S77th-GOYA Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 Has there ever been a plane hit by an AMRAAM that hasn't gone down? Real world, not LOMAC.
Yellonet Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 Probably, but that's not to say that anyone here knows about it. i7-2600k@4GHz, 8GB, R9 280X 3GB, SSD, HOTAS WH, Pro Flight Combat Pedals, TIR5
GGTharos Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 None, AFAIK. All prox-hits ended up having the plane 'land' anywhere but an airstrip, non-recoverable. Again, AFAIK. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Reminder: SAM = Speed Bump :D I used to play flight sims like you, but then I took a slammer to the knee - Yoda
Cobra360 Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 There was the last QF-106 drone that was brought down by a combination of an AIM-120, an AIM-9 and a burst of 20mm rounds, in that order, can't remember if it was by an F-15 or F-16.
SwingKid Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 There was a Yugoslav MiG-29 that took a hit, lost an engine and cracked the windshield, landed, then later took off on a single engine to ferry to a different airbase, IIRC. -SK
Cobra360 Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 There was the last QF-106 drone that was brought down by a combination of an AIM-120, an AIM-9 and a burst of 20mm rounds, in that order, can't remember if it was by an F-15 or F-16. Correction: The last QF-106A was downed by a combination of an AIM-120, 20mm rounds and then an AIM-9M, in January 1998. The goal of these missions was to make the drone last as long as possible, with the aim of taking multiple hits each. I have no links to back up my information, sorry.
D-Scythe Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 There was a Yugoslav MiG-29 that took a hit, lost an engine and cracked the windshield, landed, then later took off on a single engine to ferry to a different airbase, IIRC. -SK Any other details on what happened? AFAIK, only 10 AMRAAMs were fired in Allied Force, for 6 kills.
SwingKid Posted November 24, 2005 Posted November 24, 2005 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/792557/posts Yugoslav aviation enthusiast Mark Nixon has been back to Yugoslavia and compilied info about those 11 MiG-29s destroyed. This was in conjunction with the 127th Fighter Squadrons combat and accident reports. With his contacts within the RV i PVO Nixon revealed all in his tribute to the "Gallant Knights". This was published in Air Forces Monthly, January 2002 issue. Of the 6 destroyed in the air a seventh was combat damaged. The pilot, Major Dragan Ilic, managed to put his crippled MiG-29 down with an emergency landing at Nis airfield. From Ilic's combat report from 24th March 1999: I had the signal that I was locked on by an enemy missile. A fireball pushed the plane and the aircraft shook. The cockpit glazing cracked and fogged. I didn't feel any changes in engine performance and I was thinking how to save the plane. I pointed the plane to my home airfield at low speed, around Mach 0.5. All would have been different if the cracked glazing failed, I would have to had to eject and sacrifice the MiG. Subsequently USAF F-16CJ, serial 90-0830, had its MiG-29 kill removed while stationed in Italy. Major Illic's combat damaged aircraft, serial 18104, was later stripped and pushed out as a decoy and subsequently destroyed on the 11th May 1999 in a cluster munition strike. The cockpit imagery of this was released on the 19th May and can still be found at The Federation of American Scienctists website and NATO website. -SK
Iron Legionnaire Posted November 24, 2005 Posted November 24, 2005 Hah, is that this video? http://www.nato.int/video/990519a.mpg
Cobra360 Posted November 24, 2005 Posted November 24, 2005 That USAF F-16CJ, serial 90-0830 even fired 2 AIM-120s at that MiG-29.
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