No, believing those numbers would require a level of suspension of disbelief similar to that required for an action movie…

Russia is wholly uncompetitive as a manufacturer and while the collapse of the Ruble helps some it isn’t going to come close to allowing them to sell a heavy weight twin engined fighter for less than half the cost of an F-16 or Gripen. Seriously, use your head for once.

If Russia were able to achieve such results in a high-tech industry they are wasting their time building fighter jets.

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For example India, hardly a high-cost producer, is building the latest order of Su-30MKIs at ~$75 million per unit. Do you honestly think Russia can produce an Su-35 for less than a third of the cost of what India can produce an Su-30MKI for? Think…

Russia’s military industry is thriving.

and its always funny to see people scoff about Russia being low tech while they are the only ones capable of bringing man into space.

FSW has no prospects for the aircraft at cruising supersonic speed. All sixth-generation fighter should have the speed.
Subsonic bomber? PAK DA? doubt…
Subsonic attack? Perfectly! What to do with injuries?

6th gen Frog foot replacement ? perfect application for self repairing nano tech
http://thefutureofthings.com/3646-self-repairing-aircraft/

RT is full off lie and propaganda nonsense TBH

How could RT narrative is anymore sensible than Western one if Russian government also has their own agenda of keeping Assad in power ?.On one hand you said that you collect facts from different and contradictory source , on the other hand, you pretend like only Western governments political motives while others government are as innocent as angel

The truth seems to be aligning more with their point of view in this case.

I think for power projection purposes alone, they should have tried to make it work. Its appearance is striking. Love it or hate it, you cant ignore it. Even now, the jet has a fan club that spans the globe.

hmmm.

I am not getting into another debate about what is going on in Syria, just the whole BBC v RT coverage of it.

Without Russian airpower, the Government would not be on the verge of victory. That must be true, no?

Without US airpower, (pick an Iraqi or Afghan city, ) would not be on the verge of “victory”.

Well, in my experience what little material RT get a hold of that is NOT also available to Western media too often later proves to be (deliberately!) fake and taken grossly out of context for me to consider their point of view at all trustworthy. Manipulation on the part of the editorial staff is rare in Western media but all over the place with RT (unless the subject does not involve Russian interests – which in itself is telling).

Give me just 2 examples of blatant fake fabricated news from RT..

I really don’t know what to believe …

I am unsure what the issue is here.. Are people questioning whether this sale and delivery is happening at all and are using pics to prove it or not ?

Or are people just squabbling about whether these are real pics of the actual delivery or not ?