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Soldier30 said:

The Russian Navy will abandon an additional series of six Project 22160 patrol ships. The series of Project 22160 corvettes will not be continued and will end with the delivery of the last ship of the series to the Black Sea Fleet. The official version, inconsistencies in their tactical and technical qualities of combat operating conditions. In particular, the military is not satisfied with the seaworthiness and armoring of ships, as well as the vulnerability of their power plants and weak anti-aircraft weapons. Most likely, the key role in the decision to abandon was played by the fact that the ships have almost no air defense, it is represented by manual MANPADS, why the ships went into series this way is not clear.

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Not enough Dakka. A lot of people in the Russian military complained about this being a glorified patrol boat. Which is what is is. It uses the same kind of power plant you would use in a Steregushchiy-class corvette but comes with basically no weapons. Project 22160 was designed with similar concept to US LCS where you could fit modular weapons system to configure it for the particular mission type you would be using it in. You can supposedly put a container in the back which can have UKSK VLS or air defense missiles. But if you put the container in the back, you basically can't use the helicopter landing pad. So it is a bit of a crap concept to be honest.

Russia’s cutting-edge Checkmate fighter to perform debut flight in 2025, deputy PM says​

Yury Borisov also noted that it normally took 18-24 months between the debut flight and the serial production

ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Russia’s fifth-generation Su-75 Checkmate single-engine fighter is set to perform its debut flight in 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov told reporters at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.
Previous reports suggested that the state-of-the-art Checkmate fighter was scheduled to perform its debut flight in 2023.
"The first flight in 2025," Borisov said, adding that it normally took 18-24 months between the debut flight and the serial production.
Head of the state tech corporation Rostec Sergey Chemezov earlier said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the serial production of the Checkmate light tactical fighter would begin in 2027. Currently, Russian specialists are working out the fighter’s design documentation and have engineered its first prototype, he added.

Rostec is developing the Checkmate fighter using its own funds, without federal budget financing, he emphasized.

Checkmate fighter​

Russia’s state tech corporation Rostec unveiled the latest domestic single-engine fighter dubbed Checkmate at the MAKS-2021 international airshow that ran in the suburban town of Zhukovsky outside Moscow. The fighter’s presentation abroad was held at the Dubai Airshow 2021 in the United Arab Emirates. The new plane created by Rostec at its own initiative, is a derivative of the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter.
The new single-engine fighter is based on stealth technology and is outfitted with an inboard compartment for airborne air-to-air and air-to-surface armaments. The fighter will carry a payload of over 7 tonnes and will be capable of striking up to six targets at a time.
The Checkmate fighter will be capable of flying at Mach 1.8 (1.8 times the speed of sound) and will have an operating range of 3,000 km. The aircraft will be outfitted with a highly efficient powerplant.
Russia’s latest, cutting-edge fighter is expected to compete with America’s F-35A Lightning II and Sweden’s JAS-39 Gripen. The Checkmate incorporates the latest systems, including its open architecture configuration to meet the customer’s requirements and unique artificial intelligence technologies.

Ah Tass… So anyone actually willing to believe that after the decades of Tass articles like this on Russia’s carriers? PAK DA? Mig 41? Mass production of SU57? T14?

As if other countries military programs do not get delayed either.

This was a transcript of a speech by the Deputy Prime Minister. Before being Deputy Prime Minister he was the Deputy Minister of Defense. Before that he was the Military-Industrial Commissioner for Russia. So you can bet what he is saying comes out directly from the regular reports with the manufacturer.

The Su-57 is in production and the T-14 entered serial production late last year. At least two PAK DA prototypes are currently under construction. As for the MiG-41 i.e. PAK DP it is still in the design stage and since its engine will use the same core as Izd. 30 engine you cannot expect it to come out any time soon. So I will repeat. The PAK DP engine is based on an engine which still is not in service. So of course it won't be flying any time soon.

The Su-75 uses the same engines and avionics and radar as the Su-57. So most of the technology already exists. It is a matter of making an airframe and tuning the fly-by-wire system software to the new airframe.

Many battles now in Ukraine have become positional due to the huge number of fortified areas created literally in settlements over 8 years. In this situation, the role of artillery has become more important than ever. One of the key roles in the work of Russian artillery in Ukraine is assigned to the 152-mm Msta-S self-propelled artillery mount. At an arms exhibition in 1993 in Abu Dhabi, Msta-S hit 38 out of 40 targets at a distance of 15 km. The unit has been modernized several times, in Ukraine the 2S19M1 and 2S19M2 versions are now used. According to the gunners, "Msta-SM2" proved to be excellent in the battles in Ukraine. The firing range of self-propelled guns with a conventional projectile is 25 km; active-reactive - up to 29 km, self-propelled guns ammunition 50 shells. Rate of fire 10 rounds per minute.

james smith esq said:

So, thirty years hasn’t given sufficient time to correct?

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The collapse of the Soviet Union curtailed huge swathes of military expenditure through the early 2000's. Military expenditure had fallen from an estimated $257 billion in the USSR in 1987 to $24.1 billion in Russia in 1997. the recovery from that huge drop has gone nowhere near replacing what was histrorically spent. the graph below differs slightly in the 80's /1990 period ( most analysts differ slightly ) but this graph is pretty consistent. current expeniture is I believe, estimated at around $65-70bn

gelgoog said:

As if other countries military programs do not get delayed either.

This was a transcript of a speech by the Deputy Prime Minister. Before being Deputy Prime Minister he was the Deputy Minister of Defense. Before that he was the Military-Industrial Commissioner for Russia. So you can bet what he is saying comes out directly from the regular reports with the manufacturer.

The Su-57 is in production and the T-14 entered serial production late last year. At least two PAK DA prototypes are currently under construction. As for the MiG-41 i.e. PAK DP it is still in the design stage and since its engine will use the same core as Izd. 30 engine you cannot expect it to come out any time soon. So I will repeat. The PAK DP engine is based on an engine which still is not in service. So of course it won't be flying any time soon.

The Su-75 uses the same engines and avionics and radar as the Su-57. So most of the technology already exists. It is a matter of making an airframe and tuning the fly-by-wire system software to the new airframe.

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that’s a little like a student who has been getting mostly Fs with a few Ds coping by pointing to other who got mostly Bs and some As and Cs and exclaiming indignantly “well their scores aren’t anywhere near perfect either”.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

Ah Tass… So anyone actually willing to believe that after the decades of Tass articles like this on Russia’s carriers? PAK DA? Mig 41? Mass production of SU57? T14?

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I argued with Russians and pro-Russian westerners back in the day when Russians claimed they'll be getting three new carriers by 2010, and I was called a NATO shill who knows nothing, of course now 12 years later Russia is struggling to fix their only carrier.

I've also noticed that many people use Soviet Union as example what Russians can do... obviously forgetting that Russia isn't in same league as Soviet Union.

Broccoli said:

Russians claimed they'll be getting three new carriers by 2010

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they may came to conclusion that aircraft carrier is not effective where they are going to see combat.
how exactly Aircraft carrier is measured of power?. Russia does not have aircraft carrier for Middleast and Africa but it has oversize influence there and it is reflected in prices. There is no need Aircraft carrier for Arctic. from North every region of world is basically on missile strike distance. Future UCAVs will further reduce need of carrier. i am not even counting missile enhancements to Tu-160M/Tu-95MSM. They will be airborne carriers of missiles like 24/7 on station.

obviously forgetting that Russia isn't in same league as Soviet Union.

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Russia is in different league in terms of combat effectiveness and engineering depth. thats why you can see Russian firing thousands of cruise/ballistic missiles while Soviets could hardly do any. Soviets never managed to complete its space constellation.
what Russia control now Syria/Africa and Ukraine on map is effectively occupied while Soviet when occupied in Afghanistan was limited to garrisons and outside was still not safe. there was no effectiveness in combat to properly defeat.
As Turkey importance grows for Europe. there are counter balancing forces that will keep spending money.

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- Will the Su-35 batch, which is being made for a foreign customer, be handed over to the Russian Aerospace Forces?

- No, the planes will go to a foreign customer, they are made in a certain shape, everything is fine, the enterprise is working. Our capabilities make it possible to provide both our Armed Forces and foreign customers with this aircraft. We were convinced of this during a recent visit to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

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pmc said:

Russia is in different league in terms of combat effectiveness and engineering depth. thats why you can see Russian firing thousands of cruise/ballistic missiles while Soviets could hardly do any. Soviets never managed to complete its space constellation.
what Russia control now Syria/Africa and Ukraine on map is effectively occupied while Soviet when occupied in Afghanistan was limited to garrisons and outside was still not safe. there was no effectiveness in combat to properly defeat.
As Turkey importance grows for Europe. there are counter balancing forces that will keep spending money.

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LoL That was really funny. Off course because USSR dissolved many years before. Neither GPS was complete those days. Russia inherited tons of knowledge it terms of aerospace technology and engineering in general and managed to mistreat them very hard. Hardly any missiles? You live in a parallel universe? Modern Russia could not protect it's flagship, you know the now submerged museum of these "hardly any" missiles