So back to Russian Airforce news again.

https://fightersweep.com/3684/3684/

VKS to receive 50 more Su-35S. This is also important due to Indonesia and China is mulling(more) contracts for the Su-35S.
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Do You have a source for this? China negotiating on more Su-35s is popping up from time and time again, but so far I haven’t seen any reliable confirmation.

Thanks,
Deino

Pardon, but to try to calculate the potential for a certain country to built an aircraft carrier by the factors of land-mass area and population is plain ridiculous.

And given the facts that certain Russian media outlets were proposing or even reporting the Russian Navy WILL operate a fleet of supercarriers soon or whatever and nothing happened all these years I’m more inclined to believe this is yet another PR stunt than a real project including the development of a VSTOL type in parallel to a navalised Su-57.

As such this is more for the own peoples …

I wonder if they will use Id 30 engine for VTOL aircraft ? Paralay ?

http://tass.com/defense/1018022

And how likely is it to reach any hardware status nor to become operationa??? IMO = Zero

Germany defence budget is not increasing and its high tech workforce is shrinking. Germany put sanctions on arms exports to some countries. this will further suppliers out of business.
Germanic factories will abandon countries where even hint of energy and metal sanctions from Russia.

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukraine-out-of-the-running-as-site-for-new-volkswagen-and-skoda-car-plant.html

It is still in development and export still not priority. you are assuming everyn weopon system from day 1 need export.
There is no export of Su-34 yet. but it has biggest nose of fighter, biggest tail bigger than nose of fighters, it can carry big pods and big fuel tanks, it has biggest hump for carry electronics.

just to remind you – even if I’m well aware, that playing quartets game is all for you – size does not always counts.

But yes, you are right it has supa big on everything … if that’s enough for you, then it’s fine, but leave the serious discussion to the adults.

Myanmar will receive the JF-17B twin-seater at first

Guys, yesterday I was surprised, now – if true – I am ashamed. :apologetic:

Already yesterday one small comment noted, this aircraft no. 17-07 is not real, but in fact it would be a photoshop-fake, based on an image of the #03 prototype.
Now I just got note via a reliable source, this accusation is correct.

Seems as if someone made a perfect PS-job and I’m sure, he/she has some fun during the last hours.

They do not have fuel logistics to sustain that many active units unless they scale down to a majority J-10 fleet.

The PLAAF has overstretched its food chain since its origins. Old habits die hard.

pardon, but why do you think so? Just a negative comment only to comment or do you have any source and facts? Even more why retire J-10 if there are still hundreds of older J-7/-8s around?

I can understand why the Chinese don’t want the FC-31 variant, it lost out to the J-20. I don’t know why Shenyang keep on trying to force the FC-31 onto the PLAAF.

Just a minor correction … the FC-31 is not the design that lost against the J-20, SAC’s proposal was a much larger design allegedly looking like this CG:

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