GODDAMN IT

Man those things were sexy, even if they found the canards weren’t worth the extra RCS. ‘Murica, please make them anyways.

Can we hereby dissolve you and everyone else of this duty?

The ultimate form of smashing the fax machine that frustrates you at work

I also noticed Luneburg lens radar reflectors on all the F-22s deployed to Europe.

Damn that’s a good picture

No one’s saying it means *nothing*. You’re saying it means *everything*.

Well, that was sad

Actually since it originates from US and Soviet plane generations, carrying it forward to Russia, they could release something with an RCS of 100 and call it fifth gen, really. The “fifth gen = stealth” is US development centric.

Source for the last part about getting it near at-cost? I knew there was a new deal with reduced funding to 3.7 billion with transfer of technology, was that it?

And the exposed titanium engines and the lack of S curves going from the inlets to the engine. I’m half rooting for it, at least the Indianized version of it, but come on, “low profile” and showing their relative heights is almost Onion-esque satire. What’s the radar return of a B-2 vs a Su-35, relative to their…

Mainly the fact that speedtest is industry standard...Aka, big ISPs put up Speedtest servers close to major areas, meaning you more likely see your full ISP speed, since it’s from the ISPs own server to you.

“restricted to two bombs and two air-to-air missiles because the software for more weapons hasn’t been finished”

That was circling the interweb quite a lot a few years ago last time NK did a launch

Nice try, CIA

I believe India and Russia just agreed to a reduced priced deal, down from 12 to 8 billion of further development. iirc India was still after over 60? But the first Indianized prototype won’t be delivered for a while yet, I think 2018, so once they get it and performance test it things could change.

Better than the flip. Face a peer state with slow low flying air support only.

“Then, we take off. Invisible - like the wind!”

You plan and optimize for a worst case - a peer state competitor. Then you handle a bunch of inbreds in toyota truck tanks with what you have.

Can lasers deal with over the horizon targeting like air to air standoff missiles?