It depends how much functionality is added to the platform
http://www.ericsson.com/microwave/aewc/availability/future.shtml
ERIEYE assures compatibility, integration and upgradability throughout your intelligence-sharing network. The state-of-art sensor is supplemented with the open architecture of the C3 system. Built around COTS equipment, it allows more functionality to be added as new, more powerful hardware becomes available

Well the LCA nose is not bigger than Bision. Radar is in the nose cup. Cockpit is also
small. I dont think it can integrate internally pods like FLIR for better RCS.

the japanese economy is already starting to move towards a recovery. no economy goes into a boom or bust forever, so it is illogical to assume that japan’s economy will continue to shrink at the rate it did a couple of years ago (it is already starting to grow again) for the next decade.

even if japan does decline at such a rate, and if china’s continues to grow at todays rates, by 2014ish china’s economy would only be around the same size as that of japan’s, i think you can work out what that means by yourself.

Japan is big economy today but it does not import that much. Its imports

are comparable to China even today. Market depends on country imports

not on its whole economy.

China is already No.1 investment destination which will have multiple effect in coming

years. By 2014 Japan will become irrelvant market wise and the same is true for

Military strength. I can’t believe that Japan can develop 5Th generation fighter on

current budget or buy from US. They will have to substantially increase the budget

which there chronic budget deficits cannot allow.

JANE’S MISSILES AND ROCKETS – APRIL 01, 2002

China shows its newest air-to-air missiles
Robert Hewson

The Beijing-based China National Aero Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) is working on a next-generation dogfight missile, writes Robert Hewson. A CATIC engineer attending this year’s Asian Aerospace exhibition, held in Singapore during February, described the new missile as being “very different to the PL-9”, but “still a few years away from service yet”.

The new missile will use an all-new airframe design, coupled with an imaging infrared (IR) seeker – CATIC is known to be working on 64×64- and 128×128-pixel IR seeker arrays, using both linear scanning and staring array techniques. These seekers have been developed for both the 3-5ตm and 8-12ตm wavelengths. According to CATIC, the new missile is intended to equip the J-10 fighter.

Another future J-10 weapon is a new series of Chinese laser-guided bombs, which CATIC has confirmed is currently under development.

China’s PL-7 short-range air-to-air missile (AAM) and the PL-10 medium-range SARH missile programmes have been dropped, with no more development work ongoing. All efforts have instead been redirected to the SD-10 missile programme – an active radar AAM with an 80km range according to CATIC. A company engineer confirmed several SD-10 test firings have already taken place, and that most of the SD-10’s subsystem testing has also been completed, but that the missile is not yet ready for service. CATIC is known to be developing X-band and Ku-band active radar seekers, which are certain to be applied to the SD-10.

At the Singapore exhibition, CATIC displayed the current versions of the PL-5 and PL-9 short-range AAMs (plus a PL-9-based surface-to-air missile [SAM] system), as well as the little-seen TY-90 helicopter-launched AAM.

CATIC describes the PL-9C as a ‘third-generation combat AAM’. Key changes over earlier versions include the missile’s new multi- element seeker (functioning in the 3-5ตm band) with digital signal processing. According to CATIC, the PL-9C has significantly improved IRCCM (infrared counter countermeasure) capabilities, putting it in a class above the PL-8 (China’s Python III copy).

The PL-9C has twice the head-on detection range of the basic PL-9 – now 8km – with a seeker lock-on time of >0.3 seconds. Maximum firing range (in the front hemisphere) is quoted as 22km. Off-boresight capability of ?0? while maximum angular tracking rate is 28?sec. According to CATIC, the PL-9C is intended for use on People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) J-8 and J-10 fighters.

Shown in parallel with the PL-9C was the DK-9C air-defence system – a ground-based SAM system using the PL-9C missile. The DK-9C uses a wheeled, four-shot launcher, with the capability to integrate an air-defence radar – or rely on the missiles’ own seekers for a passive engagement capability. The system is claimed to have an effective range of 8-10km.

The improved PL-5E is the latest iteration of an earlier class of Chinese AAM design, based on Soviet-era R-13 (AA-2 ‘Atoll’) technology – albeit much developed over the years. Existing PL-5s have a rear-aspect ‘tail-chase’ engagement capability only, but the improved seeker head and laser proximity fuze of the PL-5E gives the missile an all-aspect capability for the first time.

The PL-5E and the PL-9C both use an indium antimonide (InSb) gas-cooled seeker, and may share the same basic design of proximity fuze. According to CATIC, the PL-5E is now in PLAAF service on the J-7 and J-8.

Also shown in model form was the TY-90 helicopter-launched AAM. The result of a development programme launched in the 1990s, the weapon is still in its test and trials phase. It is an all-aspect missile with a maximum head-on engagement range of 6km. CATIC claims that, like the PL-9C, the TY-90 uses ‘computer-aided systems’ for guidance and flight control.

It is fitted with a four-element gas-cooled seeker (with the elements arranged in two horizontal pairs), of the same type fitted to the PL-9C, and the warhead is understood to be an expanding-rod type. The TY-90 is designed to be carried in multiples of four, six and eight missiles on a single helicopter. CATIC claims airborne firing trials have been conducted, though no details were given. The missile is likely to enter service on China’s armed Z-9 helicopters (a Z-9 is believed to have been used as a testbed aircraft), but is certain to be earmarked for the new Z-11 attack helicopter, currently in the advanced stages of development.

You mean :

$2 billion in Erieye sales for Ericsson on Extended Credit and then the request for Debt Forgiveness

or

$2 billion in artillery sales for Bofors (SWS)IN HARD CASH – CURRENCY OF SWEDISH CHOICE

Methinks I know which one Sweden will prefer 😀

From where you get that India pay in hard cash in advance?. Only PAF paid

F-16 advance.

NEWS

Payment problems may delay MiG delivery

By Vladimir Radyuhin

16 April
The Hindu
. Russia is to deliver the first MiG-29K fighter plane for the Gorshkov aircraft carrier in early 2007, but the schedule may be pushed back due to a delay in financing the project.

The signing of the contract for the acquisition of Gorshkov on January 20 set the clock ticking for the MiG aircraft corporation to supply 16 wing-folding ship-borne MiG-29K planes between the 36th and 52nd weeks from the date of the deal. However, New Delhi is still to make advance payment for the aircraft, even though the money should have come two months ago.

Under a $700-million deal, the MiG Corporation is to build 12 combat MiG-29K planes and four MiG-29KUB trainers, as well as train 12 pilot-instructors in takeoff and landing on the Gorshkov deck.

The General Director of the MiG Corporation, Valery Toryanin, said he did not know the reason for the funding delay even though he had sent the invoice to India shortly after the contract was signed. Indian sources said the Russian invoice had reached New Delhi too late for the payment to be made before the new fiscal year began on April 1.

Notwithstanding funding problems, the MiG Corporation has come a long way with preparations for building the MiG-29K, retooling equipment, storing materials and signing contracts with suppliers. Mr. Toryanin told The Hindu that his company was 80 per cent ready to start constructing MiG-29K for India. However, further payment delay may affect the delivery schedule, he said.

The MiG manufacturers hope the Gorshkov contract will pave the way for more sales of MiG planes to India.

The Indian Air Force has a large fleet of MiG-21, MiG-27 and MiG-29 aircraft, but recently they have been outshone by the longer-range SU-30MKI built by MiG’s Russian competitor, the Sukhoi company.

The MiG Corporation is taking part in an IAF tender for a light attack aircraft with the MiG-29MRCA (multi-role combat aircraft), a land-based version of the shipborne MiG-29K. The company has not abandoned efforts to sell India its new advanced jet trainer, MiG-AT, built jointly with France. The MiG-AT, which has Larzak engines and Talas avionics, has recently been fully certified and is expected to be inducted by the French Air Force.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr. Toryanin touched upon the problem of MiG-21 crashes in India. While admitting he did not have the full picture, he said “poor maintenance and faulty spares” purchased from “unauthorised dealers” were part of the problem.

“The MiG Corporation can supply practically the full range of spares, but India orders from us only five to six per cent of what the IAF needs.”

To resolve the problem, the MiG and HAL have revived the idea of setting up a service centre in India to provide comprehensive maintenance to all the MiG-series aircraft in service with the IAF, establish and remove causes of equipment failures, and undertake marketing of MiG planes in South East Asia. Later on, the centre could gain a regional status, the MiG company head said.

In other words – Nuclear blackmail 😉

If Americans don’t buy it, don’t expect the Swedes to.

The other argument is that nations that easily sell their nukes to dubious states cannot be trusted with hi-tech.

US not selling to Pakistan is i think more to do with leakage of Tech to

China rather than any thing to do India. US has barred Israelis firms from

even providing basic security services to beijing Olympics.

I think Gripen is very light platform for strike missions. Much bigger J-10

will be better for PAF future.

It may have something to do with cost-benefit ratio. Buying the whole some times

is cheaper than building individual parts.