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  • in reply to: Russia moving tac air troops to Syria #2132146
    KGB
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    Except, what? The fact that they are surrounded? Might have children? Old People? Wounded? Hell, the public network transportation isnt exactly up to date in Alepo…

    The point ?

    pubic transport wasn’t exactly pristine in Fallujah either.

    in reply to: Russia moving tac air troops to Syria #2132289
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    One district of East #Aleppo liberated by Syrian govt from West & GCC proxy #AlQaeda & friends

    In east #Aleppo govt has been dropping this leaflet for last two days, telling civilians to surrender or die among ‘terrorists’ #Syria

    in reply to: Russia moving tac air troops to Syria #2132292
    KGB
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    What Russia is doing in Aleppo is what the US did in Falluja twice. Where was the faux hysteria about that ?

    in reply to: North Korean Air Force Air Show at Wonsan in 2016 #2132300
    KGB
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    The ig 29 Fulcrum made an airshow out of it

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2132457
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    Any new news regarding PAK FA? Next model to fly? any idea on specific hardware (Avionics) and such?

    Im no avionics expert but you can bet it will be at the very least as good as what the SU 30sm which has 5th gen avionics

    http://kret.com/en/news/3991/

    in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2132665
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    We’ve been over this ad nauseam-even in airshows the F-22 starts display with 18,000lbs of fuel and Inert weapons (when carried), per the 2016 flight display regulations. Was posted by me over at the “can’t dogfight” thread. That is one heavy load for flight display.

    It still doesn’t prove what is the most maneuverable or not.

    in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2132754
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    So, pray tell, why does no other stealth jet have such a sphere, especially when it would be advantageous for FoV?

    Just different over all philosophies and priorities. The existence of one or not does not designate said aircraft stealth or not.

    in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2132913
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    Well it’s impossible to make a sphere stealthy. It’s a fundamentally unstealthy shape. So unless that B-DLC has 100% radar absorbance then the solution isn’t stealthy and if it was, then why the keen attention to stealth shaping elsewhere, when they could just use this material? Could it be they just reused an existing design with some tweaks.

    And why have the IRIS-T face away when not being used, if this stuff is so great?

    Well it’s impossible to make a sphere stealthy. It’s a fundamentally unstealthy shape.

    All of these arguments hang on this kind of flippant absolutism. You cannot designate an aircraft stealthy or not on these kinds of arguments.

    The pilots head is a sphere. So the F 35, F 22 and Pak Fa are not stealthy. Because a sphere is a fundamentally unstealthy shape. That’s how your argument sounds.

    in reply to: F-35 News and discussion (2016) take III #2132921
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    That’s irrelevant, you still have a sphere on the front of the aircraft, regardless of whether the actual optics are facing forwards or backwards.

    Your logic still doesn’t make any sense. Obviously, as someone else has already pointed out, no rational human being would go through the trouble and cost of building a proper stealth jet and then arbitrarily compromise the stealth with something like this.

    So either no human beings on the Sukhoi engineering team are rational or the sphere is not detrimental to the stealth features of the jet. As a rational human being myself, I am going with the latter.

    in reply to: Russia movies S-400 Unity close to Finnish border ! #2132942
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    Thanks for that diameter figure. This time, I will make sure that I do not lose it! It will go straight into my missile database.

    As its inelegant form the land-based system demonstrates, it uses the same hardware as the ship-based system. This minimised the cost and speeded the deployment.

    Thanks for taking into account my diminished eyesight (the result of advancing years), but I can manage perfectly well with normal-sized typeface.

    While I was aware of these facts, I am also aware that the entire staff of the KGB and GRU were not dismissed en masse circa 1990, but formed the basis of the present-day equivalent services. So a lot of old-style thinking and older world view may still apply.

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    I am also aware that the entire staff of the KGB and GRU were not dismissed en masse circa 1990, but formed the basis of the present-day equivalent services. So a lot of old-style thinking and older world view may still apply.

    That’s true. A genocide was not committed on Russia to cleanse it of the old USSR. Which means exactly nothing.

    Russia is more capitalist than the USSA is now. (way lower corp tax. 13% flat tax, lowest debt in G20, no net debt, 5th most forex reserves in the world) So there is no ideological difference here.

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2133130
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    All sides have been working on Photonic based systems for quite some time, and all of a sudden China got it? Not quite. I imagine the researchers are at the same point as Kret is since Kret already worked on a photonic based radar system and is currently still working on it, with it slated to be in operation by 2020. So I will take what China says with a grain of salt.

    And as Tomcat stated, there are ways to make the IRST system VLO on the jets. So it isn’t like it will be the issue.

    If you’ve been paying attention to the news, which apparently you haven’t, you would have seen, just in the last few days, that China has made a fairly specific break though in the proton radar field. I didn’t just make this up or refer to some old story. And again, I am not saying this is the end-all either. I am just showing that technology is progressing to counter conventional stealth.

    Clearly China is further ahead in this field then you were led to believe

    Chinese Quantum Physics Breakthrough Enables New Radar …

    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/…/-beyond-science-fiction-chinese-quantum-physics-breakthro
    16 hours ago – “Beyond Science Fiction” –Chinese Quantum Physics Breakthrough Enables New Radar Capable of Detecting ‘Invisible’ Targets 100 …

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2133188
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    So the T-50 has heavily compromised frontal stealth against stealthy adversaries is what you’re saying.

    If frontal stealth was as “heavily compromised” as you think it is, don’t you think the Sukhoi engineers would have elected to do something else ?

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2133193
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    We dont know what is final config of pak fa. China photonic radar? Doubt it exists.

    Stealth bomber’s advantage could disappear in face of China’s new radar

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stealth-bombers-advantage-could-disappear-face-chinas-new-radar-1583205

    I am not saying this is the be all and end all either. (yet:D) But I am just attempting to put stealth in a realistic perspective for some of the readership here.

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2133198
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    The IRST can/might use Luneburg effect to hide it’s shape.

    We.have been already discussing that and I think the answer was already given.

    http://ethw.org/File:Luneburg_Lens1.jpg

    It may have been discussed and answers given.

    But it is still trotted out as one of the 3 go-to reasons for them to stand on their soap box and proclaim “Russia is falling way behind on stealth”

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXV #2133201
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    Stealth v stealth will come down to who’s plane has fewer stealth compromises and who has more aircraft covering an area. Unfortunately for Russia, they are well behind in both aspects.

    Haha no they aren’t. Tell me. What is the Pak Fa lagging so behind on stealth wise ?

    Like any technology, stealth was never going to be the be all and end all. Besides that F 117 laying in that corn field in Serbia, every technical advantage will be met with counter technology. I don’t think the Americans understand this.

    Look at the work China is doing.

    The end of stealth? New Chinese radar capable of detecting ‘invisible …

    http://www.scmp.com › News › China
    5 days ago – In a statement posted on its website on Sunday, CETC said China’s first “single-photon quantum radar system” had “important military …

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