Posted on 04/19/2014 9:32:47 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Same here but nowhere to park them, let alone power them up assuming I could get an english version of the idiot’s guide to Russian jet aircraft.
No, but this does:
airframes from old MiG-29s that had been languishing in open storage at the Lukhovitsy factory.
That means they've been sitting outdoors, very likely corroding.
They may even have used airframes built for Iraq, way back in the late 1980s.
That means "used" to me.
“Not enough F-22s around to matter that much on that end, and the F-15s are falling apart from what I hear.
The Navy used to have the F-18 and F-14, but no longer. “
What is happening is unilateral disarmament under the Obama administration.
The old style radars are like a flashlight in a dark room. They can be detected long before target returns can be seen.
One of these against an F-22 is like a man with a flashlight fighting a man with night vision goggles. That was the whole idea of the F-22. Don't fight fair.
I talked to a pilot who went up against an F22 (he was in a F16 as I recall) and I asked him how he fared.
He said: “I was a baby seal.”
Give MiG a break. They are great for what they were designed for, shooting up civilians and lightly armed militias.
As far as real combat, we need to look no further than their test in real combat. They were either shot down or ran like scalded dogs to some foreign hiding place.
You may be right, it is not very clear what is meant, just that the airframes had been around for some purpose.
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