I have to agree with Scooter. The RuAF will use the Su-35 as a bridge to the PAK-FA, via a small order (with the export market also in mind). Furthermore, many Su-27 may/will be updated to the SM2 standard with the incorporation of Irbis and much modern avionics and electronics. This will avoid the need to buy brand new Su-35 because by refurbishing Su-27 to the SM2 level, they will have a multi-role Flanker almost as capable as the Su-35 but with a fractional cost. This was the Russian way the last years, and I think they will not change it. In addition, the Su-34 order come first.

PS: Well this completely blows US position that Missile shield is not aimed at Russia (China)… since every other country they claim shield is aimed at, is more less at SCUD level of missile technology … and decades away from any type of sophicticated ICBMs… let alone MRV capability.

Agreed

If one day (distant day) US does develop shield capable of “significantly increasing defense capability ” against lager number of ICBMs with MRVs… Logical step for Russia (China) is to mount Warheads on satellite like platforms in geosynchronous orbit above continental North America and Europe, and the MAD continues.

The good-old FOBS is simpler, cheaper but still effective.

what would be interesting is concerning the term “10hypersonic” used there…so seems they actually they managed to invent some sort of scramjet stuff

I think, is just the usual noise, aka the “wonder shield-penetrator weapon” because in reality all warheads are hypersonic. Anyway, may be, they have some side-thrusters to perturb their nominal path as the single-warhead of the Topol-m is rumoured to have. I don’t know how feasible is to place such side-thrusters in small warheads.
Notice also that the third liquid-fuel stage can change the ballistic path till the last seconds of the boost phase. Quite interesting!

Infographic

http://en.rian.ru/img/118575033_free.html

rail-based Sineva

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Mobile liquid fueled ICBM? I assumed the “no liquids in movement” was the police to follow from the Pioneer days? I knew talks of “land based Sinevas”, but I assumed to be silo-based, in order to replace RS-18 and RS-20. Also on Sineva with a new larger first stage for its land-deployment.

Quote on the bus:

The Pioner UTTKh IRBM was given the expanded mission of destruction of every enemy rocket launcher in Europe and China, plus the destruction of key enemy facilities such as air and naval bases and control bunkers. The original Pioner could only dispense its multiple warheads to a limited degree, since it used the warhead dispenser designed for the much longer-range Temp-2S ICBM. Therefore an improved version was planned. This would use greater-diameter motors to increase payload, and a new equipment section and MIRV bus to hit widely-spaced targets with a single missile. The missile would also have longer range, allowing it to be based nearly anywhere in the Soviet Union and still hit targets on the periphery of the Eurasian land mass.

I still remember someone claiming that was a particular bus aiming at fast and angled detachments to cover very far located targets (not along the same path). Someone have info?

You gotta consider one thing, though. Whatever radar comes with the PAK-FA, it will likely be 10-15 years younger than the one of Raptor. That alone means something. I think it has good chance of being superior to APG-77

Off-course, you are rigth. It is quite likely that an “active IRBIS” to be better than the APG-77. But in such a interim USA will also field Galium Nitride based radars.