blame thobbes and J20 Hotdog, they always like these kind of threads. 😀

US losses can also be attributed a lot to Soviet Equipment in ‘Nam.
But I would imagine a ground incursion into Vietnam today would produce bloody outcomes akin to the late 60s – 70s.

Chinese Linebacker??

Anyway, the Giants please continue… :applause:

PAK FA vertical soddock :angel:… RT is exaggerating?
http://youtu.be/QQsPAPuFlB4?t=6m46s

How much lift compared to total lift is provided by the space between the engines. That space is very huge in volume.

Unless Russia uses GDP/Oil prices only to influence FDI as mentioned few posts before :stupid:

Anyway, this is Off topic. Sorry .:very_drunk:

That aside, I am searching for T50-5 news regularly. And one thing I like is that it looks as if the entire array of Russian aircrafts seem much better built than ever before, good finish and workmanship.

Isn’t the Crude oil price quite high these days due to Syria etc tension in middle east?

It peaked during the good days of the late 2000s, but the US boom in oil and gas production is changing oil prices. Yeah actually oil prices have eased in the last few days when the chances of war are slimming down. Norwegians should know this, coz they should be really interested in it, being the one of the very few big European oil producers themselves :stupid:. Even Russia has halted exploration and development of several fields due to fear of oil price drops. They will resume when prices are stabilizing or when the current fields are low on output. But the last few leadership in Russia have tried diversifying the economy a lot.

Soviets also had a border dispute with China and PLA attacked Soviet border forces. Dispute with every body Japan, India, Vietnam, Phillipines, etc .. Love thy neighbour. See US and Canada :dev2:

But thobbes you have lots of controversial threads, they are magnets.