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Photos of wrecks.

http://mil.longhoo.net/html/2006-02/12995.htm

J-10 timeline.
Article dated/posted 2006.02.19.

IMO, reliability of article uncertain.

http://military.china.com/zh_cn/history2/06/11027560/20060210/13085223.html

PLAAF. Late 1970s.
At night, a fighter crash-landed on a runway, because no one on the ground confirmed whether its landing gear was lowered or not.

IMO, even if this is a joke article, it has a bit of interesting details about control tower and ground crew procedures and responsibilities during night landings.

P-X has hard points for eight anti-ship missiles or torps?

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc/articles/20060227.aspx

“Japan Kicking Tires of the F-22”

Strategy Page – Feb 27 3:21 AM

February 27, 2006: While the U.S. Air Force has long maintained that the F-22 would probably not be exported, because of the large number of classified technologies, that is about to change.

http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM/MGArticle/WPN_…

“F-22 Raptor: Super fast, super costly”

Manassas Journal Messenger – Feb 27 3:41 AM

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE — The gold-tinted canopy closed and a wave of apprehension swept over Air Force pilot Wade Tolliver as he started the jet engines for his first flight in an F-22 Raptor.

Photos of monuments and wrecks.

Photos of wrecks.

Source: Militaryphotos.net

US: Davy Crockett atomic SSM: range 2km, radius of lethality: 2.5km; Snark nuclear SSM: withdrawn 4 weeks after deployment;

Davy Crockett.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2006-02/24/content_4221689.htm

February 23 is “Motherland Defenders Day” in Russia, but this year, printed on the posters in Moscow streets is a non-FSU, non-Russian warship: the USN battleship USS Missouri.