Whoaaaa… :love-struck:

Courtesy Berkut.

As or Syria – profit for the USA? That’s crazy. There’s been no profit. The USA hasn’t been pumping weapons in to the Al Qaeda lot. Indeed, it’s been reluctant to give arms to the secular anti-Assad forces for fear of them getting to the Islamist nutjobs, though recently it seems to have opened the taps, to allow the FSA to fight the Islamist extremists. Get that? Not arming the al-Qaeda lot, trying to get arms to those fighting the al-Qaeda lot

Crazy? Lets’ see: Iraq? huge resources, oil, strategic position. Afganistan? Huge resources, gas, minerals, strategic position. Syria, HUGE RESOURCES. GAS. Strategic gas pipe (russian) going or planned to go through it; destroying a russian (and iranian- the ultimate prize) ally; guaranteeing the israeli occupation of Golan (good ol’ AIPAC at work); fermenting unrest in neighbouring countries (jihadists pouring into Iraq, which assures Iraq being even more dependent on US). And this just the top of the iceberg. No profit? Oh there is profit, and a few hundreds of thousands or a few MILLIONS if need be of syrian “towelheads” lives will not stand between the US and it!

Same story with Ukraine. To have their puppet state at Russia’s border, you think breaking Ukraine or fermenting a war (civil or otherwise) and having tens or HUNDREDS of thousand of ukrainians killed will make them even blink?! This is all about, they don’t give a *** what the ukrainians want or need or deserve.

BTW, the rebels seem to have mostly Russian & Chinese weapons, perhaps bought on the open market. So who’s profiting?

You really think that’s an argument? They long stopped being that stupid, you won’t see them handing Stingers and M16s and US Army gear like yesteryear, they run it and do it from behind the scenes through their puppets like saudis and GCC states etc. Those weapons come from the black market and “allies” like Romania, even Croatia i heard and other places one can’t even think of they would come from. Plausible deniability.

– tire fairings for the main landing gear are larger (but it may just be that the re-designed LERX which intersects it is less voluminous than it used to be)

It also appears they are non-simetric now, the left one is longer than the right one- perhaps that’s where the gun is?

Thank you for the hard work Andraxxus, a very interesting read (although the mathematical part is way beyond me of course).

Would you some day be willing/have the time do something like that but vs. the likes of J-20, T-50, J-31 etc.? Or even F-22 vs. those? 🙂
PS: Oh yes, Rii is perfectly right, so how about vs. Rafale or Typhoon or even Gripen? That would be extremely interesting!

Airbus & BAe don’t control EU industrial policy.

Yes (unfortunately, on most counts*). It’s just no like we do things here, it’s not the MIC who controls the governments. If that would be the case, or even half the case, then we would have long showed the finger to the yanks, and there would have been many hundreds more (if not thousands) of eurocanards on order (cumulated), plus probably something like the Replica already (FLYING!), not to mention that whatever US equipment present in EU militaries right now would have likely been european. As it is the local defence industries have to fights AGAINST the politicians to just barely survive… and current trends are sadening.

As for Ukraine, if the US backed puppets remain in charge and they get into this NATO and so on, they will go Romania way. Whatever defence industry capacities they have right now (Antonovs, AAMs, armoured vehicles, munitions, extensive overhauls etc.) they will be gone, destroyed in a decade, and then they will compete with their southern neighbours to be at the bottom of Europe…

* we all see what is like to have a country run by the ruthless, profit driven MIC.; like that, never, not in Europe, but enough to keep the money and the jobs and the expertise HERE.

Sorry, don’t have time to find an english source: http://www.interfax.ru/russia/txt/357940

Thanks Berkut, so “only” six years to the first flight. Would be nice to see some “official” CGI meanwhile (like for PAK-FA).