Russian Aircraft Stories 1 of 5

Have you ever wondered how the Russian aircraft industry got started? If so, this is the show for you.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Fighters
• Aircraft
• Plane
• Airforce
• Weapons
• Military
• Discovery

[Contrajoe]

I always loved the intro song to this show.

[ronnysoeberg]

the size of the su37 compared to other fighter jets make this even more impressive. They are freaking HUGE compared to other agile fighters.

[razor11079]

Su-37 iS low maintainable in air and easy to destroy by other high manuverble aircraft

[vfIskullangel]

I loved this show. Every day in high school I would finish up my homework and watch it every day at 5 to see what they were talking about. :)

[Ag3nt0fCha0s]

@ronnysoeberg

Approx the size of an F15, but they are essntially 2 aircraft for the same job.

The SU 34 Fullback is EVEN BIGGER, believe it or not.

As for small aircraft, the A4 and F5 are midgets of the aircraft world, there's a pic of an F5 and an F15 taxiing and it's kinda shocking.

F14s also a big one btw.

[52111centrumcz]

@Xiolablu3

The billions of aid given away by the US is used to support the US manufacturing base by mandating the use of US contractors as a condition of giving away the aid. So basically its a round the world financed subsidy to US manufacturers. Not to mention that US goods are rather expensive, so the amount of aid cannot be correlated directly with the dollar value provided.

[Xiolablu3]

@52111centrumcz The US people also give away billions of dollars in aid. They contribute more than any other country, what you say is completely false and shows you up to be rather stupid...

[kalle911]

@52111centrumcz

I am in fact not from USA, I am from Estonia.

Yet those stats list other countries which have that percentage even higher. Why not hate on those? Not modern economies? I see plenty of such up there. I believe it is also noted there that this chart does not represent energy use efficiency.

I'm still not sure about that claim of yours that USA produces 20% of world's GDP yet consume 40% of world's resources and how they are a burden in that way.

But do keep trying.

[52111centrumcz]

@kalle911

Furthermore, the US has high value added industries that are not energy intensive, such as software giant Mircosoft, Oracle, etc. Should those be subtracted, the value of the US economy would decline compared to Germany which produces energy intensive products such as large numbers of cars per capita, machine tools, large steam turbine components by Siemens which they export etc.

[52111centrumcz]

@kalle911

I am not saying the US is dirty capitalist swine, those are your words. I assume you know what you are talking about since you live there, so I will let that definition stand. I said that the American economy is energy inefficient compared to any other modern economy, like Germany or Japan.

seekingalpha(dot)com/article/8­2481-energy-use-per-gdp-unit-b­y-country

[kalle911]

@52111centrumcz

why don't you provide the link to the source then, since you're out to prove that USA are dirty capitalist swine and something should be done about them or something. Even more so, why BTU and not say - joules.

[52111centrumcz]

@kalle911

Look up US statistics and the BTUs of fuel used per $ of GDP of the USA and that of France and Germany. That should be interesting.