Jeeze, the tagline at the end had me thinking they were going to sell me the latest 8 blade razor.

Counterpoint: If you look at something like an XPS 13 or 15, even the downgraded models retain the same great build quality, good-for-Windows trackpad, good battery life and good screens even if you don’t go for the usual mid-end model and go for the downgraded i3s and full HD rather than QHD screens. And actually the…

Lol wow, that’s pretty bad. I knew they photoshopped it over the Himalayas and had Ahmadinejad hilariously sitting in the cockpit, but I wasn’t sure if those weren’t still the “we could build this” of a concept, or if they were trying to fool people into thinking the plane worked.

I’m curious if they actually ever said that was a functional jet on their state TV, or if it was a concept? Even the concept is retarded granted, but if they said it was a real functional plane that’s even funnier.

Could do without the condescension, but yes, I saw the clarification later. And I’m a software developer, but ok.

Lets seen if they actually materialize though. Japan seems to be in the technology demonstrator stage, Indias AMCA has an early design proposal but no prototype, and everyone else so far as I know is still just on paper. Russia and China are the closest, but both with seemingly large flaws (Pak Fa has some curious…

I’m not sure if I buy that as the reason. Japan was willing to go to pretty far lengths to procure it, if they had to single handedly fund a rewrite they probably would. And ADA being inherently insecure? That is indeed pretty strange from a language meant for military use. And it would be compiled to binary for the…

This isn’t analogous to the F-35. This is a technology test bed more than anything. Look at it, it’s too small to carry much. This is not the final design of this jet, it’s not even an early “final” design like the X-35 was.

For a second I thought “Nvidia GPUs are on fighter jets? Cooool”

Lol, oh that. Those were good times. I wonder if their state media ever followed up on its debut?

I don’t think so. But I think Russia just agreed to sell some advanced ones to them, which is dumb, because you know China is going to reverse engineer them and become a market competitor. Russia had banned advanced engine sales to China for exactly that reason, but now they’re in full “need a quick buck” mode.

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Pretty much from what I gather. India wasn’t full of praise over it either, if they walk away the whole project is pretty well boned as Russia can’t foot twice the bill for it for the full amount.

Did they admit it? I mean, that’s very likely, it’s what almost everyone expects, but I thought Sukhoi and Russian Officials were still going with “the best of the best”

Unless you mean the softball vs golf ball vs baseball thing, in which case yes they did come to think of it.

Secured it with whom? The India deal or do they have another importer? Just wondering if I missed news or if it was the same deal.

Su-55? Havn’t heard that one before?

Ah the Pak Fa. “Make big, add thrust”, still the motto since the Soviet era.

Last I heard India is buying more Pak Fas than Russia, though even they cut back the order. I forget, is it down to 60 now for India or something like that, to Russias initial 12?

So what’s the A-10s job? Because it can really only operate over already sterilized battlefields anymore.

With Japan and India buddying up of late, I’m wondering if an X-2/AMCA joint project is out of the realm of possibility, since they’re both in the early stages of designing a fifth gen fighter. They could play off each others strengths, high technology and manpower and raw supplies.

That would be cool to see. You would need more than 1 per laptop for a sample size though, since it can be a crapshoot. I don’t even know what magic my 6 year old Dell Studio 1555 pulled, with the original battery having 80% capacity after all that time and I think nearing 2000 charge cycles. I used the battery…