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| Jolly | Oct 20 2006, 08:00 AM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Not in the article, but I bet this thing was designed with NIRT technology in mind. http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002868.html |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| kentcouncil | Oct 20 2006, 08:14 AM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Interesting. The Blackbird was retired ostensibly because spy satellites had made it obsolete. This new aircraft seems to belie that notion, though it seems to have other capabilities too (I wonder if it will have the Blackbird's fabled nuclear strike capability?). |
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. - P.G. Wodehouse | |
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| Phlebas | Oct 20 2006, 08:28 AM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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The Blackbird was the coolest plane. There's one at the Intrepid, and I always take visiters to see it. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Jolly | Oct 20 2006, 08:35 AM Post #4 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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One of the first targets in a major confrontation will be the United State's satellites, therefore my reference to NIRT technology. The small expendable satellites can be put up there very quickly, and a network of small satellites can do the same thing an old geo-stationary bird can do. Will the Falcon have nuclear strike capability? Does a wild bear crap in the woods? |
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| Axtremus | Oct 20 2006, 08:40 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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So how many MPG does it get at Mach 10? |
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| Bill Bean | Oct 20 2006, 11:48 AM Post #6 |
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Junior Carp
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More MPGs than it got at mach 0 strangely - it leaks fuel when not flying
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