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Recon balloons were rare. Propaganda ballooning was a common thing in the 50th and 60th. The balloons should drop leaflets, but mostly failed. For interception Yak-11 planes were used.

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Soviet Navy humpback whale.

Winter over Faroe islands. (WIP terrain)

The Bundesluftwaffe used it too, as long spareparts were available. Hope we get a Luftwaffe skin. And the external pylons for for bombs.

East german dumb iron droppers in early (delivery) paintsceme.

Nice. I love this bird. Reminds me on AH-56 Cheyenne. I hope the Air Force will not fight against high speed helicopters again.

Are you so sure, that i dont speak russian? Do you think i cant read and write cyrillic? Do you really believe i dont understand what is written in russian? Really? Of course you are better in this. You are from Kiev. And the ukrainian language is nothing else than an old russian dialect with some latin letters in it. But i have learned russian in scholl and during my studyies. My russian is good enough. Fact! If you run out of arguments you starts to become offensive.! Its ukrainian style. Its ukrainian behaviour, as we can see in your parliament. You started to mix thinks together which have nothing in common without one point, they are strenghen your feeling of supperiority over the russians. In your eyes the russians are stupid, unable, unskilled, incompetent etc.pp. But if they are, why they are still sitting on the Crimean Peninsula? Could it be, that the western financed community in the Ukraine is exactly that what you believe the russians are? If you are unable to argue with persons which have other opinions or views, then you will never find a place in the EU. Because arguing is part of democracy.

If you read the report correctly, then the answer is "No". In the report you find the line: было произведено поражение самолета МиГ-31 с борта другого истребителя того же полка. what means translated ino english: the MiG-31 aircraft was destroyed from the side of another fighter of the same regiment. Same regiment (squadron) does not mean wingman. I think there were multiple flights or pairs of MiG-31 in the area on different flight pathes (vectors). Only under that conditions a plane can be hit "from the side".

I wrote in my last post: The WCS does not allow to fire a weapon to a "own" plane. The pilot can override the WCS only by active handling. Exactly this is descriped in the russian article. The WCS blocked the firing of the missile. The ground controller gave the order to attack. The plane crew refused the order and asked for repeat. The ground controller gave the order again. Then the plane crew override the safety mechanism of WCS and opened the fire. It was the fault of the ground controller. This is a typical case of "shit happens". During my military time i shot on an own T-55AM2 with a RPG-18, because the tank wanted to drove a shortcut. And this shortcut was exactly though our RPG shooting range. We usually shot on old tanks which were mounted of railway tracks, what looked very realistic. When the tank appeared the "Aufführende", the second guy, gave the order to shoot. I fired, hit the tank on turret, but luckily the addon armour was thick enough to protect the crew. Its typical military "shit hapens".

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.

Fish'chips brickstone sccisors with sauerkraut brickstone.

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.

Sushi brickstone scissors fight with balalaika.

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.