标题: Russia's Rusting Defense Industry + China's Stealth Jets in Flux [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-8-2013 08:38 标题: Russia's Rusting Defense Industry + China's Stealth Jets in Flux (1) Russia Wrestles With Reality And Loses. Strategy Page, Sept 5, 2013 http://strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20130905.aspx
(In 2010, Russia announced the deal to buy four Mistral amphibious assault ships from France. "Russia already had a deal with Israel, to build a factory in Russia to build Israeli UAVs under license. Similar deals were made with other Western suppliers for armored vehicles from Italy")
"One advantage the J-31 is it has two engines, compared to one for the F-35. This means the J-31 could carry more weapons but this is less crucial with all the guided weapons available.
"There are at least two original J-20 prototypes [both of which debuted in 2011], and late last year a new prototype appeared that had several modifications and is estimated to have a max weight of 36 tons. While the J-20 looks like the American F-22 when viewed head on, it's overall shape, weight, and engine power is closer to the American F-15C. * * * Worse, for the J-20, is the fact that its engine power is about the same as the F-15C, while the F-22 has 65 percent more power. With the afterburner turned on, the J-20 has more power than the F-15C and nearly as much as the F-22. But because the afterburner consumes so much fuel you can't use more than a few minutes at a time. * * * The J-20 has some stealthiness when it's coming at you head on. But from any other aspect, the J-20 will light up the radar screen. For this reason the J-20 is seen as a developmental aircraft, not the prototype of a new model headed for mass production.