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There are still only 4(3 now) Su-35s? I thought they were already in production and that a few of them were on active duty.

Not sure about the music, but it would be really cool to play with one of those for a while.

Any chance you have a higher res version of that for a wallpaper?

Hopefully Congress will gets its way and more will be built.

As I understood it, the electronics and computers on newer fighters made them easier to maintain and service, not harder.

Again, if it is an anti radiation missile, how would it be at all effective against an F-22? Even if you somehow detect the Raptor at range, this missile is not going to be able to track it unless the Raptor is radiating enough for the K-100 to see.

How would that missile be effective against F-22's? Its basically an air to air ARM right? That would make it a good weapon to use against AWACS, but since F-22's are not constantly radiating and when they are their radars are supposedly difficult to detect, wouldn't that make this missile practically useless?

This might be a dumb question, but aren't B-2's usually parked somewhere where they are protected from the elements?

I think those are called F-22's and F-35's.

Is he comparing the -MKI to just a default F-15C or one of the upgraded ones with AESA?

Isn't the Su-34 the equivalent to the F-15E?

O Noes! The plasma stealth PESA equipped Su-35's are going to shoot down all of our non maneuvering F-15's because they aren't F-22's!! And then they are going to make a bunch of uber fighters that are light years more advanced than anything the US has! Sounds more like a USAF made vid asking for more Raptors than something an Aussie think tank came up with.

I'm pretty sure that the F-35 has 3 weapon bays just like the Raptor, so 2 Sidewinders plus 6(?) AIM-120s. Edit: No I guess not: http://www.airforceworld.com/fighter/gfx/jsf/f35_payload.jpg Just two bays, but it looks like 8 missiles.

-http://www.kommersant.com/p-12426/Video_drone_forgery/ Is that true? Most of the videos on youtube show AAMs leaving some kind of contrail.

Why did the plane blow up like that? People have posted pics of other planes that land wheels up and they didn't fireball like that. I mean, it didn't look like it hit that hard to me.

The nose is made out of fiberglass? I thought planes were built out of aluminum or something. But damn, surprised the pilots managed to get it back on the ground after that.

Sad to see a plane like the B-2 that beat up :(

Does the USAF have this many problems every year and I just don't hear about them, or are they losing a lot more planes than they used to?

Don't know about 1 and 2, but I'm pretty sure that a HARM remembers the location of the radar its heading for so that even if it turns off, it will still know where to go.

Is there any proof that that footage came from an Iranian UAV? I mean, I could probably spend a few minutes on google and find some footage to make my own video of a UAV monitoring something.

That's the engine in all the new Sukhois right?

Wouldn't a torpedo have caused more damage than that little hole?

Ahhh, gotcha. Never a good idea to do math late at night.

Ok, AFAIK the SR-71 was able to go mach 3+, but not hypersonic, so I think I am messing up somewhere, but I don't know where. -source- So 1.6 miles/second x 60 seconds/minute x 60 minutes/hour = 5760mph. Put that into Nasa's mach calculator at 80,000ft, and you get mach 8.722. So, am I wrong, is the pilot wrong, or is the plane hypersonic?

Isn't Boeing offering Super Hornets with AESA to India?