in addition to that, excuse and correct any wrong info, but as far as I’ve done the stuff, its fairly accurate abt the IL-96-400 info.

Yo, tks for that info…… what abt the GPS accuracy meant for the US ?

yep I guess, so….. and MiG-25 in itself was a big tension.

Garry,

I guess that 18-20 ton wil come with Al-41 (not the derated one that was tested on the Su-3x?) recently. So that means a high altitude supercruiser with a god strike load. Now thats what I’d like to see. Enter the area and strike and get out at high altitude and supercruise.

I hope a sqadron of of MiG-31 divided into 8 each oper team wud be able (in the case of Indian one) to take care of the launchers from the other side. Like
4 x Strike weapons + AAM (R-37?)
2 x refuellers + AAM
2 x ECM & Tracking pods + AAM

abt the strike weapons u guys wud be able to file the better choice … for such a mission.

Now this is a modest one as I believe the initial one wud be good enough as i don expect to get more than 20 launches from the other side at a time. So by the time these chaps are ready to exit, another 2 teams from the second sqadron can get-in with full strike load. Now that wud also say that I wud have liked to see a couple of sqadrons of these high alt recc & strikes a/c.

the dutch one is a beauty.

http://img29.exs.cx/img29/4339/DZPinBiscaya.jpg

I hope the US-Pak relation get back to the Soviet times.

Really good news. So hope the IL-96 gets more orders. I’d also like to see it in IAF’s fleet of refuellers, as for the passenger version of the same, it had a range of 10,000+Km with a payload of 92 tonnes or nearly 350 passengers (if am not worng abt the no of pass).

The IL-96-400 (which is the passenger version of the 96T) is powered by (or when it finds a customer, to be frank) PS-90A2 engine, which is most efficient variant of the PS-90 series of engines

That wud mean that the tankers cud go further than the current IL-78 or stay lobger in the air. It wud also been good if it has been chosen as the base for AWAC&S by the IAF.

IL-214 and Tu-330 is not in the same league. Tupolev is targetting the IL-76 with their Tu-330 and I don think thats a good option. But it also compete good with the A-400. MTA/IL-214 is in the laegue of An-32 and Herc with 20+/- category.

Ankush,

I dont think the IN actually ever favoured the Rafale-M except for the western media and the same stuffs pulled in by the Indian media.

An Indian Navy, who had to settle in for a 38,000 t carrier (while I believe we need far more capable one) anbd even finding the funds hard to come for its project wud have in any practical way though abt acquiring the Rafales. I term it as the media generated Intrest.

if ever that is true, then u can can cool down, coz the mothballed Buran shuttle which had withstood the hardest times of the Russian criss, finally was lost to the ‘mysterious’ (or the normal one for the west) collapse of the hanger after the Europeans showed intrest in that and also started the maintaiance of the same in 2001.

And i did not knew that Energia booster had such a role too. Nice one indeed.