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Old 16th Dec 2017, 20:55
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The problem the Russians have isn’t airframes, it’s engines. Their modern aircraft are using upgrades of old designs, and they are a couple of generations behind the West. So the design might be great, but the size and payload is going to be about 70% of any design using a PW/GE/RR engine.
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