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India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months

Posted by timothy on from the but-now-everyone-knows-about-it dept.

xmpcray writes "Less than four months from now, India's first stealth fighter will fly for the first time. It is called the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft, or FGFA, and is being developed in Russia by Sukhoi. Several of the technologies being developed for the stealth fighter have evolved from those used in the Sukhoi 30 MKI. Considered the most maneuverable fighter in the world, the Sukhoi 30 MKI uses thrust vectored engines, which deflect the exhaust from its engines to extreme angles, enabling the jet to pull off violent maneuvers like a flat spin — where the jet literally spins around on its axis."

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  1. Re:No thanks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A flat spin killed Goose.

    Compressor turbine stall killed Goose.

    Not to be pedantic, but a rather nasty blow to the head during ejection killed Goose.

  2. Re:No thanks. by MartinSchou · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want to be really pedantic, it was the script writer, in the office, with a typewriter.

  3. Re:Interesting stuff by Caffinated · · Score: 5, Funny

    s/Ob/Os/g

  4. Re:No thanks. by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, being the "happily married guy" in a gang-of-buddies action movie killed Goose.

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  5. Re:"where the jet literally spins around on its ax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which axis? Probably the axis of evil for all the editor knows...

  6. Re:Interesting stuff by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if enemy also has stealth?

    I'll have to check but I don't think he's allowed to.

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