Posted on 01/10/2013 12:29:16 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
It also gives them a supersonic long range bomber.
Yes TU-22 Blinder. Reading this article seems like I retro backed to 25 years ago.
And BTW, that’s an AS-4 Kitchen missile slung underneath that TU-22 or TU-26 in the above pic.
Tu-22 is a Blinder, Tu-22M (pictured above) is a Backfire.
Despite similar designation they are completely different aircraft.
Tu-22 is absolete, Tu-22M is still a potent weapon platform.
Pei-ping
The Tu-160 Blackjack was the Soviet/Russian B-1A equivalent. But I’m not sure those are still in service.
The US is and will be in military decline due to fiscal and ideological crisis. The bigger questions may be these:
Can America continue to afford to build and deploy carriers and their associated battle groups?
Are carriers on the verge of becoming tactically obsolete due to the evolution and proliferation of military technology?
What is critically important which NOBODY is concerned with, is we continue to send ever more of our industry to China.
Our balance of trade with China is frighteningly out of balance.
That matters a great deal. We allow China to manipulate trade, protect markets, yet we do nothing.
Something will give. Bigtime.
The current situation is completely unsustainable.
There are about 15 or 16 Blackjacks and about 400 Backfires left in service in Russia. Both types considered strategic assets and not allowed for export by Russian government despite numerous Chinese calls.
Hundreds of Backfires were chopped under Reagan-Gorbachev arms treaties and there are still abandoned airbases in South Siberia full or ground equipment and dozens of intact surplus Backfires left for 15+ years to rot and easy for Chicom spies to harvest for technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nObAqf2J-As
That is a video of one of these bases. The whole facility is guarded by one security and a couple dogs. You can see planes lost a lot of parts mostly due to recyclers collecting scrap metal. Who know if there were some Chinese among visitors.
There are about 15 or 16 Blackjacks and about 400 Backfires left in service in Russia. Both types considered strategic assets and not allowed for export by Russian government despite numerous Chinese calls.
Hundreds of Backfires were chopped under Reagan-Gorbachev arms treaties and there are still abandoned airbases in South Siberia full or ground equipment and dozens of intact surplus Backfires left for 15+ years to rot and easy for Chicom spies to harvest for technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nObAqf2J-As
That is a video of one of these bases. The whole facility is guarded by one security and a couple dogs. You can see planes lost a lot of parts mostly due to recyclers collecting scrap metal. Who know if there were some Chinese among visitors.
Backfire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-22M
Blinder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu-22
Pictures are TU-22M Backfires, which look nothing like TU-22 Blinders. How the heck did that happen?
Blinder first flew in 1959 as a prototype, it wasn’t really tested and hasn’t proved to be a good plane but was pushed in mass-production by red airforce who wanted a supersonic medium bomber at all cost. Some 300 hundred were built while Tupolev still developed it’s design making a refined aircraft known as Tu-22M by 1967.
I agree with you 100 percent. However in the global economy China has become the world's manufacturer which is part of the new normal. International business want it this way to maximize profit and the one world government cabal desires this to level the standard of living across the globe. I believe there is no going back to protectionism and America first policies as Joe Six Pack would revolt if low priced goods became unavailable at WalMart. Others would argue that America is still number one in manufacturing if measured in productive output,and that it is in our best interest to have low skill skilled assembly be done overseas so that capital will be available to further enhance technology and productivity at home. The downside to that argument is that with fewer workers, who will be left to power the consumer driven economy and pay the ever increasing taxes that the government demands.
They are just big targets. The day of the carrier has come and gone.
Is anyone going to point out that these things are about as stealthy as the Hindenburg? Long, long before they get anywhere near a carrier group they will be lit up on AEGIS like a Christmas tree.
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