I know this is extremely simplified view but that works out to be 52000 USD per mission.

Does it looks reasonable ?

Hmm for me it’s very reasonable for its impact (putting gov back to offensive, and force peace treaty/truce)

Welp, so much for total withdrawing. Looks like they are finally sending the helo assets we have been calling for from the start. Makes sense since most of the action around Palmyra has been Mi-24s.

Interesting thing is almost a week ago, a user @ Otvaga forum posted that Mi-28 crews were being really actively trained in night operations…

so basically.. replacing Su-34 with Ka-52 and Mi-24 with Mi-28 😀 ?

I found some nice cross sectional image of Russian AAM’s like R-77 and R-33..like this one from testpilot.ru

http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/vympel/r/33/images/r33_s.jpg

you guys think that cross section image are good to scale ? I’m thinking of measuring dimensions of the rocket motor of the missile based on the image.

Does this seem correct?

The performance characteristics of the aircraft :
The crew – 1 person

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Looks reasonable. and the empty weight.. well really reminds me of the Su-37.

In other words, active cancellation?

Nope.

Would love to see that little bird mature and operational. Though yes.. Yakovlev are pretty much monopolizing the field in Russia.

The soviets I understand had a lot of nuclear tipped SAMs on their warships

How were they more effective ( in theory atleast) from non-nuclear tipped SAMs ?

Neutron flux, thermal pulse and air blast. They can go many hundred meters farther than any conventional SAM warhead explosion can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Bomber

The wiki page indicates that they want the LSRB to be capable of day time raids, and likely self escort. The thing has to have.

A. Some form of on board jamming like the APG-81.

B. Some form of missile capability.

C. Maybe future DIRCM capability.

Well clearly it will have missile capability (A2G) spamming JASSM’s or tacttom.. but for AMRAAM or other A2A.. kinda doubt it. The best “self escort” weapon it has would be those EW suites and perhaps lasers.

radars, maybe they’ll go with AESA version of the APQ-181. and geared toward A2G role..it would not need multi-kilowatt power..perhaps as low as 100 watt max would do. It would be very difficult to pick by ESM.