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Yes, when it's over it turns blue. Are any of you getting any sound with it? The specs say there is sound, but I can't hear a thing.

Year when the missile was created.

Bear's roar > Tornado+Typhoon on full AB. Real respect for the crew, man that thing is like hell, high in the sky. The typhoon is probably like a luxury car, and the Tornado is like a good old car, the Bear is like a turbine driven go cart.

No, splitting as in splitting H in 1n and 1p

You're confusing chemical and physical splitting of water into components, the chamical way is with either electricity, some additive+cathalyst, in these methods the electrical bonds are broken due to introduction of some other compound or element. You are however not breaking water molecules up by heating it, that is still way too unefficient, plus all that fallout will make the reason to split it kind of, well, excessive :P What you dispute is nuclear fission of the water molecule, and it's not that easy to split as say Uranium, Americium or Plutonium and their isotopes. And that is the reason they mostly use Uranium and Plutonium in nuclear bombs, if water was that easily to split, well, we'd have a hard time living, won't we? If you really want to know more, why not just read about it instead of arguing about proven physics?

We have this death star floating around, it absorbs all the solar energy, then converts it to deathrays. Oh wait, that's the ISS with a radio transmitter.

Is it that British documentary from 1996? With some flying tapes in it? I recognize the name.

Listen, to break down pure water in its components you need temperatures of something like 60000 C at normal air pressure, now, with any kind of engine or material for that matter, it's just impossible. Conventional explosives can reach 5000 degrees C, but not 70000. This sarcasm is becasue of the improbability of such an engine design for the coming, well, hundreds of years. Since the question was answered many pages ago we go on and make bad jokes about the subject. No need to speculate on that. To answer you: the explosives in a nuclear warhead are just a mean to compress the fissile material so that it can reach supercritical mass, at that point the nuclear reaction increases exponentially, hence massive neutron, radiation and subsequent heat release. The explosive itself does not initiate the boom, the highly enriched U-235 or Pu-239 (most common materials, Pu is more popular due to lower mass needed) is what makes people and cities go up in smoke, not the trotyl or whatever is used for the compression charge. Your precious inkenel or whatever is just an allow of steel chromium and nickel, it sure as hell can't withstand more than 3000 C without melting, at 20x that temperature it would vaporize, along with the aircraft.

A quantum singularity driven warp core with confinement fields for controlling the technobablenian reaction might give H2O decomposition, we just have to wait 500 years for it, and then the Mig-21SMT1337 will have it, with no additional fuel consumes, only water. Ofcourse then it would need some additional power source for the shield generators and the transphasic cloaking device. I suggest using charcoal driven reaction chambers to boil the H2O in order to drive a turbine to generate electicity for the generators. Ofcourse, the pilot workload will go up, as the reaction chamber needs constant replenishment. That thing would rule during winter, keep the pilot happy with your average bbq fuel ;)

They have grilles, but no doors, there is fuel in that section now, range counts more than a stray boulder at sea :p

Yeah man, Iran could blow up the whole US, FEAR CITIZENS FEAR TERRORISM, LISTEN TO YOUR GOVERNMENT, BE SUSPICIOUS, RECORD EVERYTHING, BUY UNNECESSARY STUFF FROM YOUR DEFENCE CONTRACTORS, CREATE JOBS, FEAR WEEKEND SOLDIERS WITH RPGS, TRUST AND SUPPORT YOUR TRUTHFUL GOVERNMENT IN THEIR FIGHT WITH TERRORISM!!! Oh wait, there is no 'terrorism', it always existed, but suddenly its some new enemy, what will come next, child soldiers in Africa, disgrunted farmers in Uzbekistan? Something very strange is being planned with all this suspicion if you ask me. No way such fight can be real, not with the current 'terrorism' spendings all over the world. So Iran having F-14 parts will accomplish what? Iranians flying CAPs, wow, that's dangerous, ooow jee, maybe they'll nuke Israel because they have nutjobs in their governmnet, yes, nutjobs who can control a country bigger than Iraq without any suicide bombings or children smeared out over a large surface, wow, they're really evil. My country shares your US paranoia, now they want to ban sites that might give some details about nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. And this already is the second most data-minded and tapped country in the world after Italy :/ Maybe in 2 years they'll ban sites showing how to build water rockets, as they can endanger police UAVs flying around in your backyard :disgust:

Ofcourse you can, if a thermonuclear charge gets above 65000 degrees Celcius, then you can. Now, engines are tough, but not that tough, and certainly not on old Mig-21s. I would classify such device as a fusion reactor or maybe warp core, but not a 3rd gen aircraft engine.

All Soviet made sams can be networked, everything 'modern', ie eighties and later is networked, nothing special for Russian/Soviet made SAMs. In fact most systems are designed to only work in groups, systems like the Tor, Tunguska, Strela-10-M3, Buk-M1, and more expensive ones are all capable of wireless networking, and wired too. Heck, even the Strela is networked (in the non-terrorist version :P), with a small command screen showing the relative target positions, all with IFF, so the operator knows where to look. A similar system is in the Strela-10 family of vehicles.

They're in the second part of the Russian Air Force acception trials, but since the loss of the 3rd prototype progress slowed down a bit. I don't know if it's certified yet, but the state acceptance programme is still running, even though they have 'production aircraft' being made and delivered to the RuAF. The Mig-AT is considered less advanced, and why spend muney on something already outdated? The RuAF has already signed a limited contract with yak, for small numbers (6-8 or 12 per year). And this yeay they signed for over 100 aircraft starting from 2009. The two prototypes are by now outfitted with the AI-222-25 engines giving 2500 kg each. Now, if we compare this to the Aeramacci M-346 with F-124 engines giving it 2830 kg of thrust each... The only thing holding down the M-346 from being the best performer is the software, but they can change that, allowing the thing to do 60 degree AoA passes and such wacky things. Did you know that on the M-346 100% thrust is considered comparable to afterburner? That's why most take offs occur with 80-90% thrust settings. The engines on the Italian version produce ~660kg more than the AI-222-25, but they lack the FOD doors. Ouch, look at the airframe service life: 10000 hours, a bit short for a non afterburning jet. http://www.yak.ru/ENG/PROD/new_130.php Cool according to their site they're 5% into the development of a carreir based trainer, and the drone version (looks quite cool without a cockpit and vertical stabilizer). Labled as a recomaissance-strike drone, cool, looks evil, and that counts. http://www.yak.ru/PROD/new_130_mod.php 1st Channel painted Mig-29UB is taxiing now, ready for take-off, all watch. BTW, am I the only one who has no sound at all with the stream?

Yak-130 is more advanced at this as it can even emulate the F-35 and other fifth gen aircraft to come, Mig-AT can't because of the 25 degree angle of attack restriction and weaker engines. The Yak-130 also has several panic buttons, to automatically stop a spin, stall, return to level flight. It also features flight restrictions imposed for novice pilots, so they can't spin the plane or get into a deep stall. Prototype nr. 03 if you're wondering, had a malfunction of that digital flight control system, causing it to go in an inverted die without any controllability. The crew ejected at 1000m while diving inverted in a steep angle, they suffered bruises on their faces (no MDC lines in the canopy), aprat from that a good ejection. BTW, now there is a su-29(31m?) doing some crazy stuff.

Oh, so it does have the Kreugers, cool. So basically the Mig-29K is now a Mig-29KUB airframe without the back seat and all the avionics in it.

The second is the Pantsyr (Armor), it's much like an upgraded Tunguska-M1 with digital interfaces, new missiles, radars and optics. No gattling guns yet on that thing ;) The first one is a Tor on a wheeled chassis.

Yes, high school physics are at play, but only the ones concerning sublimation and the cooling effect that has in case of water. Turbines, even the most state-of the art monocrystal blade with computer 3d high tech industrial spionage technologies never get hotter than 1800 degrees Celcius, so there is no way in hell (need water?) that water would be split into its components. The only way to use H2O as fuel is to ignite a nuclear bomb, so unless the engine is tens of thousands degrees hot, this reasoning is unsound. It's jsut a way to cool the engine, no H2 creation

No wind, no waves, no traffic on the deck. Man, it's landing paradise. My approach is usually 1100kph (burn off some fuel, gain speed), about 4km out AB extended, throttles cut. Then comes some full rudder deflection together with some pulling on the stick, it will bleed off speed fast. When you're below 500 kph, gear, hook, AB extended/retracted depending on final speed. Usually 320 kph when do it, so extended. touchdown at 280, done. All that in under 2 minutes, no need to do ILS approaches and trying to be scientific about it. Just have the highest possible average speed without crashing. BTW, it's better to extend the airbrake and to compensate with the throttle, the engines spool up faster than the airbrake extends/retracts. For fun you can try landing the Su-33 without the hook, the final approach speed should be ideally 170 kph, but 190 is still good enough. Again, flaps, gear, airbrake, and if you don't want sore hands, some trim. Small sinkrate approach, prior to touchdown retract the flaps and apply wheel brakes. Steer your lump of metal to the right, so you can stop on the ramp. Be happy that you saved your plane from some metal fatigue and get some ice for the brakes.

Best countermeasure: turn off the emitter and relocate ASAP. Passive air to air missiles (R-27EP) are said to have a vector logic, but, if you don't fly in a straight line after turning off the radar you'll be fine. Now, the big challange here it to spot the missile launched at you, as it's a passive one, no noise on your RWR. I guess the only real CM are missile launch detectors ala Mig-35, otherwise it will be *boom* and a 'wtf happened' from the pilot if he's still alive. The KS-172 probably has that in mind, as it has an active seeker for the final guidance, and since no missile will cover 300km in tens of seconds, it needs the radar seeker as the AWACS would spot such missile approaching and turn off the emitters and start doing evasive maneuvers. PR guided AA missiles have limited use against fighters because of their radar beam (always from the front, so in the visual line of the enemy), ofcourse no pilot in the world could see that it's a passive missile, but making a turn would make the R-27EP go flying towards the projected intercept point, which is not where the enemy plane is.

Several prototypesof the Ka-50 have such systems, even combined with directional illuminators (forgot in what band IR or ultraviolet) to aim at the missile seeker and lead it away from the precious helicopter. Ofcourse there is little doubt such system is linked with the flare dispensing system. It detects the flash of the launch (main stage ignition for most manpads) and the subsequent plume.

On the wold mig-29s it says 'Warning, honeycomb' on this one it says 'Warning carbon plastic'

You know the one with the whiteout ;) Probably due to some crappy Chinese ISP screening way too much traffic, resulting in packet loss.

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