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One was built. One crashed while test. One was left on the testfield. One was scrapped years later in soviet time.

Saw it live on TV. Was a good show. Pastravlyayu was dnjom pobjedu! Good to see the Brits, Polish, French, American and some GUS troops too. I'd also liked to listen to Beethovens 9th "Freude schöner Götterfunken". What i disliked were to see the Iskander and Topol-M nuke carriers.

The SA-3 Goa, soviet name Newa, was delivered in small numbers in early 1973 and was used as airfield defence SAM. You should not forget, that the F-15A was in the first time restricted to 6.3g flight limit. A slotted F-4E was able to hold against such a limited Eagle. German F-4F pilots still today tell their stories how they butchered the first Eagles in mock up combats. The MiG-21 was able to beat the F-4E and F in dogfight if it was in the hands of a skilled and physically capable pilot. A lot of vietnamese pilots were physicaly not able to withstand to much G force. That the US Phantoms could beat the MiG-21 at low altittutes was caused more by the pilot limits than the limits of the MiG-21.

It may painfull for americans to accept that it was the finest hour for the vietnamese people. After 30 years of war the vietnamese reunificated their country. Then they needed 15 years to accept that their socialist way was wrong, but now they are on a good path.

Violance in parliaments reminds me on the very bad old days in Germany. In 1933 the Nazis came to power by threatening the other parliamentarians by pure violance. They sent the SA troops in the Reichstag to push a law through the parliament which paved the way to a dictatorship. And it worked. Thatswhy i dont trust "democrats" who use force and fighting in parliament. Remember the past to avoid that it will be the future again!

I see no real new. To put a cruise missile in a commercial container is possible since the late 80th.

Hübsches Teil! Klasse.

Liegt es wirklich am Modell oder gibts da andere rechtliche Probleme? Ich glaube daß Lockheed da noch irgend ein Recht drauf hat und sich das teuer bezahlen läßt.

Me too. Flying and moding 1st gen only.

A definition of "best" would be helpfull. Is "best" the plane with the "best" flight performance? Or is it the most successfull plane? How do wou want to compare a F-16 with a P-51? Who is better?

I think JediMaster is right. The Lifting Body concept is well researched by the Russian designers and as the Su-27 family and the MiG-29 show, this concept stands for high agile fighter planes.

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There is a difference between "paper" performance and "real" performance. The question is wheter a pilot can fly his plane till to the edge or not. An example from WW2. The FW-190 had a much better "paper" performance than the Me-109. But the pilots felt more comfortable with the 109. They knew how far they could drive the plane. They got warnings from the 109 before it became a beast etc, while the 190 became beasty without warnings. An other example. MiG-15. Its a fact that the MiG-15 was more agile than the Sabre. But the MiG had the tendency to become beasty at high speeds at high altitudes. So only experienced pilots could drive it to the edge. The same with the MiG-23 or the Fokker DR1 in WW1. In the hand of an outstanding pilot it were outstanding planes, but underperformer in the hands of an average pilot. So i see the F-8 vs F-4. The Phantom was the more "comfortable feeling" plane for the pilot.

It simply shows us how democratic the so called Democrats in eastern europe really are. They should never become members of the EU!

[Flare_Station] SystemType=DECOY_DISPENSER EjectPosition= 0.06,-3.64,1.02 EjectVelocity= -15.0,0.0,0.5 NumFlare=5 This are the lines for a upward firing flare as i used it in my MiG-23PFM. To get a 45° shot you must play only with a EjectVelocity data.

The big advantage of the F-4 was its outstanding range and the multitask capability. A F-4 driver could act as bomber or Flak suppresser in a normal combat mission (what meant in Vietnam, that no MiG's were in the air), but if the MiG's came to play catch me if you can, then the F-4 could drop the bombs and could switch to fighter role. The Crusader was unable to do this. The F-8 was a pure fighter in Vietnam, so that in most cases the flighttime and fuel were wasted, because no MiG's came. And because Lexx qouted George Spangenberg with his words about the Israelis, i want to quote the israeli Test pilot who testet the MiG-21F13 1966. He said: With this bird we would have had shot down much more Arabs than with the planes we had.

Mit den IR-Systemen der MiG-29 oder Su-27 kann man PIRATE nicht wirklich vergleichen. Die russischen Systeme kombinieren Wärmesuchgerät und Laserentfernungsmesser zu einer tödlichen Einheit. PIRATE ist ein reines Wärmesuchgerät also in etwa mit dem TP-23 oder TP-26 der MiG-23 vergleichbar, wenn auch mit besserer Leistung.

Mi-24. The Crocodile is the greatest (not the best).

There is a german language book about this subject. Olaf Groehler "Selbstmörderische Allianz" I dont know wheter it is translated into other languages. The subject are the secret german training facilities in the USSR. Pilot training at Lipetsk, Tank crew traing at Kasan, Chemical warfare training at .... i have forgotten it. It is also a fact, that Reichswehr and Red Army had close relationships. German officers were very wellcome visitors at the soviet autumn maneuver excercises. There they learned a new way of warefare, the fast and deep attack operation with motorized units. This was the startpoint of the development of the Blitzkrieg strategy.

Its a pity to hear that. To close such a museum is a sad thing. I remember that there was, ages ago, a french movie about Normandie-Njemen. Was a great movie.

Nice ship. By the way. The brits were unable to sink the Bismarck. The crew of this ship sunk it themself.

No its a Super JJ-7

Nice to see that this old terrain is still alive. I must agree to Wrench. Making atolls is a nightmare My first idea was simply to take satellite pictures and make them into 2km tiles. But the atoll was to big, so i would have a very big number of tiles with 95% water and the rest soil. So i decided to cheaten a little bit and make the atoll at it is.

Reminds me on the bad old days when i had to run in the "Gamma suit" Is not a nice thing if you have an urgend need

In german news TV N24 it was said, that they found glas fragments of vulcano ashes in the engine of american military planes which flow yesterday through the ahes cloud over Europe.