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September 6, 2006 at 4:29 am in reply to: Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests #2574410

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dont USAF and USN have goggles now which protect the pilots from Laser threat ??

I think I remember reading years ago that the gold inlay in the F-16’s canopy was meant (in part) to protect the pilot from directed laser beams. But it’s been a long time, and my memory of it is sketchy. Anyone else have an idea about that, or am I mistaken?

September 5, 2006 at 1:39 am in reply to: Could it be? #2575283

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Firebar’s still looking for his book about melting radomes :diablo:

I’ve been gone from the forum for almost a year. I come back and he still hasn’t backed up his famous “YF-12 melting radome” claim – and thankfully, you’re still riding him about it – that’s hilarious! 😀

September 5, 2006 at 1:15 am in reply to: WHAT THE BLAZES IS THIS??? #2575307

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The psychological impact on the enemy alone would be pretty effective. I know the Iraqis were scared as hell of the gun on the A-10. Seeing this pod close up would no doubt be as frightening, if not more so.

September 4, 2006 at 5:11 am in reply to: Aircraft Recognition question (probably really easy) #2576088

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Some guy called it a JSF so I politely informed him it was definitely not a JSF but maybe in fact an f14 or f18. He replied with “this is an SU-35 not an F-18 or an F-14 but an SU-35, smart ass”

Send him to this forum. He’ll have lots of fun. :diablo:

September 4, 2006 at 5:06 am in reply to: Could it be? #2576095

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It’s great to see that the raptor finally can perform the cobra as the Su-27.

Actually, it was great years ago to see that the Su-27 could finally perform the cobra, just like the F-18.

August 15, 2005 at 6:01 pm in reply to: Russia to launch new F/A-22 competetor other than PAK-FA #2605458

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As they were OBLIGED to do – by a non-aggression treaty they had with the Japanese at the time!!!!!

Don’t forget – they were our ALLIES at the time!

But the agreement they had with the Americans was that damaged B-29s could land in Soviet territory if necessary, at which time they would be repaired and returned. Nothing in the agreement stated that the Soviets had the right to confiscate the aircraft.

And yes, our “allies” did return the aircrews – after days under armed guard in rooms not much better than a prison cell (according to the B-29 crewmen), and in covered trucks that prevented them from knowing where they were being taken. Indeed, the aircrews weren’t told that they were being returned, they were just ordered onto the trucks. It wasn’t until they reached Iran that they realized they were being released…excuse me, repatriated.

August 15, 2005 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Russia to launch new F/A-22 competetor other than PAK-FA #2605467

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fairly well documented????, where???

What do you care? Whenever anyone quotes from a reference source, you always dismiss it anyway, as being “biased information” or a “fan publication.” I don’t think any reference source will be acceptable to you unless it happens to agree with your predetermined conclusions.

August 10, 2005 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Russia to launch new F/A-22 competetor other than PAK-FA #2606242

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All this copying stuf is nosense. The only nation that copied airplanes is China.

The Tu-4 was a bolt-for-bolt copy of the B-29. The Soviets confiscated 3 B-29’s that made emergency landings in the USSR after taking damage in combat, and literally made exact duplicates of them and called it the Tu-4.

The Tu-160 is a glaringly obvious direct copy of the B-1, just scaled up in size.

Not all Russian designs are copies of course, I’m not claiming that. But it’s fallacy to believe the Russians have never cranked up their manufacturing equivalent of a Xerox machine whenever it has suited them.

August 10, 2005 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Fun With Google Earth #2606246

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Reposting this because I think it got buried in the move. Can anyone confirm that it’s a forward-swept wing business jet in this photo (white plane, center? Or are my eyes playing tricks on me? This is Le Bourget airport, near Paris.

August 10, 2005 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Tri-engine fighter? #2606255

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Here’s a three-engined fighter: :p

Funny – an old episode of BG is what caused me to think of the question.

Sorry I didn’t notice this subject had been discussed before – I’m still relatively new to the board and haven’t gone through all the archives yet.

August 10, 2005 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Russia to launch new F/A-22 competetor other than PAK-FA #2606260

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It seems that those design bureaus did no testing or designing at all. They just waited for the KGB to deliver stuff from the US and they just copied. :rolleyes: All those VG and other prototypes were just fakes. They didn’t waste time or money and just assumed the Americans got the correct solution to the problems the Soviet Government gave the Soviet Design Bureaus. They were sooo sneaky that they even copied the F-15 before the F-15 was created…

You’re being sarcastic here, but just a little while ago you said with complete seriousness the following:

The copied the basic external shape of the US space shuttle, because they knew that NASA had spend over 4 billion testing every shape they could think of including flying wings and all sorts of other shapes and decided the one the picked was the best… who were the Soviets to disagree with all that testing and computer modelling?.

So (once again)…which is it? They DO assume the Americans put in the work and solved the problems, and so copy American designs, or they DON’T assume, and do the work themselves? Your statements are conflicting.

August 10, 2005 at 12:00 am in reply to: Saudi Arabia's next combat aircraft #2606363

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(Some times we wounder wheather US is an allie or not).

Make no mistake, we sometimes wonder about Pakistan as well.

August 9, 2005 at 11:44 pm in reply to: Tri-engine fighter? #2606365

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Yes, I’m looking for any instance of a fighter design or proposal with three engines mounted conventionally, i.e., intakes toward the front, nozzles in the rear. But it’s starting to look like there haven’t been any.

August 9, 2005 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Tri-engine fighter? #2606392

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The Yak-141 had three engines – a single lift/cruise engine plus two lift engines 😀

As did the Yak-38 !!!!

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Okay, I knew as soon as I posted it that someone would bring that up. 🙂 To clarify, what I mean is three engines for forward thrust.

August 8, 2005 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Fun With Google Earth #2606656

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OT – what’s this?

This is taken from Google Earth – it’s Le Bourget airport near Paris – is that a FSW business jet (in the center)?
Sorry – probably should have posted this in the Fun With Google Earth thread.
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