Mikoyan MiG-17…. I know, it’s on a monument pole (in the city of Gorkii), but you can still see its beauty.

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what i don’t understand is, they’re left outside with our everchanging elements. our weather can change unexpectedy (hey, Iqaluit is WAY UP NORTH) and tends to be unpredictable. the least was that the Gripens could have used the old FOL Hangers that were originally built for CF-188’s during the Cold War Years!!!

Swedish climate ranges from relatively mild winters in the south to extreme cold in the north (Kiruna, Lapland).
Swedish fighters have always been designed for outside storage and operation when necessary. So Alaska feels like home to them.

Interesting new info about Project 955 !

Navy chief Masorin in a late July statement said that the Yuri Dolgorukiy will hit the waves later this year, and enter service in 2007.
The Alexander Nevskiy and Vladimir Monomakh will enter service in 2009 and 2010.

Source (in Russian): http://lenta.ru/news/2006/07/26/submarine/

But what’s interesting is that the same report seems to indicate a higher silo count for the subsequent 955 boats. (I have argued in this tread that 12 SLBMs is way too small of a battery).

The report claims that the Yuri Dolgorukiy, which was launched a decade ago, does indeed have 12 silos, but the subsequent 955s will have longer hulls and will accomodate 16 SLBMs!

So much for my Raptor hopes 🙁

“We’re prepared to make the largest investment we’ve ever made in air combat capability in terms of some A$16 billion [$11.7 billion] of investment, but Australia is not in a position to be able to buy F-22A Raptors, even if they were to be sold by the USA, and then buy strike capability as well” – said Nelson.

Source:

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/04/Navigation/181/207611/Australia+demands+JSF+resolution.html

I wish people would stop pointing fingers at China based on Tom Clancy novels and Cold War politics. U guys do realise that just because a nation is a dictatorship doesn’t really mean its a bad guy?

You’re off the mark. China is dangerous not because it’s a dictatorship (in fact, it’s not a dictatorship!) It’s dangerous because of its huge population and enormous economic power, so they didn’t have the need and means to be aggressive.

Someone in this thread has suggested to look into China’s history as a guide, claiming that they’ve not been aggressive before. But this is a false guide. China has never before been an economic and military superower.

It is now, and it’s desperately in need for more territories and more natural resources to feed its huge economy and 1.3+ billion in population.

before to make stealth a plane…….first it must fly 😮

A non-flying plane is the stealthiest of them all…