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What part of "those are just simplifications for the Discovery Channel" don't you understand? :)

@Frostiken Just what I wanted to hear :D I was under the impression that it was something that requiers huge math models to simulate, and hours of lab testing to plot reflection grahps.. I even hear something about a thousand page book on how electromagnetic waves interact, worthy of a Nobel prize. Yet some people are just naturally gifted :) I am so amazed by this that... well, you can see my signature ;) Thrust [sic] me, it's not that simple.

It is.. if you look at the MiG-35 display, it begins with a mock up buddy refueling.

Yeah... who ever heard about snow on the equator :music_whistling:

Yes, fly. Not fly for years after, but a few flights after flushing all the fluids and replacing batteries - no problem. The electronics might not work, but at a point where you are digging aircraft out of permanent reserve, every and all electronics have been EMPed away anyway. Btw, the first video went private :(

That is why I like sitting in an F-16 ejection seat AFTER it was ejected... nice and safe ;)

IRL, they actually pretty much just "float" away behind the aircraft. If they sepparate from the airplane too fast, there's a chance that the seeker won't catch them.

Nah. You just need to find a copilot :)

I just think there have been too many "lol"s (not only by you) and smiley faces on a thread that is about a war where thousands of people have dided that day alone.

concerning Mouammar Gaddhafi, I think this is an images/video thread, "lol"

airliners should really have chutes

what inlet design? what exactly do you think is problematic?

someone said here: it's a 5g limited display, and it looks like they're not even hitting that.

Wow! Great! Where can I purchase this fine F-14?

that's what he said :)

rent? you can get one for weight * cost of material at scrap.. if you know where to ask ;)

The regular tail is rear radar housing (still no radar in first two testbeds) and stopping chute. The extra extension is anti-spin.

One more insight when you've mentioned weather radars - 60% of Yugoslav early warning radars were destroyed or put out of action - and 100% of weather radars :) Also, there is a rumor that all of our kind neighbours that offered their sky for use by NATO were forbidden to use theirs. But maybe, that's just since they were static ;)

Actually, our SAMs were never static for more than 12 hours, and even the huge early warning radars were modded to be semi-mobile. A static SAM site is a wasted SAM site. With enough cruise missiles to spare, they will fall and who's protecting you then? For round'o'clock protection, use multiple sites. With a well trained crew, dissasembly takes around 15-20 minutes, and truck stop to opperetional is up to 30, but can be less. And as far as protecting an objectve - you can forget about that too. Rather, keep the objective itself mobile if you can. If you can't - forget it and move along, don't waste resources. (oh, they plowed empty bunkers day in and day out. why - I do not know)

they might have been static in vietnam era.

mom look at me fly mom mom look mom no hands! :D

it all depends on the skills of the crew on both ends.

15 would be enough, but it's always good to have redundancy :D

:megalol: yeah, they've built MiG-21 analog and did years of research so that they could "copy" a plane that only looks similar and actually flew later

@GG: Exactly. is that a joke?