FrancisDeAssisiBut I wouldn’t wanna be the the insurance agent for the pilots in the Flankers. Their long-term prospects aren’t that bright. 😀
Well let us put it this way. The 6-7 Flanker’s would be carrying around 70 BVR and AAM missiles. Suppose the super-duper F-22 appears like a fast ‘crow’ on the Radar screen, it would just get obliterated. No one is saying that F-22/A is going to be invisible…instead just leave a smaller RCS.
I don’t think any aircraft even the Raptor can successfuly combat ‘swarm warfare’ or any ‘saturation’ tactic.
FrancisDeAssisiRussia will try to make money out of its old engines like the RD-33 and AL-31. Russia will sell the RD-33/93 to the FC-1 program because there is going to be a lot of orders.
Russia is selling the old AL-31FP to India and the old RD-33/93 to Pakistan. Russia is playing both sides and laughing all the way to the bank.
Both the AL-31FP and RD-33 are old engines using old technology that is decades behind Western engines. But the AL-31FP and RD-33 are good enough for India and Pakistan.
China, on the other hand, is moving away from Russian engines with the WS-10A. China wants Western quality engines and the WS-10A is an important move in that direction.
It’s nice to read a balanced report every once in a while. 😀 The AL-32FP as you proudly state is not such an old engine as you claim. A thrust-vectoring 4th generation engine is old ?? I beg to differ. Since if that is indeed the case almost every country would wish that it have such ‘old’ engines. And the “MKI” project is not a ‘fixed standard’ deal. Engines and other components can be upgraded as and when such upgrades are available in Russia.
Meanwhile something for your inspiration.
The AL-31FP differs from the original AL-31F engine in use of the Su-27 (NATO codename Flanker) in having deflectable nozzles. Placing the order for Su-30MKI fighters, India demanded that the engines for those aircraft should have a TBO (time between overhaul) of 1000 flight hours, while the in-service AL-31-series engines on Su-27 family fighters have a TBO of 500 to 700 flight hours, depending on production series. The maximum service life of the same would also be extended to around 3000 hrs.
Albert Volkov, chief designer with Lyulka-Saturn, told AWN that the TBO extension program for the AL-31FP has been completed, but there is some work remaining to be done before the engine can be rendered fully meeting the customer’s requirements. The work necessitates completion of the flight test program which is well in progress on a Su-30MK prototype, Blue 06, at the Flight Test and Research Institute in Zhukovsky near Moscow. For completion of the program two more Su-30 airframes in MKI configuration are being prepared at Sukhoi experimental aircraft factory in Moscow.
FrancisDeAssisiWe’ll smoke them in the first few hours of any conflict . What the problem?
GPS satellites too up in smokes immidiately thereafter is the scenario that is being predicted.
FrancisDeAssisiWell the problem with shooting down another’s satellites in space is that you are setting yourself up for similar treatment.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=qw1098612009348B222
The paper also reported a disagreement between EU and US officials this month over Galileo at a London conference which led to the threat to blow up the future satellites.
The European delegates reportedly said they would not turn off or jam signals from their satellites, even if they were used in a war with the United States.
If this does mean that China and Russia would’t have their military signals turned off or jammed then they could provide the protection “in space” that Galileo deserves. What Americans said thereby means ‘jack’ since they too will come in for similar treatment.
FrancisDeAssisiBut has anyone an answer for my 100k+ Galileo-jobs question?
Do you know how many jobs new fanged applications like GM’s *OnStar* systems have added ??
IN case of Galileo, what with the reach extending from Europe into China, that’s almost 2 billion people it is going to serve.
So plz do the calculations yourself. How many cars are their going to be in China and Europe that are going to have *OnStar* like applications as a ‘Standard’ and how many people are going to have to man these ‘applications’.
And this is just one example.
FrancisDeAssisiThis is at best a theoritical scenario but there is no direct evidence of that. Know how provided by the Ukraine and Belarus on the AL-31F is much more likely to be used for the AL-31F’s maintenance, overhaul and repair, even to the substitution with indigenous parts such as blades and all.
It could also be used to develop an indigenous engine. 😀
FrancisDeAssisiThat means you are wrong saying that the WS-10A has the gearbox on the bottom, when in fact, it has it on the top like the usual AL-31F would
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WS-10A originally had the gearbox on top like the usual AL-31F. But then the Chinese test pilots found it difficult and awkward to operate those gear and thus requested their technicians to change it’s positions. The Chinese hence requested the Russians to address the problem and then the Russians changed the position of the gearbox from the top to the bottom.
Again eventhough it uses western engine performance marks, WS-10A is rumored to have a very short operating life. Its overhaul interval is even lesser as compared to the AL-31FP in which case it is just 250hrs. And that is one of the reasons that has yet to be addressed before going in for mass production of that engine.
FrancisDeAssisiOfcourse the Su-35. Where’s the confusion ??
FrancisDeAssisiWell if the UAV does indeed have a ‘rat-brain’ Neo-Cons are in some danger.
FrancisDeAssisiThe only issue with the Rafale is ‘Stealth’ and ‘range’. A fighter that needs to hook up 2 drop tanks for any mission x, y, z does have some issues.
It is true that an active radar cancellation plasma is being planned but it is something that has still to be verified since such a system is extremely ‘power hungry’. IN any case a plasma stealth can be implemented only for a few seconds. I really do not know if the Rafale would actually benefit from it ?
FrancisDeAssisiLook WS-10 project might have started earlier but after the J-10 AL-31FN project was started, only then did the WS-10A developement start getting some momentum and the crystal blade technologies have also been borrowed from the Russian’s.
and the engine it was attempting to match was much different—the Pratt and Whitney F100 and the GE F110 turbofans.
Well the Chinese tried to copy the F-16 engines but did not make too much headway in that venture. Ofcourse I do agree that WS-10A was an attempt to match those engines and to be mated on the LAVI copy that China was developing.
FrancisDeAssisiIs there any chance the production line for the ‘blackjack’ could be revived now ??
FrancisDeAssisiWS-10A is nothing but a reverse-engineered attempt of the AL-31FN with the gear placed below the engine. Unlike in the AL-31 where the gear is placed above the engine. Then there is all this claim about increased thrust which is just a lot of ‘brouhaha’ since increased thrust would most likely come at the cost of decreased engine life. There is no rocket science there.
FrancisDeAssisiLOoks like not everyone’s wishes will come true.
Astrologer predicts victory for John Kerry
Express News Service
Posted online: Saturday, October 23, 2004 at 0928 hours ISTLudhiana, October 23: A city-based astrologer has predicted that Kerry would replace Bush in the next US presidential elections.
Vinod Kumar Gupta, Senior Executive in BBMB at Ludhiana, has predicted that Kerry will be elected new president in the elections to be held in November. According to Gupta, in the annual horoscope of President Bush, mercury is in the eighth house from July 2004 to July 2005 which would affect his prospects in these elections.
While, John Kerry, claimed Gupta, has Moon and Mars in the fourth house in the annual horoscope up to December 2004 which gives him a gain in popularity and victory in elections.
FrancisDeAssisiIt is Flip-Flop as usual as with everything else concerned with Russia.
http://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/10/22/submarine.shtml
Russian Defense Minister Refutes Reports on Lending of Submarine to India
Created: 22.10.2004 17:25 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:25 MSK, 4 hours 10 minutes agoMosNews
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov refuted information that Russia intended to lend a nuclear-powered submarine to India.
Speaking to journalists during his visit to India at the beginning of the year the minister said “submarine leasing was out of the question”, Interfax news agency reported.
He added that Russia and India had discussed “very serious contracts in relation to military-technical cooperation. In particular, an important contract was singed on the supply of aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Gorshkov.”
On Thursday, the agency reported that the Indian navy was set to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia. A high-ranking official from the Russian military-industrial complex quoted by the agency said “Moscow and New Delhi have signed a contract according to which India’s navy will lease a Project 971 nuclear-powered submarine for 10 years.”
The official said that the contract was signed at the beginning of 2004. The submarine to be leased is a Project 971 Nerpa nuclear submarine which is being constructed at the Amur shipbuilding facility, in the Far East city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. “It is 85-percent ready right now,” the source said.
The submarine should be finished by 2007. An Indian crew was reportedly then to arrive in Russia to train on the submarine. According to independent experts, profits from the use of the submarine could run into tens of millions of dollars a year. This submarine belongs to Russia’s most advanced Akula-II class and is comparable to the U.S. Sea Wolf and modernised Los Angeles-class submarines. It costs $1.7 billion.
In 1988 Russia leased to India a nuclear submarine less sophisticated than Akula-II.
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