Ditto WW II

Perhaps the most unsung of WW I aces:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kazakov

Too bad the post-Soviet Russian air force hasn’t brough back the white, blue and red bulls eye.

Of possible interest:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/world-war-i/ww1-bombers-249-2.html

Assuming this aircraft is the real deal everyone will be amazed if they build five of them.

From the people who actually know what they’re talking about (http://ausairpower.net/notices.html):

02/02/2010 T-50 PAK-FA: APA has received a large number of email queries asking the question: “when will an analysis of the PAK-FA be published?” … consider reading the following 2009 NOTAMs: When America’s Stealth Monopoly Ends, What’s Next? and Air Combat: Russia’s PAK-FA versus the F-22 and F-35; and the 2009 Technical Report update covering the Tikhomirov NIIP PAK-FA AESA radar. All indications at this time are that the conclusions of the two 2009 NOTAMs will firmly hold, although PAK-FA is more capable in many respects than previously expected.

See the Air Combat: Russia’s PAK-FA versus the F-22 and F-35 (http://ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-300309-1.html).

The US will almost certainly never build a 6th generation fighter. The F-22 is expected to last through until around the middle of this century, and by that time we will be well into the era of scramjet drones.

The American plane is a fully functional, battle-tested fifth-generation fighter.

The Russian plane is nothing but a pathetic wannabe, no different than Russia’s talk about sending a man to the moon. IT CAN’T FIGHT. It has ZERO present fifth-generation capabilities.

It requires, in other words, INFINITE maintenance for each hour of flight. In a war between the two planes, guess which one wins.

Meanwhile, SUBLIME MORON chooses to ignore the fact that over the course of the MANY YEARS it will take to make this plane fight, IF IT EVER CAN, the US will not be standing still. By that time, the US will be fighting a sixth-generation plane that will make Russia’s variant look like a tinker toy.

And all the while, Russia’s population will continue to be deprived of the basic living conditions Americans take for granted as their government continues its insane, doomed, suicidal effort to wage a new cold war with the infinitely richer and more powerful USA.