India doesnt has the budget to complete the Agni program. It was a long term investment and it wasnt present India can afford. Their GSLV failure clearly show where the level of India’s might of launching an object to space was still far.It indicated India’s rocket engine has a designing problem which has no reliability at all.Why did they test the Agni2 3-4 times and announcing it’s success?Because they have a political agenda to attract world vision instead of having a plan…..

China facing the same problem in 1980s and thanks to her intelligence services,saving time & money to making the bottleneck of technology was solved. That was just a begining,after a heavy investment of budget in 1990s & 2000s that bought a perfect DF31 ICBM & JL2SLBM.
The Agni3 was around China 1960s DF4 missle level,the agni wasnt a real ‘deterent’ if compared with China’s DF21 or DF31 missles. China has finished those already & switched to JL2 SLBM. And we completed the building of a 094 SSBN. So if this is a matchup with China, this is a miserable humilation,it showed the gap was huge……

Failure was normal,it is true every country including US,USSR.. but this agni flight was just a political ‘making waves’ instead of a real one.None of the country ever seen this is an ‘alarm’ if compared with North Korean’s Taepodong2. Because North Korea has a mature program to make it ‘real’,India’s Agni3 was just a part of her ‘political announcement’. It was happy too early to call it a success because the Agni3 poped up for 12000m. That wasnt special, German A4 missles did that in very early days already….
Without some ‘big country’ support, these missles rally cant go on,Pakistan & N Korea their own cant do present high success rate without foreign assitances.

Help!

Does those older A model of Saraf also painted in desert camouflage?
Any pic pls.Thank You!

PS:Because I need some pics of A model to finish a 1/48 Saraf model,Thanks 😉

IDFAF is already very very very formidable. They have 102 F16I & 25 F15I, good enough to say HI to those Ayatollah in Tehran. US dont want to provoke some arabs states to get more planes as rivary. Thats I think. You know they can have lots of pretext to hidden their actual motive.

So what next?

China paused the imports of Su27sk after assembled 95 aircrafts?

Huh that wasnt good because China every year can assembling 15 aircrafts that was a slow progress. The present Su 27sk was 20 years ago specifications which is techology obsoleted. I think the move is bargaining with Russia to provide the Su27SM(right now only three had been delivered to RUAF)which has 50% more capbaility than the SK as claimed. For this moment China speed up the productions of J10 which had been sacrificed in previous yeras in favour of the Flankers.Now the Su27SM is exhibited in China’s Zhuhai airshow,does that means Russia willing to compromise?

But I am not very understand why China didnt keep ordering the Su30Mkks as previous years. Didnt much hope had been placed over the MKK2? And when will roll out the rumoured Mkk3? Did Putin visited China last month settled those issues? Anyone knows,crobato?

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Anyone can help upload the J-10B pic, the real flying J-10B for our dear friend, Erez!

crobato,please…

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Hi all:

The Kfir’s camouflage in 1970s was three tone coloured(yellow,green,brown). Originally was dedicated for ground attack role,just like A4,F16 IDF camouflage. But during 1980s there were some Kfirs painted in air superiority gray(FS36375/FS36320)but still loaded with bombs to raid Lebanon.Kfir was the only fighter that played both air to ground & air to air roles.I think the Kfir should be a very good air to air fighter as well although her origin Mirage V was dedicated to be a fighter bomber, thanks to the J79 engine that provided sufficent power to the Kfir.

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The AIM 54 Phoneix missle had been fired in 1998 against Iraqi jets, but none hit their targets. Guess too smoky and the Iraq pilot can get alert early and get rid. Heavy missle like the Phoneix orR33/R37 good for attacking stragetic bombers, reconaissance plane in air war, but not good at fighter. Too heavy and too bulky, difficult to manuever!

Australia want a carrier? With Harriers on board? What for ? To peace keeping in Jarkata?

Harriers were never designed as an air defence fighter. Just like the skyhawks, was an attack plane with vertical take on/off capability. The Harriers suffered much problems than her unique. Slow planes always fell prey,the Harrier was the ‘prey’! The poor equipped Serbs militants shot down a GR5 in the bosina war!