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    Yeah and Italy was "not nearly as genocidal as Germany" too. I think estimations have been that they've got around 44 of the original 79 airframes, and that approximately half of those are capable of flying at any time. Supposedly the AWG-9s have been upgraded with "more processing power", but who knows if that's anything more than propaganda.
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    You mean the VAK-191B? It was pretty similar in stats and layout to the Yak-38 but one of the lift engines was moved to the tail section instead of having both of them up front. It was intended to be a strike fighter with a secondary dash-to-intercept role, and like the Yak-38 turned out to have crap performance. There was also the Do 31 transport, which was intended to be used to supply rough airfields operating the aforementioned VTOL fighters. The internal pods each housed a Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine (same as the Harrier) and the outer pods each have four Rolls-Royce lift engines as used on the Mirage and VAK191B. Useful load would have been around 3,500kg. It also had a large analogue-digital hybrid computer for preforming the differential equations needed for takeoff/landing. (Interestingly the lift engines found a much longer life on the Hawker Trident airliner, being mounted conventionally in the 3B version to give the airplane a boost in thrust for takeoffs in hot conditions.) Lockheed also made a couple joint ventures. They cooked up the CL-704 with the Shorts Brothers, which was a F-104 Starfighter, the main engine would have been replaced by a more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey, while the tip tanks would each be replaced by 7(!) lift engines. It was canceled due to the development of the Kestrel/Harrier, to the presumable relief of the wives of Marine aviators. I can only imagine how quickly it would go through it's fuel with seven lift jets and the bigger Spey engine. And the Ryan triangle wing proposal. From what I can find the triangle was intended to spin around like a helicopter blade for takeoff, then lock into position for regular flight.
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    I see this season we're getting a show about East Germans getting killed by aliens. http://www.schwarzesmarken-anime.jp/
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    Assuming it goes beyond confrontations and intensified proxy war, I'd say it'll primarily be air focused with sea/commando attacks on shipping terminals since both countries have fairly limited naval assets, The Saudis have newer FFGs and Corvettes to the aging ones Iran has, whereas Iran has more missile boats and 3 Kilo class subs. Neither side has any notable amount of sealift capacity, unless Iran decides it's a Good Idea to send soldiers in rocket-armed bass boats to get shot by the Saudi National Guard while they try to make shore landings.
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    Neither? They're two faces on the same Islamic fundamentalist coin.
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    Will Michael Bay be making a movie about how the Saudi government secretly burnt down the embassy because something something Hillary Clinton?
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    http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=202304
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    And as such, they designed the ejection seat to automatically fire if the airplane rotated 60 degrees from vertical while in VTOL mode.
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    The Canadian, Shah-Klorfine, "prepped" for the mountain by photoshopping herself into photos of wheelchair accessible mountains and Everest, and by hiking around her neighborhood with a backpack full of rocks.
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    From what I've heard over the years, it sounds like Hersh has increasingly moved towards making bullshit claims about how Bin Laden didn't get killed, or that JFK married another woman in a satanic wedding, or the US was planning to nuke Iran, or that USSOCOM is run by the Illuminati/Opus Dei, or that chemical attacks in Syria didn't happen, (and always citing "Top Secret Korean Military Documents" or "Anonymous Sources") to get his name back in the news while banking on his reporting on Mai Lai and Abu Ghraib to make people listen to him instead of rolling their eyes and ignoring the person in the Infowars comments section.
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    Have conspiracy theorists realized that the parking area is shaped like a cobra's head yet?
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    What, Al Masdar? They're a Syrian government propaganda outlet in Lebanon.
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    It's a 5v5 deathmatch game angling for a piece of the CounterStrike pie, not really worthy of being called a Rainbow Six title IMO.
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    Well Steam just fucking caught on fire and is randomly logging people into other people's accounts. Gabe has ruined Christmas.
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    Yeah Russia killing civilians like they've got little lightning bolts on their uniforms sure is funny.
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    And then this year a Asiana flight manages to take out Hiroshima Airport's ILS antennas by again landing short. Edit: Fuckin Korean airlines man. http://code7700.com/mishap_korean_airlines.html
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    https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/3113/2015/en/
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    The Alaska Air crash where they kept extending the maintenance periods comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdwyhrQl7Y
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    Like I said, I'm under the impression they were developed in parallel. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/zenit2.htm
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    It's probably also worth mentioning that (IIRC) the Vostock capsule was developed from/in parallel with the Zenit spy satellite, since as I recall Korolev was doing some political maneuvering because he was worried he'd loose funding for manned spaceflight or something to that effect. The ejection seat was pretty much just for reentry, after deorbiting the cosmonaut would eject and parachute down separately. Technically it could be used to escape a failed launch, but only after something like 20-30 seconds otherwise the cosmonaut would get burnt up by the exhaust.
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    Oh gee guess what, the black box is "too damaged" for them to release anything. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-turkey-idUSKBN0U41PK20151221
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    Ah, so they're allies of the terrorist group that carried out the Achille Lauro hijacking and offers cash bounties to the families of suicide bombers. More "moderate anti-imperialists" who put socks over their heads and go around murdering people.
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