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I was just about to post that video... Here is another video of Strela vs Mi-24 (this one of Albanian terrorists in Macedonia, 2001) luckaly with much less success. Some of Strelas captured in 2007:

That seems fake.

There isn't a procedure. There are recommendations.

4 died, 2 injured :(

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And can anyone name the second song in the L39 video... the Russian one about a Phantom and altitude and ejecting :D

really, i don't see why (and actually how) the Su should (and could) get any bigger :D

Why? It's a fair comparison. Only, you could rather say that F-35 optics are more technologically fast-forward, and MiG-35 is more or less in level with other current aircraft. The question for the F-35 thread is how practical and justified that fast-forwardness is :)

The F-35 has optical sensors all around. But I gues it's down to tactics. Some like to sneak in from below, some like to throw them selvs on you from above :)

Yup. And that quick stop. Just like he said, no way that is purely for show. I mean, you come in fast and low, make the quick stop and just.. hover for 5 minutes.. or what ever it takes for the squad to empty their guts out, and there you go, one bunch of mates ready to go in and take on the fight. Jolly good! :D ooooor.. you can just leave the back door open and sprey them around. Nice, good separation ;)

Oh, whan more idea just struck me: probabalistic processors :) Let me just get you into those. With current processors, random internal errors are an issue. They are not the errors due to bad code, but the errors due to static, overheat, cross induction, and so forth. To put this even closer to you, when you overclock your processor over the limit, it doesn't just stop working (well it does if the bios detects that you've crossed the line, but that's another thing) it begins to make errors. Some 1s randomly become 0s, and some 0s become 1s. So, current computers detect this, report an error and halt. But! What if you don't care if in a see of 1s and 0s, some of them are wrong. Now you should ask: but how could you not care? Well, there are cases when it really is acceptable. One proposed use is the MP3 decoders. If you have thousands of sound samples per second, and out of those, let's say 44000, few hundred are a bit off, your ear is not going to notice this. (HiFi people would be jumping by now, but hey - they don't use MP3 anyway, do they? ;)) So if can live with a few hundred errors per second, you can have a processor that runs at a higher clock, can take more heat, is cheaper, and maybe most importantly - doesn't care for errors. So now, back to radars. You have some signals coming to you. Much of those are noise, false returns, ECM maybe, and what not. So, you already have nice algorithms to process all that data, that is full of - errors! Now if there are already so many errors in the data it self, it should not be a problem if your signal processors induce another 5-10% errors, provided that the performance of your data processing (and within that - error rejection) rises enough to compensate. And if it rises even more, you can use that extra to do with the actuall signal processing. :)

Yeah, and they've chosen to use the top tech of the day, unlike other 90's systems that usually use 8086ish processors. :) That can be both good and bad. It shows you a nice moving map. But if you find your self in the middle of nowhere, ask your self: could it be becouse of the FERR# bug ;) As for the transistor growth rate, it became less relevant years ago. If we were to purely increase the number of transistors in CPU-s, the theoretical heat dissipation/area would rise to that of the Sun. In other words, you can't do that :) So, what was the answer, kids? Yes, it's the parallelism! Did you hear it, ED? Parallelism :D

Merry christmas to all who celebrate today :) Христос се роди!

High Quality video of Ka-26 in action :)

It appears to be the same display as this one (well known) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kOfRaTsYs but there the lower portion of the hud doesn't appear at all

I mean passive :D

Or easier to ignore for a smart seeker. :)

How "heavily outnumbered" was it if hundreds were lost in ten minutes?

I don't think that anyone questions the fact that pilots came out of RF with loads of valuable experience. Yes, and it seems that not many people wanted to believe the "omg they kicked our asses, give us more F-22!!!1" story, so now the story is "no, man, we still kick ass, totally, yea, we the best. but you know, these guys, they gonna be damn scary in a few years, so you better give us more F-22!!!!!1" :doh: :D

Both sides did it to gain experience. If just tradition was enough, they wouldn't need exercises. And don't say nothing of Cope India. We're still not clear about what went on there either. In some 20 years we might get glimpses of the truth.

No, sorry. It counts zero, none, null. What counts is what you can give right there, right now. The 70 years of expirience might help you on the long run, and in terms of developing and fine tuning tactics, and also deploying them on large scale. But when you first clash with a new kind of opponent it's down to the machine and the man.

Yup, just like the US pilot dude ;)

Without proof I woundln't believe either. Just like in this case. Reputaion is questionable (I mean reputation per se, not someones specific reputation) US has only slight advantage in experience when it comes to fighting more advanced enemy. Years in existance? Yea, sure ;)

There's no way that the big Amp-meter is standard equipment.