The J/AWG-12 was optimised for surface targets (that’s ships obviously), and didn’t have an illuminator for guiding missiles. So no BVR missiles could be carried.

I think it’s pretty much like the Jaguar.

Hardly surprising, considering the JASDF wanted the Jaguar to replace their attack-tasked F-86es from the late 1960s on, but the Japanese government wanted somethig more domestic. So what do you do? You invite half the Jaguar’s design team to earn a nice bit of money doing a project a fast jet trainer at Mitsubishi (with also a strike capability), and you give them almost the same specs to work from as on the Jag… except for the range, which appearantly wasn’t important enough.

Brothers to the Rescue has contacts with organisations like Alpha 66 and other counter-revolutionary militias in Florida, which are suspect of being behind terrorist attacks in Cuba itself. BttR has also repeatedly violated Cuban airspace and overflown Cuba in itself, and it’s pilots have admitted this. In some cases leaflets were dropped, the nature of other violations is not known.

Breaching foreign airspace to drop leaflets definately is an act of agression. The Brothers to the Rescue had it coming.

There are ropes attached to it. A kite?

MarMir’s pics nicely show the two versions of the Mi-18: the top one is the original stretched Mi-8 with a sliding door at the left forward fuselage, the bottom one is the final configuration with the retractable undercarriage and a deeper fuselage.

There were two prototypes (c/n 93038 and 93114) converted from Kazan-built Mi-8M’s) in1979, and i believe only one actually was remodified with the retractable landing gear. This is the machine at Torzhok, but i’m afraid i don’t know which one that is.

Oh, and the prototype for the Mi-8M/Mi-17 from 1975 was also called Mi-18, but this one wasn’t stretched, didn’t have the slide door and most certainly didn’t have a retractable landing gear.

Quite a few disco bars already use that technique.

are you sure about various accounts. I have read at http://www.cast.ru(cannot open the site now) where a Russian is clearly stating that Russia is to China is like Germany to Russia in 1930s.
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“Like the USSR in the 1930s China today is trying to combine technologies collected from different sources in one weapon. For instance, it is believed that the promising HQ-9 surface-to-air missile system design combines solutions applied by Russian S-300PMU (SA-10 Grumble) and U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missiles “

So now you’re suddenly talking about the 1930s when it comes to Russia? Try and twist the debate away from your original nonsense if you like, but it won’t work. Even if that quote of yours was true (which it isn’t: just show me the number of countries actually cooperating diplomatically with the USSR in the 1930s…) The Soviet space program only really took off in the late 1940s, by the way.

I have watched movie on Historychannel where they are clearly stating that Allied bombarment clearly slowed down new weopon development and deployment.

That explains a lot.

It is questionable if germany put all the effort or portion of it and there was embargo due to previous conflict.

You said: one month. They didn’t. And these excuses are by far the dumbest ever.

germany was on the offensive so casualities are expected but Soviet Union suffered more due to crude weopons.

Most German casualties fell during defensive ops. Kursk, Stalingrad, Bagration. And what are crude weapons: T-34s always working, or PzKfw. Vs which ground to a halt every time they shifted gears?

there is also cost-benefit ration in West. So they may not attempt all the things if the resulf has more likely hood of failure.

Nonsense, and there’s plenty of things to illustrate that. The Soviet/Russian Buran was cancelled because the whole Space Shuttle idea is not cost-effective AND was considered more dangerous than single-use rockets. Now compare that with NASA’s Shuttles…

I’m ahead like a hole, if you allow me to crossthread.

Now that’s morphing!