Can anyone ID this (Sukhoi) cockpit simulator?
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Just yesterday, Bruce Carlson, the 4-star in charge of Air Forcr Materiel Command, says he still intends to purchase 380 F-22s to support ACC’s needs. The story goes that F-35 doesn’t have the performance to take care of the PLAAF hordes that may attack Taiwan.

Taiwan’s economic asymilation with mainland China grows ever closer year-on-year. Just so long as there’s no repeat of a global depression as in 1929, then the Communist party will not be forced into nationalistic jingoism & invade Taiwan to retain it’s grip on power. However, such a possibility is remote as double-digit sustained growth in China is likely to continue.

Incidently, those US concerns that have refused a China Sovereign Wealth Fund stake on ‘national security grounds’ are likely to welcome Chinese cash with open arms in a years’ time if even the most optimistic forecasts for the US economy ring true.

So, in short, neither futures of the F-22 or F-35 look rosy- especially if the Democrats get in as the ‘Chinese Horde’ argument is unlikely to hold sway- and rightly so, China has every right to modernise it’s armed forces- it goes hand-in-hand with being an economic superpower.

Gordon England has picked his moment carefully, Jung would be proud.

The Iraqi air defences were still considered a really formidable air defense by everyone at the time if you think back to that era, i remember all the hype before the war then about how the Iraqi MIGs were gonna cream the coalition and how amazing and tough the air defenses were. In the end it ended up getting creamed.

Don’t believe the blurb…..believe Theodore Postol (professor of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT), instead 🙂 :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/20/patriot_missile/

I’d take an Su-30MKI/MKM over ANY Western 4/4+ gen. fighter, ANYDAY:cool: (and so it seems would the Indians & more specifically the Malaysians)…and maybe even the Australians?

…oh and a brand new experimental test centre at Rubinsk.

After spending the last few days browsing the net about this aircraft and trying to take in the information available about it would appear this jet is seriously late, the MFI’s from MIG were a complete waste of time as was the forward swept wing flanker.Reading between the lines i’d say the Russians know theres no way they can compete with the Raptor so there franticly changing the design fairly often as they try to figure just what they can market this thing, now it seems there trying to say it will be ‘differant’ from the raptor and not comparable. Well one things for sure they really don’t know what the hell there doing with this as they didnt with the MFI or forward winged Flanker

To use those immortal words of Wolfgang Pauli, you’re “Not Even Wrong”:cool: