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Superior how? What does the Rafale do better then the SU-35?
You can google... it has AESA,better climb rate,advanced avionics etc... and is more expensive than su-35.
No you do the math, 3.5 billion/140=25 million
India ordered the SU-30 in batches, starting with the basic SU-30MK. Over the years inflation as well as better avionics, avionics modification, and airframe modification resulted in higher costs.
Aircraft deals with 'friend' Russia costing dear - India - DNA
Read the whole article.. they are complaining... tht its going the war of gorky... with 115% increase in price... which was originally 40 million $..
That has been proven nonsense.
Not really.
Thank you for further proving my point.
I price (42 million$) of J-10A i quoted was from 2010... while the price of the latest indian mig-29 is from 2013.. surely conversion of current currency rates should be considered.. while the cost of the latest J-10B would much higher... and hope you considered the fact that myanmar had been using mig-29s since long also... so i dont know how you stand corrected.
7000m vs 8000m
It's from welki, as well as your own source you posted.
During the saudi trials it till targets at the range of 4000m:
http://www.paknews.com/main.php?id=6&date1=2003-10-21
Previous it used a modified KBA-3 series gun.... which was replaced by a french gun... now HIT has produced indigenous gun which has greater range:
Locally-produced gun delivered to HIT for tanks | Newspaper | DAWN.COM
Who ever mentioned India? You claimed that even the Al Khalid is better then the T-90, and of course we are talking about Russian weapons not what India purchases from Russia.
But to be fair even the tungsten sabot rounds in the India inventory would pierce the Al-Khalid without any issues while the Naiza's 550mm penetration would do nothing to the T-90s frontal armor which can withstand 950mm penetration.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakist...t-2000-information-pool-26.html#ixzz2Tsj8hW88Modernization of Al-Khalid Main Battle Tank (MBT)
Oleh Shevchenko, Chargé d'affaires Embassy of Ukraine has informed the media that Ukrainian companies will takepart in the modernization project of the Al-Khalid main battle tank (MBT) of the Pakistan Army.
Oleh Shevchenko said, "We will continue co-operation in developing technology for manufacturing military hardware, first of all in shape of Al-Khalid Project".
Upgraded Al Khalid MBT with combination of new armor and optional Explosives Reactive Armor (ERA) can withstand all known 120mm and 125mm rounds. Upgrade also includes improved transmission and electronic turret control for the Al Khalid Tanks. Tank also offers improved protection for the NBC (Nuclear, Biological & chemical) warfare.
Pakistani Al Khalid Tanks are equipped with Integrated Battle Management System (IBMS) and new active threat-protection system. Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) has also increased Al Khalid's weapon carrying capability and now it will be able to carry 49 125mm HEAT & APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) and Naiza 125 mm DU rounds, 1,500 12.7mm and 7,100 7.62mm rounds
Again im repeating myself that a new DU round has been developed.
And no I have no data on AK-1, which is still in development? Either way if you have data please share, I would love to see a comparison of a 20 year old tank to a new one.
No it is AK-II that is under development.... as for AK-I....Dont have much date but its already in service here are a few pics:
New armour...
New ERA
New gun
New APS
IBMS
etc etc
Infact a contracts with Ukraine and China have been signed to further upgrade it..
http://www.defenseworld.net/go/defe...To Manufacture New Version Of Al-Khalid Tanks
What I am saying is that with different tank crews you will have different results. And what do Indian crashes have anything to do with the subject? Those crashes could be anything from pilot error, to poor maintenance, to bird strikes.
http://www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&r...eM8hUuNPFaztaXw9UtjzweQ&bvm=bv.46751780,d.eWU
I bet you did not know that there has been over 300 F-16 crashes as well.
No ... i didnt.. can you post a link..
No, you are thinking of the T-95.
Great.
Two steps ahead, like how it took them 20 years to implement HMS, or how the first operational PESA radar was Russian, or how during the 1970 Russia created supercavitating Torpedos that was 5 times faster than anything NATO had.
Yet they are flying worlds most sophisticated aircrafts and are developing unmanned 6th generation fighters... have super carriers... etc etc.
This is ridiculous. What you are saying is that upgrading thermals and fire control software to achieve more accurate, longer range, hits day or night doesn't change anything?
Sure they do... but they dont radically transform 2nd generation tanks into some sort of super 3rd gen mbts.
Upgrading avionics to allow aircraft to operate at night, precisely acquire and target objectives is not a big deal? By you logic why purchase F-16 block52 when you could just stick to the F-16 block15 after all avionics won't change age old systems
Structural changes.radars,engines... the whole package...
And modern UAVs also don't make a difference right?
They are for recon not bombing..
As for the last bold comment, no Russia virtually didn't use any of it's modern equipment in that war, the Georgian military was much more modern but lost even though they had those mystical western toys and fought on western tactics.
Yes flying su-25s,a bunch of lightly armoured jeeps, upgraded t-72s and limited army on a much much smaller budget... vs russian army with superior aircrafts,more arty systems,numerically superior mbts,missiles and a massive budget.. didnt u also lose 2 jets in friendly fire and more jets than the georgians?not to forget armoured vehicles or APCs....also ur forgetting ossetians and abkhazian troops that were also involved..