In the light of the information about the newly developed composite fan blades offering a sophisticated RCS solution without compromising airflow and eating up precious internal volume, it’s S-ducts which start to look like a poor man’s stealth design to me.

how do you know about the qualities of a composite fan blade vs s ducts?

Might be cheaper to buy already upgraded Mirage 2000-5 from Qatar, or 2000-9 from the UAE.

if Qatar sells their Mirages, what will they use?
and UAE sells their Mirages and refuses to buy Rafale..?

Alenia Aermacchi rolls out first M-346 for Singapore

how boring, Singapore normally paints their trainers in vibrant orange

note airplane on truck flatbed, but not lying at an angle.

Great pic – Caspian Flotilla on Navy Day. Dagestan and Tatarstan, and the two Boyans further down the line.

why hello there stud.
I have a question for you. Surely these Gepard frigates are nice and what RuN needs but why allocate them to Caspian fleet instead of Pacific or Baltic, etc?
While Caspian Sea demarcation is still an issue… Russia seems to have solved most of the boundaries.. Azerbaijan won’t challenge Russia, Turkmenistan’s navy is impotent, and Kazakhstan is Russia’s “Canada”. perhaps only real issue would be Iran which wants to follow the Soviet-Iran borders but thats more of an issue with Iran and the other ex USSR countries, not really Russia.

Now if it was in the Black Sea Fleet, then RuN would have something that could clearly stop the Drazki

Sukhoi-30 jets have a design flaw, says Indian Air Chief Browne

took them that long to realize this? they’ve been flying it for about a decade now..

Cool. That Vishnu Som must be doing something right..
To get the chance to fly several different fighters.
His jurnolism must be somewhat objective, so he doesn’t **** off different Manufactors.

in his words.. they are all excellent aircraft.

.no former Yugoslav country can afford to run modern AF.

yeah they can. Slovenia has a bigger population, higher GDP, and higher per capita income than Bahrain, which fields three squadrons of fighter jets, two squadron of trainers, and assorted utility helos and cobras.
Slovenia after all is the only successful Yugoslav state.

Now I think in many ways comparing the JF-17 to the old F-5 is rather unfair, it has modern avionics and a good multi mode pulse-doppler radar. It can handle modern smart munitions and has a BVR capability, I would say a fairer comparison would be the F20 Tiger shark and even then the JF-17 benefits from improvements in microprocessor and display technology giving a more modern cockpit environment and MMI.

its unfair to compare the JF-17 with a light fighter that’s been modernized to stay relevant today, and instead compare it with a fighter that never went into production? ok..