Well..comparing with the initial sketches & prototype cockpits of the J-11B….that’d be well….sorta true…It doesn’t have those huge MFDs of the Su-35BM…

We haven’t seen a clear shot of the newer cockpits though. The ones with the wide-angle HUD.

On a side note….

The Su-35BM Vs J-11B is a pointless comparison….

There are so much details about the Su-35BM. You get the entire booklets from the Manufacture itself. And what ever little we know about the J-11B puts the Su-35BM in a completely different league….. There is no comparison…one way or the other…

Officially speaking we know very little about the J-11B

The aircraft with Wide angle HUD is even deployed or it is just for TV commercial. China is very slow to deploy complex and expensivs stuff. The IRST is exaclty the same as Su-27 for J-11B.
Moreover if u look at JH-7A radars they are orange color antenna essentially copying from orange color of Zhuk.

J-11B cockpit is more like 2003 Su-27SM cockpit.

1. Lol, before you were talking per capital but now is budget, hey, Bagdad got an impressive budget for re-building as well. So Iraqis are much better off than most westerners’ cities already. I can tell you, mathematics does not work in your casual way that u show us as usual.

Irak is very wealth country provided it stablizes. More than $145 trillion worth of Oil underthe ground. City budget show you the wealth of city consumers. Nothing special about Singapore despite all that colonial history and certianly cannot afford military let alone War. Only resource rich countries can fight long wars.

2. In booming times, obviously u r not allowed to access some of the strategic asserts, so it’s worth for the short time downfall in exchange for long term prospect. Equal a profit generating economic entity (Citigroup) to an equipments ( JSF) without deemed commercial value yet again showcases your no matching ignorance.

Purchasing toilet paper is not strategic asset by any measure. companies come and go but natural resources remain permanent.
This is called Real investment as it gives u strategic influence to control others

http://www.russiatoday.ru/business/news/27340
A Russian company will complete construction of one of the most unique offshore oil platforms by 2010. Sevmash, on the White Sea, used to make the world’s biggest nuclear submarines, but now its helping to fulfill Russia’s quest for new oil and gas fields

It’s rather an outdated thought as integrated supply chain, common future markets for commodities, currencies are more and more dominated factors in today’s more and more integrated world economy landscape. A small country certainly can’t offer to buck the trend but so does a big country. China is promoting its openness for decades and everyone can see how effect the openness that shapes China, if you don’t believe, obviously the current Chinese premier minister believes so:

Only an Open and Inclusive Nation Can be Strong

2, It’s not always “ the bigger, the better”. If you only judged by SG’s small territory will mislead you because today’s integrated economic scene actually happens much beyond each other country’s physic border. Sg as a city state in the financial and capital markets is the disputable regional center that sees most Chinese enterprises listing just behind New York ( HK now part of China). Obviously an English as well as Chinese speaking population and clean, lawful environment also a desire for Chinese business.

3. The ongoing free trade zone formations like the inter-Asean and Asean-China will more guarantee the future outlook for the small ones to benefit from a common bigger market.

4, As per capital, I’m not sure what your r talking, S’pore actually is higher than most western countries:

Sg stands at $ 49700, higher than US, UK, etc:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html

As revenue, you are ignorant enough as S’pore government is one of the richest in the world, actually the government linked companies are substantial share holder for many world renewed banks like Bank of China, UBS, Citigroup, China Construction Bank etc. and S’pore’s foreign reserve stands at near USD 174 Billions:

http://www.mas.gov.sg/data_room/reserves_statistics/Official_Foreign_Reserves.html

I am sure per capita income of city of tokyo/london/NewYork/Moscow will be higher and so does tax revenue. Just Moscow city tax revenuse are 3 times Singpore tax revenue and it is not even financial center. any large trading nation would have foreign reserves but it can only be used for proping its own trading system.
Bottom line is Singpore cant afford 5th generation fighters beyond 10 to 12.

That’ll only be true if UCAV technologies advance rapidly enough in the next 20 to 30 years to be a viable replacement for the F-35. Money is not quite the problem.
That’s a rather simplistic way of predicting the economic outlook of a country. If it were that simple nobody needs economists. Hong Kong is already a strong competitor to Singapore. Singapore is still thriving. Just because China enters the scene doesn’t mean Singapore is going to lose it’s competitive edge, which it does have a few compared to China, like IP protection, an English speaking population, little to no corruption, little red tape etc.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/today.php?art_id=203
so what is this than? Economy which is entirely dependent on good times in other places have very short life. As large population centers of Asia becomes more educated and skilled it is the small city economies that will suffer as large countries can do the same job much cheaply with unique internal market dynamics. Singpore is not creator of Science. it cannot outgrow developed world interms of per capita. and to afford 5 th generation they have to outgrow even West in per capita, tax revenues etc which is not possible without natural resources.

Nonsense claims from airfleet to stay polite. The producer of that engine is much more carefully in his claims. :rolleyes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_AL-41
http://frontierindia.net/npo-saturn-finishes-endurance-tests-for-s-117-engine-meant-for-su-35
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyulka_AL-31

It is clearly written 14.5 tons so from where 14 tons figure comes from? and here is completely separate category for 5th generation engine from both Salut and Saturn. and that would surely be flight tested on Flankers from next year.

http://www.npo-saturn.ru/!new/index.php?pid=156
Тяга модернизированного двигателя увеличена относительно базового АЛ-31ФП на 16% и достигла 14500 кгс, а ресурс увеличен в 2 раза, до 4000 часов

I remember reading an article on one of the forums that one of the main gripes the PLAAF had with the SK was of its short airframe life, and that the J11B had made significant improvements in that department (10,000 hours). Had a quick look but can’t find that article just now, will keep an eye out and post it when I find it again.

The engines are WS10A, which is slightly more powerful, but has a 1,500 hour max time before overhaul, which is about double of the early AL31F. Thats more reliable in my book, as it can safely operate for much longer without needing to be overhauled.

As for the Su35’s engines, well there is no doubt that they are far better then anything China can produce at the moment. Engine tech is one of the areas where Russian remains far ahead of China.

10.000 hr life? it was Janes speculation based on Chinese speculaton. which first started with L-15 10,000 hrs service life. Which ofcourse came from here.

http://www.yak.ru/ENG/PROD/new_130.php
Service life 10 000 hours