EgbertoCan anyone explain why Russia is not considering AL-41F engines for PAK-FA.
This engine has impressive performance metrics and parameters.
Thrust: 176Kn(39680lb) each.
which delivers this speed
Max Speed: Mach 2.6(2761.2km/h)
Range: 4000km(2500miles)
Comparing it to the engine of F-22 Raptor Pratt&Whitney’s F119-PW-100
with Thrust: 156Kn (35,000lb) each
Max Speed: Mach 2.4
Range: 3219Km.
I think this engine has been tried with MIG-1.44 demonstrator fighter.
And has it really been flown? If Yes then,
Why don’t they continue to work on it to finetune it for the PAK-FA?
EgbertoThe fabs,the lithographic manchineries of Intel and AMD are all manufactured
in Germany– isn’t that dependent. And even some core components of AMD processors and devices are directly designed and manufactured from Dresden Germany by German electrical engineers.All this inter-dependency has been occuring since the early 50’s. It’s not Germany alone but western capitalist
countries including Japan. May be wealthy Russian interpreneurs together with some German,Russian and even Israeli engineers in the grand spirit of globalization can come up with joint venture of manufacturing such processors someday ,who knows?.
EgbertoSo distiller said the Russians are 20 years behind the U.S in electronics,Fine for you.But they still used the obselete technology in SA-2 to pluck down your F-117 20 years ahead in technology. Let the U.S venture with F-22 from Alaska to Russian airspace just around Kamchaka peninsular to see if they could not be
tracked with their vacuum-tube systems. The U.S is scared to venture that.
EgbertoFlex 297 is absolutely right, Leap frogging in technology is what he meant all the time but people don’t get it. Having no experience with something,doesn’t mean one doesn’t have the capability to excell at. Remember Russian engineers are not third world non-entity engineers. Let’s wait and see, Russian inguinity. If Russians were to so called master stealth technology first and Americans were to debut, the arguments would have been the other way around.
Remember where the mathematics that governs stealth technology originated from-Russia. The next big thing could be practical plasma stealth which would leap frog the current American stealth concept, watch out,it is already under their belt. They have heads like Pearlman who can proved Pointcaire conjucture existing over 150yrs,something all mathematicians in almost all American universities including Harvard lump together don’t get it when he explained it to them before publishing the paper.
EgbertoHere it goes again, Mig-31Es are no match for Israel and the U.S,…..anachronistic and wishful thinking heh ? — Israel and U.S military are everything under the sun-. In event of a war, the U.S and Israel are going to come up against a kind of aircraft they don’t even possess in their arsenal except the latest F-22s. Even with these aircrafts(F-22s) they would be thinking twice before bringing them into the theatre.
EgbertoSweet and fine, Russia would be praying to allow the U.S to supply Israel this fighters so that by the same token she could also supply Iran not a 5th generation fighter but a 4++ generation to counter it.
EgbertoOriginally posted by sferrin:
No but I’d hazard a guess that 20+ year old Russian electronics are just a tad behind the times.
Let me emphasize that those radars with 20+ years electronics had,has been and would track any sophiscated ICBMs the U.S or any country has in the world,let alone missiles from Iran.If the U.S rejects this proposal, Russia has no choice but to target the radar and interceptor sites in Poland and Czech republic respectively. Russia would quickly deploy and station a mix of state-of-the-art cruise,short and intermediate missiles in the kaliningrad region. Remember Putin is not Yeltsin, if you fool we fight, and that would bring the peace.
EgbertoThere are words around that the U.S might reject the offer with flimsy excuse that the X-band radar they intended deploying is more modern and powerful than that at Gabala, Azerbajan.But here are some capabilities of the radar from an excerpt. Is this not enough?
The Daryal-type station covers a 7,200 kilometer area in the southern hemisphere and can track ballistic missiles and every flying object in two or three seconds, and determine the coordinates, pace, route and the magnitude of the objects to one millimeter accuracy. In 1998, the commander of the station Victor Cotenco said in an interview with the Zercalo Daily that Gabala was a very powerful station and could monitor even a ball from 700,000 kilometer distance. Although the station had been planned according to 350 MW power, it could not operate at full capacity due to unfinished additional construction. The station has qualities which may cover Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India, parts of China, Africa, Australia and some parts of the Indian and Atlantic oceans. The medium ranged and intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are launched from these regions, can be tracked more safely by this station when compared to satellites. For this reason, it is reported that the Tomahawk and Cruise missiles, which were launched from the U.S. ships and aircraft at the beginning of the Afghanistan operation, were spotted immediately by Russia thanks to Gabala base. On the other hand, the base was reported to have provided very useful information during the Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars. After Azerbaijan gained its independence on Aug. 31, 1991, it expelled former Soviet soldiers and military bases but left the Gabala Radar Station to the Russian Federation. Despite the talks, which have been carried out for 10 years, the two parties are yet to reach an agreement on this issue. During this period, the base was under the control of the Russian Defense Ministry with “no status.” Aliyev signed a declaration in 1996 and announced that the base belonged to Azerbaijan.
EgbertoHere is what an expert had to say about Russia’s nuclear capabitilies.
It is an excerpt from a reknown source. Why on earth can somebody say Russia has only 150ICBMs. I have read this time and again from many sources.
Does anybody really know what the Russians are capable of in nuclear exchange? Had I known is always at last.
Russia’s nuclear capabilities
By Adrian Blomfield
Last Updated: 2:02am BST 05/06/2007
Putin in nuclear threat against Europe
Russia has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, with an estimated total of 16,000 warheads, of which 7,200 are believed to be operational.
The Soviet Union had an estimated total of 35,000 warheads. The Americans have 9,960 warheads of which 5,735 are operational. Russia’s nuclear weapons can be fired from land-based silos, submarines and bomber planes.
This “nuclear triad”, as it is known, comprises Strategic Rocket Forces (land based): 489 missiles capable of carrying up to 1,788 warheads Strategic Fleet (sea based): 12 submarines capable of carrying up to 609 warheads Strategic Aviation Units: 79 bombers capable of carrying up to 884 Cruise missiles.
Under the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), better known as the Moscow Treaty, signed in 2002, the United States and Russia have agreed to limit their arsenal to 1,700-2,200 operational warheads by 2012. The treaty sets no limits on the size of reserve stockpiles, however.
Russia tested its latest generation of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, the RS-24, last month.
EgbertoThe problem is not 10 interceptors, it is the problem of the radars.
The Americans want to monitor the test launches of the latest state-of-the-art ICBMs like TOPOL-M missiles as well as the BULAVAS missiles. That has always been their ultimate wish.The Americans believe by basing interceptors and radars nearer to Russia they could track the tracjectories of these missiles,which they fail to do until now. Radars in Japan cannot do it for the Americans. Their Global early warning systems cannot track them too. The recent successful test of the BULAVAs couldn’t be detected by the American radars due to their high velocity and maneauvrability. These missiles have depressed tracjectories with hypersonic speeds, with incredible quick boast-phase burn out times. Wonder weapons heh!
I think the Russians should also place radars and interceptors in Cuba again to begin the nonsense and intimidation all over again.
EgbertoRussia in the Soviet Union already assisted Vietnam against America and what happened? Russia has some other things to think about. Russia would rather sell sophiscated weapons, the next one would the S-400 and some modern SUkhoi fighters,super-quiet Kilo submarines,and even export versions of PAK -5th generation fighters and destroyers to allow Iran to do the job by himself.
EgbertoI think the problem is not about the 10 interceptors currently but also future expansion. And what is more, the Americans are more interested in monitoring the trajectories of the lastest formidable BULAVA missiles, and the improved TOPOL-M missiles which have depressed tracjetories. Up until now the have not been successful in tracking them due their high hypersonic velocities as well as the manauverabilty. The X-band radars could be used, but I don’t know how far they could be sucessful in doing this.
EgbertoThe U.S tested and used Atomic bomb in 1945 while the Soviets tested theirs and made a bomb in 1949. That was the time when America could have attacked the Soviets without any response,any period outside 1945-1948 that is null and void.
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The US is the only country with a manned reusable spacecraft. The US is the only country who has put men on the moon. They’re the only country who has launched a probe out of the solar system
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The spaceshuttle can’t even get up the ground. It costs $500million per launch.
Does it make economics sense. It is not reliable with it its disasters. The Russian Soyuz is the most reliable vehicle in modern times.It costs $20million launch and it makes economic sense, the shuttle crew still fly on them instead of their own presently. The Russians also built a superior one but got rid of it due high running costs.
With the moon, the Russians were building a sophiscated launcher with revolutionary engine technology which actually got them into problem hence delaying their efforts into getting there first which was their key objective. Later though they were successful with the engine.It is a technology the Americans were also pursuing but couldn’t till after the cold war.It was then sold to the Americans which they use in their Atlas rockets RD-180 engine
read this:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/rd-180_pr.html
EgbertoInferior opponent here is Russia -right? Why is it that America has all the time been really afraid to mix it up for 60 years with Russians despite her claims of always being technologically superior and all aspect which she claims Russia doesn’t remotely come close , with the likes of B-52s, B-2s F117 and what nots.
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