It’s already obvious that you don’t see anything. Neither recession in the previous two years, nor stagnation now. I remember such people as you, right before USSR died – they too didn’t see what’s coming…poor idiots.

Why do people insist on bringing up the Russian economy when they know so little about the subject..

The entire world economy is stagnating. Recession is a subjective term. (2 quarters of negative GDP growth) But Russia’s recession has no baring on its comparative health to any other economy. Russia had a business cycle recession. Nothing is more healthy and necessary for a capitalist economy than a business cycle recession.

Despite Russia’s business cycle recession, it still is the lowest debt country in the G20. It still is a net exporter with no net debt. It still has tons of forex and gold.

Canada on the other hand, had no recession at all. But guess what.. Canada is a trade deficit country and one of the most indebted governments and public in the western world. Canada has no gold and almost no army.

so whos better off ?

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2501988.html

Nice MiG-31 pics.

Not a fan of the green interior.

PAK-FA will supercruise over Mach 2 just like MiG-31 and can carry large long range missiles like izd 810 so it can take the MiG-31 role. PAK-DP can just use variant of PAK-FA T-50.

Plus they could make an interceptor variant to better tailor it to the job. The more I think about it, the more I think that a Mig -31 replacement is a boon for the complex. They should just make a Pak Fa interceptor variant. The pod style engine design could allow for just bigger engines.

Isn’t engine size and fuel storage the only thing stopping the current Pak fa from having the same capability as the Mig 31 ?

Maybe they should dust off that Mig 1.44. It was originally intended to be a Mig 31 replacement of sorts. Or just get the J 20 back in the form of a production licence

Berkut is just dreaming.

Btw, there is actual patent from LM for the wide band RAM so they are far from being pixie dust.

There was the F117 crash in Serbia and the stealthy helicopter crash in Pakistan in 2011. Im forgetting one more but im just sayin, this stuff is getting around a bit

…now it only takes a pixie dust RAM coatings to solve everything?

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Exactly. This stuff is not magic.
But some people think that its as easy as putting a an extra coat of RAM on a hot spot.

In another thread recently, a poster assumed that a certain new 5th gen plane in development was as unstealthy as a 4th gen because it didnt have the “ram” yet

Dunno what to make out of it.
Neighter US media nor RT news want to give this strike much air time. Somewhat hush hush about this..

I’m pretty sure Russia was informed of this attack in advanced and that they had worked out ROE together with Israeli.

One of the youtube vids show what could bits and peices of an S-200 missile.

Yes. It was all hugs recently when Netanyahu met with Putin in Moscow. During Moscow Visit, Netanyahu Received Special Gift From Putin — a Nearly 500-Year-Old Copy of Josephus’ The Jewish War.

Not a new invention though..

It has been examined as early as WWI. And a few more times during the years. Even though there are some reports that pilots liked it etc I haven’t realy analyzed why it didn’t develop. I’m guessing it realy has to do with safely landing/takeoff. Personally I can only imagine it’s not safe at all.

\Dan

Nothing new under the sun.

GPS and computing power solves lots of old idea’s problems. I think that can be applied here.

If the Soviets could land a space shuttle with no pilot with that computing power, I think we can have computers taking care of all the variables in this design

The 2017 Russian Defense Budget is out, according to Janes it got a massive slash of almost 26% by comparison with 2016!
If so expect salami slice cuts across the board, it will be “interesting” to see the efect on the VVS.

2015 was a 21% increase.
2016 was a neutral.

So it is basically going to be the same as 2014, before the price of oil crashed.