Are Su-24 shelters big enough for Su-34 to be stored inside?

MiG-29K/KUB were well tested, before India receive them and a carrier. Every serial MiG-29K which India receive were tested and fully equipped. I really could not imagine, what components India have to install in a plane after delivery. The only logical explanation could be, that Indians went by their tradition to spoil their planes and start replacing original Russian components with foreign (Israeli?) and than it doesn’t work and than they start complaining how bad Russian equipment is. I’m really not surprised, why French lift the price for Rafale so high for India and why they don’t want to give any guaranty for Indian experiments with their Rafales. Similar with Indian Arjun tank. They take German Leopard 2 tank, install Israeli FCS in it and got a crap of tank.

Sometimes I wonder, why only India have problems, while other users don’t have.

I wouldn’t be surprised if RuAF tests S-8KOR and S-13KOR guided rockets on their helicopters, specially on Mi-28N and Ka-52 as they are night and all weather capable and have laser guidance channels. I think even upgraded rockets could be still cheaper than ATGMs and S-13KOR would be very powerful weapon specially against light skin targets like those SUVs and trucks.

Do those RuAF helicopters in Syria, specially new Mi-28N and Ka-52 have data link C4I data link network to share situational pictures and to deliver targets inside the group? This is the same question for Iraqi Mi-35 and Mi-28 as they use IA-407 for target searching, as there would be good question regarding compatibility between Russian and US data link communications?

Both Mi-28N and Mi-24VM (Mi-35) are doing great job against terrorists in both, Syria and Iraq. Interesting is to notice, that Iraqi army more use ATGMs against terrorist targets, while RuAF more use rocket launchers instead of ATGMs. S-8 and S-13 rockets with max 4 km have shorter range than ATGMs, but on the other side they are cheaper. I would like to ask if RuAF use laser guided S-8KOR and S-13KOR rockets upgraded with Ugroza in Syria? S-8KOR have range up to 8 km and S-13KOR up to 9 km, what is comparable with ATGMs. This could explain, why RuAF mostly use rockets instead of ATGMs although terrorists have a lot of MANPADs.

After the Brexit, What’s Next for Defense?

After Brexit and break of UK, England will be hit far harder than Russia after the break of USSR, because of enormous debt. Russian army couldn’t afford anything for more than a decade and only in the last ten years Russia could modernize their army. England will be hit far harder and will be not able to afford anything for more decades. With the fall of economy, they will not be able to service their debt.

UK will soon be a history and UK military will be divided between 3 new states, Scotland, England and Wales and to enlarged Ireland as Northern Ireland will also inherit its part of UK military and bring it to united Ireland. Question is, how much will any part inherit from ex-UK. On the longer term, considering, that economy after Brexit will go down, there will be big cuts with all new entities and military strength will be well reduced. Most probably they could already forget about new carriers and F-35 jets.

There is one more thing, which is strange. Considering, that the fuel depot and helicopters are in fire at the same time, it is strange that the wind over fuel depot blow in the opposite way than the wind over helicopters place, which is few hundred meters away. And nothing is damaged in between.