Re: Russia Stealth Bomber Design Work Underway


Message posted by Magoo on April 12, 2000 at 18:50:48 EST:

I think Russia has some more pressing social problems to sort out first. Don't forget also, the 1.44 took five years to get off the ground from roll-out, and will never be a production aircraft. The S-37 is also a technology demonstrator rather than being production representative, so that doesn't leave much except Su-3-27 developments.

If I were a Russian military leader, I'd be concentrating on getting more Su-37s and Su-34s in the air and updating the existing Su-37s and MiG-29s, rather than going all out on a new stealth development. The Su-34 if given western avionics would be an awesome near-strategic air-to-ground platform! Russia's only logical potential enemy in the next decade will come from within, and a stealthy aircraft design would be wasted in another Chechnya type conflict.

Magoo


In Reply to: Re: Russia Stealth Bomber Design Work Underway posted by Richard on April 12, 2000 at 09:29:37 EST:

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