Posted on 08/21/2007 2:29:19 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
ZHUKOVSKY, Russia (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pushed Russia's military aviation industry as a global leader, just days after announcing the resumption of Cold War-era strategic bomber flights.
"Russia has the task of retaining its leadership in fighting, military technology," Putin said at the opening of the Maks 2007 airshow in the town of Zhukovsky, a major test flight centre just southeast of the Russian capital.
"Russia has new economic potential and will in the future continue to pay particular attention to developing these technologies," Putin said, adding that the pilots taking part in the airshow were "the best in the world."
Maks 2007 is a "celebration of aviation in our country" that will also serve as a useful platform for signing export contracts for supplying foreign countries, he continued.
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Stupid Putin. Stupid Russians. Worry about running water and cabbage before proclaiming yourself the leader of this or that.
OK, all hands on stage. Re-take of THE COLD WAR, number two, ROLL IT !!!
Good luck catching up with the tech in this puppy: http://www.f-22raptor.com/
Good luck catching up with the tech in this puppy: http://www.f-22raptor.com/
Sorry, all, don’t know why I keep getting double posts. Hitting the “post” button just once...
They seem to be feeling a great dal of nostalgia over there for the good old days of cardboard shoes and long lines of comrades waiting for their allotment of toilet paper.
"Retaining"?
Yes, within Russia.
Russia's aviation designers are first rate, but when they've finished what will they have to show? Planes that, according to the latest issue of Combat Aircraft will just be on the roll out in 2015 and will find themselves, avionically, two generations behind the Raptors and F 35s. And how could they even engage us. The old empire is gone and we've no interest in attacking The Rodina.
I can't believe they've learned nothing from 50 years of Cold War. Maybe they really believe that our victory was a fluke. God help the Russian people with self deceiving despots like Putin at their head.
I think the problem lies in the fact that many in Russia don’t see the USSR as having died. They’re the same fools. They’re still idiotic socialist.
Considering Russia’s coming demographic collapse, I really can’t see them being a conventional world power. They’re expected to have a net loss of 50 million people by 2050 in the most sparsely populated landmass in the world.
Retain? To retain something you have to have it.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old one.”
“Good luck catching up with the tech in this puppy: http://www.f-22raptor.com/";
That “puppy” is a 15 year old airplane with software problems, limited payload, and an over-reliance on stealth.
What’s going to happen on the day that Russia/China figures out a way to manipulate radar to defeat our vaunted bet-the-house-on-stealth strategy? That day IS coming sooner or later.
Now Putin who is nearing the end of his term needs an organizing tool to hold on to power. It's nothing more.
What is disgraceful is the further impoverishment of a highly addicted, alcoholic, dysfunctional, low productivity and shortening life-span Russian people. They are a dying society that would be subject now to mass starvation were it not for oil, gold and weapons sales.
“Russia has the task of retaining its leadership in fighting, military technology”
English to russian translation is very difficult, it should have said, “we have to keep stealing the best American stuff and and selling cheap knock-offs to tyrants around the world”.
i guess the dumbsh!t never got the memo telling him the reason the commies LOST the coldwar was by trying to COMPETE with the USA!!! yobvas putinski
Geeee...you have managed to oversimplify the F-22, and its advantages in one post. Putin, is that you?
Other than stealth, which you accurately mentioned, the F-22 has many features that you have not...that’s mighty convenient of you.
The F-22 has highly efficient engines giving it the ability to supercruise at MACH without afterburner...unlike other FastJets which can only sprint short distances at MACH without burning their complete fuel loads.
The avionics package, which you mention has had software bugs, was fixed (a common occurrence in 1st batch production aircraft. Geee..what model F-18 are we up too now? I think F)...and...you failed to mention that that those same avionics are the most advanced in the world...and not 15 years old...allowing the F-22 “First sight” engagement abilities.
It’s ability has already been proven here:
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/5949
Please specify how limited it’s payload is...as far as an air superiority fighter/ground attack is concerned it has an excellent ability to carry a multitude of strike packages. Detailed here:http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22.htm
Geee...I dont think we’re ever going to rest on our laurels and with the headstart we already have...we have reason to be proud of our armed forces. I suggest you get better acquainted with aircraft...
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