A joint Brazilian-Argentine purchase? Both want to replace their venerable Mirage-III and there were recent talks on military coordination.

He is far more accurate than you, all you are criticising is analysis, none of which he ever reported as fact and all of which he later corrected.

Just compare the real SS-25 withdraw-rate with the Podvig-forecasted rate. This is the reliability of his forecasts. Off course, if you want to believe him, there is no problem. The problem is that reality is in other place.

Podvig is not a realible surce anymore. Too many “unconfirmed” news and “unconfirmed failures”. His forecasting about retirement of Topol were too far from the real numbers. He also “witdraw” the Ss-N-18 monts before confirmed real tests. Too many wrongs.

Well, according the comments from RSM-55 on some sort of similitude between the YF-23 and PAK-FA; and the available PAK-FA draws on the net, this Paralay one is the most likely approximation to the reality:

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2049/drawingpakfaparalaybaseyy3.jpg

PD: It is interesting also the concept of multi-band conformal array radars.

Supposedly it will look like a YF-23 rather than the Berkut of the F-22.

I still don’t see why sovereign nations shouldn’t be allowed to join NATO if they choose to do so. I understand why it irritates Russia, but if the Ukraine and Georgia want to join NATO, what are they really going to do about it?

Well, Ukrainian people are adamantly opposed to a NATO entry in spite of a strong propaganda campaign. Nevertheless, Yuschenko, while refusing to allow a referendum on the use (he knows the poll results), is still pushing his agenda in the hope that a future propaganda war will change the people mind. I doubt it will succeed.

So, in the Ukrainian case, the issue is more related to the wishes of their president rather than related to the will of the Ukrainian people. After all, he was also indoctrinated in a way similar to that of the little Stalin, now ruling Georgia.

I wonder how a 48N6DM is able to intercept a 4.8 km/s ballistic speed missile if the considerably faster 9M82M can barely deal with a 4.5 km/s ballistic speed target. If this is possible, the tracking capability of the S-400 respect to the S-300VM had to be improved at least three-fold.