To admit I’m not sure how reliable http://vpk-news.ru is but I have again that strange feeling that someone again cooked-up an old report – most likely based on KANWA – and simply reposted it …

IMO the reports about a new indigenous stealty striker from SAC based on its rejected XXJ-submission to be in competition against XAC’s JH-7B/JH-XX are much more reliable than this Su-34-clone called J-17.

Deino

RuAF News and Development Thread part 12

:eek::eek::eek:

Now not only Raptors …

U.S. amassing B-1 strategic bombers near North Korea
http://theaviationist.com/2013/04/05/lancer-nk/

Deino

IL-76/476 is definitely the most handsome of the transport aircrafts with the best nose of any transports. The sharp nose and chin looks awesome. Ilyushin should have given this kind of nose (without that chin ofcourse) to the Il-96.

Agreed a nice bird, but a beauty !???:eek:

Huuuaaaarrrgggg :o… sorry, but that glass-house-style is more than antiquated and do You really think with such an historical anachroonism it would attract any additional order ??? (Not that I would call the Il-96 commercially succesfull in any way) 😀

… but as with the women: Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder !

Deino

Sorry, but if the Turkish avaition industry wants to be taken seriously, if they want to be treated with the necessary respect not only as a junior partner, why to they show such a “THING” in an official advertisment.

I can understand that they don’t want to show the real concepts but wouldn’t it be then much wiser to show a generic “fifth-generation” style aircraft instead of a Iranian-playwood-look-alike ???

I know that is not a proof for the capabilities of TAI but this is surely a proof for the incompetence of its PR-department. Just remember BAe build the Replica to gain access to the JSF program, Japanese companies did similar with the F-15J and FX programes but if that is meant as the “entrance card” from TAI to cooperate on a modern desing, I would highly question if they are capable to even assist the development of a model-kit with Hasegawa or Tamiya.

Then better NO image than this one.

Deino

And yet another Mitten deal on the fly!

http://en.rian.ru/world/20130327/180281752/Bangladesh-Plans-to-Buy-24-Russian-Jet-Trainers.html

Bangladesh Plans to Buy 24 Russian Jet Trainers

24 units, not bad at all for a trainer.

Hmmm … interesting, since Bangladesh is also rumoured to be the launch-customer for the Chinese L-15 !

As far as I assume the second option !