Obviouslt the high bypass one. It is also more fuel economical

Tu-214R is a lot more efficient and high speed design than anything based on B737 which will need to be parked near to battlefield.
Plus Tu-214 comfort make it ideal for long range loitering of 12 to 14 hours on special mission aircraft. upgrade with PD-14 will make it 18 hours aircraft.

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/09/tu-214-transaero-business-class-flight/
Still, with how rock-steady a Tu-214 is when heavy at a cruising altitude of around 33,000 feet, one can easily get some rest. There’s no odd squirrelly motions and almost unusual attitudes you find on a light Tu-204-100.
Regardless of all that, Transaero is an amazing airline, and the Tu-214 is an amazing aircraft. The only thing I would change is to, maybe, add a toothbrush to the amenity kit. Everything else earns nothing but high praise

You realize that Russian military budget is relatively big simply because they don’t take care of their own citizens? Rampant corruption and increase of HIV infections are something what RT very rarely speaks about. Do you live in Russia? I’d be surprised if you do.

I am sure you have statistics from hospital database about various diseases and the cleanliness of water supply and air/food quality. what is that airpollution rate.
Russia is becoming 100% independent aviation power

https://in.rbth.com/economics/2015/08/06/russia_to_stop_importing_aircraft_engines_44627
In the light of Western sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has suggested that Russia renounce future cooperation with foreign companies building aviation engines; not only in Ukraine, but also with the French Snecma on the Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) project.

Oh, I’m sure some European countries would love to see Sweden stop its fighter production, but it’s more likely that EU, instead of croc-blocking things left and right, would stimulate the use of EU variants of the same products.

It’s not like the subsystems couldn’t be replaced by European counterparts, it’s just choices. Economical, political, co-operational, size, weight or whatnot.

There’s not that many new fighters being built at the moment in EU anyway and since Gripen seems to be a popular choice both around the globe, why wouldn’t they want to use the carrot instead of the stick?

Converting Gripen into EU based systems is too far fetched idea at this point.

Gripen is made of majority of US/UK parts who are outside Eurozone. if EU is serious about developing its military capability it will simply cutoff funding for countries buying such products. its matter of survival for EU. the lack of military power has depreciated Euro from 1.5 to 1.05 to dollar in two years. otherwise at some point Middleastern investors will lose confidence in EU and currency will collapse.

how is Gripen going to survive when EU will be imposing strict European solutions for defense and that will include funding cuts to countries that donot support EU defence industries.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24252/eu-commission-president-says-europe-only-needs-one-kind-of-tank-helicopter/
EU Commission President Says Europe Only Needs One Kind Of Tank, Helicopter

What is your source for the range of the RBE2 AESA?

The -79 is larger, so if they have the same tech level it should have a longer range, but we don’t really know about their performance so this is at the end of the day all speculation, from both of you…

Rafale also have 7.5 tons engine. more comparable with F16E not F18E.

So probably not cancelled…

cancellation was out of question as too much money/time and technical manpower invested in F-15 but there were rumblings of getting Rafale or they better off waiting for 5G plane.

Actually if you judge it this way, best fighters in Syria by far is the ISIS, and they did it without any support of military kind. I don’t think this is a logical way to indicate fighting capabilities by the way, but here you are…

ISIS does not need military support as the Persian gulf paid for them to revolt the sunni population. now that money is drying up due to low oil prices and expensive western weopons. on other hand new pods for Su-34 will get same capability as Tu-214R. newer UAVs and high speed data transfer will enable very rapid fire response. that is the most efficient way of managing multiple battlefield.

https://rbth.com/defence/2016/04/07/russian-forces-test-high-speed-military-internet-in-syria_582879
Russian forces test high speed military Internet in Syria