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Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-see-me-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The long-awaited Russian stealth fighter, codenamed PAK FA or T-50, has had its first test flight today. This Google translation of a Russian article has a photo of the jet. Production is supposed to begin in 2015; the AP reports that India is helping with development. It's reportedly designed to compete with America's F-22 (first flight: 1997). Relatedly, according to Wikipedia, Japan is planning to fly its own stealth fighter, the ATD-X, which we have previously discussed, in 2011."

15 of 418 comments (clear)

  1. do you have to think in Russian to fly it? by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    do you have to think in Russian to fly it?

  2. What happens in a dogfight? by singingjim1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they all just collide in midair?

  3. Here come the awful firefox jokes... by myocardialinfarction · · Score: 2, Funny

    (to get started:)
    Man, I hope their firefox works better than mine.
    They'd have finished it years ago if it wasn't for Gecko and XUL.

  4. Stealthy ? by daveime · · Score: 5, Funny

    has a photo of the jet.

    So not *that* stealthy then ? Of course, I guess if it was that good, the pilot would never be able to find where he parked the thing.

    1. Re:Stealthy ? by Sockatume · · Score: 3, Funny

      I hear the US is working on a fighter so stealthy that once it's in motion, even the pilot doesn't know exactly where it is. The F-6626 Heisenberg.

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      No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
    2. Re:Stealthy ? by Anonymous+Struct · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, but do you know how many years of research went into that glue? Pretty impressive engineering, wouldn't you say?

  5. Re:Love the smell of military secrets in the morni by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Operating a military force like Pen and Teller just sounds like shear idiocy.

    Why? I think we can count on Teller to keep his mouth shut.

  6. That's nothing! by codeButcher · · Score: 4, Funny

    My country has also developed a stealth airplane. It's so stealthy nobody has seen it yet.

    Or the tax money used to develop it....

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    Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
  7. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    5. The F-16 is a fat old lady

    I must take issue with this.

    The F-18 is a fat old lady. The F-16 is an anorexic old whore.

  8. Re:Does someone at NATO have a sense of humour? by KH · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clint Eastwood will steal it in no time...

  9. indian way of making stealth vehicle by snsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    THIS is how we make stealth car in India

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eOVpBCtPo

  10. Re:Who cares? by obyom · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the sake of economizing, maybe the US will outsource and have the F-22 built in China.

  11. Re:In Soviet Russia ... by cgomezr · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia... memes overuse YOU!

  12. Compulsory picture by janwedekind · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stealth fighters can be detected by the characteristic pattern of reduced precipitation below the body of the aircraft:
    http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jkd/stealth.jpg

  13. 2015 by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why worry?

    That's THREE WHOLE YEARS after the end of the world!

    --
    "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell