Glad to see some people still use they grey matter for better things than waving flags and spewing bias.

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I think most of the people agrees with me the just Russians are competing with USA at aircraft sales.This means both countries aicrafts have the wold’s most advanced technologies.Russia showed it’s latest developments at Su-35BM aircraft.And today Russia has a ambitious PAK-FA project.They are spending really very much money for this project and I think they will produce a very advanced aircraft.Maybe better than F-22?But I think they must use the latest technologies at all areas of production.Today they have money,intellectual capacity and experience.I think these are enough for creating the world’s best aircraft.

A US aviation industry insider recently said he expects the RCS of the PAK-FA to be at least as low as the F-22 simply because it is a later design, he claims the Russians are well aware of the design intracacies of the F-22/35 and have up-until recently lacked the precision machine tooling to put together such an aircraft (this has been imported en masse). Then again many precision machines used on US programmes were probably of Japanese/ German origin.
In fact the biggest headache in the PAK-FA programme remains the engine, so we’ll have to wait & see how good a use those new supercomputers were.
Obviously MiG will employ these precision machines on their VLO UCAV a project which is already 2 years old.

He also expected a larger radar and greater unrefuelled combat AP radius simply due to Russia’s huge border, after all it’s not a point defence fighter.

An interesting point to note is if you look at those blown-up reasonably high-res. pics of Su-30MKI & Typhoon in close formation during ‘Indra-Dhanush ’07’ (posted by Jai) the body/panel work of the Eurofighter looks positively shoddy compared to the smooth finish of the Flanker- kinda makes you wonder exactly which of the two was electron-beam welded!

Agreed- magnificent:cool: .

Is wanting world domination evil? They claim evil Mr Putin wants it and that is what makes him evil, so I guess them having a military domination of the world makes them by their own criteria evil… Yes I agree with you. 🙂

Only a decade ago, in 1998, the West and their associated energy companies hoped (as Russians feared) that the Russian Federation would completely fall apart leaving Russia the size of France in the not too distant future.

That was until that ‘evil’ Putin & his FSB cronies got in the way- and how things have changed! Now Putin wants half the North Pole!! Maybe he’ll force a renegotiation of the Alaska sale too!!…..and to add insult to injury it’s sky-high Russian titanium prices that have murdered the F-22 production line!!- hehehehehehehehehehehahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!……it’s that Karmic Circle- I tell ya.:)

Having read many of these posts, it’s clear the thread’s overlooked one important issue- the Russian armed forces of today/tomorrow will have a primary function of national defence with conventional & nuclear deterrence much like West European nations.
There is no will or means to revive the Soviet Army as a tool of global communist domination or significant power projection (they’ll leave the strategic balance act to China) hence comparing today’s US armed forces with yesterday’s Soviet forces & equipment is completely facile.

The Russians will develop a new dynamic to their armed forces- downsized with almost completely new equipment in the next decade (as touted in Putin’s speach at Zhukovsky last week)- that in itself is a remarkable proposition & worth watching closely.

Anyways, back to the essence of the thread- Kornet E vs Merkava hehehehehehehehehehhahahahahhahahhahahahaaaaaa!!!!!!

The Indian Defence Minister and HAL bigwigs have visited KnAAPO and viewed PAK-FA prototypes being assembled (yesterday)- which is awfully cheeky ’cause the Indo-Russian FGFA is being sold to their respective publics as a seperate programme altogether (as Abhimanyu has already detailed as nothing more than an MKI- if that).

Maybe the Indian press will leak some details, as the Russians seem to be descending into paranoid secrecy again.