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Canards and TVC may be to compensate for extra weight of MKI. Also, don't forget about flight performance, these are important too. A basic J-11A has better figures than MKI such as top speed, range, climb rate, combat ceiling, T/W ratio. J-11B is likely to increase that gap further by...

^ No Serpentine air ducts?

You're not buying more MKKs, just upgrading existing ones. Regardless of whether or not new J-11Bs are built, you still need to decide what to do with existing MKKs. You can either scrap them (which would be a waste of money considering they're still useful), or leave them as they are (but...

Quit with all the 2012 crap. Japan just happens to have the bad luck of being on or near the fault lines of 4 tectonic plates, so it will always have to suffer earthquakes.

Probably cheaper to upgrade an MKK than to build a new J-11B

People know about the SAS, but there's the lesser Known SBS (Special Boat Service) who are just as elite. If SAS is #1, then SBS should either be joint 1st or joint 2nd. I even once heard a rumour, I don't know how much truth there is to it though, that if you failed to get into the SBS...

48 Launchers??!! Surely you mean 48 SAMs, and 6 Launchers

I can't see UK being 3rd 20 years from now. We're not even 3rd today, so how the author thinks we're going to be 3rd in 20yrs after all the cuts is a mystery. Second point is when he's talking about India he's making a lot of errors. For example he's comparing a future Indian ICBM to...

That's right. Even Britain is sending a Royal Navy frigate and Military Transports accompanied by SAS to airlift citizens out of the desert, and the only criticism is not about imperialism or a show of force, but how much the government dithered.

The article mentions that the "secrets" related to the design of the training complex, not an actual carrier.

Not really. The reason many people think that SD-10 has a lower range than R-77 is due to the fact that the manufacturers carry out tests at different altitudes and closing speeds. SD-10 is tested at lower altitudes and lower speeds than R-77 so the advertised range won't be as high. Since...

J-11B uses composites to reduce weight. J-11B also has increased thrust with WS-10A engines. J-11A already has greater T/W ratio than MKI. These two factors on J-11B increase it further. No need for TVC.

RCS values are usually given in square-meters. Therefore, 25 square-meters is approximately 70 times larger than 3 square-meters (not 8 times, as you originally stated).

LOL. If you need help to get elected, then you're not in office, thus you don't really have the power to nuke anybody.

These two paragraphs make me LOL. The US criticised China for destroying their own satellite, then a year later they did the same to theirs.

Foreign Object Damage

Very unlikey. Putting a large missile on a large plane and having it "roam the sea" just makes it more vulnerable. At least if you launch it from land, it can be covered by an IADS. Secondly, a ballistic missile is not like a cruise missile or a glide bomb or some other stand-off weapon...

For reasons already stated in the article i.e: Safety Clean Abundant fuel sources Ability to consume various fuel types including nuclear waste. By-products unsuitable for making weapons (so politically easier to export tech).

F-15E is more of a strike plane rather than air-to-air fighter. Any idea which version/block F-16, F/A-18's? Mirages & Harriers not so impressive. So in summary, it excels against strike aircraft and against legacy aircraft like Mirages and Harriers, but against similar tech...

Misleading thread title. Look at this paragraph: