Had read on an Iranian website that Iran wanted some kind of Technology Transfer Russia did not agree to. In other words, Iran was bent into building its own fighter
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license assembly will cost a fortune in todays dollars. Just look at Flanker deals of 90s with China and India. even MIG-35 is more advanced in materials and tech than those fighters.
and Iran sold primitive card board drones that Russia spend alot of resources to improve them and it has all the scientific potential to scale up on industrial scale through advancement in robotics.
and Iran sold primitive card board drones that Russia spend alot of resources to improve them and it has all the scientific potential to scale up on industrial scale through advancement in robotics.
The dual-barrel AK-130 has been replaced by the more modern 130 mm single-barrel cannon A-192M.
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Yeah the former owners did not invest in the shipyard and they have few orders. The Amur and Zvezda shipyards in the Far East are doing fine however.
From what I understand on Soviet times this shipyard used to build Grisha anti-submarine corvettes. Those have been replaced with much larger Project 20380 corvettes built at Amur shipyard.
As for minesweeper ships those, Alexandrit class, right now are built in a single shipyard in Western Russia.
From what I understand on Soviet times this shipyard used to build Grisha anti-submarine corvettes. Those have been replaced with much larger Project 20380 corvettes built at Amur shipyard.
As for minesweeper ships those, Alexandrit class, right now are built in a single shipyard in Western Russia.
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Bottom up preference. Russian pilots simply prefer using the Su-34 over the Su-30 on bombing tasks, even though Su-30s are capable of dropping FABs, and they do so once in a while to flex their muscles. But the overwhelming preference for the Su-34 lies in the side by side seating arrangement which appears to have enormous benefits in morale and cockpit productivity.
The same situation is happening over the Ka-52M over the Mi-28NM helicopters. The side by side seating is more popular but the MoD also needs to keep the Mi helicopter production lines busy.
A lot of the time, the Su-34 loiters, and they take off without any specific targets. It's so often only the targets were discovered by scout drones used by special forces that they would drop their FABs. Su-35s accompany the Thirty Fours as escorts, where they would alert the bomber and launch flares to decoy SAMs. During this loiter time, the side by side seating also helps dealing with pilot fatigue.
I doubt navigator has any use beyond taking videos for GNSS bombing. There are many Su-34 specific problems - for one, as aircraft was born after the fall, it's way less capable than it should've been(in many ways su-24m is better just because many core things in su-34 weren't implemented due to lack of funding).
Main reason, realistically, is institutional inertia carrying on from the 1980s. There was to be a bomber because there was a bomber before.
During SMO specifically, - much surdier airframe (for years of continuous bombing and daily sorties), and ironically armor (su-34 crew losses are very low). There are also new uses for navigator which emerged /now/, which do indeed benefit from wide cockpit.
This one is very interesting. Side by side seating is normally outright bad for combat helicopter as we know it - it adds a lot of weight(especially if armored) and vulnerable frontal area; there are no redeeming sides from this point of view.
Ukraine wasn't easy on combat helicopter, however. And if we use it not as dedicated AT helicopter or even combat helicopter(both are essentially supremely fast and amphibious land vehicles), but rather than as tactical VTOL fighter-bomber, ka-52, with it's convenient cockpit and far better radar turns from a weirdo into harbinger of future.
Had read on an Iranian website that Iran wanted some kind of Technology Transfer Russia did not agree to. In other words, Iran was bent into building its own fighter
Technology Transfers also includes sums of monies.. afterall it's someone else's IP and Trade secrets that you are wanting. The Iranian website author might have overlook that and think Politics alone is enough.