According to RIAN the caliber is 300 mm,… like Smerch rockets. I think unifying rockets calibers is right (scale and efficiency of production).

I think Tornado-G is a lightened version of Smerch (to get air-transportation capability) with better accuracy, real-time targeting capability and enhanced range.

So far as I understand it the F-15E is not currently scheduled to be replaced in USAF service by the F-35A, which begs the question of what it will eventually be replaced by. As I see it the plausible possibilities are these:

1. More F-35s
2. Evolved F-35 (ala F-16 > F-16XL)
3. F/A-XX/NGAD
4. UCAVs

5. Buy some Su-34 and the licence to produce them as Made in USA? :rolleyes:

New long range missile for S 400 system. You can read in many S 400 articles about 40N6 missile. This missile have 400 km range and can intercept missiles ballistic missiles. Propably based on the 9M82M.

http://warfare.ru/?linkid=1699&catid=264&topics=true&id=162

I was ironic. There is no consensus on what a 40N6 is.

48N6E3 has 250 km maximum range.

Right. The 400 km range of missiles from last S-400 batteries deployed near Moscow is achievable with a missile very similar to the 48N6E3 with improved guidance systems launched on a lofted path.

Moscow S 400 regiment is equipped 9M96 and 40N6 missile ?

That’s the most extended question in the forum. 🙂

9m96,… No yet.

40N6? What’s a 40N6:confused:?

If you refers to the 48N6E3 with better control and guidance systems to launch in lofted paths to reach targets at 400 km, the answer is… probably yes.

If you refers to the hyper fast missile with a speed in the order of 3-4 km/s and able to hit targets over 150 km altitude, the answer is … Not. This is the weapon of choice for the S-500 system and will have a range around 600 km.

So, the main S-400 weapon is a 48N6E3 missile with a 400 km range, 40 km altitude reach and 2-2.5 km/s speed.

Still using stone-age radars? The twin cassegrain antenna is clearly the bottleneck of the system. Increasing processing power cannot do much more to improve the radar performance. 🙁

Su-27SM3? :confused: What is this?

Russian Navy will receive “up to ten” Yasen class subs until 2020:

http://rian.ru/defense_safety/20110318/355149542.html

The project is really going ahead. It’ll not end like the “Sea Wolf” as someone said.

10 :eek::rolleyes:
Is this number realistic?