its not just the thrust and weight but the drag. Sleeker fighters have advantage.

it makes more sense than India report. UAE will be replacing M2K/F16E down the road and its better to have fighter ready that can use wide variety of weopons and not have bomb and pilot shortage.
India simply cant afford fast procurement for advance fighters. just look at Rafale procurement rate.

No, it isn’t.

I am sure your limited understanding prevented you.

http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2015-11-23/china-finally-signs-sukhoi-su-35-warplanes
“I believe that, despite the rapid development of active array technologies, the passive array still has a market niche. The active array is costly and not affordable for some customers,” said Belyi. In a head-on scenario, the high-power N-035 enables the Su-35S to detect the F-22A Raptor at a greater distance, and, consequently, shoot first, he believes.

As Buitreaux has already pointed out hell would frezze over first before the Argentine Airforce accepts a Russian or Chinese, never say never but it is highly unlikely.

They have accepted Mi-171E for civilian use under defence ministry.

The Turks are one of the leaders when it comes to aerospace advance composites. So much so that TAI recently upgraded its Advanced Composites Manufacturing plant to supply centre fuselages for the F-35. Turkey produces many aircraft from Advance composites including its Anka UCAV’s, Bayraktar TB-2, Vestel Karayel, T-628 Utility Helicopter, Hurkus-C etc. See http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/99515/turkey’s-tai-opens-composites-factory-for-jsf.html

only 72000sq feet plant under Grumman. what they produced for past 10 years.
those are bigger than your TAI.
http://aerocomposit.ru/

If Argentina won’t consider Chinese aircraft because “we are a western nation, lol” then that simply demonstrates that Argentina doesn’t need any combat aircraft.

There are important influences on Chinese aircraft from Russia and Israel (A country with practically 100% political and scientific class from Russia empire area). I don’t see how they become Chinese .

If you are talking about weapon system upgrades, I suggest that you go to a good technical library and read latest editions of “Jane’s Aircraft Upgrades” and “Land Warfare Platforms: System Upgrades”. These sources will show the number of nations who have the skills to perform major weapon-platform upgrades.

those skills are now on paper that cannot put into practice. How many modern tanks Great Britain can produce in year? and how many it can actually field in operations.

The word plasma was first used by I Langmuir in his 1928 paper “Oscillations in Ionized Gases”.

I mean why it become famous like household name from where the practical technology came. very small percentage of people read scientific papers.

You have never visited my office, so cannot claim to know what data is in my files, let alone the data in the technical libraries that I have access to.

your data has no relationship with real world. it is like tanks in storage or aircrafts with G limit that cant be upgrade with new engine.

Don’t you mean Embraer? Their product range includes the rather nice Embraer 190 airliner I used for a business trip last year. I hope that you are not going to claim that it was designed and built by Soviet émigrés.

Yup it has Russian technology to refine it to current standards. you fail to realize that education systems of a lot of countries have fallen apart that’s why they need external help to improve there existing products.

http://aviationweek.com/awin/embraer-teams-russias-tsagi
Embraer Teams With Russia’s TsAGI
Last June, Embraer rented one of TsAGI’s 60 wind tunnels to help fine-tune the ERJ-170/190 regional jet design

http://www.embraer.com/en-US/ImprensaEventos/Press-releases/noticias/Pages/EMBRAER-FIRMA-ACORDO-COM-O-MAIOR-INSTITUTO-DE-PESQUISAS-AERONAUTICAS.aspx

11/08/2000
In: Press Releases
EMBRAER SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA’S PREMIER AERODYNAMICS RESEARCH CENTER

TsAGI possesses over 80 years experience in developing
leading-edge aviation technology

http://www.rusbiznews.com/news/n2739.html
Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, announced VSMPO-AVISMA the Supplier of 2016.

While not claiming to be an expert on the topic, I recently helped an international defence consultancy with a computer modelling problem that they had. So I must have some useful knowledge of the subject.

This thread is becoming boring. I have better things to do with my time.

you made inaccurate statements about Russian systems before and you got corrected several times on that.

Any F-35 work done by a company other than Lockheed Martin is by definition being done under contract. Israel was involved in F-35 development, but I do not have specific details. So there is no need to speculate about “dual citizens”.

you don’t have details and you still speculate that its Israelis. It is most probably some Soviet émigré educated from that system. As only Soviet and later Russia system has shown that only they can enhance other countries. Look at South Korea semiconductor industry. where do you think the word Plasma comes from?

I was talking about production of new Israeli Merkavas – why are you talking about rebuilds and the Turkish M60T? That 50-100 figure I cited is for annual (yearly) Merkava Mk 4 production – which has been under way since 2004. So even at 50 a year, the current fleet would be around 600, enough for major combat operations.

you don’t have any evidence of 600 Merkeva 4 in active inventory.

During decades spent working in the aerospace industry I had experience of development, production, repair, and pure research tasks, so can tell the difference between development and subcontract work. But MSphere simply asked about “airframe work” and was not specifically asking about development work.

The point is many countries are doing sub contract and assembling kind of work. What is that Embarer producing?. this is not called advanced engineering. now I don’t have word that is more advanced than advanced to differentiate less advanced countries form advanced countries that don’t need external assistance in producing original work.

I do not know if the Indians were involved in the design of the doors they are making, or if Israel’s share in the F-35 development process involved design work on the wing.

I am sure all design comes from LM design office to a very minute detail with weight and tolerance of each component. you claim to be understanding engineering and don’t understand basics of computerized modeling.

By the way, doors are not as simple as some might think. If they were, a certain Soviet airliner manufacturer would not have given its US counterpart a contract 30 or more years ago to help with the development of doors for Soviet airliners. (Given that this happened half my lifetime ago, I cannot remember the names of the US and Soviet companies that were involved.)

I did not say it simple. Soviet days and that method of development is gone. Soviet scientist are already flushed out to other places. Russia has now more younger brains and they seem to be producing more effective systems.

But enough of this – it is Valentine’s day. So I am off to wine and dine my wife – that will be much more fun that arguing about planes and how they are built.

I don’t think its enough.