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If you think things are confusing now, wait till 2008 when the “Chinese Taipei” team is applying for visas

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India Still to Decide on French Subs: Defense Minister
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, NEW DELHI

India has not decided whether to buy six Scorpene submarines from France, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Oct. 29 after the naval chief suggested the deal would be sealed soon.

“We are considering the proposal. But no final decision has been taken,” he told the Press Trust of India in Calcutta after meeting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on Oct. 27.

As Barnier flew out Oct. 27, India’s navy chief of staff, Admiral Arun Prakash, said the two-billion euro ($2.5 billion) deal was “under very close examination at the highest level of government.”

“We have received assurance that the deal will see the light of day soon,” he said.

Barnier had pushed the sale, accompanied by 36 SM-39 missiles, in New Delhi talks this week.

About 6-8 AAMs each Raptor (total of about 12 – 16 b/w the two)

And what makes you think that the Raptors would even attempt to get into a furball? They can keep taking BVR pot shots and the F-7s wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. The Raptors have the speed and agility to stay just outside the F-7’s reach.

If/when situation turns unfavorable, the Raptors can disengage. Can the F-7s? Can any plane of that vintage?

The SSN774’s real value on the WOT will be its intel gathering abilities close to “areas of interest” and its SOF insertion/extraction abilities.

For everything else, there’s Tom Blk IVs and ADCAPs 🙂

The 300km range for the KS-172 is most likely a head-on range. Thus, the firing aircraft will most likely have to get considerably closer to increase the PK. At 150km, the firing a/c is dangerously close to the AWACS’ escorts.

cool, thanks.

so, is that pretty common then? if so, why did an article i skimmed claim that china is only the second nation after the US to deploy such blades?

The word “common” is misleading. Definitely not every nation has the capability to produce this type of turbine blade. Produce is highlighted because it’s one thing to write research papers about it and another thing to actually mass produce it in quantity and quality. But it is “common” in that the jet engine producing nations (US, Russia, France, etc) have been building them.

When does the Astra begin flight trials? And just how far along is the Kaveri really? Is there a realistic chance that it will be done in time for at least 51% of LCA production?

Your guess is as good as anyone else’s…