Wrong. It uses seeker-aided ground guidance (SAGG). TVM is a simplified version. SAGG uses more data to get a better target picture giving you more accuracy. They are very similar, which is why you often see the S-300P referred to as TVM guided.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on the difference(s) between TVM and SAGG. As you have explained above, it is still not exactly clear to my mind.

Inflatables are great for fooling EO systems that don’t have stupid high resolution, but an IR or EW sensor can still figure them out in most cases

According to the manufacturer of the inflatable, the decoy has its own heat generators that match the exact heat signature of the real thing.

There was talk of placing the 9M96 missiles into VLS cells, but I don’t know if that one got off the ground. It’s almost as if the 9M96 has been forgotten…

There is talk about a VLS system to be placed on the 2000T STEREGUSHY clas frigates ( starting from the second or third unit). It could be aversion of the 9M96 or an entirely different missile. Apparently the system is not ready yet.

They are, but they have huge errors in range, azimuth and elevation ranges. The solution is that they can cue second radar with higher frequency in the direction of the threat or missile with either IR or good active-radar homing head.

The S-300 system uses track via missile (with a radar seeker in the missile). It should be just as good as active radar homing.

Confirmed by Georgian authorities and/or by photographs, the Georgian losses are:

3 x An-2 planes destroyed at Marneuli airbase by Su-25 airstrikes.
1 x Mi-14 helicopter destroyed by Russian paratroopers at Senaki
3 x Mi-24 gunships (2 destroyed at Senaki and 1 lost in unknown circumstances).

http://sites.google.com/site/afivedaywar/Home/georgiaairlosses

The Russians never revealed publicly what Georgian aircaft they destroyed. Georgians never mentioned about Su-25 losses.

The truth is still out there…..

Aircraft loose energy as they maneuver to evade a first incoming missile. The second incoming missile will be harder to evade because the fighters energy has bed in the first high-G maneuver. When the third missile arrives…good luck.

MiG-31 (R-33) or F-14 (Phoenix) can shoot down maneuvrable aircraft with their long range AAMs. Considering them to be solely designed to shoot at unmaneuvrable targets like bombers and cruise missiles is a myth.

Third prototype Ka-52 (063) @ HeliExpoRussia’09:

You mean serialy produced.

Russian production capacity saturated

Order by US$ 35.000 millon saturated the industry. So, it seems that the production capacity collapsed with the USSR. I’am confident to say that during the 80s such a quantity would had been labeled as “small”.

You do realize that this $35 billion is export orders only. Dometistic arms procurement is not part of that figure.

In addition, the title is very much over-generalized. It is hard to believe that every weapons making factory from Assault rifles to combat airplanes to warships is saturated with orders. Some factories (like the S-300/S-400 production facilities) may be running at full capacity, but I am certain the industry can churn up a few more aircraft, tanks, guns etc. if there are orders for them.

Anyways, having a overloaded order book is a nice problem to have.

Ok so the question that begs my mind is what is this Supersonic Long Range Missile which will be arming Yasen SSGN , the first thought which comes to my mind is Brahmos , but its certainly not long leg by Russian standard which to measure would be Granit i.e atleast ~ 550 km , that range i would assume is the safe distance one needs to keep from CBG protective bubble provided the targetting information is available by other means.

Some new Supersonic Long Range missile under development ?

They can certainly arm those 885 with the 3000 mile Kh-101 but these are subsonic Land Attack cruise missile.

Ok. Pure speculation from my part:

– A longer range (500 km+ ) version of the supersonic Yakhont/Onyx/Brahmos:
Advantages : small size, large number can be carried, relatively modest development cost (basically an upgraded Brahmos/Yakhont).
Disadvantages: Nothing more than a compact GRANIT (which has been in service for a while).

– A navalized KH-101/102:
Advantages: Stealth, large numbers can be carried (relatively compact), relatively modest development cost (radar equipped variant of KH-101/102)
Disadvantages: Subsonic, relatively small warhead.

– A new heavy missile that combines speed and stealth:Something like an upsized & stealthized CLUB or a stealthized GRANIT or new gen. METEOR. Perhaps hypersonic.
Advantages: Welcome to a new era of ASMs.
Disadvantages: High development and aquisition costs.

Oh noooooooooooooooo

Another Sealordlawrence vs Dionis face-off.