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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017) by blarg1 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:00PM (#16871628)
there's a documentary I forget where that shows a russia jet closing their front of intakes and opening the top of them at take off, preventing debris on the runway from being sucked in.
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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017) by dingaling on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:10PM (#16871694)
That was on the early versions of the MiG-29.

The latest 29M and K models eliminated the intake plates and over-wing louvres in favour of simpler swing-down intake grilles. That saved a lot of weight and drag and gave extra volume for fuel.

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