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Air Force Brat said:

This is a rather small aircraft, I'm assuming the wings will be carbon fiber, carrying a reverse sweep, but likely top speed of around 450knts.

Maybe 350knts, and that's a very small aircraft, and those wings are smallish in order to get it to fly a little "heavier"??

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SR-10 is a subsonic, single engine, all-composite dual-pilot aerobatic trainer aircraft with a moderate forward-swept wing scheme developed by a private Russian design bureau called KB SAT

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First Mig-29SMT of last batch 16 ordered for 116th Training Combat Center to Astrakhan
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Russia has received the first of the MiG-29SMT 'Fulcrum' multirole fighter aircraft that it ordered in April 2014, MiG Corporation has reported.

The extra 16 aircraft were ordered for the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) as a stop-gap measure to compensate for delays to the MiG-35S aircraft that still has yet to be ordered. It is believed that the 16 extra MiG-29s are divided between 14 MiG-29SMT fighters and two MiG-29UB trainers.
The first aircraft were delivered in late December to the Astrakhan-Privolzhskiy airbase, where the 116th Training Centre of Combat Applications of the Russian Air Force is headquartered.

The number of aircraft delivered to the training centre wasn't disclosed in the MiG report, although photos on Russian aviation sites indicate at least two MiG-29SMT aircraft (Bort: Blue 20 and Blue 21) and maybe four aircraft, along with a single MiG-29UB trainer (Bort: Blue 50) were delivered to the centre in December. MiG did note that deliveries of all 16 aircraft should be completed by the end of the year.

Russia already operates 28 MiG-29SMT fighters, although it did not order them. Instead, they were diverted into Russian service after their intended recipient, Algeria (which had ordered 36 of the aircraft), rejected them due to quality concerns. Unlike the aircraft built for Algeria, the aircraft ordered for the VKS are fitted with an internal electronic warfare (EW) suite, according to the MiG report.

Visually the MiG-29SMT can be most easily identified by an extended spine (beyond the extension first seen in the MiG-29S) to include extra fuel. This doubles the aircraft's air-to-air mission radius to 836 n miles (1,550 km; 963 miles). It was originally offered as an upgrade package for older 9.12 and 9.13 MiG-29 airframes to include many of the avionics and systems enhancements of the new MiG-29M family, but not its lighter aluminium-lithium alloy 9.15 airframe.

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Algeria Orders 12 Su-34 'Fullback' Fighter-Bombers from Russia

The Su-34 order is believed to be a component of the $7.5 billion Algerian-Russian arms deal signed in March 2006 for the supply of anti-missile systems, aviation, sea and land-ward defense equipment and technologies.

Late last year, top Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko told RIA Novostin that the deployment of the Su-34 on combat duty in Syria will help potential buyers in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East to evaluate its performance and decide on whether to acquire it or not.

"Several countries in Africa, including Uganda and Nigeria, which [are] waging a war against Boko Haram, could buy the Su-34. Such top of the range fighter bomber aircraft could also strengthen Ethiopia's Air Force, which still operates a large fleet of aging Su-27 fighters," Korotchenko said.
The Su-34 has also attracted the interest of Iraq, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan while Kazakhstan already operates a squadron recently acquired from Russia. Powered by a two Saturn AL-31F turbo-fan engines, the Su-34 is a fourth generation fighter bomber created from the frame of its (Sukhoi) Su-27 predecessor.

It has a non-stop operating range of 4 000 kilometers and a maximum speed of up to 2,200 kilometers per hour. Its principal armaments include a 30-mm GSh-301 canon, and various surface to air-to-air missiles, cruise missiles, air-to-surface missiles, anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles in addition to guided and free-fall bombs.

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First export customer and already 14 Su-30MKA recently ordered.

Admiral Grigorovich class frigates under construction in Kaliningrad (Admiral Makarov & Admiral Butakov) 3th and 4th the first with turbine problems NPO Saturn to Yaroslav build it normaly for 2018, these 11356M are a little different with 11356 for India more stealth with a VLS for SAM.

Soviet and Russian Submarine Propulsors

Project 22350/Gorshkov, Admiral Kasatonov the 2nd

The Grigorovich (Project 11356 and the Gorshkov (Project 22350) are the Russian modern, up and coming frigates.

The have three Grigorovich FFGs launched and will build three more, all for the Black Sea Fleet. They displace 4,050 tons full load and have the following armament:

01 x 100 mm DP main gun
32 x VLS (8 ASM, 24 AAW)
02 x 30mm CIWS
08 x Igla CIWS Missiles
2 x 2 Torpedo tubes
1 x RBU 600 ASW Rockets (12)
1 x Med. ASW Helo (pad and hanger)

The Admiral Gorshkov is bigger and they will more of them. So fat two have been launched, one of which is now commissioned. They plan up to 15 of these vessels and will be used for the North Fleet and the Pacific Fleet. They are larger and displaces 5,000+ tons full load. They are more heavily armed with:

01 x 130mm DP main gun
48 x VLS (16ASM, 32 AAX)
02 x Palash CIWS systems (2 x 30mm gun and 8 AAW missiles each, w/32 missiles reserve each)
02 x 4 Torpedo Tubes
01 X Med. ASW helo (pad and hanger)

These 20 or so vessels will be the main stay of the Russian surface fleet...plus whatever the new Destroyer actually becomes, and of course the three Slava cruisers and two Kirov cruisers.

I expect the future Russian surface fleet...if they can afford to build them...will have the following major combatants (this does not include the smaller corvette sized vessels):

06 x Grigorovich
21 x Gorshkov
12 x Future DDG
03 x Slava
02 x Kirov

44 major surface comnbatants.

In the mean time, China will frow to have:

China is going to have:

32 x FFG
04 x Sov DDG
04 x 052B/051C DDG
06 x 052C
18 x 052D
12 x 055

76 major suirface combatants

And in that future time frame, the US will have:

40 x LCS/FF
84 x Burke DDG
03 x ZUmwalt
20 x CG replacement

147 major surface combatants

Interesting times once they get all of the new vessels operational...of course for that tp happen is going to require many years...which means it may not turn out this way at all! LOL!

These 20 or so vessels will be the main stay of the Russian surface fleet...plus whatever the new Destroyer actually becomes, and of course the three Slava cruisers and two Kirov cruisers

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Yes but in fact just presumably yet 1 Kara retired or almost, 4 Sovremenyy, 2 Krivak some UdaloyI/II on 8 possible they have plans for modernized and 12 new FFG for replaced these MSC one by one.
Talking for ships in service exist 1st reserve and 2nd rusty ... we have see recently pics with Sovremenyy in this state... !

I expect the future Russian surface fleet...if they can afford to build them...

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Yet almost sure they don' t get all equipment planned as the Plan 2010/20 one example T-50 planned 55 and now 12 series fighters. Seems even more difficult for new Armata family very good new combat vehicles but much more expensives as series tank T and BMP.
They depends energy price mainly and fortunately for we down after almost ten years to a price !