Where is Coltishall?

VERY cool Mirage!! Reminds me of the black painted Drakens in the American movie Firebirds with Nicholas Cage. 😀

That huge supersonic missile, was it the P-750 Grom (AS-X-19)?

The early artwork of the Mig-29 I have seen in one of my books. I think it was based on early US satelite pics of the prototype dubbed ‘RAM-L’ taken at Zhukovski Air Base, then known to the US as ‘Ramenskoye’.

Expect to see the RAAF acquire something like the AIM-120D or Meteor in time as well. 🙂

I am not so sure about in flight photos been rare, in a very quick yahoo.com search I found quite a few of them.

Ok, James Cameron has been pretty quiet of late. Time to get him back involved, especially if Alien 5 will turn out to be a big action flick?

And what of the title? ‘Alien 5’ just sounds so generic, what about Alien: “?” ?

Alien: The Conquest
Aliens II
…. others?

The Backfire is so ’70s. I’m not sure that it still can play a part in today’s warfare?

If the Chinese ever did get them they would be used the same way the Soviets intended against NATO fleets; as supersonic long-range missile carriers. For this role they excell. I think their presence in China, again if it happened, would worry the USN and any other potentially hostile fleet, but maybe only to the point of contemplating a pre-emptive strike on their base(s) to them out of the equation of any future conflict. Ala Clancy and Red Storm Rising.

On the Hong Kong papers, why are they so full of crap?