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jeremy885
8/9/2007, 11:56 AM
I guess they want the Coldwar back. Can we send a couple of B-2s to buzz Moscow or Putin's Dacha to return the favor?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6938856.stm
TheHumanAlphabet
8/9/2007, 12:02 PM
I thought the Russian spokesman comments - tongue in cheek - were funny, I don't find funny what Putin is doing. He'll have the world at war soon.
jeremy885
8/9/2007, 12:43 PM
Why do they still use turboprops as bombers? It would seem like these would be the easiest things to track and shoot down given their slow speed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Tu-95_Bear_J.jpg/250px-Tu-95_Bear_J.jpg
soonerinabilene
8/9/2007, 12:58 PM
"Keeping up foreign relations. You know, the finger."
"Yes, I know the finger, Goose."
SoonerStormchaser
8/9/2007, 01:09 PM
Hell, even my T-43 can outrun one of those damned things!
KABOOKIE
8/9/2007, 03:20 PM
Why do they still use turboprops as bombers? It would seem like these would be the easiest things to track and shoot down given their slow speed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Tu-95_Bear_J.jpg/250px-Tu-95_Bear_J.jpg


350 KTS and a range of 7800 nm is nothing to complain about for an airplane of that size.

T-43 range? <3,000 nm