It can destroy a solid-fueled ballistic missile !!!! 😮 It should be a really powerfull laser.

Sounds a bit risky to build another brand new sub before haveing goten the Bulava straight, no? Or maybe its just me…

Agreed

In the highly unlikely but lets say possible scenario of Bulava SLBM failing , they will convert the YD class in to SSGN for LACM and anti-CBG/anti-ship operation.

The current Oscar-2 class SSGN will not last long and they will need follow on quality replacement.

The Yasen is designed for such a mission. Better to invest in one more Yasen than in another Borey, at least until Bulava works.

I wonder if is time to think in 5th generation interceptors rather than in 6th generation fighters. I always ear statements like “interceptors are beast of the past” but is a fact that
5th generation fighters (F-22, F-35, T-50, J-XX) have an “offensive bias” since are designed to penetrate on enemy airspaces to hit hard and fast.
How should be a 5th generation interceptor able to deal with the above mentioned fighters? I just imagine some specifications:
– Mach 2+ supercruise w/o after-burners.
– Mach 3+ top speed.
– 25.000+ m ceil.
– VLO in the A-A aspect.
– Long-range ultra-manœuvrable missiles (multiple seekers on missiles ?).
– Very high power-aperture X-band AESA radar and a L-band tracking capable radar (?).
– Long range IRST

C O N G R A T S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also

Lieutenant Colonel Marcel de Haas, Russian security researcher at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, was not convinced of the plane’s bright future.

Western European envy and inferiority complex? :diablo:

“a more conservative design than F-22”

Something like a twin-engine F-35 ?

By the time they have a working, reliable 5th gen bird the other side will be deep into 6th gen, maybe unmanned.

Sorry to be such a killjoy but …

U.S is in no shape to face a 6th gen program. You know, falling GDP, huge debts, cronical deficits, a diminishing position in the global arena, two endless wars… Americans pilots will be very happy if F-35 come according to promised numbers.

My computer model of the Qassam was created to match the weapon’s known performance.

MERCURIUS, may you provide us yor model equations?