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February 11, 2009 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Aero India 2009 #2456767

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Did they display the Astra this year? Or the Derby?

February 11, 2009 at 4:48 am in reply to: Iran completes design phase of stealth aircraft #2457133

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Doesn’t look familiar but it seems to bear a resmeblance to some of Taiwan’s IDF studies, or maybe a shrunken down Hornet 2000. At any rate all that has seemed to come from Iran is either a few basic alterations to the F-5 airframe or a Mukhamedov Integral mockup.

February 10, 2009 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Iran completes design phase of stealth aircraft #2457330

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As far as I know the F-5 was never tested with dorsal or ventral intakes. The only dorsal intake I can think of on an American aircraft is the one on the YF-107.

A nuclear exchange isn’t very likely between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but that doesn’t mean that an Iranian bomb won’t force Saudi Arabia to acquire their own deterrent capability.

February 10, 2009 at 7:37 pm in reply to: Iran completes design phase of stealth aircraft #2457411

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What nobody is talking about is that a nuclear Iran may likely result in a third Middle Eastern nuclear power: Saudi Arabia.

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2009/02/saudi-arabias-ballistic-missile-force.html

Read through some of the links at the bottom of that piece, as well as the bit on Saudi nuclear intentions. If Iran does go nuclear, as is its right if you ask me, things could become very interesting.

February 10, 2009 at 2:38 am in reply to: A new RuAF news thread #2458381

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Another modernization order, worth $106 million, came from Peru: MiG Corp. will repair and upgrade 19 MiG-29s for that country’s air force. Some Russian media have reported that the Peruvian fighters would be upgraded to the SMT version, but these speculations appear to be erroneous. It is more likely that the modernization effort will include the RVV-AE air-to-air missile capability.

They must be missing some details here, a few of Peru’s MiG-29s are already RVV-AE capable, the missile has been displayed by the Peruvian Air Force even.

February 9, 2009 at 4:11 am in reply to: Iran completes design phase of stealth aircraft #2459237

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The real issue is whether or not the governments had anything to do with those proliferation events. If a scientist in a government-directed WMD program decides to covertly make some money on the side, then that isn’t the fault of the government. They can be blamed for not properly monitoring their scientists perhaps, but not for their greedy efforts.

February 9, 2009 at 4:07 am in reply to: Russian Navy News & Discussion Thread Part II #2044356

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We should stop hijacking this thread, start a new topic over in ModMil before we get way off in left field 😀

February 8, 2009 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Russian Navy News & Discussion Thread Part II #2044412

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Google Earth 5 has a bunch of new features, you can download it now. One of them is a historical imagery feature which I go into on my blog. You can even use it to bypass censorship of certain areas 😀

February 8, 2009 at 11:15 pm in reply to: Russian Navy News & Discussion Thread Part II #2044418

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That’s another one of those funny locations where the most current imagery available in the historical imagery viewer is newer than the default imagery.

February 8, 2009 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Russian Navy News & Discussion Thread Part II #2044428

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If you check out Zhukovskiy (sp?) there’s a C-17 on one of the taxi ways. 🙂

Look at the date of the imagery. That was for the Moscow Airshow. You can see the Meteorit missile as well near the exhibition halls.

February 8, 2009 at 9:42 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode VII #2459443

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Look at the Raptor. The first jets delivered to the USAF in large numbers went to the training unit at Tyndall. The first operational unit at Langley didn’t see them for a while longer. So the USAF had F-22s in the active inventory before they had them in an operational unit. FLANKERs in the USSR probably followed a similar path, given the massive jump in capability they represented.

February 8, 2009 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Iran completes design phase of stealth aircraft #2459473

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why doesnt mig pull its resources and get that aircraft going?

Maybe because it’s not a MiG aircraft?

February 8, 2009 at 7:36 am in reply to: P-800 Yakhont vs P-900 (supersonic) Klub #1820530

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Weapons are only GPS-aided. Denying GPS capability will not defeat adversary weapon systems. What it may do is make them less accurate in areas with the potential for high collateral damage. I wonder if that had something to do with tossing the selective availability feature in the satellites?

February 7, 2009 at 8:12 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode VII #2460066

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Didn’t the Tu-144s use Aeroflot co-pilots?

February 7, 2009 at 6:22 am in reply to: Russian Navy News & Discussion Thread Part II #2044612

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Check out the second to last image:

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2009/02/historical-imagery-in-google-earth.html

Pretty neat stuff.
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