of the new, upgraded one which meets all modern requirements. I believe that your plant will find a place in this operation,” Kazakov said. It is a question of the An-124-100M which has a payload increased in comparison with its predecessor from 120 to 150 tonnes, a crew decreased from 6 to 4 men, and new equipment.

As the Aviant director, Oleg Shevchenko, reported to ITAR-TASS, it is planned to produce the first An-124-100M airplane in 2006, and assemble up to 80 such aircraft before 2020. The Ukrainian plant will make the empennage for them. “We have the rigs, we are ready to work as soon as the financing appears,” he said. The project will be realized using funds of the Russian side.

The Kiev aircraft plant produced the first series-built An-124 in 1987. Since then, he had produced 18 such aircraft. The last of them was sold this year to the United Arab Emirates. According to information of the O.K. Antonov scientific and technical complex, the Kiev and Ul’yanovsk aircraft plants have produced nearly 60 An-124-100 airplanes. In recent years, only a solitary assembly of this equipment has been underway.

Source: 01.09.04, arms-tass.SU

Purportedly, this HQ-9 system—how do you think China could have developed a naval version for 052C if they don’t have a land based system first?

Having a land-based system ready isn’t a pre-requisitie to having a naval equivalent, it can work both ways.