B737 or G550 platform will need payment in dollars not good for falling Euro. remember it is credit to Italian government not private for profit business.

Israel will not give them enough flexibility in installing too much Italian equipment like Radar/ESM into AWACS as Israel is in business of selling defence equipment. Defence/Economic cuts in US/EU will have very negative impact on Israel trade. they are not South Korea/Taiwan.

I dont think Italian has electronics to contribute to next generation AWACS otherwise Sukhoi would have employed them on Superjet/MS-21.

A-100 will still be best solution for them as Russia more than likely to give them very soft credit just to gain foothold a. This relationship worth a lot.
Italians will be kicked out of Euro anyway but at that point whats left of its Industry will completely destroyed.

The most relaible PS-90 series engine has quite a few components from EU and US.

The lack of global support also stems from their unrelaibility. Customers don’t want to buy unrelaible engines. No customers, no global support.

That is PS-90A2 with PW IP. Not EU. but that engine is only test TU-204SM not used anywhere else. so you cannot ignore all other PS-90 reliability. They are highly relaible but not efficient as latest Western Engines. but it does not cost that much either. Despite the fact Western engines are built in thousands that lowers the cost.

http://www.avid.ru/eng/pr/news/1260/
http://rtdr.org/news/aviation/ps-90a3_engine_certified_for_flights.html
PS-90A3 Engine Certified for Flights

You have to consider most airlines are bankrupt. They can get second hand boeing/Airbus and those who can afford can get easy deals from Boeing/Airbus which are backed by much larger banking system of West. (It does not matter whether that banking system need bailouts larger than GDP)
It is not business of selling Ipads.

Agreed but honestly I won’t take an order of such a small number to Algeria a great success, especially with the latest PLAAF/PLANAF-order in mind in comparison to the RuAF order … maybe You won’t agree, but IMO even of maybe 2-3 years late, in a few years there will be much more L-15 flying around than Yak-130.

Deino

16 aircraft to Algeria is not small success for new bird considering its complexity and expense and Ruaf order of 65 is untill 2017. Total requirement is 300. Vietnam will get it at some point and so does CSTO countries.

I highly doubt Chinese version is cheaper considering imported engine. (afterburner version of engine is 560kg).nor it can go supersonic with external loads for any meaning full distance. A country will be better off MIG-21 copies that has climb rate and speed advantage. And those who want fighter there is FC-1.
Is there any real specification of L-15 with afterburner engine?

Many things in aerospace manufacturing are globalized. The F-35 is loaded with European components (by design of course). Undoubtedly US components can likely be replaced with European components. However, this may come at an increased price for example.

Depends how you look at it. I think composite used in Figher aircraft are different than those used by Airbus.
Since EU does not have centralized pool of large Funding like Pentagon for fighters. So no Tier-1 supplier invest enough as there is no assurance whether all EU wide fighter programs will use the same supplier
so EU will always be depended on US for fighter and even UAV composites.
and without this EU firms cannot promise TOT in fighter competition and price pressures of dollar.

http://www.hexcel.com/solutions/aerospace/adefense-aircraft
These programs include the C-17, F/A-18E/F Hornet, F-22 Raptor and the Eurofighter Typhoon. The military transporter aircraft Airbus A400M is also supplied by Hexcel – and Hexcel supplies the carbon fiber for the F- 35 Joint Strike Fighter.

All composite structures on the Eurofighter Typhoon, including wings, front fuselage and tail section, are built with Hexcel’s HexPly® 8552 epoxy Prepreg. Together with Hexcel’s advanced Bismaleimide (BMI) system that is used for high temperature components and HexWeb® honeycomb used in the sandwich structures, Hexcel’s total contribution per aircraft is over a ton of composite material.

Hexcel’s prepregs, Out of Autoclave products, reinforcements and honeycombs are also suitable for the manufacture of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV’s)

well the same can be said about Rafale
from where Hexcel composite and Magnolia Plastics, Goodrich sensors, Thales NorthAmerica. There are so many US/German/British supply to Rafale that i highly doubt it is even 60% French. and i believe when you source components from so many places with low production. The cost will balloon up. Just because some thing has Dassualt/Thales/Snecma name does not mean they are not by itself sourcing from so many components outside of France.
http://www.airframer.com/aircraft_detail.html?model=Dassault_Rafale

:rolleyes: All the republican front runners have an Alliance with India as part of their foreign policy piece.

As for i.e talking about being neutral we will be as long as our great neighbour to the east stop supporting Pakistan.

We no longer have a Soviet Union to counter the Sino-Pakistani Nexus, as we had in the past, in that case an Alliance with America is needed in the long term.

It wont matter who ever Republican gets elected. They are supplied side economics with complete elimination of middle class. No middle class no stable society.remember this phrase.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1859513_1859526_1859517,00.html

US will be even more beholden to China. and India will be facing very high inflation infact total economic meltdown. This even without considering republican starting any war. In 21st century it is hard currency power matters not paper alliances. India need to stand on its Four feets.

L-15 is 5ton empty and 9.8ton MTOW. I wonder how much it can even use afterburner with two engines. And it wont be $10m as speculated. Extremely low production of both engine and aircraft.

8th largest country in the world by population. In the long run it’ll probably drop to 10th even as it heads towards 5th by GDP. Russia is and will remain a heavyweight in the international system, just not one in the same league as the Big Three.

Not in terms of national power it isn’t. Of course some kinds of growth are healthier than others – see Israel’s booming Muslim population and the identity crisis that awaits that nation as a result. And of course immigration-driven growth is a net zero on the global population burden.

You constantly mention big three. Big three in what?
for example in less than 5 year China trade surpluses will completely elminated as living standards rise for consumption & it spends more money on R&D so it will not even have money to lend to US for consumption. Now one third of US population live on Federal spending. when US cannot replace its old debt with new debt cheaply. its government spending will start collapsing. There will simply be not money left to lend to EU/US when China/India economy become large enough as they will start consuming surplus money from countires like Russia/GCC.
Japan Population savings were 3 times its size of GDP. thats why it still survives for 2 decades after economic collapse. and it is not just savings but huge spending R&D that maintain Japan trade surpluses for decades as small population was exporting high value exports that were more than imports.
Japanese were building products that can be exported. Not some thing like Online search engines that suck money from other sectors of economy.
None of China/US/India has this scale of money that is larger than GDP to support current living standards let alone grow into 2050. so ur all talk of Big 3 China/US/India will be completely depended on outside finances with unable to support global military presence. about EU. The less say the better.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/11/18/putin-courts-france-for-investment/#axzz1eHMAe57K
Brazil will become larger than EU. Population is not measure of strength. rather Centralized system of project completion with focused R&D and large natural resources.