Re: Prague divided over radar sale to China

During NATO bombing in Serbia within the Kosovo crisis between March and May 1999, the use of a Tamara system was suspected of aiding Serb air-defence forces down a US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft.

They still think this?I thaught they know better.

Isnt there an arms embargo on exporting weapons to China from EU?

Where is titanium all used on this airplane.I presume for protecting the cockpit from the bottom side and left and right side and between the engines. Anywhere else?

Great video Vympel!

Paveway too? I wonder why Russians havent developed earlier laser guided bombs.

They probably got many parts from helicopters since these did not crash as “hard” as the airplens.

As to f-117 again,they must have obtained something at least,some structure tips,avionics,it was not in that bad condition when it crashed.at least the underfuselage.

I did not read about it in Flight International but on some website.
The problems that come up are:

1)Neutron bomb might break the asteroid in smaller pieces therefore several small asteroids might strike earth at different locations.

2)It is about time to reveal those Lasers and stuff from AREA 51:) If the laser could break up the big asteroid in many many small ones that would burn in our atmosphere that would be good

3)How do you get another asteroid to crash into the one that is on the way to earth?

4)The spacecraft must be attached to the asteroid long long long ways away from Earth in order to steer it enough to miss.It is really complicated if not impossible.

Lets just leave it all in hands of Bruice Willis,he managed to destroy the Asteroid in Armagedon,so he has one kill so far.:)

If you want to check nice videos of JSF go to Locheed Martins website.My favourite is the B model,due to his vertical take off and landing and the technique that that trust fan uses(i like the part when the VTOL parts open up):)

That is what i read a year after the bombing.

As to F-117,”half of Serbia” has its parts,the outher skin i mean,since everyone wanted a souvenier.Apart from F-117,UAVs like Predator and Phoenix were also sent to Russia. I do not know what happened to F-16s parts but maybe that too.

No one answered me so far on Vietnam? I think that some F-111 or F-4s in fairly good condition were found on the ground?

Does this mean a brighter future for Yakovlev and that we might actually see in the future some new Yak planes go in the service with Russia? I hope so!