Trotski

yeah when the Late Marks came out, they were a far far better aircraft, but it was too little too late, and the Glorious Mig 29's were starting to appear too, so the poor old Flogger was a bit of a white Elephant, still a potent aircraft in third world countries though where opposing airforces would have similar equipment levels..........Nick, I am wondering if the 23 you looked at was one meant for the LSK ? but not repainted.......I am rather surprised the build quality was as bad as you say, wouldnt expect that from Migoyan !! if you look at 15's and 17's the build quality was actually rather good, maybe it was just an old hangar queen , shame you dont know what mark it was, you lucky bloke , getting an up close and personal !! the Floggers do look the business though, the have a purposeful sort of look to them. the Early mark Fitters were a nightmare, like a lot of Soviet stuff very short range , Mig 21 a good example of that, and abysmal weapons load, considering comparable US and European aircraft were pretty much armed to the gunnels !! untill the Flankers and Fulcrums arrived on the scene, the Russians did seem to lag behind on the combat aircraft score, but, they had numbers, and had it all kicked off in Europe, they would have been pretty effective and devastating ( especially to us poor grunts in a Foxhole, facing the Soviet 3rd shock army !! )

Ahhh Rusty, the Floggers were a bloody nightmare to fly apparently, surprising they kept going so long, they do look cool as though........Thing is with Russky kit, it is functional and soldier proof by in large, and for some reason, WarPac/Soviet kit, always looks more warlike than Western stuff, the Flanker for example, compared to the F15, the Flanker just looks brutal, the F-15 looks.....well.....supermodelish and as for the Hind.....ugly, brutal, but sexy as hell, and scary as hell too.

nice one look forward to seeing it, mind you I don't use my X52 pro to its full potential

Yeah....good luck with that, I expect the almighty Capun , is just too busy to answer a simple email.......tosser that he is

LOL !! I wasn't a sniper myself, but my mate was, and I do not recall him saying anything about Psych tests, so I assume there weren't any at the time.......Cold war warriors....a different world !!

Well the Crack would be almost instantaneous did he mean the crack of the bullet, or the thump of the report from the weapon being fired as a the 7.62 mm round has an approx. muzzle velocity of 2800 FPS or 854 MPS and there are 5280 feet in a mile means the round would strike target at 2640 feet at that short range the crack and thump would be pretty much concurrent. so any one in the immediate area of the poor unfortunate who has just been slotted would have little or no time to differentiate the two sounds, and would most likely be more concerned about finding cover, before attempting to locate the shooter, by which time the sniper would have probably moved anyhow. Dunno about psy evals for snipers, not aware of it being the practice in the Brit military, certainly not in the RAF Regiment at least. but these days, because everyone must be wrapped in cotton wool and protected from perceived mental stress, I expect all sorts of psch evals are done. One has to remember that Snipers , or at least good snipers, are a special breed of person, usually very very calm, and very very dedicated, I would assume that anyone not fitting a psch profile in the job description, would be weeded out at very short notice, as the instructors are snipers them selves, and know what to look for, and how to identify at a very early stage in the training, if a prospective sniper will actually be suitable for that role.

Sorry, my comment was maybe a little tasteless even though I am not overly fond of the Turks, the poor buggers in the Chopper didn't know what hit 'em .