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Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Toryu, you descripe the MiG-21 standard tactic in Vietnam. The Indian Air Force used the MiG-21 in an other way and was very satisfied with it. Also the Egyptians fought well with the MiG-21 after they had learned the lesson how to use it in dogfight. -
Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
I would be carefull with this document. But i will show it to former MiG-21 pilots, then we will know more. -
Alternativen für die Lw bzw. LSK zwischen 1955 und 1980
Gepard replied to PraetorH's topic in Deutsch
An der Phantom wohl kaum. Eher am IDS Tornado, wobei ich da auch zweifele, da man mit der Su-22M4 ja ein vergleichbares Waffensystem hatte, daß zudem Stand-Off fähig war. Am ECR Tornado hätte man sicher Interesse gezeigt, wohl auch an der CH-53 und der Lynx. Dem Puma gebe ich keine Chance, der war in einer Gewichtsklasse mit der Mi-8 und letztere ist das bessere Modell (okay, kann man drüber streiten). Die Bo-105M als Verbindungshubschrauber hätte man mit Kusshand genommen um die ollen Mi-2 aus Polen zu ersetzen. Und die zivilen Maschinen der Lufthansa hätten die ollen Koljaschüsseln der Interflug in wenigen Monaten ersetzt. Ganz scharf war man auf den Leo2 (mindestens eins dieser Biester hat man den Bundeswehr geklaut), aber das wäre ja nicht LSK sondern LaSK. -
Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Ehm. Translator error. CSD-30 must be ZD-30. Its an early form of the RP-21 Saphir. The plane what is mentioned is called MiG-21P. Only a handfull was built, most for further testing. I doubt, that it was used in fighter squadrons. For the P a new nose was designed to have space for the radar. The rest of the plane was unchanged. There were some problems. First, the nose had a higher drag, the plane was heavier, so that the range of the bird was shorten. The other was that the center of gravity of the plane was moved toward the nose, so the plane had a different handling and was not as easy to fly like the F-13. To overcome the problems MiG added a tank behind the cockpit. Cg moved back to the old place and additionally fuel increased the range. Unexpected but welcome was that the backtank reduced the drag of the plane. With this tank and some other changes the bird was called MiG-21PF. -
Kamov Ka-27
Gepard replied to dsawan's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
Looks like a Ka-25. But, what do you want with a Ka-32. More usefull would be the Ka-29. -
Müßte ich mal testen. Ungelenkte Raketen müßten aber funktionieren, da die französischen Le Prieur (oder so ähnlich) im Spiel enthalten sind. Was mir mehr Sorgen macht ist, daß es damals noch keinen Funk gab und somit die ganze Kommunikation mehr als rudimentär abläuft. Vielleicht wäre es besser die FE Terrains in SF2 oder WoX zu implementieren. Das Problem ist nur, daß die ganzen Koordinaten total verschoben sind und man nie dort ist, wo man eigentlich sein sollte. Möglich, daß man was mit Hexedit der ersten paar Zeilen weiterkommt. Grübel. Grübel. Grübel.
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Vogesen terrain mit FE stock tiles Vogesen terrain mit Jan Tumas terrain tiles update Nur mal so zur Anschauung, was man aus FE herausholen könnte um eine Kampfhubisim zu basteln.
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Naja, was soll man dazu sagen? Da war die Geschichte von Area51 einleuchtender.
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WoT Version 8.0 ist total verbuggt. Bis zu 7.5 was es eine Freude mit den Panzerchen rumzugurken. Jetzt ist es nur noch ein Graus.
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Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Lexx the following text is taken from the book "MiG-21 Fishbed" by Yefim Gordon and Bill Gunston (ISBN 1 85780 042 7) page 8: "The Kremline demand wisely made no attempt to list an elaborate set of numerical requirements. Rather did it merely call for a level speed of Mach 2 at an altitude of 20km (65,600ft) whilst carrying guns and a simple radar-ranging sight, with the ability later to carry air-to-air missiles (AAMs), in each case operating under close ground control by the "Markham" radio network." The Ye-2, Ye-2A, Ye-4, Ye-5 and Ye-50 were only prototypes for flight tests, not for weapon tests. Weapon tests were made with the Ye-6. As far as i know. Air to Air missiles were not available during the flight tests of the early prototyps. When the R-3S was born, the Ye-6 prototype got launch rails (Ye-6T). They tested two versions. One with the launch rails at the wingtips (for this they developed a new wing) and a second with a launch rail under the wing hardpoint. The later was choosen, because their was no time to find the best wing planform for a wing with wingtiprails. -
Me-109Z Zwilling i guess
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Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Do you mean the F-4F poor mans Phantoms? Lexx, about the Su-7 i have not very much information. The only wha i know is, that the delta wing Su-9 had a better handling at higher speeds, so it became the fighter, while the Su-7 had a better handling at low altittutes and at lower speeds, so it became the fighter bomber. The missile i development i mentioned was the RS-2US (AA-1 Alkali) and their planned successors. That the Atoll copy R-3S would make the race was not expected. -
Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Ehm this statement is not 100% correct. When the soviet council of ministers gave the order to develope a new Mach 2 capable fighter plane to the OKB's MiG, Suchoi and Jakovlev it was demanded to develope a plane which was prepared to carry missiles. It is correct, that at this time the soviets had not had working missile designs, but they had designs in the pipeline. And the capability to carry such missiles were part of the demand of the soviet military. The best read for the MiG-21 story isYefim Gordons book "MiG-21". -
Soweit ich weiß nicht. Man kann alle WoX und SF2 Terrains in FE nutzen, aber nicht umgekehrt.
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Hier mal zwei Screenshots aus dem Vogesen Terrain, das ich vor ewigen Zeiten für FE gemacht habe. Die Tiles sind so wie sie aus der Box kommen. Es gibt auch keine zusätzlichen Bäume oder ähnliches. Für FE gibt es aber auch etliche Terrainerweiterungen mit besseren Tiles usw.
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Genau meine Meinung. Dabei hätte die ganze Sache ja noch Potential zu einer Weiterentwicklung. Der ganze Koreakrieg wäre vorstellbar. Die MiG-15 ist bereits im Spiel, die P-51, die F-84 auch. Nur mit dieser selten dämlichen neuen Grafikengine funktioniert das natürlich nicht. Mein persönlicher Wunsch wäre ein Kampfhubschraubermod. So ähnlich wie das Afghanistanterrain, aber auf FE Basis. Da man mit dem Hubschrauber sowieso in Bodennähe herumgurkt wäre die bessere Terraindarstellung von FE (tilegröße 500x500 anstatt 2000x2000 Meter) die erste Wahl. Das einzige was mir für solch einen mod fehlt ist ein Bordschütze, der auch selektierte Bodenziele unter Beschuss nimmt. Aber da kann man TK fragen wie man will, das bastelt der einfach nicht ins Spiel. Oder wie mein alter Zugführer bei der Fahne immer gesagt hat: "Man kann gar nicht soviel fressen, wie man kotzen möchte."
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Some days ago an egyptian extremist ripped a Bible into parts. And i dont see that in western countries now the mob wants to burn down egyptian embassies.
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How to Define Nation as "Enemy"?
Gepard replied to Mike Dora's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
If you are speeking of the AFG terrain i made some years ago or the updates from third side, then you cant fly for the enemies, because there is no enemy airfield set. If you would include an enemy airfield (what would be possible) and select strike missions (in campaign or single mission) you would often get strike missions against the enemy airfield. That would be historically incorrect. -
Ich habe auf der ILA ein paar Werbeposter von verschiedenen modernen MiG-29 varianten ergattert und da sehe ich nichts dergleichen, mit Ausnahme der doppelsitzigen MiG-29M2 (das ist das Biest auf dem Foto im obigen Beitrag). Vielleicht sind die Täuschkörperwerfer auch bloß nachrüstbar und werden nur im Bedarfsfall montiert?
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Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Word by word translation from one language to an other is always problematic. But i could not found a good english expression for the german term "wie ein geölter Blitz". By the way, if i would translate "Fallschirmspringer" word by word from german to english it would be "falling umbrella jumper", correct would be parachutist :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: -
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Vietnam Era MiG-21 top sea level speed?
Gepard replied to GalmOne's topic in Military and General Aviation
Interessting read, indeed. But it also showed the limitation of the US pilots, which had not had the proper manuals. I have spoken with a former east german MiG-23 pilot. He said, officially the MiG-23 had 3 swingwing angles: 72° for fast hunt, 45° for dogfight and 16° for landing. "But there was an inofficially wing position at 30°. At this angle the MiG-23 was fast as a lightning around a corner." And yes, the soviets had had the MiG-23MLD. They used the M and the MLD in the 80th. But by 1989 they had switched nearly all units to MiG-29 or Su-27. Only one squadron used the 23MLD on german soil. -
Correct Focke Wulf 187 Falke Here two pictures of this beauty on flight. Fast and agile as a single seat fighter. Much better than the Me-110. This bird in big numbers would perhaps have changed the Battle of Brittain.
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