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29 Posted on   September 30, 2014   by   tim Stepanov Slava has travelled to the factory that assembles SU-130 warplanes and has taken some very, very artistic photos of the process, plus he has a story with the photos, and we are telling it all here now inside this post. I really advise you to read it all the way through as the pics are awesome and lots of small details of the production lines of these planes are revealed. It must have been top secret just a while ago but for some reason it is pretty public now. So let's see it: Posted on   September 30, 2014   by   tim First, a few words on the plane. The SU-30 is a two seater jet that is assembled in Irkutsk city. The factory is called IAZ - Irkutsk Aircraft Zavod (Factory) and it has produced over 7,000 warplanes since its start. It exports planes to 37 countries around the world. Also it makes YAK-130 planes and some pieces of Airbus jets.  The SU-30CM is made on a SU-2...

Wellington, New Zealand At this New Zealand airport things can get pretty scary due to the hair-raisingly short runway and the fact that the landing strip sees constant windy conditions. The runway at Wellington is relatively short at 6,647 ft, which is barely enough for larger aircraft, and the strong crosswinds caused by nearby Cook Strait can make landing there a wild experience. Saba Landing Strip, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport  This is a terrifyingly small piece of earth to land a plane. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is the only airport in Saba, an island in the Caribbean, well-known to pilots because of the dangers of landing and taking off there. One side has high hills while all the others drop into the sea. The runway length is a bone-chilling 396 m, only allowing small aircraft and helicopters to land, and without even an air traffic control center. Courchevel Airport, France  A ski area in the French Alps, Courchevel’s airport is infamous for having...

If there was ever a need, the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India's damning reports on the depleted state of Indian military's readiness took the hot-air out of the myth of Pakistan Army specific 'Cold-Start Doctrine' (CSD). If CAG reports weren`t damaging enough, recent media reports of its feeble condition have made it the laughing stock. Rundown condition of the its legacy hardware has taken the sting out of its numerical superiority; a far cry from an aggressive strategy of the CSD. Some years ago, in an attempt to leverage its conventional superiority over Pakistan, the Indian Army announced a new offensive doctrine. The doctrine envisioned a quick mobilization of Indian strike formations without giving away battle indicators. In a 2004 military exercise, with a huge fanfare, live fire demonstrations and allot of ata-boy pats on their own backs, the doctrine was declared a complete success. In strategic terms, CSD was conceived to box the Indian civili...