A bayonet isn't much use to fighter pilots or even to tank commanders because a bayonet only does its gruesome work when the fighting gets up close and personal.

对于战斗机飞行员，抑或坦克指战员来说，一把刺刀并不会有太大的用处，因为只有在战斗双方近身肉搏的时候，它才派得上放血见红的功用。

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'it is so exhilarating to fly because it has such large control surfaces - its delta wings,' he said. 'it is a bomber but it handles like a fighter.'

他说：“因为它有了如此之大的三角翼，它能带给你让愉快的飞行它是一架轰炸机，但是操纵它就像一架战斗机。”

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It studies them a moment, beating its huge wing membranes to keep up. It lets out a piercing shriek (hence the name) and then Banks away, diving like a jet fighter.

它拍打着巨大的翼膜以跟上飞机研究了他们一会儿。它发出一声刺耳的尖叫声(因此得名)后转身像喷气式战斗机一样俯冲着离开。

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On Wednesday night outside the southern town of Hanunis, a missile from an Israeli fighter jet missed its target - militants traveling in a car - and instead slammed into a nearby house.

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Initially, Russia hoped to sign a contract to deliver its T-50 fighter plane to India, but in the end India insisted on the joint development of a new aircraft, based on the T-50 but with modifications for the Indian Air Force.

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They point out that the Pentagon conceived the F-22, its superstealthy fighter, more than a decade ago to counter two 21st century Soviet warplanes then on the drawing boards.

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