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Originally posted by Daedalus3
Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV
Since the late-eighties/early nineties the latest Sukhois and MiGs/MAPOs have been rated as able to kill Hornets and a step ahead of Tomcat. Don't forget how old the American fleet is. Gone are the days when PLAAF guys didn't wear pressure suits or have simulators.
Although they are good at those air-to-air intercepts where you use yourself instead of a missile...
^^^ that to against recon aircraft!!
Originally posted by W4rl0rD
For a start,try the LCA,which is just a modified mirage 2000
[edit on 2/11/04 by W4rl0rD]
Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
Howlrunner, The jet engine was first truely invented by a british engineer and pilot. I forgot his name, but I know he was british. He technically started the research before German Scientists did, only German Scientists finished their product first.
And if you say that the Germans invented all those things and the Americans copied it because they implemented it into their aircraft, you are totally wrong.
By your logic, I am prohibited to design a completely new aircraft, using new avionics, and new propulsion, new weapons, new everything if it has swept wings or delta wings, otherwise it would be a copy.
The Americans used one idea, and implemented it into their aircraft, does not make them copies.
Shattered OUT...
Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
By your logic, I am prohibited to design a completely new aircraft, using new avionics, and new propulsion, new weapons, new everything if it has swept wings or delta wings, otherwise it would be a copy.
Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV
The British have a history of invention. The steam engine. The triple-expansion steam engine, the steam turbine, the screw-propellor, the gas turbine (jet) engine. All of which have been copied by the rest of the world. No-one says anything about US ships being pathetic copies. No-one says anything about German ships being pathetic copies. Why should it be said about one nation's aircraft?
Originally posted by IAF101
What are you? a commie??
If your sole criteria is to get as many planes into your airforce as possible then I'd say Chinese were doing a good job- but as far as innovation goes -NADA.
All the rest of the air forces( or rather air- farces) out there just want to match up to the USAF can't they do better??
The first Stealth plane the F-117a "night hawk " was launched decades ago, it was a giant leap in air force history but no other nation can still figure it out properly to make a working model- Simple lack of initiative!
Sure you could say that the US was at war (cold) with the USSR and we stole it out of a Soviet scientific journal but still we had the initiative to go through with it and developed it to its present form.
Originally posted by Daedalus3
But what about the chinese aircraft? Are they essentially pathetic copies or improved versions?
Originally posted by IAF101
The first Stealth plane the F-117a "night hawk " was launched decades ago, it was a giant leap in air force history but no other nation can still figure it out properly to make a working model- Simple lack of initiative!
Originally posted by craigandrew
But I cant comment on what they can do and to whom. Perhaps they have been the only ones smart enough to keep thier mouths shut. I dont know.
We do know they are good at ramming turbo props however....Sorry couldnt resist.
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Originally posted by HowlrunnerIV
IAF,
Two things I'm not: one is communist the other is stupid. Stupid and ignorant. Okay, three things I'm not. Communist, stupid, ignorant or...
Among the things I am not are such elements as communist, stupid, ignorant or insulting.