Is this official or some rumours from insiders? Wasn’t aware of such significant change in situation.

IIRC, there were links posted to a news article about the new canopies entering production. I’m sure you could do a better search for those in Russian.

How’s MiG-29K adoption progressing? I read that they’re not going to retire Su-33 yet.

I’ve read that they might keep the Su-33’s, but most if not all not on the Kuznetsov, but on land as interceptors.

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12047164@egNews

Not sure what the exact reason is (e.g. if the planes are getting too old for carrier landings and/or modernization or they don’t want to train new pilots for the old type). But, I guess they weren’t used much so using them as land based interceptors to cover the lack of sufficient MiG-31 numbers certainly makes sense.

The Russian navy’s choice of the su-30sm as a replacement of the su-24 (so it is not related to any carrier capable aircraft in the 1st place) could mean that they wanted a multi role aircraft in crimea to replace the su-24, and the su-30sm role as a long range strike aircraft is good enough as a replacement of su-24 capabilities.

What does this have to do with the Su-33? I mean, what’s the point that you’re trying to make?

Easy win? Have you ever looked at the sheer size of both countries?

If there was no revolution in Iran (and subsequently no hostage crisis), there would have been no war, in the first place.. After Khomeini took power in 1976, US and Gulf dictators (SA, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar..) feared the same happening on their own backyard. So they were looking for someone willing to stop Khomeini’s attempts to support islamic revolutions all over the place.. someone strong and foolish enough to expose his own people to such tremendous war effort.. and that was Hussein..

Later when Hussein demanded at least partial repayment of his war efforts, he was turned down by everyone.. so he has decided to take it by force.. leading ultimately to the invasion of Kuwait.. the rest is well known..

Really? I don’t know if you’ve actually bothered to read about the causes of the war, but the first part is ludicrous:
a) no external factor (other than Iran’s regime) incited Saddam to attack Iran; they did step in later on with financial and military aid to keep Iraq from losing the war
b) IIRC he didn’t demand payment for his efforts, but he thought that the loans provided by Kuwait and other Gulf countries should be forgiven as Iraq couldn’t repay them given that the economy was in ruins, they had a huge army to maintain and given that the oil price was rather low – Kuwait and the other Gulf countries also wouldn’t accept his demand to lower the production; Saddam probably found that rather insulting given that in his point of view he saved them from Iranian invasion, the Kuwait was a part of Iraq taken away by the British and that they were pumping oil from Iraqi fields.

This sounds more like something out of a Cold War B-movie.. I guess I was naive in thinking we’re beyond such plans now.

‘The Status-6 torpedoes would target “economically important enemy facilities in coastal regions” by creating “zones of extensive radioactive contamination making them unsuitable for military or economic activity for a long period,” the document says.’

http://www.defencetalk.com/kremlin-admits-tv-accidentally-showed-secret-weapons-plans-65830/

Confirmation that Nakhimov will definitely get Fort-M. However there is also mention fo the 48N6DMK- the 250km missile but with Active Seeker.

Will it be 2x Fort-M systems (missiles and radar) or mixed like on Pyotr Velikiy?

Edit: I checked the text and noticed that it is in fact mentioned later on so I guess both existing Fort systems will be replaced. I really like those ships; shame the first two seem to be (economically at least) beyond repair.

Ain’t the RVV-SD and the R-77-1 the same missile, in the end?

RVV-SD is the export designation (e.g. like RVV-AE and R-77) so there probably are some minor differences regarding the electronics (they usually somewhat downgrade the export stuff).

I didn’t say the plane. I said ECM can affect the guidance and homing systems of smart bombs. The mean deviation from target for a bomb delivered using SVP 24 is a lot lower compared to any Western analogue of a SVP 24.

I could see that referring to GPS guided ones, but not the other types. Do you have any data to back up that claim that SVP-24 is much more precise compared to similar FCC’s on the Western planes?