{"id":188912,"date":"2010-07-11T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/i-love-this-stuff-but-i-dont-believe-a-word-of-it\/"},"modified":"2010-07-11T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:59:00","slug":"i-love-this-stuff-but-i-dont-believe-a-word-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/i-love-this-stuff-but-i-dont-believe-a-word-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love This Stuff, But I Don&#8217;t Believe a Word of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the same way about Bill Scott and Jay Ward&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractured_Fairy_Tales#Supporting_features\">Fractured Fairy Tales<\/a><\/span>, though those typically had a greater proportion of reality than recent Russian weapons systems announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, Russia is saying that it is working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2010\/05\/russia-talks-stealthy-370mph-c.html\">stealthy, 600 km\/h combat helicopter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Russian Helicopters Holdings, the corporate umbrella for Kamov, Kazan, Mil and Rostvertol, told the Moscow press yesterday the company will invest $1 billion to to develop a &#8220;fifth-generation helicopter&#8221;. CEO Andrei Shibitov did not provide details, such as what exactly defines a fifth-generation helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>But the Ria Novosti newswire reports Konstantin Sivkov, who is identified as the &#8220;first deputy head of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems&#8221;, filled in some criteria: Invisible to radar, extended flying range, smart weapons, air-to-air capability and 310-370mph speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that and $8.50 will get you a grande Starbucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the same way about Bill Scott and Jay Ward&#8217;s Fractured Fairy Tales, though those typically had a greater proportion of reality than recent Russian weapons systems announcements. Case in point, Russia is saying that it is working on a stealthy, 600 km\/h combat helicopter. Russian Helicopters Holdings, the corporate umbrella for Kamov, Kazan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helicopters","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}