F-22 Raptor-ski?
Revealed at the Russian engine manufacturer’s site (NPO Saturn) is this image of Sukhoi’s 5th generation fighter, the T-50. More here.
Kinda has a familiar look, eh? (h/t DEW Line)
Revealed at the Russian engine manufacturer’s site (NPO Saturn) is this image of Sukhoi’s 5th generation fighter, the T-50. More here.
Kinda has a familiar look, eh? (h/t DEW Line)
Another average week…the Iranians started it off by claiming to have launched their SLV, but then, no, wait, it was just a sounding rocket (some think it was nothing more than a Scud B shot straight up which would have yielded the 150 km altitude claimed). Fallout from China’s ASAT test continued in the wake…
“In connection with this I would like to recall that in the 1980s the USSR and the United States signed an agreement on destroying a whole range of small- and medium-range missiles but these documents do not have a universal character. Today many other countries have these missiles, including the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,…
Sometime in April 1958, Lockheed first undertook the study of a replacement for the U-2. Unlike the U-2, this would be an aircraft able to cruise at Mach 3, with a range of over 4,000 nm at altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft. It would also have an RCS (radar cross section) smaller than the U-2 and…
The latest to join the milbog/aviation ‘verse is RememberedSky.com – brought to you by a former Crusader/Corsair II naval aviator with 170 combat missions in the A-7 over Vietnam while flying off the USS Midway in the 1972-73 timeframe. Consider one of the more recent posts: All days come from one day, as the writer,…
Old days Good times I remember Fun days Filled with simple pleasures Drive-in movies Comic books and blue jeans Howdy doody Baseball cards and birthdays Take me back To a world gone away Memories Seem like yesterday (Chicago) (Nimitz intercept pics)
Readers of the legacy site know that your humble scribe is something of a throwback in that he has a fondness for prop aircraft. Comes today an offline note from Mike C. (DC Tailhook RR “Handler”) that included links for F4U training vids. 😀 … so work up those right thigh muscles, there’s more…