don’t blame guns, blame the culture.

gun ban countries like Japan or South Korea work well because its a heavily conformist society. It wouldn’t work well in the US.

Chirkin says many things.

In the 2020 armament plan there are if anything more tracked vehicles than wheeled. What the actual breakdown is we will see in several years as vehicles pass gov trials. But the Russian Army will not accept the mobility loss from a majority of wheeled vehicles, unless you include light (Tigr, Lynx, etc) vehicles and trucks as well. In terms of IFVs and APCs (Boomerang and Kurganets) we will not see a majority of the former.

What else did chirky say? and do u have the 2020 armament plan?

Yeah, that article isn’t very accurate.
BTR-90 was dead a long time, next was Gilza, now is Boomerang, a Russian product.
The only French vehicles bought might be for evaluation at best.
There has been a flurry of “Russia is going to buy XXX’s IFV!” news lately, but that are just that.

And tracked vehicles are not going anywhere, in fact the brigade structure planned does not show any favoritism to wheeled vehicles compared to before at all.

Sorry for OT.

ground force commander verifying shift to wheeled armored vehicles (not that track is being removed). Its not just Russia either but a trend in Europe

Russia To Equip Ground Forces With Mainly Wheeled Armoured Vehicles – Wheels Extend Vehicle Service Life

July 17, 2012. 12:54 pm • Section: Defence Watch

The RIA Novosti news service is reporting that the Russian Defense Ministry has decided to equip the country’s ground forces mostly with wheeled rather than tracked armored vehicles.

Ground Force commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin told the Russian news service that “The Defence Ministry has decided to replace the majority of tracked armored vehicles with wheeled vehicles. We will soon start R&D work on the development of wheeled vehicles.”
The general said the replacement will involve self-propelled guns, air defence systems and light tanks.
One of the main reasons for the replacement is the longer service life of the wheeled vehicles, Chirkin told RIA Novosti.
“The service life of the tracked vehicles until a major overhaul is up to 30,000 kilometers while that of the wheeled vehicles is up to 1 million kilometers,” Chirkin said.
Wheeled vehicles will also allow the military to minimize railroad transport during redeployment.

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/07/17/russia-to-equip-ground-forces-with-mainly-wheeled-armoured-vehicles-wheels-extend-vehicle-service-life/

Agreed. If the F-14 would continue in service it would no doubt see a new back end or a totaly new radar.
What kind of redesign would you like to see on the F-14?

Getting rid of the swing wings and enlarge those two stabz. That would be my choice.
Hell they should just copy/past some of the Flanker layout and be done with it.

there was a fixed wing variant model made. Makes it look like a flanker with its intakes on the side of the fueselage instead of the bottom

Disagree. I would recognize a Tucano from a PC-9 even from a hal mile distance.. Granted, like most single-engine trainers they have similar layout but are by no means identical.

OTOH, if you got that Hurkus thing, the KT-1 and PC-9 standing next to each other in baremetal finish, you couldn’t say a thing unless you knew some extreme specifics like antennae or other tiny details.

The fact that Pilatus has never issued any formal complaint against either Hawker Beechcraft or KAI or TAI lets me think that these designs must have been created with their silent approval and/or support (which most likely doesn’t come for free). It’s a very elegant way for the Swiss company to go around their very strict export rules which prohibit sales of any gear to specific states as well as declare all Pilatus aircraft for training use only (never mind those gunpods and bombs on PC-7s and PC-9s in Chad, Slovenia, Guatemala or Chile :diablo:)

I see, so in other words the KT-1 and Hurkus are basically PC-7/9s approved for killing North Koreans and Kurds 😮

Pretty much yes.

I see a big difference between collecting inspiration from a design and a rip-off so similar that the air force roundels are the only way to tell the difference.

get rid of the flag and this would be really challenging.
which is peruvian, which is turkish