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May 22, 2012 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Russian Aviation Thread 2 #541968

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Did sabotage crash the Sukhoi Superjet?

Crappy article.
I suppose the Loss of an Ukrainian An-140 in Iran a few years back, or the crash of an An-148 in Russia last year were acts of sabotage as well?:rolleyes:

And regarding the Tu-144, a Soviet aviation authority inquest actually laid the blame on an unauthorised pre-flight adjustment to the flight control system as the most likely cause of the airshow crash.

May 16, 2012 at 11:16 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2306388

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I think people will be able to identify all those antennas – as soon as they can actually count them…

Impressive.

May 16, 2012 at 10:13 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2306469

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Let’s put it into perspective then- if we are comparing Russia and USA, Topol-M makes it all irrelevant. 😀

That’s not what I meant.

For all the criticisms of the F-35, it’s hardly doing any worse than other recent fighter programmes in Russia, India or China – or is it?

May 16, 2012 at 10:02 pm in reply to: AVIC JF-17 Thunder versus SAAB JAS-39 Gripen #2306517

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although, I’m gonna have to say F-16 is a 1978 plane, 6 years too late for the 1972 LWF competition 😀

And relaunched in China, sometime around 2002 (Generation Zwei , I think they call it)…:D

May 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2306781

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Thanks for the worthless and unasked for input, sparky. :rolleyes:

Don’t mention it! It just saddens me to sometimes see a lack of perspective on Key Publishing Forums, Dionysus.

May 16, 2012 at 10:15 am in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2307001

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Meh, what new aircraft is the US procuring till 2020 in the THOUSANDS?

The F-35 will be lucky to hit that by 2040 given tepid rate at which the US economy is moving along.

I only know of F-16s in that number range (from combat aircraft).

~1200 F-16s
~400 F-18s
~450 F-18E/Fs
~250 F-15s
~250 F-15Es
~300 A-10s?

There are probably more F-35s in the world now (63 as of January 2012) than all the Su-34, Su-35 and T-50s put together.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120105/NEWS02/701059960

May 8, 2012 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Chinese Air Power Thread 16 #2311603

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The SSJ took almost as long to develop and put into service as the Boeing 787.

This includes the flight test programmes, which, in the case of the SSJ took almost 3 years – the B787 was somewhat less than that.

May 8, 2012 at 10:06 pm in reply to: AVIC JF-17 Thunder versus SAAB JAS-39 Gripen #2311656

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The cone on the Lightning didn’t and doesn’t move backwards and forwards at all.

If I recall, the Lightning has in fact got a simple fixed inlet, as has the F-104.

I don’t know were you get the idea to upgrade the lightning – the youngest airframe must be more than 40 years old.

May 8, 2012 at 8:51 pm in reply to: is J-8I influenced by Ye-152? #2311796

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Yes, it was.

Perhaps, but it’s unlikely the Chinese designers of the J-8 ever saw a Ye-152?

May 8, 2012 at 7:34 pm in reply to: AVIC JF-17 Thunder versus SAAB JAS-39 Gripen #2311959

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The BAe Lightning is the British MiG-21

The Lightning is in fact, the British Su-9, Su-11.;)

May 8, 2012 at 7:27 pm in reply to: Why is Dhruv an export success but Z-11 not? #2311980

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Why are people comparing the Dhruv with the Squirrel clone Z-11 anyway? Surely a more valid comparison would be Dhruv and Dauphin clone Z-9?

According to wiki, Z-9 has even made some foreign sales, more than Dhruv has, it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_Z-9

May 8, 2012 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Chinese Air Power Thread 16 #2312009

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Oh, a regular little p!$$ing contest…

The Chinese are a little bit behind the Russians, who are a little bit behind the Europeans, who are a little bit behind the USA – so what?

It wasn’t the most technologically advanced countries which won the second world war, the Korean war or the Vietnam war, it probably won’t be the most technically advanced combatant which will eventually claim victory in today’s fiasco in Afghanistan either.

Sales of airliners are also not a reliable indicator of a country’s technological, industrial or military power either – who was buying Soviet commercial aircraft and airliners in the 1930s?

May 1, 2012 at 11:05 pm in reply to: AVIC JF-17 Thunder versus SAAB JAS-39 Gripen #2317546

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Well, we are all black when you get down to it right ? 😮

Yes we are all from the Great Rift valley. We are all Kenyan (or Tanzanian?) – we are all related to Barak Obama!:D

May 1, 2012 at 10:42 pm in reply to: AVIC JF-17 Thunder versus SAAB JAS-39 Gripen #2317562

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China and Russia depend on each other. If one falls, the other will fall. Plus, Chinese and Russians are the same race and culture and deserve to have each other’s backs. Back to the topic, where is Gripen NG to compete with Thunder??? :confused:

Like, wow! TR1, over to you…:rolleyes:

May 1, 2012 at 7:44 pm in reply to: Raptor pilots are not keen to fly… #2317851

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As he struggled to find the ring-pull, his F-22 entered a steep, inverted and high speed dive (CFIT?), either way that’s clearly an ergonomic design flaw.

That’s interesting. Didn’t the IAF blame an ergonomic flaw for the loss of one of their Su-30MKI’s?

It all seems a bit tenuous to me. The USAF lost dozens of F-100s and F-104s (and pilots) in the first 5 years or so of service for each type – it just goes to show how much aircraft design has advanced since the 1950s.
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