as opposed to the ultra modern 5th gen jet fighters that Indonesia is developing, while purchasing the oh-so breathtakingly 2000s looking T-50 Golden Eagles right ? :rolleyes:

we dont develop T50, there is a lightweight fighter development project, mostly Korean with Indonesian as minor partner with 20% or so share which dont have any relationships with T50, and this dont even have any official drawing yet you cant said what it looks like..

I remember long long time ago UK experimenting with skyhook… can that system work for vtol F35 ?

the problem is Greece spends alot of money too! the money has to come from somewhere.

There’s lots of talk about Greece leaving the Euro..
if that happens, perhaps Greece should join a union with Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan instead.

it makes the most sense on many strategic and cultural levels.

how ?? it helps with combatting turkey over cyprus ? but if they are still euroNATO block other euro nation wont help turkey, if they quit this might change…
whichever they still must learn to spend less and work more. replace gov’t officer’s BMW with Lada or GAZ from Russia might help in ‘spend less’ side, but im not sure if it will help the ‘work more’ side…

Arguably, the free market has a better history of supporting industry than governments do. For an example, look what has happened to the UK aviation and auto industries.

never know UK have autoindustries….
Lotus are malaysian, jaguar are indian, rolls royce are germany….

At last some official news about the long awaited AL-31FM2 engine performance.

FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE «GAS-TURBINE ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION CENTER «SALUT» | NEWS | NEWS | AL-31F M2 engine contemplated by OKB Sukhogo (Sukhoi Design Bureau)

Now the neath thing about this engine if we compair it with Saturns 117S engine is that it require no internal or external rework of the airframe to install the FM2 engine.
This is not the case with the 117S engine which have a larger forward comp fan diameter(Su-35S airframe).

Also they state that it will improve in fuel consumption and TBO.

It is unclear if the max nominall thrust is 14.000kgf with a special setting for 14.500kgf, which can be engaged on the pilot command, or if max power setting is indeed 14.500kgf.

And also the increased tear & wear on the airframe itself due to more thrust. It should be some increase strenght on internal structure if you ask me.. if not the engine TBO may increase but the airframe total life may decrease..

wonder why they dont put 31FM/FM1/FM2 as standard engine… if they do export customers will be most happy one as 31fm/1/2 have much longer TBO compared to standard Al-31F.

now if british have extra carrier they can sell it to China…
that will be interesting :diablo:

No major redesign, as far as we know.

Some issues are to be expected.

who knows ?
the su-27 is very very different with its prototype….completely different fin and wing, different engine position, much shorter nose etc etc, almost everything different…

could happened to PAKFA too….