Russian BlackJack Deploys

[submarinerssbn]

alot of originality in their designs, wonder where they get all their ideas from, hahahaha. they should just hang it up, but they never will.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Wasn't the VSTOL Yak a fan design, rather than vectored thrust (i.e Harrier) vertical flight? Making it more of a precursor to the F-35B than a copy of the Harrier

 

[BrandonJ1780]

The Russkie version of our F-22--first prototype flight isn't due until '09, at least...Pak-FA // T-50.

Artist's conception they used for a newspaper interview with a Russian AF official about the project awhile back. The paper's name escapes me, sorry...

 

[LivinMyDream]

Speaking of Venezuela (in the OP's article), Hugo just told the US Ambassador to leave his country. He's also pulling his Ambassador out of DC http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us

 

[Pugs]

If you poke into it, the Buran and Shuttle are very different in detail, even if they're visually similar.

The most obvious difference is one is on a stick and one has 20+ years of space travel on it

 

[cfam]

Actually, there were multiple Buran orbiters. The one on the stick was just their test vehicle for aerodynamics, and had jet engines. Here's what happened to the one that actually made a (unmanned) spaceflight. The wikipedia article on the Buran's pretty interesting.

 

[Harrier Dude]

Actually, there were multiple Buran orbiters.

Were they called the [Van] Buran boys??

 

[m3urthy]

Were they called the [Van] Buran boys??

Pic Related:

George: "Maybe she celebrates her birthday the Monday after the weekend."

Jerry: "She's not Lincoln."

 

[FLYTPAY]

I think it's called "wind tunnel design" ... the wind always blows.

I guess the Chinese copy designs by throwing CD's, DVD's, and designer clothes into wind tunnels then.