Whilst it might be correct that this proposal would avoid the destruction of an entire village and bring 200,000 new residents into the airport’s noise footprint, can you imagine how unbearable it would be for those who already live within the airport’s noise footprint if they had to endure the noise that a doubling of the number of aircraft taking-off and landing would create?

Aircraft noise is by and by large a solved problem now.

The main issue is that the in-fleet aircraft largely lags behind the new (and thus very quiet aircraft).

When the A320NEO, A350, A380, B737Me2, B787, B777X and CSeries comprise the majority of flights into and out of airports; noise complaints will reduce to a fraction of what they are.

Lastly a MIG-25 was mentioned, as the USSR response to the B-70. When one was handed over to us in Japan, it was found out that it was so poor quality there was a placard on the panel that said “dont exceed mach 2.8”. Also its maneuverablity was in question. So how was a plane that was much slower and less maneuverable going to shoot down the B-70?

The Foxbat’s AA-6 has a range of ~60km.

The Foxhounds AA-9 has a range of ~120km for R-33E or 220km for the R-33S.

The R-37 supposedly has a range up to 400 km. At Mach 6.

Frankly, this SNP and their cohort are mad… They want to senselessly split the British Isles even more than they already are?! To what frigging purpose?!

To have laws, taxes and systems more in-line with the needs of the local people rather than everything London-centric.

Anyway, as regards their “defence force”. Forget about fast-jets. No need. If you don’t go around pissing people off, then you don’t need to drop bombs on anyone or intercept bombers/missiles heading your way.

A few naval patrol boats. Some maritime patrol/SAR aircraft and boats, a reserve army and they are done.

SR-71 and MiG-25R proved that flying a zig-zag at M3 and 80k ft and will cause SAMs to run out of energy before they get to you.

I would expect if bombers depending almost purely on high speed for evasion had gone into widespread service we’d have seen more SAM systems based off the RIM-8 propulsion philosophy.

easy.

PAK-FA = No DSI
F-22 = No DSI
EuroFighter = No DSI
Rafale = No DSI
Gripen = No DSI

F-35 = DSI
J-20 = DSI
J-31 = DSI

The Gripen-NG may rule the skies with the other apex-predators if it incorporates DSI. Otherwise, its just another baby seal like the first 5.

Given that several variants of the A350 look to be bigger than the 787, is this an attempt to cover that particular size class?

Yep.

Does the 777X push the 747-8 out? I mean it would appear that the 777X is already gaining a lot of orders, so does that spell the end of the line for the 747-8?

Yep.

does anyone think Boeing will have killed their own product with the new 777X variants? Just curious.

Why do you think they were so reluctant to launch the 777X?

Airlines crying out for it for years and Boeing kept replying saying all their designers are tied up on 787… yeah… dead on. They’d committed to the -8 at that point and didn’t want to render it a dead-duck. They now recognise its a dead-duck anyway, so are going ahead with 777X.

[although, in fairness, proving the technology on the 787 does allow the 777X to be de-risked]

That is only a coincidence, i find it impossible to believe the Sukhois folks would lower themselves and gave attention to that horrible “fan-art”.

Is it?

There is a crank in the paint job along the “leading edge” of the tone switch, corresponding to the fan art.

They also have aligned the trailing edge (including inconsistencies over the elevator) approximately the same as the fan art.

Having a laugh? I think so. 😎

Those engaged in testing them have a different view.

They have ALWAYS had a different view though!

The promises haven’t changed.

The ability to actually deliver on the promises may have changed, but until there is an actual shooting war between two advanced adversaries of roughly equal capability, that will remain unclear.