It was not done in 1967, when most MiG-21s were destroyed in the AB-attacks.
That very maneuver was done during the last week of YKW 1973 to survive only. 😉

came across this piece of ‘Historia’ just today – “Crazy Egyptian pilot” doing a split S…

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2227449/egyptian_mig_21_crazy_pilots_escape_from_a_chasing_mirage/

Did you read my post ?

The USAF flew 4,538 SEAD (suppression of air defense) sorties.
With a result:
3 of 25 SA-6 batteries destroyed, 10 of 41 SAM radars destroyed.
They achieved only to destroy 3 obsolete SAM batteries designed in the 60s in the whole conflict.

SEAD: Suppression of Enemy Air Defences

DEAD: Destruction of Enemy Air Defences

There’s a difference between the two acronyms, (SOC actually explained it a year back or so) and NATO were obviously aiming for and almost completely achieved ‘suppression’ to judge by their air losses: one aircraft.

Bear in mind, a HARM missile, or any other anti-radar missile, doesn’t neccessarily have to destroy any part of a AD system to be considered successful. I’m sure the USAF would have been quiet happy to launch double the number of HARMS in order the achieve the same result they achieved in the Kosovo bombing campaign.

To destroy the Serb military – why would NATO need to ‘destroy’ the Serb
military? How was NATOgoing to assess the completion of the destruction of the Serb military, what yardsticks or benchmarks were going to use – ten serb tanks, a hundred?

And the S-300 system has been in service almost 30 years by now. Surely someone, somewhere has found a way to jam or fool it, EW wise, by now?:confused:

Lovely poster there, I take it that is the Red falcons aswel?

Well, I’m not sure that there was a permanently established air display team called the Red Falcons at that time or was there?
It seems that for any of the big air displays of the 1950s and 60s teams of 4 or 5 aircraft were formed on some sort of ad hoc basis. There were the red painted Yak-15s in the 1940s and the MiG-15, MiG-17 and MiG-19 teams after that.
I remember having a book on military aviation as a kid with the following photo in it, I love it! :):cool:
check out the link for some more pictures of the 1961 flypast at Tushino in Moscow:

http://airforce.ru/history/tushino1961/tushino_1961.htm

Why no Sopwith?:confused: They were pretty good in their day, I thought.
Are they still around?:D

Observe the the very un-soviet choice of colours for the exhaust plumes… (might be a guide to the authenticity of the poster).;)