my $0.02: Recruitment tool for computer savvy teenagers. They're trying to use the game so that teenagers begin thinking of the PLAAF as a viable career option rather than private industry. It hasn't really been that long since the Chinese air force was the same as the North Korean one and they need people to -want-…

Daaaaaaammmmnnnnn.......

How manycans of hair spray does it need?

Gee, the PLAAF must be getting better.

a defenseless plane, needlessly tormented over international waters by yahoo Chinese fighters brandishing their weapons...

Two thousand pounds of high explosive on a rocket with next to no guidance system. Seems like an incredible waste of money for freakin' zero benefit to me.

Well, Russia needed something to turn about its population shrinkage. Stir up enough trouble where the diaspora is an maybe juuust enough of them will come home to prevent Russia becoming wholly Chinese.

pics of the trucks up close

Roo-hunting....

the scariest thing is that right now there will be a post on a Russian site that says exactly the same thing and that if some from the US found it, it would quickly be spread about as proof of how warlike, savage and criminal the Russians are...

"Hey, it's Nialls from the Nanny!!"

Given the secrecy of submarine operations, I wonder if Moscow thinks they've rumbled the Yanks, the Yanks think it's the British, the British think it's the French, the French think it's the Chinese.

Googled it - found this which says that access to Nickel was the problem. May not be the whole picture (the jet was a poorer design than the British version) but they have a lot of numbers and stuff.

LOL @ "parachute practice". Good points also.

This plane was in my Big Book of Military Aircraft that I used to obsess over as a kid but there wasn't any information about it. Given it's general shape and configuration though, I kinda marked it as being of a similar ilk to the Caproni Campini N.1 (which was also supplied with an irritatingly small amount of…

A veeerry different approach to the P-80 Shooting Star (hmmm... Another "fireball"-type name...) of the same year. Any real benefits to this design over the P-80?

the hazy recollection I have in relation to the Junkers Jumo 004 (the engine of the ME262) was they did have a small amount of decent alloys and used them to make the 004A engines ("hey, that worked.. Nice!") and then had to go to the lower value steel for the actual production engines, the 004Bs.

I don't care if they're a POS, I want one.

It would be absolutely terrifying to be on a beach with that headed towards you; and knowing that has no brakes.

came to post this. Slow clap instead.