Do we really know that the series built 20380’s will carry Furke as opposed to Pozitiv-ME? In one of those youtube videos of 20380 produced by the design bureau they show Furke being popped out and Positiv being put in.

From Janes and other open source reports the only problems with the lead ship were ones of software, integration, some problems with the Zarya sonar range and the build quality of the crew quarters. I’ve honestly not seen anything in the open source about problems with Furke. It’s admittedly a bit of a short ranged radar, but for a corvette on paper at least its plenty competitive with its Western peers.

Russia isnt worried about fighting a war with India and dealing with MKI’s. The SM upgrade was put together with them worrying about Chinese vanilla MK’s and MK2’s. The only question that actually matters is Su-27SM v. Chinese Su-30MK and Chinese J-11B.

I thought the soviet pallets were 3.5 x 3.5 but the doors were a bit wider? Are you sure a T-90 wouldnt fit?

Anyway, the An-70 can fit Western pallets. It’s doors open 4 meters wide.

Payload has increased to 60 tons from 40. It can move even their heaviest tank just fine. The T-95 tank is supposedly only a 55 ton tank. The BTR-90 is what 21 tons?

For the Russian it kinda is about commercial orders or the lack there of. The Il-76 domestically is or was their #1 civilian cargo carrier too. Volga-Dnepr fills a niche in the third world primarily, but the other domestic cargo carriers would be a lot happier with something that accommodates nice Western pallets and containers better. This is why nobody has placed commercial orders in like 2 decades and everyone is just happy to wear out their current Il-76 fleets and then buy Airbuses.

From a power plant and avionics perspective the Il-476 is fully modern and on paper not inferior to its C-17 cousins on a kilo per km basis. It has a new wing that combined with its new engines gives the plane a 17% greater fuel efficiency than the newest Il-76MF’s. The problem is the body retains the original Il-76 dimensions which are not very friendly for shipping standard master pallets or truck containers. This means that while its great for unconventionally shaped military payloads it makes no sense for those shipping standard commercial Western payloads. Of course, the Russian MoD doesnt care about any of that.

The transport version Antonov is offering has a max payload of 15 tons. The proposed MTA comes in at 18 tons. The Il-112 has a max payload of 6 tons. The Antonov is what you call a compromise and more importantly they have 200 orders for the regional jet version already. Its insane to flush money on an entirely new design with zero parts commonality for 3 tons more. The An is already rated to operate on unpaved runways. Half the airports in Russia and the CIS already look like war zones. If the passenger version can survive landing in Lvov the military version can handle Somalia with almost no modifications.

India has already been offered the An-158 and An-178. An Indian domestic carrier has already placed an order for 18 An-148’s.

The Il-112 has been dead for a long time. The only talk now is whether they will buy some to simply use as trainers for transport pilots.

http://www.russiandefenseblog.org/?p=640

Also, the MTA requirement was never for 18 tons. The initial design for the Il-214 pitched to India was for a 15 ton transport. Only when the Antonov arrived on the scene did the numbers change to developing a 18-20 ton MTA. Without the funny accounting they’d have no rationale for keeping the Il-214/MTA project going.

I remind you for the 100th time the Russians already have an S-Duct fighter with the requisite RAM for it, its called the Su-47. I also remind you they have experience with F-18 style radar blockers installed on the Yak-130. You also seem to consistently forget that Boeing’s little X-32 went with the same sort of radar blocker they intend to put on the PAK-FA. So if Sukhoi is incompetent so is Boeing.

The problem my friend is you seem to not pay attention to these little things called FACTS.

Well MiG is kinda already dead seeing as how its been swallowed up by UAC for years now. MiG is but a tiny heavily debt riddled subsidiary of a much larger company. It’s really not right talking about MiG like its still an independent company.