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Originally posted by Voyager13b
Yakov,
We do agree on one thing. The AN94 is probably the best assault rifle ever made, though it is not really a system yet. Given a little time, it can not only be the best basic assault rifle, but it could also be the best all around personal weapons system.
Voyager
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You are a diletant, what do you know about AN-94? Nothing! You've never even seen it, not to mention stripped or used it!
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
Phlegm,
I don't know if you really buy half of the sh!t you post, but is is entertaining to read. I love the part about the moon landings not really happening. You must know things that even the KGB and Russian space agency were not aware of, as they validated the landings through "independent" means. Is Oliver Stone your favorite intellectual?
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If by calling me "Phlegm" you wanted to "dazzle" me with your "brilliance" you failed for I don't know what it means, neither do I know who Oliver Stone is. Rosaviakosmos did not validate American landings, and in fact most employees tend to believe that "Moon landings" were a mock up. As a matter of fact German and French subsets of the European space agency tend to do the same. Thus Moon landings are debateable.
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
Since you dismissed the US moon landings, you can then segue into bragging about the Russian space station effort (which was the fork in the road taken by the SU after the Politburo screwed up Russian plans to be first to the moon). You mentioned that Skylab fell down. Why did you fail to mention the fate of MIR?
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Skylab fell down before it was completly completed because it could not stay in orbit, Mir was brought down on purpose after serving twice as long as it was supposed to.
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
Your nationalist twitching is laughable. The current space station is a cooperative effort. Did anyone mention to you that the cold war is over? That Russia and the US are partners in space exploration? That when there is a station built on Mars, or in orbit around Mars, it will most likely be a joint Russian/US effort?
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The Cold War, you mean the time when USA claimed openly that it will blast us into oblivion?
Currently USA is a partner in the new space station because Russia offered a deal wher USA would posses some control over the space station if it pays the most substantial part of the project. This offer was made after NASA offered to buy Mir. The only american components in the ISS are solar panels, it was first decided to use american control systems and computers, but after an incident a few years ago, when the space station nearly entered the atmosphere and was put back into orbit by a Russian cosmanavt manually, this idea was ditched and Russian hardware and control systems were installed. Recall that happening? ISS is a totaly Russian design which was supposed to replace Mir in the 90ies.
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
How about aircraft. The SU built some fine aircraft, and Russia continues the trend. The East vs West comparison of fighters and bombers has been a favorite game to play over the past 50 years or so. Your remark about American aircraft not even coming close to Russian aircraft points to your blind nationalism, and is not shared by people with even a vague sense of reality. It is also NOT shared by Russian aircraft designers.
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Are you sure it is my blind nationalism? Name me one current US fighter that can take off by itself without a CPU. And name me one Russian aircraft designer that thinks that American aircraft is better than ours. I can name several that thought/think otherwise e.g. Igor' Sikorskiy, Andrey Tupolev, Mihail Pogosyan, Mihail Simonov.
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
The truth is that Russian fighter aircraft are currently among the best in the world. They are not, however, as you describe them in your remark. Russian bombers are, well, Russia has only one real strategic bomber, and it took 40 years to get it in the air. There are only a handful flying at present, and one just fell out of the sky last week.
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Russian fighters are amongst the best in the world of fighters, but as actual aircraft they have no equals, to my knowledge. Tu-22M3 is also a strategic bomber, as is Tu-95/142.
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On the other hand, the SU did have a long string of firsts in space exploration. I don't need to make up stories that suggest that they never happened in order to make the effort of the US look better. I applaud the achievements of the SU and Russia in space. They were both remarkable and instrumental in setting the pace for the battle of ego that followed. It was one of the only battles fought during the cold war where everyone came out a winner, and human understanding was advanced as a result.
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You can, if you so very much like, I have no objections.
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Originally posted by Voyager13b
It's too bad that your nationalistic filter doesn't allow you to appreciate the efforts of anyone but Russians in the space/aeronautics game. You always have an excuse for why the US cannot take any credit for it's own achievements, yet you go overboard to make it seem that Russian developments are always so pure and perfect. Just because you think it, doesn't make it so.
Get over it.
Voyager
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I do appriciate the effort, I'm very much fond of new European fighters, even though they are modelled on Russian ones. I also admire SR-71. I do not make any excusses about actual US achievements, I point out that some of those achievements are overbloated.
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Phlegm has a world view built upon national ego, hate, and wishful thinking. He creates "fact based fiction", believes it, and then prints it with the authority of an eyeball witness.
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And what exactly is that national ego? "Fact based fiction", you are a hypocrite, Voyager13b.