vaporised? the Soviets would never have used nukes! why destroy what your trying to conquer? NATOs superior weapons systems more than makes up for wave upon wave of mediocre tanks

How old are you?…..16?

Speaking of Chinese missiles…

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2009/04/dragons-fire-plas-2nd-artillery-corps.html

Don’t even ask how long I’ve been examining little squares of imagery for all of the freaking launch sites 😀

Great work ….MUCH appreciated 🙂

I understand now. The hard job correspond to the engagement radar but many systems can acquire targets to feed the system with initial data and cue the Flap Lid (and son on radars) to engage and intercept. So, we can consider the late S-300 & S-400 like a sort of “plug and play” system.:eek:

Target data would be passed on by Command-Control posts like the “Polyana” for example (or similar) which can get it from a variety of sources.

Obama ‘ready to drop shield plans for Russian help on Iran’

Officially at least, the Russians are denying they’ve received such an offer.

Russia did not receive Obama’s written proposals – Defense Minister

MOSCOW, March 3 (Itar-Tass) – Russia’s Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said Monday Russia has not received any written proposals regarding plans for the antiballistic missile system from U.S. President Barack Obama yet.

He also said Moscow will not launch any retalitatory measures, the possibility which it made public officially, unless the U.S. deploys elements of the global ‘antiballistic missile shield’ in Europe.

“If the deployment of its elements there is stopped, we won’t launch the actions we planned in response,” he said Monday after a meeting with his German counterpart, Franz Joseph Jung, when a correspondent asked him about the contents of a letter on antiballistic missile problems that U.S. President Barack Obama had sent to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13641027&PageNum=0

You are correct, Your Yak-130 is way better ….

The M-346 is a clone pure and simple. A mish-mash of everything….it’s a Russian aircraft with american engines, flight control from BAE and god knows what else…

But the Chinese L-15 leaves them both for dead 😀

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongdu_L-15

Well, now is 75% and not 85%??? Sorry, its not common knowledge and I would still like to see a source!:rolleyes:

Try reading a book 😉

“Clash of Titans” by Glantz is a good one or if you prefer even more details, try “The Road to Stalingrad” & “The Road to Berlin” by Erickson.

The number of German divisions on the eastern front never dropped below 155 Divisions (usually between 170 – 180 Div) , while the most it ever got on the western front was 56 (in 1944)

Compare the main battles on both fronts and the casualties suffered and you’ll get your answer.

According to the Russian media all this BS from the Indian media is just that – BS……and check out the figures that are being discused not even close to what your hysterical media is reporting.

Apparently we should know what happens in May 2009

It’s a machine translation so it’s a bit rough…

According to «Vedomosti» source in the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), a solution to the problem of additional payments for finalizing the aircraft carrier «Vikramaditya» possible in May, for which the Indian side should hold a few more rounds of price negotiations.

According to him, this amount is $ 1 billion

While the Indian media reported last year on a figure of $ 2 billion, which asked the Russian side, a senior official of one of the national authorities involved in the negotiations with India, said that this amount is considerably less.

At the end of last year, the Government of India agreed that the ship needed for finalizing the additional costs, and authorized to conduct negotiations on this issue with Russia.

For two years now, India does not finance these activities, but they are ongoing – the readiness of the ship is now more than 50%, said the representative of «Sevmashpredpriyatiya» Michael Novozhilov. Comment amount required payments under the contract for the company refused.

The sum of $ 1 billion looks much more realistic than the amount of $ 2 billion, said an expert Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Konstantin Makiyenko.

This is the most difficult from a technical point of view, contract in the history of military-technical cooperation between Russia and India and both sides are interested in having to complete the project successfully, he says, so the chance of compromise on the price in a short time is very high.

If the negotiations take, then the state has plans to further support the strategically important «Sevmashpredpriyatiya» (this is the only current manufacturer of nuclear submarines in Russia). According to a source at USC, last year for the continuation of work on «Gorshkova» Plant received credit Vnesheconombank of 6 billion rubles. And this year working on the idea doinvestirovaniya in capital 12 billion rubles budgetary funds.

http://66.102.7.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article.shtml%3F2009/02/24/183038&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhh_p138Dp1TCcLAzU6jIdc879-60w

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And here’s a Lenta.ru article on the same subject (machine translation)

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Flenta.ru%2Fnews%2F2009%2F02%2F24%2Fship%2F&sl=ru&tl=en