You meen all production Su-34s have this engine Scorpion ? is the trust rating of 13,300kgf( 13,500kgf according to mzak.cz) to for this engine correct ?( thats what i found on the net …and aparently the engine passed its test in december 2006 on a Su-27SM…)

Thanks.

Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran: thinktank

Deeply concerned as it is by the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israel has never even hinted at using atomic weapons to forestall the perceived threat.

But now a respected Washington think tank has said that low-radioactive yield “tactical” nuclear warheads would be one way for the Israelis to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment plants in remote, dug-in fortifications.

Despite the 65-year-old taboo against carrying out — or, for that matter, mooting — nuclear strikes, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says in a new report that “some believe that nuclear weapons are the only weapons that can destroy targets deep underground or in tunnels.”
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If true , they’re crazy…they’re *******ing crazy. 😡

Mig-35D 967 on Airliners…

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia—Air/Mikoyan-Gurevich-MiG-35D-%289-67%29/1672104/L/&sid=2c52add322b904d2a65aeb90256c2dc9

mack8, the Lancer C use both the Magic II and Python III. It may not make sense to use two very similar missiles, but this is Romania.
a few pictures to convince you:
http://lcaerodesign.com/index.php/photo-galery/category/1-mig-21?start=100

andrei, the Mica in the article you linked reffers to Mica VL, the SAM version. Purchasing it together with Mistral was an almost done deal last year (needed to replace the old 57 mm guns protecting the airbases) but the deal was dropped after a corruption scandal (the system was around 320 mil. euros, but Romania was supposed to pay 400, the diference of 80 milion Euros going into the pockets of some middlemen – and surely higher up the political-business chain).
Far less than 80 Lancers are in service, they will be dropped from service as soon as the F-16s will be made operational.

Griffon39, there will be no SPYDER acquisition, Mica VL and Mistral were selected, but not purchased due to reasons mentioned above. The Lancers will go nowhere but to the scrapheap, they were supposed to be reitred in 2011-12, and some are going now trough a (last) overhaul and modest life extension program to enable them to drag on until 2013, when the F-16s should be operational.

Well you surely got me convinced about the Python-3s, thanks , btw really great website there!

Would you know by any chance how many Pythons they bought and when ? i know i’ve read about RO buying 140 MAGICs starting from 1997( year when the contract was signed-besides the launchers were suposed to be made at Ploiesti-LM-52s), dunno how reliable that is tho…

Also extremely interesting infos about the MICAs , i wasnt aware they intended to buy them …any plans for the future , they wanna keep the plans for buying them( with a reworked contract minus the “middlemen”, offcourse) or they wanna buy something else?

As far as the existing missiles being used on the “new” F-16s, well Python is almost certainly a no ( so are any bombs , UBs, S-24s etc …maby the jammers and the LDPs/ARPs, but i dont know…), as for Magics, i know they were integrated on some F-16s , question is will the americans do it and the french give the americans the codes …just speculation for now, time will tell.

Thanks again for your great info , Googeler.

Yeah , been reading that on other places aswell , i’ll look on youtube to see if i can find anything…

I’m very dissapointed too… “Free”? Ha, dont make me laugh! its gonna cost alot of money to make at least flybale those junkyard Block25s that rusted in a desert somewhere …probably its gonna cost them more than a new one!

Hungarians got Gripens , czechs got Gripens , poles at least got new Block 52 , bulgarians SLEP-ed their Mig-29s…But well done RO , for equiping your AF from a junkyard…i bet the RO pilots are “very” excited…

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To use in this context a quote from an article about the PAK-FA , this is how the Hollywood would think a russian bomber should sound! Beautiful and spine chilling indeed, wouldnt like to be on the receiving end …:D

^^^ Probably a Mig-35 prototype that is taking part in MMRCA test.

961 and 967 has just 3 HP under each wing compared to the 5 HP under each wing we saw on Mig-35 model

All current generation Mig-29s have 8( naval) and 9 hardpoints , 4 under each wing.

Again ,imo that model of the Mig-35 with 11 harpoints and bigger wings and whatnot its just that , a model …haveing the real Mig-35 so much different that the other 4+generation Mig-29s would ruin the concept of deep comonality , isnt it ? New wings, new tail, require structural modifications , validations, testing…

Besides ,it will be heavier and draggier, and if they wanna keep the performance , they need new engines, and so on ,and so on… as you can see its all like an avalanche!

Just my 2 pence.

Found this pic on VZLET website thru Flugzeugforum…now what is interesting is not only this pic , but in the 11/2010 number of the said magazine , you can not only see this pic of 961 , but also one of 967 haveing STILL a big radome , not the small one in the recent pics! Its also sports 3 long range tanks like 961 , and in the article , they mention something about october , but i cant make out what exactly , maby the(ir) first flight ? anyone of the Russian peoples seen the article?

Also , i might be talking nonsense, but could it be that these two machines might have taken part in the indian MMRCA testing ?( the long range configuration might imply they left somewhere…).

Finally does anyone know where are 941 and 947 K/KUB at the moment ? any reliable info ?
Thanks.