An artist's conception of the T-60S
Posted on 01/23/2008 8:13:18 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
07:43 pm - Wednesday
Putin decided for a stealth bomber development
Moscow, Russia - Latest technologies employed for its realization
(WAPA) - According to several sources near Russian Kremlin, president Vladimir Putin given some time ago green light to the development of a new stealth bomber aircraft to replace and modernize the Russian air force attack aircraft fleet.
Described to be smaller than the U.S. Air Force Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, this new Russian bomber, named T-60S, is currently being developed by Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi, maker of the famed SU-27 "Flanker" fighter-bomber.
This new aircradt will use a variable "Swing" geometry wing not previously used on U.S. stealth aircraft, which allow T-60S to have better performances in respect to similar U.S. aircraft.
It seems that Russian researches on stealth aicraft have been simplified by the recovery and sale of a shot-down U.S. Air Force F-117A stealth fighter during the 1999 war against Serbia.
Serbs reportedly sold the remains of the American stealth aircraft directly to the Russians. Therefore, the impression of a decading air force, as appears to be the Russian air force after the fall of the Soviet Union, reduced to approximately one half its original size, is no longer suitable to the current situation. The widespread impression of an under-funded and poorly manned air force in today's Russia has been disputed by the heavy investments made by Russian government in the last years. It is estimated that over a billion dollars has been diverted by the Russian government into new weapons programs.
However, yet in 1995, the commander of the Russian air force, General Peter Deinekin, stated that a new multi-role strategic bomber would replace the aging Tupolev TU-22 "Blinder" medium-range bomber and the Sukhoi SU-24 "Fencer" bomber-fighter.
(Avionews)
An artist's conception of the T-60S
Good. A nice way to drain off some of that excess KBG oil wealth. You know that whatever they come up with it will always be a day late and a dollar short of our detection technology.
As Nelson would say "HA HA!"
All of this stuff you read is basically about Kosovo and about SlicKKK KKKlintler bombing a totally innocent Slavic Orthodox Christian nation into the stone age to take that Juanita Broadrick story and Chinagate off the front pages of American newspapers. What Putin is saying is, try anything like that again, and you (KKKlintonistas, neocons ets. etc.) can anticipate experiencing some serious pain.
I would be very surprised indeed if they develop a stealth aircraft with swing wing technology.
Eye roll in order here.
Yeah, really. In their dreams. I work with a bunch of Russian programmers and all of them are very highly skilled... and they’re all working here in the USA... and they all say that Russia is fundamentally incapable of ever getting its act together.
Doesn’t mean Russia can’t build a bunch of deadly weapons, of which this will be, I’m sure. But competing with us on the cutting edge of military tech... I don’t think so.
Unless we elect a Democrat for President, of course. Then all bets are off.
Which brings me to another point: on the subject of military preparedness, all our RINO candidates are better than all their RATS.
And military preparedness is a subject of no small importance for our future.
Pukin is taking right back to another cold war. I looked into his eyes and saw a KGB man. Unlike Bush.
I am convinced that in places like los alamos, skunkworks, crystal lake , etc., that there is stuff in the pipeline that is next next next gen. Stuff like anti-grav. When you have a pipeline like this, you may be pissed that our tech fell into their hands, but you really don’t see it as a strategic disaster.
Not if Hillary sells it all to them.
Maybe John McCain will sell them our B2 Stealth Bombers if elected.
**McCain asserted that US military preparedness is dangerously inadequate, and names specific weapons systems he considered unnecessary, elimination of which would provide some of the funds needed to modernize the military and increase preparedness. He said that the C-130 military transport aircraft, the B-2 stealth bomber, and the Seawolf submarine should all be taken out of production. He noted that for years Congress has forced the Air Force to buy more C-130s than its leaders wanted.
Source: Boston Globe, p. A19 Dec 8, 1999**
And it has "CCCP" on it
The thing is that Clinton is in hot water with the Chinese for blowing up their embassy.
Not necessarily. Remember the map they said they used in error was back when the embassy was just a field, i.e. no building was actually their prior to the embassy being built. Yet we managed to bomb it because of a ‘map error.’ Then take into account how bubba was on the Chinese payroll, Chicom influence all over the White house, the laboratories, DOD, etc. Did a mole help in this little endeavor? Tie this in with the ChiComs stating the US was their main enemy in 1990. Right after the bombing the Chinese started their BS cry of multipolar world and such, its also when Russia start to push this even harder than ever before and we saw the SCO start to come together, going completely bonkers about us trying to develop a limited missile defense system in response to their aiding tin pot dictators trying to get the bomb and ICBM technology. And both used the embassy bombing as war rallying cry for a closer relationship. It’s all a little too convenient for my tastes.
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