Russia Tests New Stealth Jet Fighter

[piasabird]

Too bad O'Bamma wants to kill all of our weapon systems development.

So are we prepared to intercept and stop this new plane?

So is Russia is going to try to sell this plane to our enemies?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_stealth_fighter

MOSCOW – Russia's first stealth fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made its maiden flight Friday, boosting the country's efforts to modernize its rusting Soviet-built arsenals and retain its lucrative export market.

The Sukhoi T-50's flight comes nearly two decades after the first prototype of the U.S. F-22 Raptor took to the air, and Russian officials said it will take another five years for the new jet to enter service. Still, the flight marked a major step in Russia's efforts to burnish the faded glory of its aviation industries and strengthen a beleaguered military

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-Schadenfroh

 

[Patranus]

Woot. New arms race.
(I feel like history is repeating itself)

Jimmy-C where are you?

 

[hal2kilo]

Too bad O'Bamma wants to kill all of our weapon systems development.

Link?

 

[Patranus]

Link?

It would be more accurate to say that the Democrats killed the weapon systems as CONGRESS controls the purse strings.

 

[hal2kilo]

It would be more accurate to say that the Democrats killed the weapon systems as CONGRESS controls the purse strings.

And you're still going to insist that its ALL weapons systems. Hyperbole much!

 

[marincounty]

The US spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined. How much is enough for you guys?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm
http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12652
President Barack Obama today sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $663.8 billion for fiscal 2010. The budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $533.8 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $130 billion to support overseas contingency operations, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The proposed DoD base budget represents an increase of $20.5 billion over the $513.3 billion enacted for fiscal 2009. This is an increase of 4 percent, or 2.1 percent real growth after adjusting for inflation.

 

[hal2kilo]

It would be more accurate to say that the Democrats killed the weapon systems as CONGRESS controls the purse strings.

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/06/18/gates-calls-hasc-f-22-move-big-problem/

And I guess that the fact that the Pentagon didn't even want it has no bearing what so ever on this.

 

[K1052]

I'm all for Russia foisting their over-promised weapons systems on our enemies for as much $$$ as they can get.

 

[jpeyton]

And you're still going to insist that its ALL weapons systems. Hyperbole much!

Ditto.

Still waiting for the link showing how Obama killed all our weapons systems.

 

[CrackRabbit]

REPOST.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2046227

 

[drebo]

The US spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined. How much is enough for you guys?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm
http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=12652
President Barack Obama today sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $663.8 billion for fiscal 2010. The budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $533.8 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $130 billion to support overseas contingency operations, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The proposed DoD base budget represents an increase of $20.5 billion over the $513.3 billion enacted for fiscal 2009. This is an increase of 4 percent, or 2.1 percent real growth after adjusting for inflation.

The US spends so much because our leaders (democrats as much as republicans) insist on staging troups EVERYWHERE around the world. We have troups in 130 countries. I can't even name 130 countries. Why do we need troups in 130 countries?