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2010-03-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

T-50: Russia's secret fighter jet with 'human intellect'

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Posted by tipper 2010-03-19 08:22|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Just what the world needs: Drunken Russian AI.

With its supersonic cruise speed, the Raptor can enter a combat zone quickly. But what's next? Then it has to transfer to subsonic speed so as to be able to open the doors of the armament store and utilise the missiles which are hidden in the belly of its fuselage.

Ahh, no.

Posted by ed 2010-03-19 08:48|| 2010-03-19 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I saw this movie. It starred Clint Eastwood.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-03-19 08:58|| 2010-03-19 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Are we going to have enough money for national defense and security after Bambi gets done with health care, cap and trade, immigration and other such programs.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-19 09:54|| 2010-03-19 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 ed, itust your judgment here.

but yesterday your last oil post was an obamanation of misapplied skill....

no need to reply.

I provided you with a baseline that cannot be defeated, it can only be denied and obfuscated....but that by itself means the messenger should question the preparer of the message, asking to hisself, if working for this charade is really worth it...afterall, to have a real solution handed to ya, then ya choose the lie, as payment for continued service, you've already lost your own game.

no matter, the situation is what it is and will be resolved by the missing information stalking collective malfeasance.

carry on.

Posted by Thor Spegum8770 2010-03-19 10:06|| 2010-03-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep. Russia are leading the world in software technology (Not).

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-19 10:26|| 2010-03-19 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Thor,

Occam's razor. Oil companies and geologists are paid to find oil wherever/however it exists. No oil, no pay. Their theories on oil formation have been successful in finding new deposits. No conspiracy theories are needed.

Posted by ed 2010-03-19 10:33|| 2010-03-19 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 did Thor's hammer accidently bounce back and wack him in the noggin?

Posted by 746 2010-03-19 10:45|| 2010-03-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Aug 2 2002: First F-22 supersonic missile launch, AIM-9 at Mach 1.1
Aug 21 2002: First supersonic separation of AMRAAM, Mach 1.19

Mach 1.5 bomb drop

Posted by ed 2010-03-19 10:46|| 2010-03-19 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Tonight on Super Scary Theatre:

"Yeltsin's Brain"

Posted by mojo 2010-03-19 12:22|| 2010-03-19 12:22|| Front Page Top

#10 "Yeltsin's Brain"

Perfectly preserved three years later.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-03-19 12:31|| 2010-03-19 12:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Are we going to have enough money for national defense and security after Bambi gets done with health care, cap and trade, immigration and other such programs.

Oh... so you see what they're doing there, huh?

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-19 12:48|| 2010-03-19 12:48|| Front Page Top

#12 PAK FA. Appx equivalent to early model F-16. Stealthy as a brick with reflectors. Chinese, Russian (or American engines?).

Secret? Not hardly.

Posted by tipover 2010-03-19 13:28|| 2010-03-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Reminds me of the Mig-25 and everyone screaming it would slaughter everything and nothing could escape it. Then a defector brought us one.

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-03-19 13:54|| 2010-03-19 13:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Reminds me of the Mig-25

Was that the one with the vacuum tube avionics? IIRC, everyone was laughing at the primitive soviet tech. Vacuum tubes! Fleming valves! Then someone pointed out that tubes were much more resistant to EMP than solid state devices and their eyes got really big.

Posted by SteveS 2010-03-19 14:34|| 2010-03-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#15 I have mixed feelings about the T-50. It looks like it might have a good plane somewhere in there struggling to get out. I haven't been able to tell from the photos if they actually have any serpentine ductwork between the inlets and the engines to block the turbine discs.

I also wonder about the need for all the extra maneuvering surfaces (which compromise stealth) if it has thrust vectoring and can maneuver without it.

(A complaint I'd also like to make about the F-22 and F-35, btw.)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 17:25|| 2010-03-19 17:25|| Front Page Top

#16 It may have supersonic cruise but there's no way in hell that it's stealthy, not with that design.

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-19 21:01|| 2010-03-19 21:01|| Front Page Top

#17 BTW, the last aircraft we lost to a fighter attack was an F-18 shot down by an Iraqi-flown Mig 25.

Imagine what a real air force could have done with some with tactics and stuff.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 21:52|| 2010-03-19 21:52|| Front Page Top

#18 `HUMAN INTELLECT`? The Russians modeled the computer after Obama's brain, so as to have an anti-American tinge to the jet's electronics.

Posted by BigEd 2010-03-19 22:22|| 2010-03-19 22:22|| Front Page Top

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