you don’t fully understand this Chinese upfront payments and there long term contracts. China has very little impact on crude prices.

I don’t ‘fully understand’ it because its utter bilge. About 50% of China’s crude is still shipped in from the Middle East. And only a portion of it is covered under long term supply contracts, which means the annual increment in demand does impact the global price of crude.

those who can afford PAK-FA can also afford long range super SAMs 2020 around major airbases. There is no chance of any one getting into returning fighters. other fighters simply don’t have the fuel to reach such base. and PAK-fA is expected to have the highest altitude and speed with longest AAMs so any chance of AWACs in the area is minimal.

Indeed. Thanks to ‘super SAM 2020’ and ultra-long range AAMs, even frontal stealth isn’t needed… in your parallel universe.

Yes, theoretically the shooter can fling tail aspect rockets at any range below or above 20 km, that much is true,
but its a pitiful waste of money above.
At what alt and relative speed btw ?

Why ‘tail-aspect rocket’? The issue is the PAK-FA’s RCS from the rear aspect. Which implies only the radiating platform needs to be tail-on, and can hand off targeting data to a shooter that’s elsewhere (it could for example be sitting at 50k ft at 3 o’clock to the target).

Like has been repeated a million times, Sukhoi has made an S-ducted, flat bottomed, hell even black plane. They chose the T-50 layout not because they could not do it another way.

Your post reeks of “It aint the Amarican way, it must not work!”.

The same question can be posed from the other side as well – the Americans have fielded an aircraft employing radar-blockers as well; the Super Hornet. Why did they opt for S-ducts instead of radar-blockers in the F-22?

Accurate in that it was staged and leaked for the aforementioned political purposes, sure.

Either way, the report did come from the IAF. As far purpose goes, I did suggest something similar (but not related to the Rafale).

It has nothing to do with China. it is explosion in population in middleast with dsysfunctional economies and unemployable that most of Oil will be consumed domestically nothing left for exports. shale oil will only survive for long term when prices rises. otherwise you can see the falling profits. Pluse $800b in Russia procurement will have very negative impact on middleast politics.

– Consumption in China, the biggest importer of crude in the world, has ‘nothing to do’ with oil prices?
– Middle East with a population of just 350M and a ‘dysfunctional economy’ will consume all of its oil production domestically?
– Shale oil is a futuristic energy source not relevant to current prices? (This despite the US already becoming the largest producer of hydrocarbons in the world, and set to be the largest producer of crude by 2015).

The real question is, do you not know you sound stupid, or do you know and decide to speak up anyway?

Or do you teach a class on trolling, with this just being a case-study for Monday morning’s lecture?

Unfortunately Chinese has not inked a single piece of public data on J-20, it is large and has very low drag for that size,
so we can tell the design is suited for SC, that’s about it.

Well there is the issue of the engine. The AL-31 is a reliable workhorse but the (FN variant’s) thrust is likely insufficient, to add to which its not designed for sustained super-cruise.

IAF may as well get use to less squadrons, and better come to terms with that fact before buying a/c they won’t have cash to operate anyway.
In the short term, bury some Mig-21 and get another batch of Su-30, in the long term, focus on making Tejas 2 competitive performance wise,
it is already ahead cost wise
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I’m not sure what the source of that graph is but the US crude is currently fluctuating around $95/barrel as of 2014. Even assuming the global economy improves, with increasing exports from Iran and Iraq, the price is likely to stay steady around $100/bl. Its certainly not going to quadruple before 2020.