Some people I trust recently compared the F-22 and this and the F-22 beat the hell out of it. Doesn't matter, even if they were better they'd be rusting on the tarmac in two years.
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:11 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Russia fires back at US F22 - The Russian T-50 Of course, this all assumes that the general public has accurate data about the true capabilities of both fighters, which I would highly doubt - on both sides. Interesting though. -Cameron On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22fN4fVoFdY > > Wow!! > That didn't take very long at all. > > The plane virtually mimics and in some aspects bests the American F22. > I thought US Airforce projections was that the F22 would ensure US > Domination of the skies well into the next few decades? > That ain't gonna happen with this baby in the air. > > The T-50 will be faster, carry a higher payload, and have more > advances features such as Sidelooking Apertures (ESA) as well as > supposedly have a much higher agility than the F22. > > India is first up for about 200 aircraft from Russia. Each aircraft > costs about 100 Million USD each. > Each F22 cost about 142 Million USD, the US is expected to have only > about 200 of them. > > So by 2015 the Russian and Indian Airforces would match US inventory > for a 5th Generation fighter. > No word yet on which other Airforces around the world are going to be > purchasing squadrons of these...Syria and Iran perhaps?? > Russia believes that the plane will fill up to 1/3 of fighter > inventories around the world when it is released on the International > market. > 8-o > > Now...we need to get a good PC Air Combat Sim featuring these planes > like yesterday!!! > Come on dammit! It just costs 30 Million to make a game!! Someone take > a chance! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311458 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
