Bing Maps Reveals Russia's Secret Stealth Fighter Jet

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Google may have the monopoly in showing drunks on the curbs, half-naked people hanging laundry and the occasional dead body, but Bing has cornered the market for revealing things of top secret military nature. It looks like the once thought defunct Russian stealth fighter jet is still alive and kicking. Oops! Sorry Russia. :D
 
That's a very Much Defunct Mig 1.44 (Also beside it is the Mig-29K Naval Fulcrum, also defunct)

Current Stealth aircraft for Russia is the PAK-FA[/url}

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White paint indicates test version.

White is for visibility and camera purposes.
 
Maybe they can sell it to Iran so they won't have to use a paper mache airplane anymore.
 
I've always had a fascination with delta wing aircraft. Especially with canards. Probably something to do with spending a lot of time around Wright-Patt and ogling the sole XB-70 that exists today. That big, white bird fascinated me from the first time I saw it and after reading a bit on the history of it, I just became that much more interested.
 
blitzkommando said:
I've always had a fascination with delta wing aircraft. Especially with canards. Probably something to do with spending a lot of time around Wright-Patt and ogling the sole XB-70 that exists today. That big, white bird fascinated me from the first time I saw it and after reading a bit on the history of it, I just became that much more interested.
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Bah, I prefer variable sweep wing, best of both worlds.

Delta wings handle like total shit at low speeds, and make landing challenging.
 
Oh that top secret SU-35 jet made by Sukhoi, that has a bunch of Youtube videos showing it on it's maiden flight, and vector thrust capabilities, that secret jet?
 
A few months ago, I got to see upclose a real MIG25 and climb in a TU160. Cold-War era engineers made some awesome planes.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I thought Clint Eastwood already stole it.
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That movie and Robotjox amazed me when I was a kid....not so much anymore :D

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Freaking 50's-70's MiG's look like they were made in a barn by blacksmiths. Dude! Use flush rivets, and get the skin on right.
 
The MiG-25 Foxbat still holds some speed and altitude records. But it's a lousy aircraft. A brick with two huge engines on it. Who knows how many test pilots were killed trying to set zoom altitude records in one? When the gig was up, they altered the 25 into the MiG-31 which was slower, but a decent aircraft.
 
Qinsp said:
Freaking 50's-70's MiG's look like they were made in a barn by blacksmiths. Dude! Use flush rivets, and get the skin on right.
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they pretty much where
the Russians where practical if it didnt need flush rivets it didnt get them and made the aircraft insanely cheap and fast to make
 
Actually, the Russian jets were equal or higher in price to the American fighters.

Why? Lack of advanced engineering tools, inefficient workers with lousy tools, socialist overhead. A Russian workers was, and still is, only about 1/3rd as productive as a US worker.

Countries bought American fighters because they were a better value. They bought MiG's because they were subsidized heavily to counteract Western weapons.
 
I'm sure that if it was TOP secret it wouldn't be parked outside.

what is more shocking is that somebody used bing maps.
 
Qinsp said:
Actually, the Russian jets were equal or higher in price to the American fighters.

Why? Lack of advanced engineering tools, inefficient workers with lousy tools, socialist overhead. A Russian workers was, and still is, only about 1/3rd as productive as a US worker.

Countries bought American fighters because they were a better value. They bought MiG's because they were subsidized heavily to counteract Western weapons.
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Uhm no. Nobody bought from the Soviets because the United States made them out to be the devil. You deal with the Soviets and you suddenly become a bad guy cavorting with evil. Also the Americans were selling jets to Allies for cheap to dry up the market for the Soviets. You really think the Afghans would have been able to afford those F14s at full price?
 
Russia had more spies in the US than McDonald's sells hamburgers. (Yeah, China is worse today, but that's a different story.)

What I worked on: http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/b_1b_lancer.htm

IIRC, still the heavyweight champ and the only aircraft that can fly over 700mph fully laden at 100 feet off the ground.

Here's what Russia came up with:
http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/tupolev_tu160_blackjack.htm

Bigger, less range, less payload, and slower laden.

But they could be twins if the Ruskies had copied the design exactly, instead of trying to upgrade it.
 
Teenk9 said:
Uhm no. Nobody bought from the Soviets because the United States made them out to be the devil. You deal with the Soviets and you suddenly become a bad guy cavorting with evil. Also the Americans were selling jets to Allies for cheap to dry up the market for the Soviets. You really think the Afghans would have been able to afford those F14s at full price?
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The USSR was Imperialist from 1940 to 1990? They wanted to expand their empire. NATO took position when necessary to halt the expansion. Trivia: Russia was on the Nazi's side at the beginning of WWII and took 1/2 of Poland, and attacked Scandinavia.

Iraq bought Rusky shit, Iran bought F-14's. They duked it out. It was a freaking aerial bloodbath. The F-14's raped all the Iraqi Russian fighters.
 
Qinsp said:
The USSR was Imperialist from 1940 to 1990? They wanted to expand their empire. NATO took position when necessary to halt the expansion. Trivia: Russia was on the Nazi's side at the beginning of WWII and took 1/2 of Poland, and attacked Scandinavia.

Iraq bought Rusky shit, Iran bought F-14's. They duked it out. It was a freaking aerial bloodbath. The F-14's raped all the Iraqi Russian fighters.
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Your answer has nothing to do with what I said.
 
Teenk9 said:
Your answer has nothing to do with what I said.
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Most the fighter jets the USA sold were sold at a profit. Subsidies were only applied when there was an active threat by the USSR, or a need to "flip" a country who already had subsidy backing by the USSR.
 
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