I imagine China is still hyperventilating.

No more than the Americans did 2 years ago. I still remember their screams. So, let’s try to avoid childish comments.

The Russians learn fast the western art of hypocrisy

This is normal combat training, General Deinekin said. Actually, it was joint training. “We, Russia and the U.S., are not opponents. We are partners in the fight against terrorism. There are no serious threats posed by our planes appearing over American ships in neutral waters. Their mission was not just to fly over, but to take a picture of the vessel to make sure that it was not a dry cargo or container ship, but the Nimitz – the pride and a beauty of the American naval forces.”

:rolleyes:

They should’ve shot it down.

They are no so stupid to spit the Bear. Those who did it ended like … Adolph :p

The Argentinean Air force consistently found and atacked the British Task Forces during most of the 192 conflict. Nedless to say Russia has much more Recon assests than Argentina and that Tu-22 are much more capable than A-4.

Interesting! It follows almost perfectly the pattern predicted by Gen. Baluyevsky respect to development and deployments of Amercian ABM systems. So it is almost sure to see 2-stage Topol-m (i.e. Pioneer-M) targeting Europe and the far East in the next decade.

that’s okay. Back in the day the ATF was going to be a Mach 4 aircraft that would have R2-D2 (“Pilot’s Associate”) in the back seat, directed energy weaponry, invisibility, and be built by robots in automated factories.

That’s in the F-35 rigth now!! 😀 And off course Tom Cruise will ride it like in Top Gun:dev2: Lots of bru-ha-ha was granted to the world. Late… the pale reality.:confused:

THAAD terminal phase? Yes, but an exo-atmospheric one. PAC-3, and the current S-400 are true terminal-phase defenses.
Supposedly the 40N6 BIG (so far on an endless testing phase) is able to reach 180 km ceiling.

The Aegis/Spy-1/SM-??? is an impressive combo.

Angara engine tested

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071207/91411827.html