Yep, radar info. In navigation mode it would also display a crude map to allow the pilot to follow waypoints.

many air forces do this too. it’s a fact that a taller person experiences more G forces affecting him during tight turns.

That makes no sense. G-force does not depend on the size, shape or mass of an object. If you put a feather and a brick in the cockpit together the G forces acting on them would be equal.

What is the reason behind this requirement?

The Su-35 radar puts out more power than the Typhoon so it’s more difficult to remain stealthy against it. The Su-35 would detect the F-22 at a greater range than the Typhoon could.

If you recall WWII, Russia declared war on Japan, AFTER Japan was nuked by
the USA.

Huh?!

Russia and Japan fought major battles in the late thirties. The Battle of Kolkin Gol (Russians and Mongolians vs Japs) was the biggest tank battle ever seen until WWII. In fact it was General Zhukov of the Russian army who pioneered the tank tactics in 1939 which Germany later used against France and called “lightning war”. If the west had paid attention to this war in 1938-39 and observed Russian tactics, they would have been much better prepared for the German offensive in the west, but instead the speed at which the Germans where able to cover ground completely surprised them.

I’d say that decidedly less than half would be left for weapons procurement. Current budget for 2006 is ~730million USD with around 118million USD set aside for equipping. Now clearly, this ‘equiping’ budget cannot only be for weapons procurement and other things, computers, uniforms, trumpets etc must be included. The increase should give the budget an extra ~180million to play with but even if this was spent entirely on weapons and was combined with the 118million ‘equipping’ budget it would amount to ~300million per year for the next four years. This, however, is clearly not the case and all this money cannot possibly be spent on acquisition of new weapons. In fact, probably only about 150million a year will be spent on weapons purchases – still pretty damn good though if you ask me.

Don’t forget that the military still has 5 billion dollars worth of facilities and old equipment that needs to be sold off.

Here is the article from Janes:

Serbia and Montenegro has reconstructed most of its defensive radar network, repairing the damage done by NATO air strikes in 1999. Students from the Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering who visited the Novi Banovci radar station in May 2004 were told that more than 90% of the radar equipment was in good working order.

Colonel Raica Boskovic, commander of the 126th Brigade for Air Reconnaissance, Warning and Guidance (VOJIN) of the Serbia and Montenegro Army, told the students that in 2000 only about 30% of the radars had been operational. Most of the radars that had been hit by NATO air strikes have now been overhauled and repaired by the Belgrade Military-Technical Institute. This reconstruction had to be done with local resources, since financial problems and international arms embargos made it very difficult to obtain equipment and spare parts.

Before the start of hostilities in 1999, the Serbia and Montenegro Army VOJIN had a total of 12 radars. These were attacked by 15 cruise missiles, 13 air-to-ground missiles, 29 anti-radiation missiles and 98 bombs, Col Boskovic told the students.

To counter these air strikes, the network carried out a total of 169 redeployments around a network of 165 locations, which included 49 newly built reserve positions. This amounted to more than two redeployments a day over the 78 days of combat. The 126th VOJIN Brigade’s air defences fired six Strela 2M (SA-7 ‘Grail’) man-portable SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) in self-defence, and downed one Tomahawk cruise missile.

The network remained operational throughout the campaign, said Col Boskovic, and his own unit tracked and took part in the successful engagement of the F-117 Black Hawk stealth fighter which was shot down on 27 March 1999.

It’s BS. Nothing was “captured” from the Serbian army. Osa was widely available all over ex-Yu. KLA bought them probably from Croatia (Croatia manufactures many light weapons like that) or maybe even from Yugoslavia itself.