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That´s the mig-25. The new Mig-31 is a multirole interceptor. It is more maneouvrable and cruises near Mach 3. It has a new modernised high power Zaslon-M radar, wich is made to hunt cruise missiles and stealth aircraft at far ranges. It has data-link wich means it acts as a "mini-AWACS"...

The Pak Fa might look similar to those, but in terms of aerodinamics, surfaces controls is completely different. It has thrust vectoring. Interesting you mention the YF23. It was actually a better 5th generation fighter than the YF22. The reason the US Government did not select it was due...

The chinese fighter is based in the Mikoyan LMFS. The Mikoyan LMFS was a Mig 5th generation project. It was a further developement of the cancelled mig 1.44 The fighter was rejected by the russian goverment but mig continued with the project in hope of export. Later the chinese bought the design...

About aircraft carriers, the Kuznetsov is gonna be fully renovated after a dry dock in 2012. Russia finished the new aircraft carrrier design this year and they will build 3 or 4 starting in 2013. These will have a displacement of 50,000 tons, because supercarriers are not effective-costly and...

Well, Russia has also designed it´s own helicopter carrier, it was in fact bigger than the Mistral, but it is currently being redesigned because it was designed from the 80s. To build it will take a longer time, so the Mistral is the logic option, and they would also have access to modern...

They will also revive older ASAT projects such as laser based weapons and ASAT dedicated Mig-31s as it was originally intended.

It migh be off topic, but it is interesting to see that Russia also joined the race Russia to revamp air-space defenses by 2020 - Air Force chief | Defense | RIA Novosti Russia will create a new generation of air and space defenses to counter any strikes against its territory by 2020 due to a...

France's shipbuilder DCNS announced on Tuesday it is ready to deliver Mistral class helicopter carriers to Russia with built-in domestic navigation technologies. "There are no restrictions [in the transfer of technology]," DCNS Director Pierre Legros told RIA Novosti. The technology is...

TVC is not "magic" and it is not what defines maneouvrability. Do you think it is justt as easy as paste a TVC engine into an aircraft, and that will make it supermaneouvrable? TVC is not always necessary, and to integrate it with an aircraft requires a very big work.

Why the US has no control over Afghanistan?. They have invaded and destroyed a foreign country, killed civilians, occuped territory, and installed a failed puppet goverment. What they expected, to the people not to fight for their country? Yes, many of these people are religious radicals, but...

The Irbis-E is said to detect targets with an RCS of 0.01m2 from 90km. The 0.0001m2 is a fanboy number, it´s real RCS varies depending from the angle and situation. The pak fa is to have a similar stealth performance, it is to overcome the raptor´s some better RCS with more power from the radar...

Actually ekranoplans are very useful both for military and civilian pplications. They can carry very large payloads and they are practically invisible to radar because they fly at very low altitudes. This led to Russia to restart their research and production. You will see more "Caspian Sea...

Oh, please, lasers again... This is no more than another american laser propaganda... The airborne ABM laser has already been proven innefective, also, the future of naval warfare are missiles, not lasers. Nothing can match the range and lethality of a cruise missile.