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January 8, 2004 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Chinese Jet Engines/supercruise #2672941

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Originally posted by aerospacetech
[B]Presumably you know this via telepathy?

It’t not rocket science- it has *one* AL-31F pushing how much weight again?

It is possible that J-10 is able to supercruise at low supersonic speed, like Eurofighter.

Of course, add some AAMs and it probably can’t 🙂 [/B]

Which isn’t meaningful supercruise, now is it 🙂

January 8, 2004 at 9:09 am in reply to: what is your dream air force? #2673076

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Your American bias is showing ELP 🙂

Why you’d choose HARM when ALARM is around, I don’t know :p

January 8, 2004 at 9:06 am in reply to: Chinese Jet Engines/supercruise #2673080

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Supercruise is not a property of engines. It depends on the airframe as well. But no, the J-10 cannot supercruise.

January 8, 2004 at 5:14 am in reply to: Indonesia to purchase more Sukhois #2673139

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Upgrading the PT-76? I don’t even think there’s an upgrade offered for it. Better to get the 2S25 Sprut-SD, it’s basically the replacement, and it shouldn’t be all that expensive.

January 8, 2004 at 4:16 am in reply to: Remember that Flanker pilot who forgot to drop his wheels? #2673173

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Why is it that Russian aircraft carry so few cannon rounds? If anything, I thought the Russians emphasize WVR combat and super-maneuverability- wouldn’t more cannon rounds be therefore justified?

Not really- the MiG-29 and Su-27 will be going to WVR packing 4 R-73s each, usually- it’d be a huge dogfight where four wouldn’t be adequate. And besides, being a 30mm cannon, 150 rounds is good for say one or two kills on it’s own, depending on how good a shot you are. I try and improve my gun skills on LO:MAC constantly, it’s difficult- helps to start in a Su-27 vs F-4 Phantom. Easy to kill, then work your way up from there.

January 8, 2004 at 2:37 am in reply to: Remember that Flanker pilot who forgot to drop his wheels? #2673204

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I have it, looks beautiful, but it needs a patch- a few bugs/errors. E.g, the MiG-29 has 150 rounds of ammo, but in the game, it has 100.

January 7, 2004 at 2:32 pm in reply to: JSF news #2673811

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That article above reeks of the poorly researched nonsense that comes from “strategypage.com”- mostly populated by idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about- a few months ago one of them claimed Syria and China had MiG-31s :rolleyes:

The R-33 was not based off the AIM-54 Phoenix.

January 6, 2004 at 11:46 am in reply to: J-10 Comming Soon, 4 squadrons by 2k5 #2674485

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And which nuclear sub China made first? It was the Han class. Tell me how the hell the Han class could have been developed with the help of the French in 1967—-at the peak of the Communist phobia?

“Type 091 is China’s first nuclear powered submarine (SSN). The nuclear powered submarine programme can trace its origin back to the late 1950s, but the first boat (pennant 401) was not completed until 1974. It then took its designers another ten years to make the boat fully operational due to technical problems with the nuclear reactors and the lack of suitable torpedo weapon system. It is believed that the development of the Type 091 later benefited from the assistance by the French. With these improvements the Type 091 SSN finally began to take part in active duties in the mid-1980s.”

Doesn’t say anything about 1967.

January 5, 2004 at 4:06 am in reply to: 3 photos of the Rafale B #2675237

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It’s like a Rafale, but with two seats! Shocking! 🙂

January 4, 2004 at 11:51 am in reply to: China to aquire Tu-22M3 backfire?! #2675684

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Originally posted by haveblue
[B]The RCS of a purpose built RCS machine for starters! The signature emmissions generated by the Backfire’s sensors in order for it to actually locate a target notify everything in the are that it is around. SM-2 says hello!

Unfortunately, the Tu-22M3 will be able to fire it’s Kh-22s long before the SM-2 has a chance in hell of hitting- 400km range tends to do that 🙂

Yeah. . . those F/A-18F’s with their AIM-120C’s (and extended range AMRAAM now under development), combined with the E-2C’s are useless.

Compared to F-14s, they sure are- that’s practically why the F-14s were there- to stop Tu-22Ms. The F/A-18Es don’t have the range, performance, or weapons to do the job properly, because the threat was judged to not exist any more (and as we have seen, whether it existed previously is debatable too). Too bad the F/A-18E is a crappy strike fighter too, unfortuntely.

January 3, 2004 at 10:19 am in reply to: Best aviation site ever! #2676369

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I saw this site a while ago- incredibly funny!

January 2, 2004 at 9:31 am in reply to: Su-30MKi #2677492

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I thought Kopp was more an F/A-22 or ridiculously riced up F-111 rather than a Sukhoi purchase- I’ve never seen him advocate a Sukhoi purchase (he may have in the above pages, didn’t read too carefully).

Oh well, it’s always been a dream of mine for Australia to get Su-32s (note to any who aren’t up on the news, the Su-34 is now the domestic Russian designator, Su-32 for export), but it’ll never happen 🙁

January 2, 2004 at 9:28 am in reply to: 5 Su-27SMs delivered to RuAF #2677498

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Originally posted by SOC
8 Tu-160s, a few Tu-95MS, and a bunch of Kh-55 ALCMs were transferred back to Russia. The rest of the Tu-160s were scrapped by the Ukranians (10 or 11, depending on if the one is still in the Poltava museum or not). Russia has 14 operational Tu-160s I think, 6 from Engels, then 8 more from Priluki, then 1 new build from Kazan, and one of them was recently lost in a crash. Leaves 14, but there may be another one or two from Kazan which will be completed.

A new Tu-160 was delivered last year (2003)- unfortunately there was that crash, so the net strength is still 15 aircraft. When all is done, and the unfinished aircraft are completed, it will be 17 aircraft. There’s talk of a requirement for 25 aircraft (allowing a second regiment to be formed), so new production may be restarted, though I doubt it.

January 1, 2004 at 2:14 pm in reply to: 5 Su-27SMs delivered to RuAF #2678253

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Originally posted by SOC
I’ve seen that mag advertised in Combat Aircraft. As for the planned uses for the Su-27KUB, that’s relatively old news by now. The question becomes whether or not the RusNavAF will ever see any, given the Navy CinC’s apparent noninterest in the Kuznetsov.

Stupid Ukranians. They could have made this more interesting had they not let the Varyag languish in port and at least maintained it in good condition. Woulda made a nice sale to Russia I’d bet.

Amen- Ukraine owes so much to Russia in terms of various forms of debt they could’ve taken a sizeable chunk out of what they owe just by handing it over, ala the stolen Blackjacks and Bears and the ~500 or so ALCMs. However, a bigger problem would be where Russia would find the money to maintain two CVs.

The Navy CinC seems more interested in the submarine (885 Yasen and 955 Borey) and small combatant (1230 Scorpion, 2038 Stereguschy) areas than the large ships (destroyers and up), but the Admiral Kuznetsov is going back to sea this year, that’s something. You’re probably right, there’s probably no room on the Kuznetsov for several Su-27KUBs, which is what it would be probably.

January 1, 2004 at 11:54 am in reply to: China to aquire Tu-22M3 backfire?! #2678340

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In a war with the US, the Tu’s will die as quickly as the H-6s but will have cost a hell of lot more.

Nonsense. They are faster and have superior anti-ship missiles (faster and longer-range). If they are going to die, they at least would’ve fired their missiles first, and actually have a chance of escape.

The Su-30 is also crap when compared to Western planes. Armed by crappy missiles that probably won’t work in wartime. Especially with the degraded down versions that Russia always screws its clients with.

Depends on the Western plane.

The slaughter we see in the records of the F-16 and F-15, ~400 to 0, are pretty damning of the crap that China has no choice but to buy.

And of course the people flying the planes has nothing to do with it, huh? I’ll take Israelis in MiG-21s over Arabs in F-4 Phantoms any day of the week, thanks.

If it could it would buy Western or develop its own. At least the homegrown stuff when it gets blown up was far less expensive to buy in the first place.

This is the truth. [/B]

Only if your concept of ‘truth’= complete nonsense.

What would be nice is several hundred of these

A cheap imitation of a real strike fighter.
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