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JOSH MARSHALL MARCH 3, 2014, 11:39 AM EST238
It may be true that Russia is using 19th century statecraft. But this press photo from ITAR-TASS news service strongly suggests Russians are using 1970/80s phones and office technology.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-evidence--3
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Switchboard Operator at the Moscow RedRoof Inn and suites.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Personally, I prefer the old handsets to holding a big blocky cell phone. Harder to overhear conversations with those types of handsets too if I can recall.
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Terminal_Equipment
Had an earlier version (STU III) on my desk many years ago.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)and mock since clearly the Russians are using/building/developing state of the art stuff.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)It doesn't matter what they fund or how much they fund it, the mafia takes it. They are seriously unprepared for a war.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)They are so pathetic.
Am I doing it right?
jsr
(7,712 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)* Vladimir Monomakh, third submarine in Russia's new fleet, began sea trials
* The silent submarine is the third in Russia's Borei project
* Fleet's first submarine, which cost $770m, was taken on by navy on same day
Russia has begun testing the latest in its fleet of new nuclear submarines nearly seven years after it was started to be built.
The silent submarine, the Vladimir Monomakh, which is the third ship in Russia's Borei project, began its sea trials on Sunday as it bids to become fully operational this year.
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It has been armed with a new missile system featuring between 16 and 20 Bulava missiles, which are intended to become the cornerstone of Russia's nuclear triad, and is the most expensive weapons project in the country.
The submarine is part of a class of cruisers with the latest generation of nuclear reactor, which allows the ship to dive to a depth of 480 meters, www.rt.com has reported.
It is also able to spend up to three months in autonomous navigation.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255683/Silent-killer-Nuclear-submarine-Vladimir-Monomakh-latest-new-fleet-Russian-missile-carriers-started-sea-trials-nearly-seven-years-building-began.html#ixzz2uvS6POIu
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)The Sukhoi PAK FA (Russian: Сухой ПАК ФА, Russian: Перспективный авиационный комплекс фронтовой авиации, Perspektivny Aviatsionny Kompleks Frontovoy Aviatsii, literally "Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation" is a twin-engine jet fighter being developed by Sukhoi for the Russian Air Force. The Sukhoi T-50 is the prototype for PAK FA.[10]
The PAK FA, a fifth generation jet fighter, is intended to be the successor to the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the Russian inventory and serve as the basis of the Sukhoi/HAL FGFA being developed with India.[11][12] The T-50 prototype performed its first flight 29 January 2010.
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Stealth:
The T-50 will be the first operational stealth aircraft in Russian service. Similar to Western stealth fighters like the F-22, the airframe incorporates planform alignment in its leading and trailing edges and sawtooth edges for its skin panels.[61] The serpentine inlet obscures most, but not all, of the compressor face of the engine. The production aircraft will incorporate radar blockers similar in principle to that of the F/A-18E/F to hide the compressor face from all angles. The T-50's stealthy features are most apparent in the forward hemisphere; the shaping of the aft fuselage is much less conducive to radar stealth.[59] The production T-50 is estimated to have reduced the radar cross-section to that of a tennis ball from optimal angles.[62]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA
No worries. Our F-35 is almost ready...
F-35 Lighting II, the future jet, will give the U.S. the capability to fly into enemy space first and attack a target with precision weapons at long ranges to clear the way for further forces -- without ever being detected.
Lockheed Martins F-35 Lightning II is a 5th-generation stealth fighter developed to safely penetrate areas without enemy radar seeing them -- an enhanced degree of invisibility that the 4th generation cannot achieve. Last Friday, the U.S. Marine Corps' VMFAT-501 training squadron in Floridas Eglin AFB launched its first F-35B eight-ship, flew a mission, hot-pit refueled and went back up again.
This mission is the latest in a series of promising steps forward for the F-35.
Last month, the stealth fighter also had its landmark first short takeoff and vertical landing during a night mission. The test provided further data on the fighters special helmet and lighting in operations at night.
Since the program kicked off in the early 1990s, the F-35 development has been bombarded with criticism varying from targeting as the Pentagons most expensive equipment through to concerns voiced in a Pentagon Operational Test and Evaluation Office that the fighter could not fly near thunderstorms or risk the jets fuel tank exploding.
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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/02/5th-generation-f-35-stealth-fighter-makes-headway/
And the F-22 is almost as good.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)money and technology towards their military instead of towards vital infrastructure.
they have a lot less margin for error
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Excelsyor
(57 posts)But he stopped accepting them because TPM readers were more independent-minded than his 100%-party-loyal sef, and this pissed him off.