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A squadron of Hunters is striking a french naval vessel group around C611 Colbert (ship has modified skin)

MiG-21SMT taxiing.

The movie was for internal use in NVA (east german military) only. It was never broadcasted in TV or cinema. Some interesting aspects about it. First: The ABA Netzeband (emergency runway), which is seen in the movie is situated on the Autobahn A24 which connects Hamburg and Berlin. This Autobahn was built in the 80th because Westgermany wanted such a fast connection between Westberlin and Hamburg. Westgermany payed for this Autobahn and so Eastgermany was able to built some emergency airfields with westgerman money. The ABA Netzeband is to seen up today. Only the parking areas for the planes are now used as resting areas for drivers and for petrol stations. The petrol stations still use the underground tanks for airplane fuel. Second: The Flak crews were not manned by east german military. It were militia men called "Kampfgruppe" Third: If you look carefully you will see some girls in the east german ground crews. In EastGermany girls were allowed to become technicians, but not pilots.

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Train hunting in Korea.

MiG-21SM in short discussion with F-8 Crusader.

Thanks a lot, guys!

I need the wisom of the community in a question in geography. Yesterday i pulled out the old DVD box of Star Trek Enterprise, to watch some episodes. In the opening credits i found the following screen: And again, as always when i see a ST episode, i asked me, what region of the world is this. I found no answer for that question. Has someone an idea?

There is not one serious source that report the MiG-31 shot down by wingman. Only "yellow press". When this happen it is a sign, that something could be wrong. And then is time to ask questions, wheter the story sounds right or not. For me it is a remind on the bad old times, when all news in the paper, radio or TV were "correct", because official, even if they were fake news. In that time you developed a fine instinct to realize wheter a news was right, possible or wrong. And you learned to ask yourself, to research yourself etc. Now to the MiG-31 shot down. I doubt, that it happend in the way it was descriped. Why? First: The R-33 is a long range missile with a minimum range of 2 or 2.5 km IIRC. The minimum range we call in german Tote Zone, what by a word by word translation becomes "dead zone". In the dead zone a missile cant be guided by radar, by a laser or something else. In the dead zone the missile is dumb, stupid and worth nothing. It will hit nothing. That a R-33 could have a minimum chance to hit an airplane, the firing plane must fly 2.000 meters behind the attacked plane. The fighter tatics for a pair of planes is always so, that the wingman protects the leader. He flies never in front of the leader. He flies some meters (some 100 meters) aside, and a little bit above to leader or a little bit lower. In this position he cant be attacked by the weapons of the leader and his weapons cant attack the leader. Second: The R-33 missile is designed to destroy bombers and other big planes. It has a big warhead. I doubt, that someone would survive a hit with a R-33 or a Phoenix, if he sits in a fighter size plane. Third: The Friend or Foe ID system used by the russians is networked with the weapon control system of the plane. If the IFF identify an "own plane", the plane is marked doubled (for instance = instead - on the radar screnn) or marked as a triangle instead a circle. (depends on age of the system) The WCS does not allow to fire a weapon to a "own" plane. The pilot can override the WCS only by active handling. What really could have happen, is that the firing plane had shot a missile in his own tail. But not with a R-33. Possible is such a scenario by the use of IR guided missiles. If a missile was dropped during the launch sequence without starting the rocket engine, then it falls from sky. (this has happen often enough) If in such a scenario the rocket starts with a delay, what means during the falling down, the IR seeker would have the chance to lock on the launch plane. The missile would start the chase and could hit the plane. (Such incidents have happen. There are more then one or two pilots of the world who had shot down themself with the IR missile.) Since the MiG-31 can carry R-60 missiles for self defence i think it is more likely, that they have shot themself a R-60 into the butt, than they had shot down a wingman.

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Bazillus. When it was, that a spanish EuFi pilot fired an AMRAAM accidently in Estonia? August 2018? Or when it happend, that a KC-135 explodes by the pressure test? Or a KC-10 with the same problem? Or when it happend, that skilled american Army technicians accidently flooded a Hangar full of helicopters with foam? What is with the Boing 737MAX8? Or, or, or. Shit happens. All over the world. Its not only a russian problem.

You mix different accidents. I refer to the MiG-31 story. No real reliable source is broadcasting this story. No Janes, no CNN, no Sky News, no Fox, no RT. Okay RT is not really reliable, true. The Ka-52 thing i have never said, that i dont believe it. I have seen it, i spoke with eyewitness persons and i can tell you what went wrong there. It was the strong believe in automatical warfare systems, which were developed for the Ka-50 combat helicopter. The systems were designed to detect and attack targets autonomus to reduce the workload for the pilot. The core system was transfered into the Ka-52. This is a 2 pilot helicopter, but the weaponcontrolsystem is still capable to detect and attack targets without human help. And exactly this the system has done. It detected a military truck and civil cars. The truck was attacked with two unguided rockets and was hit by two rockets. The other vehicles were not attacked. The weaponcontrolsystem was working perfect. The only mistake, that happend was, that the crew of the Ka-52 forgot to swich the safe arm button. Shit happens.

The source of the story is not reliable. The site baza.io is from british territories in indian ocean. "citing anonymous sources" Sorry guys, dont believe all what you are reading.

An admin should move the political part into the correct threat area.

On last Sunday 4 russian MiG-31 fighter planes run out of fuel during a routine patrol mission. So they were forced to land on the civil airport of Ussinsk in Sibiria. The intention was to refuel the fighters at ground. But the procedures needed to much time, so that the engines were to cold for restart. Now the planes are sitting on the icy airfield and waiting for the ground crews and their starting equippment.

The bird was flown as prototype. Designation was SM-12PM. vMax 1.720 km/h range: 1.700 km max alt: 17.400 m take off weight 8.200 kg span: 9.00 m wingarea 25.00 m² lenght 13.10 m height 4.02 m enigines: 2 x R3M-26 each 25 kN without and 32 kN with afterburner

Well done. Nice bird.

So it was. The Mirage III was the favorit in the competition for the F-86 Sabre successor of the Bundesluftwaffe. Then Lockheed salesmen had a longer, intense talk with the german minister of defence F.J.Strauß. Some decent pressure by the american embassy followed and some money was handed over in black briefcases. After this the F-104G became the plane of choice and when the background of the deal came out the Federal Republic of Germany had a first big scandal. Which came even worse when the Starfighter achieved his reputation as "Widowmaker".

Nice job. Could be please relocate the tactical numbers and the iron cross from tail to the nose section. Like in these screenshot:

It was smaler than the F-18, cheaper and lighter. Comparable to the early F-16.

A F-17 Cobra would be a nice What if plane in SF2 world.

You need special static aircrafts, if you want to set them as static objects on the map. Such static aircrafts you can find here: https://combatace.com/files/category/303-static-aircraft/ If you use the normal planes then thy would "lay on the belly" if they are equipped with retractable gears. The better way is to use the airfield ini and specify there, where you want to see parked aircrafts on the airfield.

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