extropiandreamshmm
ok, in the best case we would see the t-60 and the t-95 tank or even the pak-fa. but let us stop dreaming. in soviet times they were regulary presenting new things which were unknown before – but it’s now the 21st century. it’ll fly, that’s known maybe just a couple of su-34. the t-95 would be realistic, but they even controlled the testing times as far as american satellite overflights are concerned – so why now ? ok they have all those billions now, but is it really realistic ?
extropiandreamsSatellites
On Jun 29, 2007 russia launched the last tselina sat, cosmos 2428. US-PU and tselina sats are to be replaced by the liana system. the first liana sat will be launched in 2008, so i don’t see any inactive program here. In fact, russia is moving to third generation in all of it’s satellite programs. There is a new early warning program with a first launch in 2009, a molnyia replacement called meridian which has allready it’s first satellite in orbit, and glonass will get 12 new sats till the end of 2008. GLONASS actually moved out of the defence budget and is now a program of the economics ministry. Russia is moving to sats with a longer life time so the number of sats will increase as they could afford even launchers at their hardest times. There is also a Radarsat program, not in the scale of the almaz program, but modern electronics allow much smaller sats to deliver better results. I don’t know when the first launch of this will take place, but with a budget surplus of over 70 billion dollars and currency reserves plus stablilization fund reaching 600 billion dollars russia will be able to rely on sats for the navy.
Actually the russian military is rising from the death, there is a lot of money today, the problem is how to spend it effectivly. Since oil and metall prices probably will never fall again, i see quite a good future for the russian navy. It also helps that most of the polititians in russia are from petersburg.
extropiandreamsRussia
Russia is one of the fastest growing economies for years. it’s current growth rate is about 8 %. Unemployment is lower than in many eu states. Russia has a Budget surpus of 48 Billion Dollars in the first seven months of 2007 alone. Wake up, russia is a different country than in 1998.
extropiandreamsRussia
Russia is one of the fastest growing economies for years. it’s current growth rate is about 8 %. Unemployment is lower than in many eu states. Russia has a Budget surpus of 48 Billion Dollars in the first seven months of 2007 alone. Wake up, russia is a different country than in 1998.
extropiandreamsi doubt india has such a warhead design(300 kt/250 kg). India had 6 tests so far(soviet union 714 with 969 devices) with a reported max yield of 25 kt. This simply can’t be true. This is the same as the story with the agni-III which some put into topol – M category. I believe the us is ahead in warhead design, but russia might be able to produce some lighter warheads(compared to soviet designs) – with new electronics, sensors, materials. why not. I don’t believe the us will replace it’s ohio class submarines with 14 new subs with 24 missiles each in the trident D-5 class. I bet they’ll go smaller too. The real news is that the russians launched a new sub. in 1998 nobody thought that this could happen ever again.
extropiandreamsPutin must be mad if he would order to kill someone this way, i mean they gru or swr have substances that kill in seconds without any traces and it would look like a heart attack. Polonium-210 is a finger which points to russia – that’s just to obvious(they used it on lunar rovers and military satellites).The journalist and this agent where killed just in time for high ranking international meetings of putin – so i really believe that there is an anti russian component in it. What really annoys me is that the media is so one sided – the media is normaly is accusing russian media of that – so isn’t that ironic ?
i watched the live reports from the bbc, and they talked not a single time to somebody who did say that the kremlin was not responsible.
extropiandreamsPutin must be mad if he would order to kill someone this way, i mean they gru or swr have substances that kill in seconds without any traces and it would look like a heart attack. Polonium-210 is a finger which points to russia – that’s just to obvious(they used it on lunar rovers and military satellites).The journalist and this agent where killed just in time for high ranking international meetings of putin – so i really believe that there is an anti russian component in it. What really annoys me is that the media is so one sided – the media is normaly is accusing russian media of that – so isn’t that ironic ?
i watched the live reports from the bbc, and they talked not a single time to somebody who did say that the kremlin was not responsible.
extropiandreamsJust to make it clear – 188 billion is just for new purchases in the next 8 years – but not the whole sum of the military budget till 2015. But I don’t believe that russia get’s any money for opening GLONASS to india – i believe they start a few glonass-m satellites for that. also the reports that india would develop glonass-k together with russia might be wrong; first of all glonass-k satellites are based on a russian bus, and second russia would never give up control about the system – it’s more about getting military grade signals.
But russia seems to shift priorities: a couple of months ago they just wanted to buy 69 topol-m’s till 2015 and now they are buying 17 for the next year alone – so it could be that they increase procurement if the international situation changes – they could afford it.
But russia has no need for offensive weapons like 10 aircraft carriers, they have all they need in their own country or in a few hundred km. So they should be able to get along with this. Sorry for my bad english
extropiandreamswell it’s 188 billion dollars till 2015 – 188 billion for 8 years for new equipment. The complete defence budget for 2007 is over 30 billion dollars, about a third for new weapons and development. In real terms that’s an increase of about 17 % from 2005. So the budget will continue to rise quite sharply. Considering purchasing power parity that’s about 45-50 billion dollars. It’s also interesting that some things like the GLONASS system seem to be moved from the defence budget to others.
That’s not the maximum possible amount today(russia has a budget proficit of about 60m billion dollars this year), but more would increase inflation, and there are many more problems today in russia which are at least as important as defence.
extropiandreamsThe Data about russian fertility is fundamently wrong. The Tatars have a fertility rate just a s low as the russians, and only the chechens are above 2.1 – with 2.6. Russia is not Palestine or Afghanistan, where six or ten children are quite normal. Second not all ethic muslims in russia are practicing their religion, there are tatar atheists for example. I would bet that the difference in fertility rate is much higher in western europe. Russian muslims are also better integrated, all of them speak russian for example. Tatar muslims are highly educated, many working in military industrial complex. Third there is a program to increase fertility rate, with loans of about 10.000 $ for each second and subsequent child. The extremism and terrorism in the name of religion was imported and not homegrown.
extropiandreamsThe Data about russian fertility is fundamently wrong. The Tatars have a fertility rate just a s low as the russians, and only the chechens are above 2.1 – with 2.6. Russia is not Palestine or Afghanistan, where six or ten children are quite normal. Second not all ethic muslims in russia are practicing their religion, there are tatar atheists for example. I would bet that the difference in fertility rate is much higher in western europe. Russian muslims are also better integrated, all of them speak russian for example. Tatar muslims are highly educated, many working in military industrial complex. Third there is a program to increase fertility rate, with loans of about 10.000 $ for each second and subsequent child. The extremism and terrorism in the name of religion was imported and not homegrown.
extropiandreamsMOSCOW, June 20 Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday that a fifth-generation Russian fighter would make its maiden flight in 2009.
“Expect the fighter in the skies with a new engine in 2009,” he said.
The commander of the country’s air force said June 15 that Russia would launch its first fifth-generation aircraft as early as 2007, although it would be still equipped with fourth-generation engines.
“Several experimental models will take to the skies as early as 2007, but for now they will be equipped with intermediary engines,” Vladimir Mikhailov told journalists. “In the future they will get fifth-generation engines, development of which is ongoing.”
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