Posted on 06/09/2016 3:02:59 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Russian air force grounded its entire fleet of Sukhoi-27 fighter jets on Thursday after a fatal crash near Moscow which aviation sources told Russian agencies looked like the result of some kind of technical failure.
Viktor Bondarev, the head of the air force, ordered the country's fleet of the twin-engined fighter jet grounded until the reasons for the crash had been determined, Russian agencies reported.
Russia is believed to have over 300 of the fighter jets in service. The United States complained in April that one of them had made aggressive manoeuvres near a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, a charge Russia rejected.
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Tragedy seeming to plague many Military airshow pilots.
I think Putin is doing the same as Hitler did a few generations earlier.
Scaring, throwing away the best scientists.
Sad for Russia.
It’s a 40 year old design.
Three words: Russian Quality Assurance
conversation overheard in Russian AF AC Maintenance hangar “hic...close enoughski Ivan hic...” clang...ooopski bringski precision hammer Ivan....hic that’ll buff right out no one will notice hic.....
THAT’s what I was thinking, exactly.
looks like it will take a little longer than 60 hrs to smash NATO.
Is this the one that has the bathroom for the pilots? No I’m not kidding.
That would be a SU 34.
Russians design a world
class airframe. If they
let Americans build it
there would be no equal.
Three words: Russian Quality Assurance
conversation overheard in Russian AF AC Maintenance hangar “hic...close enoughski Ivan hic...” clang...ooopski bringski precision hammer Ivan....hic that’ll buff right out no one will notice hic.....
Actually, during the second world war, the soviets brought
an famous aviation designer out of the gulag to figure
out why their planes were crashing.
He watched a crew assemble one and found that the cause
was miss alignment of the wing and spar and the crews
were driving the bolts home with a sledge hammer, stressing
the spar and causing it to fail...
That’s what sunk the Soviet sub K-219, a Yankee class. Drunken pipe fitters in the shipyard.
Musta been a Jew. Did they send him back to the Gulag?
I have to agree. The Russian fighter jets can take a lot of punishment as evidenced by their acrobatics, with an occasional ‘crowd landing’ at the airshows.
I don’t remember, it’s possible that they sent him to
one of the special lagers for designers/engineers.
Well, I guess that Russia will have to wait a while now before they can “take Europe” in 60 hours.
In other words, that's not a news.
Yes it is, especially for bureaucratic, by-the-book Russia, that's why my comment was centered around the coincidence and tragedy of ALL the Military Airshow crashes lately.
The title is sensationalism, but I can't change the title without fouling up the thread for search. The meat of this article had more than any of the other one liners.
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