Isn’t A-10 far more armoured than Su-34? Su-34’s armour is confined mostly to the cockpit yes? :confused:

Sure, the A-10 is heavily armoured, but thats a specification from 40 years ago – how much cockpit armour was specified on the F-35?

1. Armor
2. Looks
3. Armor
4. Looks

The USAF doesn’t want armour on it’s aircraft – not to the level of the Su-34 at least. As for looks, well…

Isn’t ammonia sometimes used as a rocket fuel?:confused:

So very sad, wish more than anything that this was not happening, greatest loss is the men and women that once used this equipment in their day to day work.
I am however glad you put this up, very tempted to bid bid for stuff, but were the hell would I put it,…other than to donate it to like of Elvington.

Paul

You think that’s sad?
How about this wanton act of local community economic devastation and the denting of a country’s intellectual (i.e. R & D) potential… 2,400 ‘smart’ jobs in Kent to go…:(:(

Pfizer to close factory with loss of 2,400 jobs as manufacturing soars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/01/pfizer-to-close-viagra-facility
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/23/budget-2011-sandwich-pfizer-jobs

Some say the An12 cannot be landed with two engines out on one side. The gear and flaps make it nigh on impossible to control in that situation.

And the C-130, ever have this problem?

I’ve been to Madeira 3 times and never had even a slightly weird landing, although the conditions haven’t been particularly bad when we’ve landed. My home airport is Leeds Bradford; it’s the highest commercial airport in the UK and has, shall we say, the odd crosswind. I think almost all the worst landings I’ve ever had have been there!

I’d have to agree with you there about Leeds-Bradford.
I went to university in Leeds and one day returning from Ireland: DUB – LBA on a Ryanscare B737-200 (around 1999-2000) I made possibly the weirdest landing. It was the first time I’d ever heard “revving” noises coming from a plane and we could feel the plane yawing from left to right, followed by a massive bang when the pilot put it down in the heaviest landing I’ve ever been in.
I could barely walk down the open steps and cross the tarmac with the wind…

The YF-12A also differed from the A-12 in having armament. This armament consisted of four Hughes AIM-47A Falcon air-to-air missiles housed internally in chine bays that had previously been used to carry the reconnaissance equipment. The AIM-47A had originally been known as the GAR-9 and (like the ASG-18 radar) had originally been intended for the F-108 Rapier. When fired, the Falcon missiles were explosively ejected from their bays, and their rocket motors were fired…

…On March 18, a YF-12A successfully engaged a Q-2C target drone at 40,000 feet while the interceptor was flying at Mach 2.2 at an altitude of 65,000 feet. The first powered launch was undertaken on March 18, 1956. Six out of seven AIM-47 tests resulted in hits, including One fired from an altitude of 75,000 feet and a speed of Mach 3.2 against a target approaching head-on at 1500 feet.

(that should be 1965, and not 1956 of course)

http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/f12.html

If Lockheed could do it 45 years ago, I don’t see why they can’t do it today (or Sukhoi also, for that matter).