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India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months
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."
Do you see it?
Whoops. Maybe I posted to soon. Another google hit gave me a stealthy looking aircraft:
http://flareout.blogspot.com/2009/05/fifth-generation-fighter-aircraft-fgfa.html
I don't see any pylons here for missiles, or other radar bouncing structures. Definitely not what was shown in the earlier photos.
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They need to hand out grills and cook up all them cows on those muddy, poopy roads that run along side the sewer line and extensioned family huts.
I don't give a fuck if it runs linsux. I'm heterosexual.
As a former F-15 avionics technician, let me say this:
We had several blue flag military exercises in which we had allowed the Indian fighters access to the OFPs (operational flight programs) of our electronic warfare suite(AN/ALQ 128 in conjunction with AN/ALR 56). Why not? They are allies, they should challenge us and let us learn from the challenges they offer.
Unfortunately, we discovered that Indians do not bathe. As a result, the translucent tell-tale brown trace of Indian stink followed their aircraft. We did not know if we should ignore it or just virtually shoot it down and make them chalk up yet another stink-related military defeat. Perhaps they shat on their flightlines and didn't do FOD checks and so human shit was just sucked into the turbofan blades.
The moral of the story is that the American military leadership needs to play Metal Gear Solid 4. The answers to the questions asked by modern Americans are answered within.
Well considering dogfighting essentially doesn't happen anymore, and hasn't really happened much since the beginning of the Cold War, these people are right. Sorry if the truth gets in the way of your "Top Gun" fantasies.
Everything you just said was stupid. I'd go into detail about why it was stupid, but its pretty clear you wouldn't understand what I was saying.
This post is intended for anyone who reads your post and thinks they have learnt something: you haven't.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I've never had indian food where I didn't shit up a storm or throw up from it! The fucking taj majal beer and that shitty $20 dollar appetizer did me for a shit storm. I like nan, but muddy women never did me any good!
There as another previous article about Chandrayaan having issues and look at the newsposts there, filled with wise cracking American jokes about Indian call centres...
This post won't surface to the top and will probably be flagged as troll or flamebait or whatever to censor it.
But note the progress we have achieved in the last 50 years given the size of our country and our democratic nature.
They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, seems certainly true for slashdot, continue spewing your hatred for us here...I for one am never coming to this site or working for an American firm or company ever.
Good Day to you all.
If you have no idea how a stealth aircraft works then why do you think you're qualified to say "that's not stealth"? Just because it looks a little different from past stealth aircraft doesn't mean jack shit.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
Just keep digging yourself deeper idiot.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Why does it matter if it is "worse"? I get really tired of this more equivalence people try to pull. "Oh there were bad thugs in the past so that excuses this thug now!" No, it doesn't. NEITHER is excusable. Did the US do some bad shit in central america? You bet your ass. However that doesn't mean that it is a good thing that there are now people doing bad shit there that aren't associated with America. They are still thugs, still assholes.
True enough, but after all the inhuman atrocities the CIA sponsored in S-America, after similar atrocities by US troops in Vietnam and Korea, after Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, extraordinary rendition and those secret jails^W torture centers they operate around the world it still makes US Americans sound like complete hypocrites when they start whining about somebody else doing the same exact thing. You know... Pot, meet Kettle...
Ya the guys a jerk. But he also gave millions to heat the houses of poor North Eastern US citizens when some individuals were dieing from the cold due to the fact they could not afford to heat their homes. While GB2 did nothing except let US citizens suffer. Ya it was a PR stunt but it was a stunt that worked. I and many others consider Chavez less of a threat than GB2 even though GB2 is now out of office.
Because the people with mod points are as stupid as you?
How we know is more important than what we know.
I wouldn't bother arguing. Chances are he also believes Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, has never heard of the School of the Americas and thinks Fox News provides fair and balanced news coverage.
Yes, building more weapons is the best way to avoid war.
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