lets be realistic, india will build 2-3 ADS sized ships before taking
the next step up to 60K ships I predict around 2025-30.
people dont jump to nimitz class in one shot.
courtesy of american tax payer money Egypt will still have the
most powerful army and AF in northern africa. they have been #1
or #2 military grant recepient for quite a while now.
the Su27SM has a improved N-001V radar not Bars. It has a russian glass cockpit not a western equipped one.
the malaysian MKM, the MKI and MKK2-3 will remain the best of
the in-service Flankers for a while. no canards and TVC either.
Its a MLU. they got rid of the old soviet style cockpit which is a
major good step.
But all the flanker still suffer from same lack of cheap, short range
PGMs and high quality lasing pod the western a/c have.
Litening on MKI and perhaps Damocles on MKM will again be
the leading edge on flankers when they are introduced. israel has a contract
to integrate litening and their LGB kits into MKI.
okinawa and guam anyone to stare down big dragon ? 🙂
I think they would have got a fresh paint job.
well whats that yellow stain and what is that photo of ?
they never had TVC. one of the photos shows a thrust reverser that could
deflect the flame down but that brakes the jet ! 🙁
article on active noise cancellation system in the Dhruv
http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/strArticleID/56664/strSite/MDSite/viewSelectedArticle.asp
the supplier is the world pioneer in active noise cancellation
a great collection of photos by a canadian pro.
well not buying french should endear Brazil to both the US and Russia 😉
Kalaikunda indicates they will fly intercepts against Mig27.
it probably their first stop in india.
some details on the IL-78s
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/818897.cms
for the forthcoming south africa:
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=53307
Talking of the forthcoming South African exercise, the Chief said this would entail the longest single-leg flight that Air Force has clocked to date. While the routine sorties stretch to about an hour, the Cope Thunder exercise saw the aircraft flying for around four hours at one go while they were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Single-leg sorties to South Africa would be even longer.
does PRC have S300 systems from earlier than this order ?
why cant Embraer make the SU35 under license in Brazil ?
I read somewhere the dual-intake design of Meteor as opposed to the more conventional 4-intake design seen in Ru ramjet missiles was driven by need for conformal carriage in Typhoon below the fuselage.
This apparently led to a more complex flight profile because some moves tend to stop the airflow into the ramjet .
was it worth the effort ?
Typhoon if it carries addl missiles below wings will lose the advantage
and its not a greatly stealthy platform to start with.
I doubt Typhoon on a long range sweep would go out with just 4 Meteors…most likely it will carry 6-8.
the P15 article contains mention of building a few amurs in another line
from the scorpenes. it maybe part of a offset deal negotiated with Ru in exchange for under the table help in other areas provided by Ru.
I dont know what value if any SSKs armed with a few brahmos have though. AIP + good torpedoes + few Klubs are good enough.
remains to be seen if HDW will sell us their fuel cell tech for scorpene’s
AIP module.