By far not all airframes will be upgraded.. Same as with the F-16..
According to British intelligence, the warhead is 800kg..
Official designation of the Kinzhal – Kh-47M2
We should be moving towards a nuclear free world, not running towards more of them with a larger number of options to deliver them in and in case of Status-6, extremely damaging ones. Just makes me depressed man.
I think a nuclear-free world would be far more dangerous because there would always be someone who would want to misuse the nuclear technology to gain the upper hand.. the most stable situation is nuclear balance..
F-35B rocks.. a truly unique bird..
Reuters has reported that about 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria
The Vagner group has some 400 men in total in Syria.. So they all were concentrated in one place? Reuters reporting seems to have slipped down to the levels of Chemical Ali.. :confused:
Isn’t the HUD on the Su-30SMs and future SM1 just going to be same HUD on Su-35?
The Su-35S is using ИКШ-1М (IKSh-1M) type, the one installed in Su-30SM looks slightly different, most likely ИКШ-1К (IKSh-1K).


https://engineeringrussia.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/su-30sm-to-receive-russian-head-up-displays/
Syrians do not possess S-300 systems..
They were upgraded to MiG-21-2000 standard by IAI Lahav.. Other bort numbers include MiG-21UM AF-923 (cn 516999318), MiG-21UM AF-924 (cn 516999319) and MiG-21bis AF-930 (cn N75086175). There are also pictures of AF-912 and AF-920 (MiG-21bis).
I am surprised.. Thought the jet was crippled over Syrian territory and somehow got back to Israel before it went down. But shooting down an IDF jet 50 km deep into Israeli territory, that’s a quite different story..
I don’t think they were even allowed to do so.. A risk of a downed F-35 getting into Russian hands would be way to much to swallow..
In other words, Russia and Assad planning another attack and pre-empting the narrative.
Yes, absolutely.. that is exactly what you usually do when you’re winning.. plan chlorine gas attacks serving no tactical purpose.. and then you even announce them in advance.. makes sense, totally.. :eagerness:
LoneWolf:
Frankly, I could not care less about credentials, publications or whatever.. I have read both and for me, Cooper’s stories are full of crap and wet dreams of IRIAF pilots while Sheytan’s posts make a lot of sense.. Probably the best ones I have ever read on this forum.. If you haven’t bothered to even find any, your problem..
That’s where it ends for me.. Your opinion or beliefs change nothing on that, whatsoever..
This CW thing keeps coming up again and again because certain circles want it that way.. Period.. In this situation, Assad would not dare to keep even a bottle of chlorine detergent, let alone real CW.. Too much to lose, too little to gain, it just doesn’t add up.. and even if he somehow did conceal a small private stock and was dumb enough to try to use it, Russians simply would not let him…
If there is anyone who can benefit from those accusations, then it’s rebels.. in their dire position they would not hesitate to grasp at straws and make a false flag op, so much is clear..