Bars @ Red Square parade:

http://balancer.ru/forum/punbb/attachment.php?item=279391&download=2

LOL, this is a real sub … subterranean.:eek:

MiG-31 will likely remain around 100. Apparently the latest BM order is in addition to the first batch, so the whole fleet is going to be modernized.
Su-35 = 96
Su-34 = 124
Su-27SM + SM3 + M2 = 67
MiG-29SMT = 34
Su-24M2 = 5 Gefest&T aiframes, and anywhere from 24 to 48 M2s. More to be modernized???
Su-30SM = 30. More expected.
MiG-35 = ???
Su-25SM: ~50 today. Further modernization and new-build UBM purchase planned.

You have to give it to the US of A. Numbers are several multiples of 1,000s 😉

I don’t know if it is ready or not but in my opinion T 50-3 should fly before it 😉

But T-50-3 flew in November 2011, that was almost half a year ago. :confused:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_CSDYFlJO4
What they are doing currently with the three flying prototypes has not been revealed though. Whether they are undergoing repairs, or modifications, or in the air, etc

I am sure one of the first few things the chase aircraft would do is train its radar on the T-50-4 :diablo:
I am sure those guys in the chase aircraft have a good idea how good the stealth shaping vs onboard X band is. They would have tried sideways, rear, front etc. 🙂 Would be nice if we could know what they have to say .. :p

Vityaz is not S-300V4. It seems a lot of people don’t know, that Russia have two different air defenses. One is territorial (VKO an air force air defense) and the second is ground forces air defense to protect army units. VKO (air force) air defense have S-300P series, S-400, Pantsir-S1 and in near future also S-500, Vityaz and Morphei. Ground forces have S-300V series, Buk-M1/M2, Tor-M1/M2, Tunguska, Strela-10.

S-300V4 is for ground forces air defense and S-400 is for VKO. There are no problems with S-400.

That’s what I meant, The people (ruaviation) who wrote the article themselves are confused … 😀

He just needed some urgent materials for new threads … :p . J/K

S300V4 is not the same S300V from 1970s. S300V and S400 have different roles. ABM vs SAM systems, although they have some capability overlap. S400 is successor of S300P series.

One gets the feeling that the group remains in the nomenclature of the parallel development of similar systems, inherited from the Soviet practice: the S-400 and C-300V4, “Buk-M3” and “Hero,” “Tor-M2” and “Morpheus.”

– I would not say that this parallelism. Each set designed for specific tasks and has a particular consumer. They are not perfect analogues, and they have a different purpose, so that the MoD and ordered all of these systems. It is only from the standpoint of the layman the impression that there is duplication.

welcome on boar!

Wicked … :dev2:

The Tejas has been dragging on for too long, how useful would it be when it goes into FOC. By the time a few squadrons could be raised it would have been 2016-17. Get more Rafales and Su 30 MKI Super 30. The focus should be shifted to the next project. It already succeeded as a demonstrator.

Where are the Wind tunnels, Super compute environments, Modelling SW, CAD/CAM design teams, Materials tech ..etc?? I don’t suppose they have been sleeping all this while during the Tejas development.