a decade ago they were quite bold with 2007 first flight date

A decade ago some westerners big talkers told us that Russian 5th generations fighters are just “paper planes” and that Russia is unable to build 5th generation fighters and AESA.:diablo:

Check the reality.

What do the above article mean, Otaku?

May be that already deployed systems can’t reach 400 km and reach “just”250 km and follow on system will reach 400 km?

The first S-400 battery was inducted as early as 2007. I can’t understand what the first paragraph means. :confused:

Risky

Russia will this year use the Yury Dolgoruky nuclear powered submarine for the first time to carry out test launches of the troubled Bulava missile, a Defense Ministry official said on Wednesday.

“Tests will be conducted in the summer – most likely in June, from the White Sea, when it is free of ice,” he said.

So far all test launches have been conducted from the Dmitry Donskoy nuclear-powered submarine.

The Yury Dolgoruky is the newest of Russia’s Borey-class strategic nuclear submarines, which have been exclusively designed for the Bulava, and is currently undergoing sea trials.

The future development of the Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) has been questioned by some lawmakers and defense industry officials, who have suggested that all efforts should be focused on the existing Sineva SLBM.

But that would require major changes to the Borey-class submarines and the Russian military has insisted that there is no alternative to the Bulava and pledged to continue testing the missile until it is ready to be put into service with the Navy.

The vessel is 170 meters (580 feet) long, has a hull diameter of 13 meters (42 feet), a crew of 107, including 55 officers, a maximum depth of 450 meters (about 1,500 feet) and a submerged speed of about 29 knots. It can carry up to 16 ballistic missiles and torpedoes.

Construction costs totaled some $713 million, including $280 million for research and development.

Two other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, are in different stages of completion. Russia is planning to build eight of these subs by 2015.

Fourth-generation Borey-class nuclear-powered submarines are expected to constitute the core of Russia’s modern strategic nuclear submarine fleet.

The submarines’ entry into service could be delayed however by the series of setbacks in the development of the troubled Bulava missile, which has officially suffered seven failures in 12 tests.

Some analysts suggest that in reality the number of failures was considerably larger, with Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer contending that of the Bulava’s 12 test launches, only one was entirely successful.

MOSCOW, February 24 (RIA Novosti)

The Argentine military doesn’t like Russian weapons, so to buy something like the Flanker is not considered by now.

The Argentinean military should kill this nonsense “taste”. It’s true that Soviet post-sell services were sorry, but things changed a lot after the USSR disintegration. Ask Indians that have a lot more complicated geostrategic position and its Top-Gun Fighter is the Su-30MKI. Indians are proud and highly satisfied with the MKI.

Note also that, except 5th Generation Fighters, there is nothing ahead of the Su-35BM. Nor Americans nor Europeans can sell a plane of this class, and note this ultimate Flanker fits perfectly on the Argentinean Air Force needs, given the country size and long littoral.

Shkval torpedo that likely sunk the Kursk

Sure? It was a conventional Torpedo

and the Beluva submarine

Beluva? :dev2::eek:

Just more Neocon big talkers launching empty words. As usual. :diablo:

And U.S.A have money and will; and Russia have little money but a big will,… oh that’s getting Byzantine. :confused:

UK
Australia
Canada
Japan
Israel
Singapore
Poland
Ukraine

Forget Ukraine. :rolleyes: The dark age of the Oranges is over. The new president will look again to Mother Russia for likely near future upgrades of her aerial fleet.

Anyway it will be interesting a new and separated thread on the modernization of the Ukrainian air forces.