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Pravda reports on a super-advanced aircraft which could be real or could be propaganda:
This top-secret aircraft, known as the U-71, is part of Project 4202 of the Russian missile program. There is very little information about the aircraft. Supposedly, the aircraft can develop the speeds of up to 11,000 kilometers per hour. This glider aircraft is also said to be super-maneuverable and capable of entering near space.
The tests of the new aircraft still continue, although it is already believed that Russia will take a nuclear advantage of the USA with the help of the new type of weapon by 2025.
[...] The information about the project leaked only in February 2015. Pentagon officials admitted that the new Russian weapon would ruin the plan for a missile defense system around Russia. To make matters worse, the new weapon would make the USA absolutely defenseless.
The U-71 is a hypersonic aircraft equipped with electronic warfare system. It will be able to fly across the USA in minutes and disable all electronic detection stations on the way.
Nothing technical here, folks, the article doesn't make any specific technological claims, or explain how the aircraft works.
The article is interesting, as well as the audio link on the page, in that it makes a pretty plain statement. The only way to negotiate with Washington, is to make Washington fear you.
I'm not convinced the aircraft exists, and certainly not convinced that it is capable of what is claimed. It's going to knock out all of our electronic defenses in one pass? Really?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Appalbarry on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:07AM
Build a wall! A YUGE wall, so big that no plane can fly over it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:10AM
And just who is going to pay for such a grand wall?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:29AM
The Russians, duh. Haven't you been paying attention?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday December 11 2016, @02:20AM
I think Runaway just got tired of being afraid of Mooslims, and is waxing nostalgic for the Cold War. Nothing like Rooskies with secret weapons to make a hillbilly conservative pee his pants.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday December 11 2016, @04:16AM
And . . . Score!!!! All it takes is using the term "hillbilly", and Runaway1942 will throw a flamebait mod. But I, for one, welcome our new Republican overlords, but we should, as a world, and especially those of you who are Americans, resist the paranoia of the far right. Really, they are just so scared! I mean, Runaway here thinks that Sharia law is coming to Texarkana in the near future, and that he might have to get gay married sometime soon (already has a dress picked out!). But the Trump cabinet picks are not much better. Retired Gen. Michael Flynn has failed to hold his fudge when it comes to Islamophobia, and his son is even worse. These people are afraid that they will be defeated, and so they already are. I recommend the position of all free people everywhere, which is to quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: " We have nothing to fear, but fear itself, and Donald Trump." That may not be an entirely accurate quote, but we live in a post-factual world, and as Abrahan Lincoln said: "Do not trust everything you read on the internets, because you cannot always verify it, and it might come from jmorris!" I am totally sure Lincoln said that, because I was there. So suck it up, Runaway1492! We got your back, we liberals and persons committed to democracy and the rule of law, nothing too bad will happen to you. Wait, are you Jewish?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Sunday December 11 2016, @01:41AM
The problem with the wall is it's gonna be on our southern border. If the Russians own a globe they'll notice the fastest path is over the north pole, over Canada, from there to Detroit. By the time they hit the wall they're invading Mexico, which I don't think they have any interest in doing. Unless they want some of that fine, fine cocaine. But there's cheaper ways to get that.
My ducks are not in a row. I don't know where some of them are, and I'm pretty sure one of them is a turkey.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:03AM
Ah, so in reality Trump wants to build the wall in order to protect the Mexicans from the Russians? Well, that would certainly explain why the Mexicans should pay for it. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.