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Posted on 9/9/2009, 6:11:22 AM by Danae
New fighter, designed by Russian Sukhoi is reportedly more maneuverable than Lockheed Martin's designs
India, one of the world's brightest emerging technical superpowers -- currently, the seventh biggest nation in terms of land area, and the second biggest in terms of population -- is preparing to make a major military leap forward. It will be flying its first stealth fighter in under four months.
The new fighter is a so-called "fifth generation" fighter jet. Currently only two such fighter jets exist, both produced by Lockheed Martin: the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II. The Indian fighter is being developed by Russian firm Sukhoi and is dubbed the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft or FGFA.
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looks vaguely familiar
Kinda Russian lookin.... Sokhoi.... yea for our Russian friends.
While kudos are due to India and the USSR (oh.. sorry. Russia.. since now they are “democratic”), the fact is that it will take India/Russia over 10 years (and that is if they are lucky) to make these fighters operational
Gen 5 fighters require wickedly complex software code and the materials used for building these crafts (think 787 issues 100 times worse) cause a lot of issues.
It will be 2020 before these fighters become “operational” no matter what you hear from the Russkies in the interim
Facts be facts... no matter what Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Putin say...
Facts be facts... no matter what Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Putin and Obama say...
yOU can thank the H1b visa program for this.
India has enough engineers here to learn and or steal whatever they need.
Bingo.
B-1 Lancer (USA)
Tu-160 Blackjack (Soviet)
Hey, we’ll have 187 Raptors. I’m sure that’s plenty to face future threats. Gates has assured us that there are no conventional challenges in our future, just Afghanistan-style conflicts.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I wonder if neocon favorite Noshir Gowadia participated.
When I read that Americans keep the Russians supplied with the latest in weapons designs and technology, pictures like this make it VERY easy to believe!
“No worries, Obama will make sure no foe goes unfunded, he will send them funds to make sure this gets developed rapidly “ Sarcasm... “
Obama is a Charley McCarthy ventriloquist (teleprompter) dummy for the political descendents of the bankers and NWO people who funded the Soviet Revolution.
Kinda reminiscent of the whole Space Shuttle/Buran story.
India has enough engineers IN INDIA to learn and or............
, it would only mean US needs them more then they need the US
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I think it means that our Government is not training and investing in our youth in the tech areas and instead is taking the cheaper option of just hiring the already trained youth of other countries.....thus stabbing our young in the back.
Why shouldn't it? I called Verizon to fix and email problem and the bank I deal with to help me with one of my accounts and both times I'm pretty sure I was talking with someone in India.
If they know all about an Average American's phone and banking along with the rest of the country's, why wouldn't they know all about Lockheed and Northrup's design library? We give it all away and then train others to use it.
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