LevshaWhat is it with people with lots of money, their yachts and the skins or horns of dead animals. When I saw the wall tiled with with the skins of white stingrays and the alligator chair with the Kudo horns I was reminded of Aristotle Onassis and his famous yacht. The barstools on board were/are covered in a leather made from, and I kid you not, the foreskins of the Minke whale…:eek:
As seen in that video. Not only is it ugly, but it is as vulgar as hell. If I could have a yacht, I’d find an Edwardian steam yacht, and restore it. Failing that, I’d have a 1930s racer, in teak and mahogany, with gleaming, polished brass fittings, and flapping sails. Now all I need is that lottery win…
Believe it or not Onassis’s yacht is basically a converted ‘Daring class’ frigate which had seen service in the Atlantic convoys of WWII.
LevshaWhat is it with people with lots of money, their yachts and the skins or horns of dead animals. When I saw the wall tiled with with the skins of white stingrays and the alligator chair with the Kudo horns I was reminded of Aristotle Onassis and his famous yacht. The barstools on board were/are covered in a leather made from, and I kid you not, the foreskins of the Minke whale…:eek:
As seen in that video. Not only is it ugly, but it is as vulgar as hell. If I could have a yacht, I’d find an Edwardian steam yacht, and restore it. Failing that, I’d have a 1930s racer, in teak and mahogany, with gleaming, polished brass fittings, and flapping sails. Now all I need is that lottery win…
Believe it or not Onassis’s yacht is basically a converted ‘Daring class’ frigate which had seen service in the Atlantic convoys of WWII.
LevshaThe USAF finally gets it’s Dynasoar – fifty years later!:eek:
One off the great “what ifs”, if the Americans had proceeded with the Dyna-soar instead of the various “man-in-a-barrel” projects such as project Mercury. I wonder if manned spacecraft technology would be so much more advanced today if the superpowers (not forgetting the Soviet “Spiral”) that be of the 1950s had actually took a more long term view of manned spaceflight – instead of producing propaganda by trying to get the first man into space?:confused:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyna_Soar_launchers.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-105
LevshaI have yet to see an American or Western European country being allowed to to tender for a Russian Dept. of Defence contract when there was the remotest chance that a Russian company could fulfill it. Perhaps the only exception to this being when the Russian military feels that local industry are just not up to the job of providing the technology – French designator pods and thermal imaging gun sights spring to mind.
LevshaI agree here with your more accurate description of the reality. Russia has still to fully develop either a 5th generation fighter or AESA radar, still early days yet. They are certainly doing it. Contrast this with bizarre assertions of Ariel Cohen, Pavel Felgenhauer and some other neoconservative folks. Check i.e. this Mr Pavel assertion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Felgenhauer
:D:diablo::o
Certainly Jamestown Foundation and similars have been consistent on always being wrong with predictions about Russia. They are getting more rabid day by day. This imply that, in spite of its prediction=whishes, Russia is progressing.
Funny you should have unkind things to say about Mr. Felgenhauer, while at the same time UAZ should post an article from a certain Mr. Konstantin Makienko:
Russia Joins the Fifth-Gen Game
Konstantin Makienko
Russia flew a prototype of its fifth-generation fighter on January 29, 2010, in what analysts agree was a major milestone for the national aerospace industry…
I could swear that Makienko’s article is similar, in parts at least, to Felgenhauer’s ‘critique’ of the T-50 written in Novaya Gazeta. Especially regarding it taking 8 to 10 years to get the plane into service and the difficulty in developing powerplant and avionics. Perhaps Felgenhauer’s style is just a little bit too abrasive for some tastes…;)
LevshaA decade ago some westerners big talkers told us that Russian 5th generations fighters are just “paper planes” and that Russia is unable to build 5th generation fighters and AESA.:diablo:
Check the reality.
They aren’t all so called ‘Westerners’. I’ve met a few Russians who are/were sceptical of the PAK FA project:
Strictly speaking, Russia has still to fully develop either a 5th generation fighter or a AESA radar, still early days yet.
LevshaIndia – Pakistan 1971
Israel – Egypt/Syria 1973
Iraq – Iran 1980-88
Israel – Syria 1982
Iraq – USA plus numerous others 1990-91
And don’t forget the Falklands, 1982, and that little spat between Ecuador and Peru in the 1980s.
BTW, nobody seems to mention the KS-172 as an armament for the PAK FA, is it too big to fit in the bays or has everybody lost interest in it? Is it really important that it can’t fit into the bays, wouldn’t be just as well to hang them from wing pylons,
Bearing in mind the ranges it can be fired from, a lack of stealth shouldn’t be a problem?:confused:
LevshaSounds like they are describing plain old CRP. :confused:
CRP indeed, although pravda.ru is hardly the best source of information on aviation or any other theme. If you want a good laugh pay it a visit some time.;)
The All-Russian Research Institute for Aircraft Materials reported that T-50 is the first jet built with polymer carbon fiber reinforced plastic. This material is twice as light as aluminum and four to five times lighter than steel. New materials account for 70 percent of the jet’s surface. It is four times lighter than jets assembled with regular materials.
It’s going to have one hell of a thrust to weight ratio, for sure.:D
LevshaI thought most a2a kills were still in WVR range (within 5nm) ?
Possibly, but if a BVR weapon was used for the final kill, I’d imagine the techniques and methods may still be of a BVR hue. The pilot firing the missile may have done a traditional eyeball identification as part of the ‘rules of engagement’ but there probably wasn’t any need for the traditional hard maneuvering associated with WVR dogfight. It was a BVR combat performed at WVR distances (although I would regard 5 nm as pushing it to call it WVR, when was the time a short range heat-seeker made a kill at 5 nm?).
LevshaAs a part of these trials, they should have each of these contenders dogfight every other :diablo:
.. and publish the results :dev2:
BVR
Mig-35 FTW 😎
Most air-to-air combat kills in the last 20 years or so were in BVR, you know, with Sparrows and AMRAAMS, etc. Wouldn’t it more appropriate for the competitors to pretend to shoot such missiles at each other in such mock combat??
LevshaBulava, RS-24, Topol’-M, Project 955, GLONASS, to name a few.
The above systems are certainly not good examples of projects that have adhered to their original development timetables, certainly not Bulava, GLONASS or project 955. And dare we mention Mi-28 gunship.
LevshaSeeing as the last thread was locked for other reasons yet it was an interesting subject I thought it best to re-do it.
http://www.air-attack.com/news/artic…ntil-2015.html
Published: Sat February 13th, 2010
Source: RIA NovostiDeliveries of fifth-generation fighters to Russia’s Air Force will start in 2015 rather than in 2013 as previously announced, the Air Force chief said on Tuesday.
“In 2013, I hope… the [Sukhoi] PAK FA prototype will be ready and fine-tuned, and we will start deliveries to military units in 2015,” said Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin.
A prototype of the fighter made its maiden flight in Russia’s Far East on January 29. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said after the 47-minute flight that the first batch of fifth-generation fighters would go into service in 2013.
Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype, known as the T-50, was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Russian officials have already hailed the fighter as “a unique warplane” that combines the capabilities of an air superiority fighter and attack aircraft.
VLADIMIR, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
I hope Commander of the Russian air force Zelin will be a lot more realistic and accurate in his pronouncements on the PAK FA’s scheduling than his predecessor; Vladimir Mikhailov. Mikhailov told the world in 2006 that the PAK FA would fly in 2007 and be in service, if I do recall, by 2010.:rolleyes:
And by the way, Vova Putin is no reliable source for info on the PAK FA either – you might as well be relying on Sarah Palin or Joe Biden for pearls of wisdom on the F-35…:rolleyes:
LevshaEgypt to manufacture first fighter, drone plane: MENA
Egypt is set to produce its first fighter and drone “in cooperation with a foreign side”, official MENA news agency reported on Saturday.
“Talks and negotiations are underway about a project to produce Egypt’s first fighter and drone plane,” MENA quoted Lt. General Hamdy Waheba, Chairman of Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI), Egypt’s state-owned company specialized in producing civilian goods as well as military products.
The official did not name the foreign party which will take a hand at the process.
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Egypt’s first fighter plane? What about this plane?
Levshaam now on The Keep, a horror set in nazi occupied Romania in 1941 by F. Paul Wilson
Wasn’t that made into a movie with Gabriel Byrne?
Also, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany in 1941 and not occupied by them.
Levshaam now on The Keep, a horror set in nazi occupied Romania in 1941 by F. Paul Wilson
Wasn’t that made into a movie with Gabriel Byrne?
Also, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany in 1941 and not occupied by them.
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