Any information on the T-50’s ‘final’ engine besides the fact that it’ll have square exhaust ducts? Will it be a further development of 117 or a new design from scratch? If the latter, what are the expected design parameters(like say, thrust)?

Agreed! Good relations now doesn’t mean things won’t change in the future, especially considering India and China will become ever more determined to obtain resources, and Australia has lots of natural resources.

So when are the invasions from Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom coming? Those poor cramped nations with their bursting populations and limited resources…;)

To think Australia is going for the F-35, a plane made by (gasp) another future invader, the USA.:D

welcome to the real world WITCHA, in which not everyone wants to hug and kiss and make nice…. fact of the matter is, Australia does have a threat in India and China… even Indonesia. Accept it. as we continue to overpopulate this world, and resources and space become more scarce, countries finances become worse and worse…. if a country runs out of money, doesnt mean it no longer needs to buy things… and if said country has a large military… things can/ and have happened…

and those aircraft would make a world of difference… in any defence of the country, it will not be sheer numbers that win the day…. training, determination and skill and quality of equipment will matter… as will tactics, and geography… we have alot of distance to trade for time…enough time for allies to come and assist….

Please. In the ‘real world’ the idea of India or China crossing the ocean to launch a full-scale invasion and occupation against another continent is the stuff of Tom Clancy novels and nothing more. :rolleyes:

Fact is Australia has no real enemies and so many defence enthusiasts have to look for less concrete reasons(besides participating in US/NATO conflicts) for it to have a cutting-edge military. By your scenario above every country in the world including its ‘allies’ would want to invade it for its resources. BTW, by that measure wouldn’t Australia also want to invade India for its abundant coal, iron ore and Thorium, among others?:D

No offence, but you’re either too paranoid or you read a lot of that stuff. India’s unlikely to even invide Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar or Nepal just for the sake of easing its population, let alone Australia. Only Carlo Kopp would think otherwise.:D

Interesting, it seems to be carrying a full defensive sensor suite and DIRCM!

Is that one of the Russian Navy’s Ka-31 prototypes or the export version headed for China?

From Twower:

“520nd Independent Rocket-Artillery Coastal Brigade made 3 launches today.”

4K51 Rubezh

Redut

EDIT:
And footage of the event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEwpoVGaTUE&feature=player_embedded#!

Rubezh and Redut? Are they launch complexes using the Uran/Moskit/Yakhont or new ASMs?

Bad joke.

The original one

I wondered why a UAV had what looked like a cockpit…;)

I have a guess that you need to look at these photos once more.



and compare to this

I stand correted. My post was based on a write-up I read long ago on some or the other defence blog; I hadn’t myself seen any pics that showed the compressor face.

Is NPO Saturn considering technologies like ceramic/composite turbine blades to lower radar reflection?

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And on a different note, what happened to Klimov’s old proposal for a 14-ton class engine?