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Cummins ACE -> Junkers fathered Ukrainian 6DT redone with enough $ to get traction.

British procurement looking more like that of India every day , evil tongues could say of same folks running the show .

Looking sharp ,i wonder if the added weight degraded its mobility . Old BRDM is extremely mobile ,i remember when Slovenian military trialed Patria AMV and Styer Pandur II  8x8 in off road mobility trials and BRDM was set as benchmark it easily smoked them and armored Humvee as well.

10 hours ago, GregHouse said:

I really would like to know what's going on with the two IRST systems. Did they go for a long-wave *and* a mid-wave sensor?

Likely just two diffrerent systems sort of  EOTS  and separate IRST  , no need to drag a Sniper pod if you have that capabilty buit in.

Rafale has both side by side , as do some chinese pods  for fighters.

Although this looks like civilian one , it looks like there are add on armor panels on front doors , folding rotors also hint towards shipborne use

Again new composite fuselage 

Figures presented at MAKS indicate that that maximum speed rose to 134kt (250km/h), up from 118kt; range grew to 302nm (560km), from 260nm; while payload for the 3.6t helicopter grew to 1,000kg (2,204lb), up from 785kg.

Seems like there is some new developments with helos as well

Mil 171 'Gazprom' looks like completely new machine combining new fuselage with Mil28 power train and rotor system. Will it also end up as cheap alternative to Mil 38 for the military?

Considering how smooth it is i gather its mostly composite  construction which should also saved some weight

They actually announced that they already have a foreign launch customer since the start of the development !?

Most important take is probably this is supposedly developed like USAF suggested for E-series , wholly digitally developed and tested prior to making a prototype shortening the development time considerably.

English language presentation.

Composite picture

Picts make cockpit canopy  look small like in in the old 60s era fighters 

16 hours ago, ADC411 said:

More like X-32ski, if current rumours are true.

Picts unrelated to actual craft , in any case no 5gen project in the world follows F35 or X-35 for good reason as first of these are designed to peculiar specification for a medium altitude medium speed bomb truck that has to also be made to serve in 3 widely differing configurations while using same fat air frame and massive engine to make VTOL work.  Every one else is developing a fighter with some ground attack capability and no Vtol configuration. So current designs Chinese, Korean,Japanese,Brit are far more along the lines of F22 than anything else . If this is using same engine as Su57 this is be the smallest and lightest of the  5th gen offerings much smaller than f35 

the X-32 chin inlet is quite specific to the positioning of the engine right behind the pilot due to harrier like Vtol configuration , if Russian model has a chin intake you can bet 100% its for different reasons .Looking at the actual picts not the unrelated fan renders or model photos it doesn't seem to have an x-32 like intake. it also looks like it doesn't have any horizontal tail (altough these could be just unmounted to further confuse the observers)

Design configuration seems quite unique . 

Looks like actual rolling air frame not just wooden mock up 

Sukhoi is the only game in town if this budget cut gen 5 for export is any good. ,Mig can close down its Mig 35 /29 operation 

Looks like its is targeted at protecting against Javelin and Spike that fuse on impact

But would theoretically work only if it damaged the warhead so it did not fuze or form the penetrator  otherwise hollow charge is not affected by added stand of distance especially when it comes to punching trough thin tank roof.

1 hour ago, alanch90 said:

Poland is like a kid on a toy store wanting to buy everything on sale. Next thing is gonna be a Cr2 just to complete the Western Tank Fanboy Collection, practicality be damned. 

Seriously, Abrams pretty much has zero commonality with Poland´s existing Leo 2 fleet. SEPv3 has an ADL which Leo 2 doesn´t feature, so those tanks may not even have ammunition commonality. I gotta wonder the point of this contract if Poland could have upgraded their Leopards to SEPv3-like levels by themselves or via de Germans. I guess this also means that the K2PL might be dead.

Its just about politicians sucking up to US while Germany and EU pays for their toys. EU funds literally provide 4% of their GDP , so splashing 2% on defense is no big deal.

They get more funds than would be todays value of Marshall plan for whole of post ww2 Europe , alocated every 4 years. Other big euro spenders on arms are similarly heavily subsidised Hungarians and Romanians .

Not quite sure how they think this Jihadi design buro addon is meant to work against top attack munitons 

My Czech friend who is a gunner on Mi-35 mentioned that you are buying 12x transport  and 4x attack helos from US and that Mi-35 crews might end on transports. Are those Venom or Blackhawks ?.

These are now all being phased out and replaced with Blackhawks LOL

So after 17mio Eur inital price and 6.5mio eur Upgrade and some anexes Puma will be 25mio eur a pop

OCCAR seems co be clever way to push half dead over the budget euro systems around to get them built with joint financing, as for Slovenia , same Goverment crew that took Patria bribes is now all too eager to go for Boxer right after huge COVID debt burden to national finances,wonder what kind of backroom deals are availible at OCCAR ....................at minimum i expect they offer bunch of well paid no show jobs for ''buyers''.

So cca 6.5mio Eur/unit upgrade to add MELLS and sort of Iron Vision for IFV that just entered service

That is one seriously budget cut 'rubber track' , a rubberised ply belt with bolted on metal pads

Why would SPAAG be useless against drone's , they have been using drones for target practice for past 50+ years 

The big change seems to be willingness of French to finance the deal terms acceptable to financially weak customers. Its embarrassing for Euro-fighter , which is behind the development loop of Rafale ,has no sales outside KSA and no naval variant for much more money invested in development.

So going bollywood now with their tiger thrones 

But seriously what is the point of having low silhouette tank than adding a slat armor 1.5m above the turret. First the ERA bags now the sunscreens this is getting seriously embarrassing.

Some reports say its a drone.

Lend lease gear fought on Russian side , so why not keep that alive as well. Its great to see the old tanks in working order

Altough is easier to maintain the old russian tanks than american due to powerplants ,friend of mine owns a M36 Jackson ,which Yugoslavs re-engined with engine from T55 so its easy enough to keep running

Literaly every mayor component that makes a drone is foreign.

Actualy i was quite supprised that there is so little Turkish components in the drone and its missiles , even a simple bomb rack is made in UK

List of foreign parts from a downed drone

http://anca.org/assets/pdf/BayraktarDrone_US_Nato_Technology.pdf

It seems some testing for stealthier nozzles for flying wing ither C-70 Okhotnik UAV or some other project like Pak DA bomber

Looks kinda long setup for C-70 

Update It seems its not a nozzle for the UAV but so something supersonic

Tests under the project "Supersonic Civil Aircraft" (code "SDS / SPS") on the plane - flying laboratory Il-76LL.