well you too must be employed somewhere in a madrassa, though my pet iguana knows more than you 🙂

employment is no guarantee of wisdom or ethics.

> The FC-1 didn’t because the US was no longer a viable option
> but the Chinese industry still went out and built it

but it has a russian engine. china still hasnt put into service a
engine in the “modern” class like RD-93, M88 or AL31. they are
still some years away from active service with WS10A I think ?

if for some reason (say under heavy US pressure during a taiwan crisis) russia stops the AL31 supply chain it would cripple the entire PLAAF SU27, SU30 and in future the J-10 fleet. even if someone is license making a engine, still many parts are not economical to make inhouse and usually imported from the OEM vendor.

hahahaha…..the finance minister and defmin has gone on record
saying the 3 multi-billion deals signed early this year will go ahead and money has been kept in this years defence budget for precisely that reason.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/July/subcontinent_July203.xml&section=subcontinent

you Paks are really pathetic here, clutching at straws to make up for the lack of any good activity in your own defence forces.

I pity losers like you. now crawl back to ur own sandbox and play
in your PAF thread. Let us know when the ereyie and gripen deals are signed.

Tribuneindia.com

Mi-35 copters being retrofitted with missile-firing simulators
Vijay Mohan
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 18
The IAF’s Mi-35 helicopter gunships are being retrofitted with in-flight missile-firing simulators, which would do away with the need to launch live anti-tank missiles during training sorties and, consequently, cut down on costs.

The simulators are being procured from Israel, and would be installed in the gunships in phases at the No.3 Base Repair Depot (BRD) here, which is responsible for maintenance, overhaul and modifications of Soviet origin helicopters.

A five-member team comprising officers from Air Headquarters and Mi-35 squadrons as well as the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) had visited Israel about two weeks ago to familiarise themselves with the simulators and work out the modalities of executing the project, it is learnt.

Sources said that the simulators would require installing an additional display unit in the cockpit and integrating it with the chopper’s on-board mission computer and other related avionics. Portions of the software loaded in the mission computer would have to be copied onto the simulator’s own computer to ensure compatibility of the firing simulation with the mission.

“During a training sortie, the cockpit procedures carried out by the crew would be the same as firing a live missile under combat conditions,” a source said. “Only, a missile would not be actually fired but the missile’s firing and its flight path, right up to the intended point of impact, would be simulated and the requisite feedback would be received by the crew,” he added.

With the simulator, Mi-35 crew would be able to carry out a greater number of “live” missile firing exercises, which otherwise may not have been possible due to economic factors, sources said.

A Mi-35 gunship carries four anti-tank guided missiles in addition to rockets and a machine gun, and is considered to be one of the deadliest attack helicopters. Over the past few months, the Mi-35s were extensively upgraded with Israeli help, which have turned them into a formidable weapons platform.

Under the upgradation project, which too was carried out at 3 BRD here, the Mi-35s were equipped with TV cameras and infra-red sights for target acquisition, giving them night as well as all-weather fighting capability. Their cockpits underwent a complete transformation with the incorporation of digital electronics, mission computer, multi-display units and helmet-mounted sights.

In the words of an IAF officer, the upgrade has resulted in the Mi-35 becoming “a western combat system mounted on a Soviet flying platform”.