I have one more important point to make:

Soviet military equipment designed during the cold war was not designed for long life or high quality, the only design requirement was that it should be suitable for very large scale and very fast production. That is no longer Russian strategy, and today Russia has moved away from the quantity over quality approach, and is instead designing its equipment of a much higher quality and longer life. So you can’t really compare Russian equipment of today with Russian equipment from the cold war.

Yes although that has nothing to do with this whole topic. You really cannot judge Russian equipment thats 40 years old based on how it performed today/.

I think anyone offer us radars and such but no one has anything as close to what the Russians can offer in terms of S-400, in terms of quality, capability and COST. The closest thing non Russian that comes to the S-400 is probably PAC-2 in long range anti aircraft SAMs, yet the PAC-2 is greatly inferior.

People like GrM bitch at the bad quality of Russian equipment like Mig-29, well wtf do you expect from anything when you have 10 of them servicable, their radars are not working due to spare parts embargo or anything and you have 10 of them against 500 of NATO fighters, mass AWACS and etc.

Who would want to buy the MFI over the PAK-FA in the future when PAK-FA will be bought by Russia and India as well as supported by both and MFI would be supported only by MiG and not anyoen else.

I don’t think China would give up it’s J-XX for the MFI, if they wanted they would’ve done it long time ago but decided to develop it for themselves. Iran? I doubt it, their aerospace industry has taken off too and they probably will not be buying anything in the future.

Well, are the French planning to replace the Atlantique with the MMA?

I think there will be many potential customers for the MMA, including Japan unless they plan to build their own next generation Maritime and ASW Aircraft to replace the P-3, I mean the Japanese got no less than 100 P-3Cs.

I think we got some parts for S-300 from Russia, I believe after the war but we never got it operational. I am not sure

But by 2015-2020, I am for refining the whole AD system and largely depend on it, SAMs are just a much better defence than modern interceptors. Though I am als ofor buying a squadron of Multirole Fighter to support our Air Defense systems. A more mobile SAM system with something like S-400, it would give NATO a headache and would cause havoc between them if they ever attacked again(which I don’t think they will but IN CASE)

Yes but what does it have to do with MiG restarting develoment of Mig 1.44?

I don’t know but the Mig 1.44 costs something like 70mn. I am really not exactly sure but if they can get at least one serious potential customer then it’s worth it otherwise I dont know.

Mig 1.44 resurrected? Who would really buy it?