The endless chants of ‘death to america’ have been constantly present in Iran since Khomeini came in 1976. Why is it exactly now that it started to disturb you? Where were you the last 30 years?

Quite frankly, I find it pretty hard to acknowledge the United States having close to ten thousand most sophisticated nuclear warheads as endangered by a third world country having hard time to develop a nuclear power plant, let alone a most primitive fission bomb. :rolleyes:

BTW, I fail to see the ABM system as purely defensive since a fully functioning system like that (which it IMO never will be) would disturb or completely shatter the nuclear balance of mutually assured destruction which effectively prevented the world from a major nuclear conflict. No one with a sane mind would support a system like this on just one side. I don’t trust Americans the same way I don’t trust Russians or Chinese.

Thats strange becouse your BS ranting is without exception aimed at the US, its funny that we have not seen your head pop up in the Russian missile news thread criticising the latest Russian ICBM tests.:rolleyes:

😮 Iran waging a major attack on the US? Care to elaborate on how did you come to such conclusion?

The endless chants of ‘death to america’ and the development of ICBM’s?

Its funny how you dont bat an eye lid at the likes of Iran and North Korea developing nukes but when the US builds a purely defensive ABM system it is somehow the greatest crime humanity has ever witnessed.:mad:

Hmm, I am confused a bit, what else would you expect it to have?

The way the aircraft was first presented it sounded as if the entire plane had been re-designed with RCS reduction and super-cruise in mind. However at the time it was suggested that the BM was to replace the SM as the Russian Su-27 upgrade programme, which naturally limts how different the aircraft can be from the original flankers.

Whilst the new radar/sensors engines and munitions are a great improvement they are all things that can and probably will be beackfitted to earlier flankers. I still maintain that this will be at least a good match for the Euro birds if not an all round better aircraft.

When this aircraft was first reffered to, it was made out to be some revolutionary uber new generation flanker whose only resemblance to the Su-27 was a slight basic design similarity. However it is increasingly starting to look like nothing more than a demonstrator for the Irbis the Al-41F and a few other systems that could probably all be backfitted to existing variants. This does fit with the original claim that the Su-27 could be and would be upgraded to the new standard (IIRC it was said that this was to replace the Su-27SM programme?). It does seem like the Osa that was to sit in the tail sting has vanished.

Can anybody remember the designation of the Club variant (air launched 300km land attack) that was announced when the Mig-35 first appeared?:confused:

Sounds like they decided to go with the 2032 then. Interesting they didnt go down the M2K-9/Mica route. However the 2032 gives the IAF the ability to upgrade to the AESA 2052 in the future with out to much difficulty if they so desire.