[QUOTE=RPG type 7v;1154031and by the way heres an exclusive
—-the mig I-2000 prototype flying 😮
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XIuqmQUE3U4&mode=related&search=[/QUOTE]

But why can’t we see it?

Has it already been shot down??:dev2: :dev2:

But please, i hope the usual suspects will continue fearing. Never mind perspective, let’s fear the Bear! Putin equals Stalin! Those Tu-95s are WW2 relics armed with Czar Bombs! Czechoslovakia will be invaded again (… oh no, that country doesn’t exist anymore…) Russia does something! I’m sure you paranoiacs will gladly cough up the taxes to increase US defence spending to make it at least 5 times the amount of money the rest is wasting on defence.

Is there anybody panicking, I don’t here anyone complaining, not the Americans, not the British.
If anything, it’s the Russians who seem to be over-reacting to something or other by “sending the bombers in” in the first place.:rolleyes:

Just think of the myth that ‘the USSR overspent itself on defence during the Cold War’…

was it a myth?

40% of all new industrial plant in the Soviet Union was destined for the miltary-industrial complex, it’s estimated that 12-16 million people worked in the self same “complex” in the Soviet Union!
How many people worked the US or European “MI complexes”??

For more info:

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/TyphoonLaunchesOperationallyForTheFirstTime.htm

Will the Su-35 and MiG-35 fly at MAKS 2007? It starts tomorrow, right?

Has the Su-35 actually flown yet? I don’t think it has, and I think it’s just going to be a static display at MAKS.:(

I hope it does fly though, I’m picking up my free tickets for the show tomorrow!:p 😀

That’s the POW-MIA memorial flag.

Oh yeah, If I’d bothered to look closer at it I might have figured it out, just by actually reading what was written it!!:o 😮

http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfb_disp9c.html

Yeah really, nice shots. I really like the seventh one, I have no idea why…

Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”?:cool:

What’s the black flag in the fourth picture, looked a bit like the ‘Jolly Roger’ for a moment?

Obelisk from “2001: A Space Odyssey”

Mind you, the Americans have continued to carry out reconnaisance flights along the coasts of China and the Russian Federation long after the end of the cold war – who can forget the USN P-3E that had to make a forced landing on a Chinese airfield after colliding with a PLAAF fighter jet in April 2001. It was carrying out an ELINT patrol on China’s coast.
The Russians, understandably, feel they have to be seen making an equal response.

Two can play at that game…:rolleyes:

Moscow is protected against a limited ICBM strike by the System A-135 ABM network. And they did try to develop nationwide ABM systems, check this out:

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2007/06/russian-strategic-defense-part-2-abm.html

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2007/08/sary-shagan-birthplace-of-abm.html

Oh, I knew about that system, during the Cold war it was originally the A-35 sytem around Moscow with just a few dozen or so intercepter missiles.
What percentage of NATO’s thousands of ballistic nuclear warheads, homing in on the Soviet Union, do you think the A-35 system could ever have hoped to stop?