Meh, tempest…Just wait…

Radar house supplier NPP Pulsar’s S & X band GaN HEMT MMICs circa 2016:

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Here’s a good and reasonably reliable write-up on Russian 4G+ and 5G engines from 2007 (use GT). It details inter-bureaux rivalry and political favouritism too:

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/833099

MMPP Salyut actually bench tested the AL-31FM3-1 as far back as 2007 and achieved 14.6T thrust. It incorporated the then new 3-staged KND-924-3 LP compressor and a new double-walled combustor. However, it retained the nine-staged HP comp of the legacy AL-31F.

The next stage was to incorporate a brand new 6-stage HP compressor and was designated AL-31FM3-2. It was due to commence bench tests around 2012 but this was not confirmed. By this time the 117 had already been integrated on the T-50 and Saturn had commenced development of the Izd.30 with its more advanced configuration 3+5+1+1 (instead of 3+6+1+1).

However, this is probably not the end of the FM3-2 story as Salyut’s best customers (China) are highly likely to be very keen on it.

…and you have long ignored repeated attempts to educate you that the Su-57 will incorporate CNT/fullerene RAM in its (widespread) PMC radar absorbent structures. Research that RUSNANO and OKB Sukhoi initiated as far back as 2007, before the first metal was even cut on T-50-1.

http://www.up-pro.ru/library/innovations/management/okb-sukhoi.html

A few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a film came out in which a youthful Tom Cruise was threatened with ” flying plastic dogshit out of Taiwan for the remainder of his career” – should he and his wingman fail at Miramar.

Anyways, fast forward to 2019 and I bet the folks @ TSMC have a wry smile:

https://semiengineering.com/a-crisis-in-dods-trusted-foundry-program/

Oh, speaking of outdated, idiotic stereotypes:

https://niiet.ru/goods/tranzmod/gan-development

I don’t know what the fc#k’s going on in the mind of Voldemort Putin and his cronies lately – but for one I’m wincing with embarrassment. Could the hubris and willy-waving be more misplaced?!

If they’d have shown test launches of the hypersonic ‘Zircon’ or first flight of the ‘Ohotnik’ UCAV – then people in the know (or with understanding) would’ve sat up and taken notice, but an air-launched ‘Iskander’? A “nuclear powered” cruise-missile? WTF??! Seriously?!

All this on the back of *deploying* [zero-combat capable] T-50 prototypes to Syria touted by a media who actually believe the MiG-35 & Su-35S are more than a match for the F-35…

A twenty-year abject failure to turn ‘swords into plough shares’ is one thing, but to present those swords as futuristic super-weapons when they’re anything but – is pure comedy. N. Korea’s Kim is starting to look sane in comparison.

(+1 MadRat).

As a secret NG fanboy it would have to be:

…but a very close second:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Nrol-39.jpg/1920px-Nrol-39.jpg