The An-70 seems like agreat plane. Why isn’t it an export success? I know that there were problems with the engines. Does anyone know it the problems have been overcome?

picture from:http://www.reserve-info.de/luftwaffe/an7.htm

Picture from:http://www.sfu.ca/casr/ th-an70.htm
That is an interesting picture.
I know that the Russians are probably not too thrilled with having NATO forces at their door, but what have they said about this?
I was looking for info to compare the An12 and the C130 and I found the following clips. Pretty cool videos of the c130.
http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOn.html
http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOff.html
This might be a dumb question, but does the US (Russia and China also) have any back up satellites to launch in case certain ones are destroyed?
Thanks for the update. I guess I haven’t been paying attention lately.:o
Thanks for the pictures and the explanation of the pod. If you have more picture…keep them comming.
Does anyone know who did the work on the Peruvian Su22s and installed the re-fueling probe? It looks very “Mirage” like.
What is the buldge under the intake?

What did the old color scheme look like?
Oh, well so much for work.:D
Doesn’t Russia use Beriev airplanes? They can land on sea or land.
Doesn’t it make a lot more sense to do it the “Swedish” way by using even small roads as airstrips? The mobile ground support crew can switch positions after each landing and thus avoid detection and destruction. But I guess it takes special planes like the Gripen or Harrier to use this sort of concept
Doesn’t Poland use highways as airstrips? They don’t have specialized planes like the Gripen or Harrier. The airforces uses Migs and they land on the highways.
In the Swedish model, are all roads capable of being used as airfields or only certain ones?
I remember reading somewhere that NK has hangers inside of mountains. The way I picture it, it would be similar to what the Swiss have. I was not aware of any undergraound airfields.
Yemen. I forgot that the pictures weren’t altered. I though someone took the stars out.
Originally posted by flex297
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Kind of air force one-ish.:)
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