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December 17, 2011 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Iran army shot down of a United States Drone plane RQ-170 #2303368

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You gotta admit it , the iranians have a good sense of humour :p

December 14, 2011 at 9:17 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2304570

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My previous post was before i saw the full size pics …No they are not Navy, was a somewhat silly assumption ( Sukhoi news says SIX to go to Voronezh), yes the borts are PS-ed , possibly taken in NAPO airfield ( haven’t seen anything from the Voronezh spotters with this/these Su-34, but you never know). 😀

December 14, 2011 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2304780

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They must be ECM birds imo. Probably they thought fit to change their cammo like that. Or are they for the Navy ?:confused:
Where were the pics taken ? It seem the bort numbers were either PS-ed or painted over .

December 12, 2011 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2305709

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On another theme, two more Su-35S to be delivered in 2012 . More details on the subject here :
http://sukhoi.org/news/smi/?id=4537

December 12, 2011 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2305741

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Those Su-34 seen there are not any of the six now delivered.

I think the new ones start from b/n 09 or 10

Well, Sukhoi says NAPO delivered 4 Su-34 to Voronezh today . Pics are from today and vid is from today , so it must be them ( i think !).:confused:

http://sukhoi.org/news/company/?id=4557

December 12, 2011 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2305764

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Are these the new Su-34s, right ? Do they start numbering them from 01 again ? What are the rumoured mods, i can’t see anything obvious ( i’m trying to figure out if front windscreen is in one piece now but can’t tell) ? The cammo seems to be slightly different, me thinks…

http://aviaforum.ru/showthread.php?t=27147&page=182
Moar…
http://russianplanes.net/ID60609
http://russianplanes.net/ID60608
http://russianplanes.net/ID60602

Finally, vid ( no single piece windscreen)

http://www.tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201112121820-q9oj.htm

December 11, 2011 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #14 #2306150

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Two syrian Su-24 filmed from aparently another Su-24.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hgeyCzfczMY#!

December 10, 2011 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Boeing looking at extending F-15C/D life x 2, F-15E x 4 #2306568

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“A safe bet” does not make it a fact. In other words you (and we i guess) don’t know.;) If someone WOULD know and talk probably he will end up in a dark cold CIA basement.

December 8, 2011 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Iran army shot down of a United States Drone plane RQ-170 #2307663

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vorWHmk38yE

Iran put it’s money where it’s mouth is today. 🙂 Some yankee chaps are probably terribly pissed right now. Wonder why they haven’t shown the rear of the thing aswell ( would be interesting to see the exhaust etc.)

Now what would relly be cool is if Iran would allow reputable aviation magazines editors/writers to come and take a look at it. Don’t see why not, for the apropriate fee. 😉

December 6, 2011 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2309289

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http://www.knaapo.ru/eng/gallery/aircrafts/combat/su-35/2nd_ser_su-35.wbp

Photos of the 1st flight of the 2nd serial Su-35! Gotta give Knaapo some love for all these photo reports that they post.

And…look at the tail. WTF, very different from first Su-35. Also, protrusions under nose?

Very nice. Was wondering why no news about the flights of the Su-35S-2 on KnAAPO.ru or Sukhoi.org , but oh well a picture worth a thousands words, and about 20 of them , well…:D

Kudos to the KnAAPO PR folks!

December 4, 2011 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Military Aviation News 2011 June – #2310727

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ISAF releases statement on missing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Hey, that page froze my computer for a bit and made it do a beep noise!

December 4, 2011 at 11:22 am in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2311013

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IMO I bet what is happening is that red 56 from Akhtyubinsk and red 56 photographed at KnAAPO are two different aircraft. Probably the one in Akhtyubinsk is a dogship, modified to the SM3 standard to test the new features, weapons trials etc.

Of course the best way to check this is if we’d somehow have the c/n of both aircraft ( if there are two , of course ) . Hopefully our russian friends will find out more.

December 3, 2011 at 8:11 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2311472

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One of the comments on russianplanes.net say something like this SM is an older airframe (possibly the first SM, from what i can read around) which was upgraded to SM3 standard.

I’ve found some pics of this a/c from 2010 in Akhtyubinsk. (or at least A SM coded 56 red:confused:)
http://92.60.132.84/~apacz/smf/index.php?topic=5518.90

December 2, 2011 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2312224

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Many pics of the latest batch of Su-27SM3s here, courtesy of KnAAPO.:)
http://www.knaapo.ru/rus/gallery/events/combat/su-27sm/index.wbp

December 2, 2011 at 11:04 am in reply to: Hot Dog's Ketchup Filled F-35 News Thread #2312652

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Yaiks…some pretty sharp things being said about the status and problems in this programme by Adm. Venlet himself:

http://defense.aol.com/2011/12/01/jsf-build-and-test-was-miscalculation-production-must-slow-v

Resume: Lots of little issues adding together, fatigue testing barely started, flight testing only 18%, even if it’s been a very good flight test year.( what it meens is obviously there is potential for more little things being found in the future), recommending slowing production down for the next few years ( until the little things are ironed out ).
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