It depends on the Mi-25 in question. Keeping the ever present India vs Pakistan theme, India’s Mi-25s are quite upgraded. Their Shturm missiles are also better. I’d take an upgraded HIND over an upgraded Cobra.
Notice it still has the original MiG-29 overhead intakes, though I do know that the MiG-29M prototypes had the intakes painted on so as to decieve Western spies.
The Q-5, if you think about it, can deliver nuclear weapons so it’s actually a pretty potent airplane in certain circumstances. It is certainly nothing to laugh about.
Lot’s of strike fighters are nuclear capable or theoretically nuclear capable- unfortunately the Q-5/A-5 doesn’t have the sort of survivability to make it a viable nuclear bomber.
That Ka-60 that appeared at MAKS 03 is actually the first series-built example. The program is very much alive and obviosuly well along. It’s almost ready, practically.
Originally posted by Cuito Hasn’t one been under construction for a while. I wonder if “three” includes that one.
Probably. But I was sure that there was only one aircraft left on the assembly line, judging from previous reports. Either I was wrong, or they started building new aircraft. Maybe there’s something to the Jane’s report that there was a standing requirement for 25 aircraft (allowing the formation of two Tu-160 regiments).
The Mi-38 is explicitly mentioned as a replacement for the Mi-8 series practically everywhere- it’s a general class of helicopter, rather than specific weight.
Originally posted by GarryB
[B]Yes, but the E at the end means export and that the native weapon would have some internal designation that is similar… or at least consistant with the past like K-77 and K-77M for experiemental missiles.
‘AE’ is the Russian acronym for active-something or other- see R-27AE missile. Unless that’s an export missile too (doubt it).
It seems from the articles in the Mig-31 upgrade thread that the SMT upgrades will occur for the RuAF. (First aircraft this year.)
Edit: but I see with your last post here you already knew that.. 🙂
Heh. It’d be nice if they tried. It might be hoping for a bit much though.
That’s not really surprising I guess. Small arms are deceptively easy to screw up. And the INSAS is a freakish combination of several different designs.
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