Статья про OPFOR USAF

[arcivanov]

"In 1987 we had the AIM-9P, which was designed to reject flares, and when we used US flares against it would ignore them and go straight for the target. We had the Soviet flares – they were dirty, and none of them looked the same – and the AIM-9P said 'I love that flare'.

 

We didn’t know what 90 percent of the switches did.

[Morkva_55]

Надпись на панели "Взрыв / Не взрыв" они таки не осилили )))

 

"It would accelerate until it blew up. The limit was 720-710 knots, but guys would look down inside and see they were going 850-880. :pilotfly:

 

Про сложность эксплуатации МИГ-23 наши отзывались в тех же выражениях.

 

Спасибо за ссылку.

[Lonewolf357]

"In 1985 we had 26 MiGs -- MiG-21s and MiG-23s. We had had MiG-17s originally but phased them out early, and by the end of the program we still had more MiG-21s than anything else.

 

Ничего себе масштабы - целый полк ВВС РФ по нынешним временам...