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The video is long (1h31mins), and talks more about 1943 models than late 1944 like we have in dcs (It tries to put itself in the position of evaluating if the F6F and F4U could have been chosen over the p47 or p51) But we can still get some informations out of it, like that the corsair has a similar roll rate to the 190 for exemple, we can also assume that the 109 will outclimb the corsair like the G6 did the f4u-1a in the video. It might be due to the zero being the opposition but I think we tend to underestimate the pacific bird's agility too.

It did not see enemy fighters but it participated in the same operations as hellcats in northern Europe (Operation Mascot, Operation Goodwood) where hellcats got engaged but not corsairs. They did not participate in Italy or provence unlike hellcats.

I don't know if you remember (or own it) but the mirage training has a voiceover in a french accent, yet I haven't heard him saying baguette, jambon-beurre or omellete au fromage. Yet it brings a bit of authenticity to said training. If it's done in the same manner I'm all for it. And remember he said a russian accent while talking english nothing else.

I don't think the rwr would sense different radar waves but the main thing I understood in Zeus post was that it only reported locks, then my main hypothesis is that it can't detect radar in search mode because it isn't sensitive enough, I'm no radar expert either but from what I get a radar that is locked is similar with someone experiencing tunnel vision, so the rwr can detect can detect intense radar activity (like in lock) but not the somewhat weaker search mode. So yeah the rwr wouldn't pick anything if TWS is used.

Thanks you for the precision dolfo, I did miss that. However my point still stand, having read the article I don't see anything that can help make a judgement concerning the capability of the mig-23. it could have been any kind of plane and it would have been shot down trying to get aggressively close like this without attacking to make it seems like they were attacked out of the blue. what we could judge here are the pilots actions or their orders (surely to try to trigger an incident).

I don't get why the first part of this belong here but ok. Now I'm more or less going to repeat what I wrote on reddit but your post is one more reason for me to fly the mig-23. Everybody judges the mig-23 by the engagements it had, done with exports variant that depending on the variant was more a mig-21 in a mig-23 disguise than anything with inexperienced pilots against up-to-date american fighters flown by it's main operator (understand they have the last variants created by the constructor in service, the best training and all the logistics figured out). While I don't claim it will be a formidable fighter capable of going toe-to-toe with every aircrafts there is, the beast we'll get will be a different one from the ones that fought in the middle-east theaters. And after a quick check on wikipedia for this Gulf of Sidra incident, it seems the russian built, libyan flown aircrafts were 2 Su-22, not migs-23. Sources include militoryfactory who claims that they were indeed su-22.

Cyborg V1 I think it's Saitek that sell it now