The Moon buggy that Roger Moore drove around the Nevada desert in ‘Diamonds are Forever’ – when does that come up for sale?:cool:

OMG!! The Aussies have built themselves some F-111Bs – you’ll definitely need “all the thrust in Christendom” to make that one fly.:rolleyes:

But certainly, I should think the Super Hornet with its AESA radar would be more than enough to shoot down any BLACKJACK, BEAR or KH-55.
In fact, range or endurance would be an important criteria for such a role and I’m not sure the F-22 has the advantage over the SH in this respect, has it?:confused:

Who are they next going to recommend buy the F-22 instead of the F-35? Norway, the Netherlands?:rolleyes:

why not some of these since you are at it….

But can it carry Exocets?:D

Besides which, the majority of Soviet aircraft shot down in Afghanistan fell to the DShk 12.62mm machine gun and other types of anti-aircraft gun.

Wasn’t the Buccaneer used as a laser designator during 1991 Gulf war – for Jaguars carrying Paveways (which couldn’t designate for their own bombs)?

The Soviets certainly took the Mujahadeen air defence threat seriously though, didn’t they…
By the end of the conflict, strike aircraft, including the Su-25, were restricted to flying at a minimum altitude of around 4500m/15,000 feet to avoid the Stinger missile threat – this of course, reduced the accuracy of bombing by a huge amount.
How accurate is a dumb bomb such as a AB 250, when dropped from a Su-25 at 3,000 metres?

Then they certainly didn`t had any issues in using a system way more “complicated”…….

The Mujahadeen were trained to use the Stinger – as part of the process of distributing the MIM-92, the Americans initiated a training scheme which took into account the typical low level of literacy among the Muj.