For the love of God, just go away JSR!

The VVS is not the only defence sector recieving funding for the Russian Armament plans forward to 2020.
Its called Priority!!

Russia can’t do all the stuff the defence sector requests.

Ruaf procurement is solely depended on defence sector. see An-70 example which is basically thrown away form 2020 procurement. while before it was priority to some extent. Now the priority is replacing 95% UKranian components in one year and this will have major impact on procurement schedule.

According to Biotr Butowski in Air International.

Yes Funding is exactly the issue..

why would funding an issue?
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/russia-posts-firsthalf-budget-surplus-20140710-00730

the more weopons developed the greater the export earnings. I would think it is lack manpower resources as production from Ukraine will be replaced 95% in one year time. too many projects going at same time.

Have you heard about MALD-J? Now that’s a stand-off jammer. How do you know what an ASQ-239 does or doesn’t do? Given that the engine produces 51,000lbf uninstalled and only 43,000lbf installed there’s obviously a lot of zip going somewhere. Meteor might have an AESA seeker, nobody knows, they’ve put a lot of emphasis on stating its ability in extreme electronic warfare environments.

Size constrained? Budget? How often do wars break out?

TVC? What’s the big advantage of having TVC on an aircraft rather than on a missile? Or just having a missile that’s capable of 50+g that can engage on a full sphere around the aircraft? Fundamentally the advantage of forward firing a missile is one of energy, not that it really matters at dog-fight ranges (assuming it even gets to that) but TVC loses energy when it’s used to turn and face an opponent anyway.

Meteor is very poorly funded project with very miniumum production rates spread over decades. It is likely to be obsolete by this time.
TVC is fundamental to nose pointing ability of fighters to shoot down incoming missiles with gun.
its the installed thrust matter and only several ton heavy external jammers makes a difference otherwise look at the spine and tail stinger of Su-34.

So what properties of an AESA seeker do you consider so important?
One of the problems with an AESA seeker is the limited number of T/R modules that can be fitted into a small antenna array. To the best of my knowledge, there are no plans for an AESA seeker for either Meteor or AMRAAM. Japan’s AA-4 is the only AIM that currently uses a seeker of this type.

There have been reports that the new R-77M will have an AESA seeker. At MAKS 2013, the Russian company Istok showed what it described as a “working-model AESA”. In Russia, Agat studied AESA seekers for several years, and is known to have expressed doubts about the idea’s viability, considering it to offer minimal improvement. They have not been at recent Western defence exhibitions, so there has been no chance of getting an update on their progress/conclusions.

Japanese AAM AESA still not operationally deployed.
The point is electronic warfare protection is much larger field with much bigger revenue stream involved starting from Helicopters/AWACS/Naval/Land systems/presidential airlines/fighters/UAV etc.. and there is flexibility of space for AESA all the way to GaN modules for protection.
BVR missile has space , power, money limitation.

see advantage. Serbian
http://ruskarec.ru/news/2013/12/04/lovac_pete_generacije_t-50_bice_opremljen_raketama_sa_digitalnim_kontrol_26707.html

I am not sure what it has to do with Carrier. Carrier is practically useless in such situation. becauase the fight is in Northern Iraq or near to Syrian border. which is faraway from sorties from Carrier in Persian gulf. If China really want to help they can still send all the UAVs and ground equipment through An-124/IL-76.
Chinese tanks can be offloaded from Central Asian to Iran Caspian ports and goes all the way by train/transporters to Iraq. They can deploy 60 to 70 Su-30/JH-7 to Iraq airbase with direct flight from China.

Completely agree. Even if only 1 in 3 BVR missiles work, that’s still 2 enemy planes gone for free. Even if only 1 in 6 works, that’s still 1 enemy plane gone for free. Even in Vietnam AIM-7s managed almost as many kills as AIM-9s (60 vs 80) despite having only a third (AIM-7D) to a half (AIM-7E2) of the Pk and some pilots became aces on just AIM-7 kills.

why 1 in 3 or 1 in 6 will work?. my theory is none of it will work. Just look at budget. Total budget of Meteor maybe $3b to $4b spread over 15 years. Missile is still size constrained. there is no Meteor with AESA seeker yet.

Electronic warfare pods are not size constrain with practically no limit on budget so upgrades are faster.
http://www.janes.com/article/36863/dsa-2014-russia-s-knirti-unveils-new-stand-off-jammer
http://www.janes.com/article/30625/dubai-airshow-2013-knirti-displays-new-su-35-ew-package

so fighter with best performance, realistic training and gun will win. TVC is single most important.

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Like Russia, India, and Pakistan, China will almost certainly be inducting fourth generation aircraft well into the 2020s. Whether or not it is sensible for India to extend Rafale production into the mid-2020s will depend upon a variety of factors involving Tejas, FGFA, AMCA, Navy requirements, Indian finances, and external developments, the precise confluence of which is impossible to assess at this juncture.

I highly doubt Russia/China going to induct 4th generation fighters post 2020 period. Russia will be only concentrating on PAK-DA/UCAV/PAK-FA and the rest of 4th generation if in production will be relegated to export orders.

EF discussion is not irrelevant any more than talk of extending MKI orders. It’s not a simple matter to extend MKI production. In reality it leans India further into Russia’s sphere of influence, which is why they have MRCA and LCA. EF operations puts pressure on Dassault to get the deal on track, MKI does not. Rafale and Typhoon are clearly designed to operate superior to MKI

Inducting either EF or Rafale will make India further dependent on Russia as Indian forces will be completely starved of funds. It will start with equiping Rafale/EF with cheaper Kh-31/Kh-38/kh-58/Kab-500SE etc. Meteor looks too expensive.
you can see this in only 10 C-17 example with no follow up order yet. This open possibility for IL-476 down the road. there is no competition for ready made AWACS like A-100. limited C-130 will open the way for MTA.
Limited Ch-47 is not signed yet but massive Mi-171 entering service. new heavy lift follow up after Mi-26 coming up. helicopter export prospects are way up for Russia. India can afford limited Apache with slow induction rate. This negative impact will extent to Naval and Land systems where India increasing depended on Russian systems.