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Hi,
im not convinced of china not want to supply awacs to Russia, if China is ready to supply
awacs to Egypt im sure Russians are more closest to China one way or the other, might be
some other factor coming from Russian side, at least for the time being if not latest but somewhat
like ZDK kid of awacs like been supplied to Pakistan.
I don’t know what’s going on with Russian side not getting Chinese help, though China bought lots
of engines and SU35 from Russia
thank you

Nah, it just one of Russia's weird hang-ups. Probably similar hangs up as to why they haven't allowed PL integration on the Su-35's of the PLAAF.

vincent said:

I think i read here many Russian munitions, including Iskanders, still use lots of Western chips.

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Those chips have Russian analogues. The original Western chips are cheaper so they use them. This is all civilian grade technology easy to smuggle. If for whatever reason the Western chips became unavailable they would use their own. This would raise the price of the weapon systems but the Iskander could still be produced.

gelgoog said:

Those chips have Russian analogues. The original Western chips are cheaper so they use them. This is all civilian grade technology easy to smuggle. If for whatever reason the Western chips became unavailable they would use their own. This would raise the price of the weapon systems but the Iskander could still be produced.

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Wouldn't Chinese made chips be even cheaper?

gelgoog said:

Those chips have Russian analogues. The original Western chips are cheaper so they use them. This is all civilian grade technology easy to smuggle. If for whatever reason the Western chips became unavailable they would use their own. This would raise the price of the weapon systems but the Iskander could still be produced.

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Depend on the chip. For some like less complex chips like power semiconductors,RF chips, logic gates and some ASICs, I think Russia semiconductor industry is capable enough, so I don't think they will have too much difficulty.
But It seems the Russian designers use a lot of FPGAs to reduce complexity and increase flexibility in the design.

These are high end FPGAs with large quantities of logics gates and these chips are more difficult to make. These will have to be made in Chinese fabs who have 45nm and below capabilities. Another option is to buy Chinese FPGAs chips with similar capabilities.

I don't know the intrinsic of Russia electronics workflow to tell how that would work out.
Another option is to replace the FPGAs for ASICs chips but that will increase the complexity of the electronics and decrease the flexibility of the design. The good news for Russians designers is that these chips are pretty ubiquitous in the market and easy to get.

Exactly. You can replace an FPGA made on a
newer process with an ASIC made on an older process. This is also how Huawei got around the ban of the sales of modern FPGAs to them.

The only problem the Russians are having is with systems which require high definition video or AI. Like the Lancet. That uses NVIDIA AI chips. But the Lancet isn't a strategic weapon platform and a carrier of nukes.

lol. A day before i wrote that AWACS utility will decrease in addition to Stealth and this already happening. next will be Aircraft carrier and its support structure.
i was correctly interpreting Ukraine conflict. MIG-31K launch Kinzal from Tambov not at Ukraine border.
This is very outdated approach to a modern conflict where slow moving aircraft and its support structure can literally destroyed on ground let alone dealing with 5G fighter flying at twice that altitude of AWACS. when Tu-160M2 was announced they announced transition to much longer ranges and faster missiles (Kh-95?). this thing assumes targets could be found at those ranges. this is much beyond AWACS.

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The decision was driven by “significant delays with cost increases” and concerns about the fleet’s ability to weather attacks by the advanced anti-aircraft weapons the U.S. military expects to face in future wars, the defense official told reporters at a briefing on the Defense Department’s 2026 spending request.
“We wanted to be able to span the globe,” a second senior military official said. “We are bullish on space, and we think that that’s a capability that can be achieved, actually, faster than the E-7 will deliver at this point.”

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According to him, the new Tu-160 will be less noticeable than its predecessor, "due to special coatings."
"At the same time, we are developing new airborne weapons, and it is impossible to compare the Tu-160 aircraft with the Kh-55, Kh-550, or even Kh-101 missiles and the aircraft that we hope to receive in series production by the 2030s with new airborne weapons that will have completely different ranges," emphasized Yu. Borisov.

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Admiral Kuznetsov, said to be photographed just yesterday. Posted by Shilao on Weibo.

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Admiral Kuznetsov, said to be photographed just yesterday. Posted by Shilao on Weibo.

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Sad state of a "carrier" that should have been scrapped long time ago. I can't even understand some that still argue that this "carrier" is coming back online. Just sad and other countries are laughing at this "carrier" all the time.

Russia did a mistake selling INS Vikra-Whatever to India even though "Vikra" is smaller, it still somehow works albeit with a number of problems, but still better than the state of Kuznetsov.

Kuznetsov is done for.

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Russia did a mistake selling INS Vikra-Whatever to India even though "Vikra" is smaller, it still somehow works albeit with a number of problems, but still better than the state of Kuznetsov.

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The ex-Varyag is a horrible compromised design, tbh. I honestly think it would be better not to have anything rather than that, as it would also completly sideline the Su-33 fleet anyway.