Definately a Mangusta, not a Rooivalk. The latter has got a different tail arrangement, see my comments on the original thread.

Nothing as effective as a proper demonstration of exactly how annoying it is 😀 And i guess it might inspire some people at the bus forum, which i hardly visit anyway because i always feel terribly epileptic after a while there.

Originally posted by flex297
The whole bird looks awfully similar to the F-16 🙂

Shhh, don’t tell! But the F-50 is definately a lot closer to the Light Fighter the F-16 was supposed to be. But you know, that Texan diet just made it too darn heavy. In Korea it will be easier for the F-50 to keep of the buckets of lard-fried chicken wings 🙂

Best one is the Dutch insurance ad, set in North Korea or a very similar country…

Aditya,
The Mainstay on the pics definately is not a Russian A-50. It simply isn’t the right airframe for that. The Chinese A-50 (the badge on the tail does seem to match with the one from CFTE as posted by HT) has a lot more in common with the airframe we know as the A-50I, which is quite different from the regular A-50s. Please read my initial posts on this thread, it’s being explained there.

Now the problem with the A-50I which was at Ben Gurion is that it had appearantly left Israel back for Russia without radar. Considering the aircraft was bought by China (i’m talking airframe here, not an eventual radar aboard), seeing an A-50 in the PRC which in the posted pics seems to be identical to the A-50I (which was a Chinese aircraft to begin with) does make a pretty solid argument that this aircraft is indeed the same. You don’t have to believe it, but i doubt you can substantiate your disbelief in any sort of way.

Also, i would like to know about your claim that A-50s have visited the PRC in the past. Done any planespotting there then?

As for that helo in the background of that radar pic: WTF? It’s not a Rooivalk which has a different tail (the Rooivalk’s tail is much lower, and has a tailplane fitted high up the fin while the one on the pic has a low tailplane), but it does look an awful lot like an A129 – in fact i can’t see why it shouldn’t be an A129. Is it simply a pic from NRIET’s website (yes, i’m too lazy to check myself)?

Originally posted by Vympel
Which is the Baltic state that passed a law forbidding the teaching of the Russian language in schools, never mind the huge Russian minority?

I think it’s both Estonia and Latvia which have that law.

I think Distiller is suggesting we stop using our sperm for decorational purposes?
Or trying to plug a new TV series: Suic-Idols. Thousands of depressed adolescents can go out and get themselves humiliated on TV, and finally one gets chosen and awarded a piece of string.