JSRContract value is not known however 24ore indicate 7-8 billion Euros for the 28 Typhoons to Kuwait:
If it’s 7 billion then that’s 250 million Euros per a/c.
Edit:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/kuwait-places-order-for-28-typhoons-423884/
total approval is 8 billion Euros. I dont think Italy make much of weopons. i presume there will be more orders for weopons.
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/04/05/kuwait-signs-eurofighter-deal/82647386/
The Cabinet approved the purchase of the 28 Eurofighters from Italy for €7.957 billion (US $9.062 billion).
JSRThere is engine common among
Mi-171/mi-35/mi-28. This most effective combination for high tempo operation.
T129 is flop . not even Jordan wanted despite no high elevation.
JSRNot going to derail this thread any further, but to call some of your B.S. Where was the R-27 manufactured? That’s right, primarily Artem and Radionix. The facilities of former Vympel near Moscow, were only about to produce small numbers of R-27 variants.
Here is total R-27 production and for whom 1990’s on. (Russia total 15 missiles): http://www.deagel.com/equipment/Air-to-Air-Missiles/R-27.htm
And remember, any R-27 transferred to Russia from the production facilities in Ukraine would have noted in the “UN Register of Conventional Arms”.
P.S. apologies to others on this thread, get tired of the JSR routine/
Edit- had to add dates
How can deagle calculate R-27 missile production and modernization in 2015. Did it also calculated that Ruaf is going to drop 30,000 bombs on Syria and still huge loads to spare. The fact is Russia SAM production has increased multiple times compared to 90s. There is no reason AAM production can be lower. In fact it will be closer 4k to 5k per year. This is called real industrialization.
JSRNot necessarily, new batteries, periodic diagnostic tests would be all that’s required provided low number of captive carry hours. For the C5’s of the RAF, they will probably reach the limit of their captive carry hours before solid propellant needs replacing, or major electronics parts need replacing (other than battery).
the airframe does not perform. there i no contract or capability.
That is a bet I’d be willing to take. New missiles did not begin to enter VVS service until quite recently. Most stocks were probably late 80’s with some new components.
Russia missile capacity is in thousands. they can literally replace all the missiles in a year. just look at AAM exports and SAM production.
JSROnly if you include the first generation of radar guided AAM. The Aim-7M had a good kill percentage when fired within launch parameters, the Amraam has fared even better.
Who introduces a new AAM every 5-10 years? The U.S. has probably outpaced most, but even then: the Aim-120C (with incremental improvements other than clipped wings) has been in service for 20 years and is still being exported.
Russia still has the R-27 in service with most variants dating from late 80’s.
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The 150 or so C5’s in the RAF will still be a credible weapon for QRF/ air defense missions into the 20’s
Unlesss thos C5 are modernized. they are likely to be at expiry stage. R27 are certainly not 1980s batch.
JSRTransfer of TOT: SAAB does not own a lot of the technology used in Gripen, so cannot transfer it to Brazil. Does that mean that Brazil will not be able to design and build a fighter in the future? If that is the case, how come SAAB has managed to build Gripen?
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SAAB managed to build Gripen because major subsystems are economically available. suppose this F414 engine goes out of production when F-18 line stops. US companies are only profitable with big volumes. and same happens to low production volume EJ200 and M88. than there is no chance SAAB can built a fighter economically.
Brazil whole economic system is developed around import dependency. This whole TOT business of Gripen is just to inflate the cost and possible corruption.
http://www.reuters.com/article/embraer-defense-rheinmetall-idUSE6N15W01O
Brazil’s Embraer taps Rheinmetall for KC-390 training
JSRhttp://bmpd.livejournal.com/1828574.html
BMPD says the actual number is 36, which makes sense.
This brings the total number of contracted air-frames with Irkut for the MOD to 116, 20 of which are for the VMF.
more important than airframes is weopon systems. 36 airframes need atleast 100k antiradiation/antiship cruise missile for round the clock high tempo operation.
JSRSure it’s been delayed but who else is going to buy and fund a more advanced F-15? No one else is interested in them other than Qatar and Israel and the version the Qataris want is the one the Saudi’s are buying.
That’s why these countries are looking to buy Euro weopons. They made fundamental mistake with this deal. Trying to upgrade 25 year old airframes that are overused in yemen and creating a new airframe is gigantic mess.
JSRI think we can safely discount that source given the US has already sold the most advanced F-15 model available to Saudi Arabia.
the speed they are implementing this contract. they will not be most advanced.
http://www.defenseworld.net/news/15729/US_Air_Force_Awards_F_15_Support_Contract_To_Saudi_Firm#.Vv99qKQrKhc
JSRHigh Supersonic Speed would mean high top speed or higher speed at sea level and at high altitudes
https://www.uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/aircraft-specific/
I think if Su-35S indeed had SC with useful payload ( say A2A ) then UAC would have advertised about it , AFAIK the Flanker Airframe is designed for high manouverability at subsonic regime of flight and not for Supersonic unlike a Rafale or Typhoon
The top speed is already written which is practically same as Su-27. high superonic speed mean it can sustain it for longer distance than other Flanker.
i have no doubt that even with those big wing tip pods. Su-35 will outperform EF/Rafale. those aircrafts are limited to 50k altitude at most. even MIG-35 is 19km altitude.
JSRits written high supersonic speed.
https://www.uacrussia.ru/en/aircraft/lineup/military/su-35/
This airplane combines the qualities of a modern fighter (super-maneuverability, superior active and passive acquisition aids, high supersonic speed and long range, capability of managing battle group actions, etc.)
JSRit says India total order of Al-31FP engine between 2012-2021 period is about 1020 engines.
http://www.janes.com/article/59221/defexpo-2016-russian-company-eyes-additional-engine-sales-to-india-and-china
JSRWhen you have a better understanding of how the US would fight a conflict with an adversary that has AEW radars that may have some capability at detecting stealth aircraft you will comprehend that achieving air dominance is not as insurmountable as you think.
Stopping production of F-22 at 187 had nothing to do with an increased chance of being detected and everything to do with a high acquisition cost and a near crippling per hour operating cost.
F-22 is actually very cheap to built. even F-15SA and F-16E if built now will cost more than F-22. if F-22 is built in same numbers as F-35 the cost will be nearly half of F-35. no countries brag about things that are not for export.
JSR‘…held discussions on a possible sale with Qatari officials within the past week.’ Why would Qatar possibly be interested in operating 2 different eurocanards? Perhaps the conversation went something like this:
M Fallon: “Are you saying there are no circumstances whatsoever in which you would consider buying Typhoon?”
Qatari officials: “No, we can’t say that.”
how reliable is below information. but Israel is definitely pushing these countries to buy overprice Euro weopons.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/24744-research-centre-headed-by-israeli-official-incites-against-saudi-arabia
Meanwhile, Israel’s Channel 2 revealed that the Israeli government convinced the American administration not to supply Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE with advanced aircrafts.
The channel’s political analyst, Audi Segal, said that despite the fact that relations between the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are tense, the latter still responded to Netanyahu’s request not to supply the Gulf states with advanced models of the F-15 aircraft.
JSRIf they are making the processors in Russia I wouldn’t expect much. Microprocessor design and production is not an area where Russia is even slightly competitive.
So basically as of the timeframe you are talking about Russia was hoping to produce a tiny handful of obsolete chips… in Taiwan… and this was considered newsworthy progress.
Russia is the strongest in building processors thats why Intel has that big plant in Israel. offcourse they will not built ARM type processors for cellular phone. Taiwan is just foundry built with Euro lithography machines with no design and software skills.
http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/03/24/battle-for-russias-it-market-can-local-developers-stop-global-giants_578797
Russian processors exist and they are quite numerous,” said Konstantin Trushkin, marketing expert to the managing director of MCST, a universal processor developer. “We shall soon release an even more powerful processor, an 8-core Elbrus-8S with a CPU clock rate of 1.3 GHz. Its power is comparable to that of Intel Core i7 processors.”
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