This is what the F-22 can do

[bflagg]

nope.. straight from http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/

 

second or third group... don't remember now

[Guest IguanaKing]

That one's definitely real. I'm not sure they're turning onto final though. They look to be a bit high for the airfield in the pic. ;)

[Guest Cali]

Their landing gear would be down by now anyways. Maybe they are just doing a fly-by, time to buzz the tower.

[bflagg]

That one's definitely real. I'm not sure they're turning onto final though. They look to be a bit high for the airfield in the pic. ;)

 

I thought the same... but since I never been near one... I tend to lean

towards the capiton..

[wsoul2k]

I think you're looking at conspiracies too much, and maybe event he wrong way ;)

The MiG-23 could have easily been a defector. Israel handily admitted their losses to to the SA-6 system in Yom-Kippur IIRC ...

 

The F-117 was shot down by a volley of SA-3, and this is confirmed by Serbs. The MiG-anything story is a complete crock. The SA-3 commander had the following fairly unique advantages:

 

He didn't much care about CAP attacking him.

His search radar was pretty much immune to HARMs (long wavelength)

He only needed to turn on his search radar for one or two sweeps

His search radar was better at detecting stealth aircraft (long wavelength)

He already knew the F-117 was going to be flying there

He only needed to turn the search radar on to fix the F-117's position for tracking

The F-117 was tracked and shot down using optical CLOS guidance - the SA-3 is a command-guided missile and as such it does not need to rely on radar at certain ranges and altitudes.

 

The only propaganda there came from Serbia and Russia, when they claimed things like shooting down amazing numebrs of (manned) aircraft, inluding a B-2 or two ... interestingly enough, people were counting the correct number of B-2's present on airbases ... ;)

 

To be more precise te pilot stated 2 (in a interview on a Braziliam Mag)missiles are fired at him the first one pass very close and the second one got him