Why would you expect iran not to?
Plenty of non-english speaking countries use english.
I would bet a lot of Iranians speak english… languages transends politics

POlitical statement.. i can see that. But still their whole point is that they can do things themselves. Why would you need to write in English?

For example, I can’t imagine Serbian, or Croatian airplanes to say SRAF or CRAF or whatever. Its abbreviation of english words in different language/nation’s airforce. Doesn’t make any sense.

and again, i can see this used by India or Taiwan who who are super friendly with USAF and conduct exercises on regular basis. But Iran, who can’t stand America’s constantly telling them what not to do, and threatening them with war? Why don’t they just write it in Hebrew? 🙂

and how will they pay for it when the regime is probably going to be ousted in a few months?

gold

How come there is not good photo of the front intake from MAKS2011? This has got to be somewhere. Look at the videos of it rolling and turning on the runway. Someone could have zoomed in with a decent lens.

unless its covered until bird is up in the air to prevent stuff getting into engine.

anyone..

Speaking of missiles, have we found out yet what this is:

http://missiles.ru/_foto/MAKS-2011_1_news/_MG_0801.JPG

If I correctly interpret the caption that went with it, this is a new experimental design?

looks like piece of set, or fancy table they are putting up. Same thing the guy in background is holding :-)))

T50-2 finally did its first flight at LII today

photos (c) Sergey Lysenko

Specially on these two photos it looks so much like modern day “Firefox” re-design

it must gain name Firefox!

FIREFOX !! Totally!!

from the display on cocpkit panel, it seems like J-20 carries 6+2 internal missiles

Well, this might be going a bit off the subject, but not to much..

what if Russia decides to offer Serbia a VERY good deal on S400 as a “big brother” gesture, only to expand their reach back towards west. This could be a tough card to play against nato’s plans, and would anger most of Europe.

What would Serbia do? Reject it immediately so they don’t compromise their path to EU? This type of a card would be hard to reject considering it would probably come with additional benefits.

As crazy as it sounds, i wouldn’t be surprised at such move. Russia could always bs that they are offering this as part off missile defense system they want to start to integrate with westerns, as they offered before already.

as long as Serbia is not in Nato, Russia can use it to mess with west and create new deals with west. There might not be much time left for such things though.