Well, if I understand it correctly, the Syrian passenger jet was an Airbus A320, the same model flown by countless American airlines, which will even be built in the US soon. So, no secrets there ;)
Posted on 10/10/2012 12:39:58 PM PDT by silentknight
Turkish state TV: Turkish fighter jets have forced a Syrian passenger plane coming from Moscow to land at the Ankara airport. 2 hours ago
This is really interesting. Thanks.
“This is clearly the result of a video on youtube.” -verum ago
Even the most innocuous of flights may have amusing manifests, such as one regularly occurring one listing a cabin crew member named “Sugar Plum Fruitcake”.
I saw the actual manifest. Asimov was right, the Universe is stranger than we can think it is.
“Quick, someone send in the Secretary of Boob Oogling!”
When did Laz get demoted?
Thanks.
During the Cold War a type of Soviet sonar buoy washed up on a U.S. beach and someone turned it over to authorities. When it was discected they found the computer component came from an off-the shelf Nintendo game.
Your welcome.
Per the hearing today the question was asked “ how many shoulder fired missiles that could take down an airliner are missing in Libya ? The answer was 10,000 to 20,000 , confirmed by both witnesses
Crazy times.
I think that variant of MIG was powered by a rocket engine that had to be changed out fairly regularly because it degraded quickly from the heat it produced. The plane was an interceptor that needed power over other qualities.
Da’n right — there is lots of vitamin B in it. In fact, the UK’s National Health Service used to give it to new mothers.
The Russians and the Turks have not taken kindly to each other for many centuries.
LOl :D
I wonder if this is why the Russian airliner was carrying repair parts for missiles? I have read elsewhere that a lot of the Libyan armaments were deteriorated from storage, or Gaddafi had stored some components one place and the others in other places. So perhaps someone needed certain parts to make missiles operational because they never found both or all missile caches.
They use to give wounded soldiers and pregnant women one Guinness per day, it’s high in iron (for real). They would crack a raw egg in the Guinness for pregnant women. No myth.
“Russia doesn’t need to use passenger planes to smuggle arms to Syria”
True, but the Chechens would.
What to make of this?
Interesting info on this thread.
the MIG-25 that did MACH-3 over the Sinai had to have it’s engine replaced, that is where that story came from
but, it did do MACH-3 in 1973
Is the coarse of these planes over sensitive sites in Turkey....or newly sensitive sites -as in training camps for Syrian rebels on the boarder?
So did the XB-70 and SR-71, but you didn’t have replace the engines every time you punched the throttle...
Oh, and they did it in the 1960s.
I think you are correct, the question is who will end p with the operational hardware? What will it be used for? What is Putin up too?
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