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Emu

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  1. https://news.yahoo.com/latest-iran-says-2-rockets-063554887.html
  2. Maybe it means that's the maximum number of targets that can be aimed at in one drop???
  3. https://www.key.aero/article/ultimate-10-thunderbolt-ii
  4. A Russian navy boat was attacked and sunk by a walrus in the Arctic
  5. Only 1 deployed S-400 battalion?
  6. That's sexist. You are to serve 100 hours community service at the sex change clinic.
  7. It's getting a bit ridiculous. Germany has had this problem for an entire decade now.
  8. F-35 intakes and more slant towards horizontal in the tail. That's about it.
  9. Not as bad as it sounds. Chinese-owned since 2013, after boards were made by Exception PCB. National firewalls apply. If the board was actually made in China by UK/US-owned company, then I would worry a lot more.
  10. I think this is probably a valid point.
  11. Curious as to whether they have HMCS with the R-73 too.
  12. The IrAF claimed a daylight A2A shootdown of a Tornado during Desert Storm before they even started flying daylight missions if I remember correctly.
  13. Folding fins and rotary launcher is the way forward.
  14. With HOBS (AIM-120D) can it be cued via HMCS? Presumably this will only work at reasonably long (non-dogfight) ranges though.
  15. Is that +/-50deg or +/-25deg?
  16. An AMRAAM can be used LOBL but can it be cued via HMCS in LOBL use? Can the seeker be cued via HMCS in addition to this? Can the seeker perform the search itself?
  17. Yep, he's hit a big 'ole tree there.
  18. Very late? It was 4 years behind the planned 2001 date, which isn't that bad in military aircraft terms. It was cancelled in April 2009.
  19. Well I'm leaving it here but the 187 figure was never agreed by anyone at any time, that was just the number they ended up with after the cancellation on 13th April 2009 under the Obama Administration. You can read the facts on Page 44 of the July 2015 edition of Air INTERNATIONAL. Nobody suggested any conspiracy as such, although it is well known that Gates was the main protagonist behind cancelling the F-22 and made sure that it never dropped a single bomb before it was cancelled. Additionally, he used fake reasons for getting rid of Wynne and Mosley who would not give up on their 381 figure and Obama kept the guy on, these are all facts. He made a short-sighted decision based on short-term thinking and an ongoing asymmetric war where advanced technology was almost redundant. Much of the money saved was spent on equipment that has now been left in Iraq.
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