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Not even the Israelis ultimately believed that. You can find most of their top decision makers on public record stating they did not believe Nasser would attack. For one, part of his army was off fighting in a civil war in Yemen still. And two, the forces he sent into the Sinai were nothing...

Yes, they do. They are of course still confined to the limits of their technical expertise. But every hour of labour to build a weapon, every officer and enlisted man and woman's salary and such is _relatively_ much cheaper in China than in the US, in nominal USD. So when you compare a nations...

They said the main battle tank had its day too. Stryker, as technologically wonderful as it is, was very vulnerable to $200 RPG-7 rounds. It makes you wonder why the US navy needs 12 carriers if the days of conventional war are over.

i don't put much stock in this "super-missile", but you're forgetting purchasing power parity. foreign military weapon acquisitions aside, China gets 4 times the bang for its bucks as the US does on military spending domestically.

wow. France is getting desperate for foreign arms sales.

This is one of those reasons Indians should not be so quick to take the moral high ground in its relations with Pakistan.

This is a great bit of kit here. There's a rather vocal disagreement about anti-ship missiles - subsonic vs supersonic and which is better... I'm firmly in the faster is better crowd but you still need to saturate heavily against first and even second class opponents. Are there any projected...

This is not true. This is what F-15 and Su-30 pilots and fans tell themselves to make themselves feel better. It's not additive, but it's not like putting the same missile on say an F-16 and an Su-30MKI gives them both the same RCS either. And it's not an all or nothing equation of either...

I would bet that the congressmen so concerned about this are the ones with Boeing plants in their states. The $10 billion MMCRA deal is the biggest there will be in a loooong time and Boeing needs this badly to keep assembly lines open.

for some reason i love seeing pictures of those huge missiles with a comparatively small man loading it. big missiles make me happy.

Short take offs and landings are only one part of the equation. You need to bring the maintenance crew, arms, fuel, etc to them. I think the Gripen program actually developed a truck to do just that - mobile maintenance/refueling/rearming station - 1 truck.

Everyone copies everyone. And frankly, if your strategic situation is not urgent and you can afford to lag behind a half generation and reverse engineer something and save half the development cost why the hell not? I would. You would too, if you had to make the tough decisions on defence...

I don't think you need to worry too much about PAK-FA. I have little doubt it will be significantly better than the Su-35, but it will be no where near what the F-22 can offer. The Russians are lagging a fair bit in air force technology at the moment and they will never design a fighter in...

Freezing is expensive. You can't let the labour go. This is the end of F-22 production. A shame, being the revolutionary fighter that it is. The USAF would really be better off scrapping the JSF program a few years ago and buying F-22s with the savings. They could keep the F-teen series of...

I wish that bastard would die already and free that nation from enslavement.

Hi, we're the Indian army and we need more money so we'll play up the threat of "misadventure" by China.

of course this is true, but almost every radar manufacturer will give you the detection range of an X rcs object at Y range. Using those figures you can calculate the detection range of a given RCS sized object of a given radar set. i will try to find the input figures again so i can show you...

The AMRAAM having a longer range is news to me, but to answer the other queries someone made: I did these calculations a few months ago for someone and I don't have the time just now to dig out the inputs and show the formula, but the Su-30MKI has the RCS of a flying barn. Do some basic...

The Su-30MKI can fire first given the longer range of its missile, but firing at maximum range is usually discouraged due to the low PK. The Su-30MKI will probably not see the F-16 first though, so the F-16 has some room to play. The F-16 is going to pickup the Su-30MKI at the maximum range of...

The French are the only serious competitor other than the Russians. If you think you're getting the EF you're going to be sorely dissapointed. They are having immense problems with India's ridiculous IO terms in the MRCA to address serious deficiencies in their defence industry. It's...