its a difference of scale. a few dozen from a country of a billion vs several hundred from a country of 17 million.

hehe so you really can count those who produce more.

but this probably doesn’t matter to you since you are a closet ISIS supporter. But some of us see the risk to Russia and actually don’t want the problem to spread there.

ISIS is fusion of Western EU and Middleast. It has nothing to do Kazakh or China. I don’t want give you further dose of reality.
Russia is continuously doing exercise near Europe. so potential threat from EU. infact EU near complete dependence on Middleast make it more of a failed state.

I also suggest you follow TR1’s suggestion to stop going off topic.

you went offtopic first.

Perhaps they should be spending more on helicopters and border defense, seeing how many Kazakhs are joining ISIS. Russia be warned

The most effective weopon against ISIS is Su-30SM equipped with brahmos/Kh-31. you can practically implement embargos on ships and air in Middleast.

The new engine will cost more but will lead to big saving in fuel over the service life of the plane. And the range will be increased by 30-40%, which means fewer tanker sorties.

fuel savings are irrelevant for such costly project across the industrial chain.
the point is the new engine will not give much better speed than Mach 1.6. Post 2020 is era of hypersonic missiles. Indian integration of brahmos with Su-30MKI is first step. Airplane with larger external wings and higher altitude/speed is the advantage.

can you post a pic? all the ones on google image are the dark grey ones with a white radome

good points! but I was also thinking of the broader Flanker family including the Su-34 and 35. is the SM replacing any thing in particular?

Perhaps they should be spending more on helicopters and border defense, seeing how many Kazakhs are joining ISIS. Russia be warned.

They spending a lot but these jets are needed to create coalition of willing.
your confusing the country with other less wealthy

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21597006-president-wants-change-what-country-called-dont-call-me-stan
Kazakhstan’s name
Don’t call me Stan
The president wants to change what the country is called

Try 5 years.. and still counting.
Sure the Su-35S officialy entered service in 2013/14. Don’t care, it flew much earlier.
Even now that it is in service we see it being further developed.

That Indian Article on PakFa might have someting to it, the Su-35S has been severly deleyed over the years. Consider its prototype flew back in February 2008.

And now we see a similar road for the PakFa, so perhaps it was time for Mr Pogo to leave the helm..

Su-34 is delayed by 10 years. that’s why this Su-30SM exist to make the numbers. Su-35 is not that delayed considering Su-34 history.

That isn’t to say the PAK FA won’t be a great plane, but this is getting to be another Mig-25 scenario where it is supposed to be the world’s greatest everything, all at once, but the world just doesn’t work that way.

who claimed MIG-25 world greatest? if it was world greatest Flanker/Fulcrum would not have been started early 70s. Su-35 is not built by soviet system those people either went to west or left over in republics. My predictions is Su-35 will outperform its publish specifications.

its not some joke. for Tax revenue stock market need to be higher and higher stock market need profits. so LM has to produce profits by selling at higher price.
Above all private transport of producing millions of cars mean more workers and resources consumed by it.
Toyota is now coming to Texas.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-toyota-texas-20140428-story.html
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to move large numbers of jobs from its sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance to suburban Dallas, according to a person familiar with the automaker’s plans..

It happen to Southern California Aerospace in past. and if California water situation not solved. Expect a lot of shifting to Texas. LM will have to raise wages to California level.
Sukhoi is immune from weather, resources and population shifts. even in worst time of 1990s it still produced large number of jets.

Well they’re fortunate that Egyptian military junta decided to splurge on arms during an economic crunch, else that ‘strategic decision’ might have landed Dassault Aviation with the first clean-sheet design to fail to get a single export order. As it is, production has been squeezed down to a trickle to make the annual intake affordable to the French state. With the basic French fighter industry wrapping up by 2020 or so (though allied segments will persevere, similar to Israel), closely followed by the remainder of the European industry by 2023 (when the Gripen E transits out of production), the question of how justified that decision to preserve ‘national capabilities’ was, may have a disheartening answer.

Actually Egypt is not in economic crunch as far as Rafale purchase is concerned. why they only order 24 that’s more relevant. if it so advanced and without restriction they should build airforce around Rafale. You wont find biggest supporter of arabs than france.
EF is also not doing better only 44 delivered to RSAF in 8 years.