All that to look for animals? Perhaps they’re testing out the world’s first Air-to-Animal missile system. 
Any idea what kind of UAV it will be? Predator, maybe?
PAK-FA round-up, and MiG’s LMFS refuses to die:
Here I was getting all excited until I read it’s not scheduled to fly (if at all, even) until 2016? Going by russian scheduling, that means it probably wont fly until 2025! Dammit, I’ll be old and icky by then!! 
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And hyper, you put the dreaded banana in your emoticon party!! For I am not worthy enough to remark about the almighty dancing banana. 😮
Is the USAF still after a Mach 2.4 bomber, or will the “B-3” be more along the lines of a smaller B-2
The “B-3” or the 2018 bomber is originally intended to be a stop-gap until the supersonic/hypersonic “2036 Bomber” comes into service, but it seems the USAF intends for this jet to have a significant role in the US bomber arsenal after all. It will also be subsonic, to reduce costs. Link.
Rumor is it might carry A2A missiles for self-defense. 
“Self-defending” is a desire for the bomber to “have as much of an autonomous survivability capability as [is] practical, against a wide range of advanced threats,” an Air Force spokeswoman explained. For example, an LRS aircraft carrying air-to-air missiles has “enhanced survivability” against enemy fighters.
Probably just using the air-to-air missiles concept as an example, but perhaps she was referring to the new bomber itself? At any rate, the precise requirements for the bomber will be released in 2009.
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