The SM3 still has the old N001 radar. How is that superior to BARS?

You dont need best radar in every plane.
SM3 will likey be working in group action mode with MIG-31/Su-35.
3 to 4 ton lighter weight with uprated engine, less drag of single seater will give it superior acceleration and altitude for BVR. and we dont know anything about EW suite. Radar is one piece. EW/Communication system is equally important.

i think there is 300 to 400 more fighter orders pending before 2020.

it says Yakhont/Brahmos type missile for Su-30SM for blacksea. http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/russia-confirms-30-unit-order-for-su-30sm-fighters-370055/

It’s not neglect. There’s a military arms embargo sanction against Iran.

THere was no embargo untill 2009. THey could have bought Flanker license like India/China in the 1990s. even the S300 deal was for older PMU-1 for paltry sum of $800m.
Russia is better off in using its critical workforce for building S400 for itself than on non serious approaches.

lol

http://www.vectorsite.net/avgripen_1.jpg

I can guess the reply. “RBS 15 is not long range antiship missile is only 70km in 1990’s version compared to 250km YJ-83 for the JF-17” which entered service when exactly…

That exactly should be reply. JAS-39A radar was simply not capable to same extent as JF-17 when they entered the service.

Btw I don’t want to derail the Russian Aviation thread, so I’ll post this here too: http://www.shtokman.ru/en/about/
Why does Gazprom need Total and Statoil to help develop Shtokman field, if Russia is so independent and doesn’t need outside engineers. Explain why the Navy is buying Mistrals too.

Russia never claimed they are pioneer of offshore drilling infact landmass so large and gas prices so cheap that there was never attempt to develop such projects.
Gripen case is special it makes claims of quick cheap development with off the shelf components with capabilities of much more expensive planes. which is exactly what JF-17 represents. Gripen is low end plane thats why its concept is easily replicated by Chinese.

If one look isolated on the defence industry in Russia, it are indeed focused on a few industrilized hotspots, Moscow region, Sibirian KnAAPO, ULAN-** and far-east Irkutsk region. These heavy eco-locomotives are widly spread from each other, they are quite compacted pockets of high-end know-how R&D factories. And very little infra structure in between them.

Also the high end defence industry in Russia will dominate the Russian economic growt for decades to came, if one disregard the Russian gas/oil revenues..

That a good portion of Russias defence industy are state owned or partly state owned, this does not mean they can’t be competitive vs western private firms like LM etc etc..

Just check out how monster companies like Statoil, which are build up by our state and partly state owned. They are pretty much our own eco-locomotive which drive our economy.

Statoil is wealthy firm but it does not mean it is not depended on imported equipment and imported engineering talent to run its operations. Norway is possibly only country in world where nominal GDP is twice of PPP GDP. so people are more living on welfare or paid more than for what they produce.
Russian firms have much deeper engineering strenght in there fields.The difficult part of Turkemnistan-China pipeline is built by Russian firm.
http://www.stroytransgaz.com/press-center/smi/itar-tass/2009_10_23

I was looking at Volvoaero they are hiring all over the places in world.
You wont see Salut-Saturn advertizing like hiring in India/China or any other country to build engines for Russia. THere is still level of independence from outside world that make things expensive. so it does not matter whether state owned or not.
Infact Su-30SM imported equipment is replaced at 150m roubles. this shows how cheaply and quickly the imported stuff can be replace.It i s not the price but how and where you built things.
https://research.zecco.com/research/markets/news/story.asp?key=100-048n4821-1&lastPage=Index

Defense projects in Russia have always been fundamentally tied to political and industrial standing (especially following collapse of USSR), so it is not surprising. Not sure where they got the idea that is it so disciplined and systemic.

It is less political the factories in siberia are building Sukhois with wages higher than regional but considerably lower than say St.Petersburg which is dominant political.when you compare to other modern projects like EF/JSF/F-18.where supply chain is well spread out around the world and have no relationships with previous generation.
http://www.volvoaero.com/volvoaero/global/en-gb/products/Engine%20components/military_engines/Pages/f135.aspx

I am pretty sure unifying cockpit design, engines, weopons and factory sharing Su-35 & T-50 will lower the cost and reduce training/maintainance costs.

LOL i dont dispute that china can build fast and cheap 😀 Gripen Anno 1997 sure is more capabel than anything chinese to date , and JAS-39A/B has plenty of AG ordinance integrated.

JAS-39 is not A380 . Infact China has built thousands of light fighters of 5 to 8 ton categories. how many Gripen have crashed and how many J-10/JF-17 relative to numbers built.
JF-17 managed to fly to UK in round about trip of 20000km. that is pretty reliable with in 7 years of first flight.

There is virtually nothing integrated into JAS-39A except what we called short range bombs/missiles. Gripen development was pretty slow. the MFD displays of JAS-39A were smaller than JAS-39C.

http://www.x-plane.org/home/urf/aviation/gripen/
Air to air missiles

Integration of Rb 99 AMRAAM including test firings which started in 1998, is as of mid-2000 soon completed.

Sidewinder was fully integrated at the time Gripen entered squadron service.

it is already mention to built Su-34 nuclear deterent force. total 140.
http://www.aviaport.ru/digest/2012/03/16/231415.html