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20th May 2013, 16:29

Sens replied to a thread MiG-25 vs F-4 in Iran-Iraq war in Modern Military Aviation

To stay serious. The Yom Kippur War was a limited war with military targets only. The Irakis had two Hunter squadrons in Egypt and five squadrons...

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20th May 2013, 00:05

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

None gain in a fighter is for free and TVC is no exception. Just a specific demand in mind it can be the technical solution left to meet it. For...

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18th May 2013, 18:17

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

OKB Sukoi gives for the SU-35 a max speed at sl of Mach 1.14 and Mach 2.35 at altitude. Under standard day atmospheric conditions it is 753.54 kt or...

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18th May 2013, 02:44

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

The force reduction talks of the 80s in mind pushed by the economic pressure would have in a considerably drop of units and the related number of...

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17th May 2013, 18:05

Sens replied to a thread MiG-25 vs F-4 in Iran-Iraq war in Modern Military Aviation

There was no much difference between the MiG-25R and the MiG-25RB, because the B was added when the MiG-25R got its secondary role as high altitude...

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17th May 2013, 16:56

Sens replied to a thread MiG-25 vs F-4 in Iran-Iraq war in Modern Military Aviation

Just to start with a single point. The distance from Basra to Kharg Island is no more than 300 km and by that even in reach of a MiG-21. The...

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16th May 2013, 22:03

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

The Russians were very realistic about that, because they were intrested in real results from that and it was against both main fighters in their own...

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16th May 2013, 19:02

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

It was used as an example to show that similar numbers from the charts will reveal not much about the front-line behavior of a fighter in a more...

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16th May 2013, 13:50

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

There is nothing more serious than a real adversary combat to learn about the practical gains from a design. In that very case the ones involved on...

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16th May 2013, 09:46

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

For a country of a given size and a limited radar-network the single role MiG-23 can be cost effective compared to a less capable MiG-21 under such...

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14th May 2013, 19:49

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

http://forums.airforce.ru/sovremennost/3667-planirovanie-vozdushnogo-boya-6/ # 110 From the book test pilot V.N.Kondaurova "The runway of a...

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13th May 2013, 20:47

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

The mission is still there and they have some dedicated ones like the MiG-31s in their inventory.

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13th May 2013, 15:05

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

"The air fighting over North Vietnam lasted from spring of 1965 to January 1973, but included a long period between April 1968 and March 1972 when...

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13th May 2013, 14:10

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

http://www.amazing-airplanes.com/images/Fighters/F-15/f-15_one_wing.jpg I marked in Bold were math becomes misleading about former wing-load...

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13th May 2013, 02:15

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

That is correct, when it is about the allowed limit, but we have to keep in mind that it can be ignored briefly by taking a deaf ear in the case of...

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12th May 2013, 17:04

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

For a well kept fighter the safety margin for the allowed G is 1,5 at least. But when going behind the allowed limits given by weight or speed it...

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12th May 2013, 16:01

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

The program for ACM (air combat maneuvering) was developed at Lipetsk since the 60s. Just the advanced aerial combat training exercises were held at...

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12th May 2013, 05:49

Sens replied to a thread MiG-25 vs F-4 in Iran-Iraq war in Modern Military Aviation

What math you have in mind. Both wars were not comparable. In 1973 fierce battles over a limited area afterb a tactical surprise and in 1980 the...

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11th May 2013, 19:55

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

What a pitty a nonsense claim again. All parties learned from the events in Vietnam and the Middle East.

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11th May 2013, 14:36

Sens replied to a thread Su-27 vs F-15 in Modern Military Aviation

Some nonsense claims. The allowed g-limits (soft-limits) are set to reach the related life-time warranty or the fighter hit its lift or drag...

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10th May 2013, 20:04

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

More myth than reality without the related details. In the former GDR the Russians got trained pilots into their regiments. Each squadron within that...

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10th May 2013, 16:51

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

For Central Europe that was true. A country very similar to that is Israel, where the small size of the country allows it to have up to two training...

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10th May 2013, 14:40

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

All NATO pilots were trained for more than one mission and from that came the demand for more training missions. The training ranges were seldom...

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10th May 2013, 14:32

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

So you start guessing. The Egyptians or whoever handed the MiGs to the USA did so with manuals at hand or the flight limits learned by their pilots...

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9th May 2013, 19:54

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

Same problem, they gave no height for shown IAS to learn TAS. The MiG-21 was good in low speed manouvers but had a slower role-rate compared to the...

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9th May 2013, 19:29

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

I fear their intruments were in km/h and not knots or idiots were flying that, when ignoring known limits of a foreign fighter. The speedindicator of...

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9th May 2013, 09:51

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

Where do that numbers come from? It makes no sense in that way!

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9th May 2013, 09:49

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

Where do that numbers come from? It makes no sense in that way!

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9th May 2013, 00:04

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

The F-1C was comparable to the MF as an interceptor and inferior to the ML in that role. The MiG-21MF/bis were both inferior to the F-1C in that...

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8th May 2013, 19:42

Sens replied to a thread Why didnt Warpac states adopt MiG-23 en masse and still relied on MiG-21 by 1990? in Modern Military Aviation

When you red that article seriously you will get the impression it was a try and error mission at first and none had a real idea what do. In the 80s...

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