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Posted: 04 March 2010 09:20 PM   [ Ignore ]
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The Soviets…er Russians unveil their fifth generation fighter:

Stealth for the Other Guys

An event that many thought might never come finally arrived on Jan. 29. On that day, the world for the first time witnessed a flight of a Russian stealth fighter.

It was Sukhoi’s PAK FA aircraft. The event was wrapped in secrecy on a scale worthy of the Soviet Union. There were no advance photos of the fighter. There was no advance announcement of the flight. There were no foreigners on hand to witness the 47-minute event. Only after the flight’s successful completion did Moscow even acknowledge it at all.

At that point, though, Sukhoi and Kremlin officials held back nothing. They went all out in their praise of the fighter and its purported capabilities. The subtext was that, finally, someone had broken the US monopoly on low-observable aircraft.

Air Force Magazine article with photo _>

You may want to copy and paste the below URL into your browser.  The space between March and 202010l is giving fits. 

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2010/March 202010/0310issbf.aspx

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Posted: 04 March 2010 09:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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They talk it up just like in the old Sov days!

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Posted: 05 March 2010 09:12 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Even pasting it in I couldn’t get it to come up.
What day was this posted for?

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Posted: 05 March 2010 09:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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It’s in the March issue.  Just go to http://www.airforce-magazine.com and about 2/3 of the way down in the left column of the home page, it’s listed under Issue Brief:  Stealth for the Other Guys.
Dunno why that URL won’t work.  It has to be the space causing the problem.

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Posted: 05 March 2010 10:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Yeah, the forums don’t handle URL conversions well when there’s a space in them, it seems. I think that’s come up before.

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Posted: 05 March 2010 10:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Not very impressed by it’s looks.

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Posted: 05 March 2010 10:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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You’ve got an extra 20 in your URL.
It should be http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2010/March 2010/0310issbf.aspx

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Posted: 05 March 2010 10:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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If you put Sukhoi’s PAK FA in Google images you get a lot better set of pictures.

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