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F-22 Raptor rear-hinged canopy.
If you look at the PAK FA pictures, it has a framed sliding canopy.
The frame may obstruct the pilot’s view from above and the hump may obstruct rear visibility, whereas from the Raptor, cockpit visibility is better with a bubble frameless canopy.
Someone from Sukhoi, Pogosyan himself IIRC, explicitely stated that the frame was for the prototype only and would be removed in production models.
Anyway, F-22 has MUCH more serious issues with its canopy… š
Not to state the obvious, but surely an Israeli attack on Greece is an attack on NATO?
No disrespect, but that was the original point of post #102.
Sens, since i want to prevent a flamewar, although i am too tired to continue on the “Balkan derailing train” in this “israeli derailed train”, i will only give you a hint to explain Hawx’s reaction.
No, actually I’m too tired too. I’ve been through such discussions over Macedonia (read: the province of Greece) roughly since… internet boards were invented. It’s pretty futile when you “knock on the deaf man’s door”, as you said…
(especially our comunist party, which lives still in the Lenin era and for example even now in the time of crisis the only thing that can think of is “everyone go on strike! Say no to the capitalist, anti-worker plans”! ).
Yes, in fact, a couple of months ago, Mrs. Papariga head of CPG openly stated that the Berlin Wall was nothing but a self-expression of the people’s right to protect their… freedom. š®
The same with other two clown parties. But I don’t blame them, it’s the price of democracy. Not too much of a consolation of course.
In 280 BC the Gallic invaders under Brennus ravaged the land of the Paionians, who, being further hard pressed by the Dardani, had no alternative but to join the Macedonians. Despite their combined efforts, however, the Paionians and Macedonians were defeated. Paeonia consolidated again but in 217 BC the Macedonian king Philip V of Macedon (220-179 BC), the son of Demetrius II, succeeded in uniting and incorporating into his empire the separate regions of Dassaretia and Paionia. A mere 70 years later (in 146 BC), Roman legions conquered Macedon in turn. Paionia around the Axios formed the second and third districts respectively of the Roman province of Macedonia (Livy xiv. 29). Centuries later under Diocletian, Paionia and Pelagonia formed a province called Macedonia secunda or Macedonia Salutaris, belonging to the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum. By AD 400, however, the Paionians had lost their identity, and the term Paeonia was rendered a mere geographic identifier.
Blame the Romans as you like. Skopje/Scupi is Roman too. š
At least it does not pose a threat in military aviation.
Of course it doesn’t. In Fact, even Greece itself has donated them a couple helos, APCs, arms, ammo, training etc.
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