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  • in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXIV #2222843
    Levsha
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    It’s more F-16 fanboism which grates me. Some time ago I decided to check out F-18 Hornet -thread there and man, was it full of garbage. There was like 1 or 2 guys who seemed to know what they were talking about, but their comments were buried by all the mindless noise about how F-16 totally owns the Hornet in every respect…

    How does that make http://www.f-16.net any different to Key Publishing forums?

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXIV #2222941
    Levsha
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    The amount of America-strong in there is overbearing.

    If they took their nationalism and crammed it where the sun don’t shine, it would be quite an interesting place.

    I never found it a problem – just mentally screen it out. It’s a problem you find in every language I guess – are Russian language forums and websites any better?

    in reply to: The PAK-FA News, Pics & Debate Thread XXIV #2222988
    Levsha
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    F-16.net is a good forum in most respects – has a lot of informed people on it, who have actually got experience in the aerospace industry – or actually served in an military air arm somewhere.

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2223445
    Levsha
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    You need to ask yourself – which side has profited from the MH17 shotdown? Ukraine or Russia?

    Oh for fükk sake – read your own posts some time…

    Who profited from the sinking of the Titanic or the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 – and don’t tell me nobody did!

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2224290
    Levsha
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    I didn’t say that either the Buk launcher crew or Rostov ATC were even aware of each others existence?

    I have just had a look back on post 901 of this thread by TEEJ, which itself is referring to post 896 by Jö Asakura with the picture of the radar track from Rostov ATC. It seems the white blip is not an unidentified aircraft, but the estimated location of Flight MH 17 (if it hadn’t just been shot down). There was no second unidentified aircraft, and none is mentioned in the Dutch report – which more or less disproves the theory that Ukraine was using civilian flights as cover for military operations. I don’t see any justification to pursue this line of argument, do you?

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2224309
    Levsha
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    radar data from ATC center showing a second blip

    I never really had much interest in the role of the second aircraft near the Malaysian airlines flight when it got shot down – a combat aircraft flying in the airspace above the combat zone it’s at war against – honestly, who would have guessed!?

    How close did this second aircraft get to the Boeing 777 and in what direction was it flying compared to the airliner – Rostov ATC should know, shouldn’t they?

    in reply to: SCOTTISH AIR FORCE #2224319
    Levsha
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    Who said GIUK? I said ‘up to the Shetlands’. Even if we cut that to ‘up to the Orkneys’, it should be patrolled. If you don’t, the Russian air force flies over you at will, as they did over the Baltics until they got a NATO detachment.

    And independent Scotland would be in the same league as Denmark, Norway & Finland. They all see a need for fast jets. Doing without them is not being considered. The only remotely comparable country which doesn’t is Ireland, which shamelessly sponges off the UK for defence. Is that what you propose? A craven country, hiding under the wing of the state it claims it wishes to be free of? Extremely hypocritical.

    I would be the first to agree that my homeland’s attitude to it’s own defence leaves a lot to be desired (“sponging” might even be not too strong a word) – but a craven country?

    Incidently: the UK has never ever complained about Ireland’s skinflint, naive and somewhat hypocritical approach to its own defence (maybe the UK should?).

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2224659
    Levsha
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    most maneuvering things still has good survivability against missiles at alt

    Only 2% of all S-75 missiles fired against American aerial targets in the Vietnam war succeeded in downing their targets.

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2224661
    Levsha
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    Oh it wasn’t necessarily a fault with the fuse as such. ’60s (’50s even) missiles just had that problem of the proximity fuse not being very good at knowing when to go off. As I said, the AIM-7s also had this issue. The missile was said to pass right by the canopy. Now replace this with a slightly more modern missile and it hits head on. There’s really no problem hitting aircraft at this speed and altitude at all. The USAF knew this and that’s why they only skirted Soviet borders.

    You are just explaining my point – were is the argument? Early generation anti-aircraft missiles just weren’t up to the task of intercepting an aircraft flying at mach 3+ the technology wasn’t there, especially with the proximity fuses. As there were virtually no such mach 3 aircraft in service throughout the cold war period it was hardly seen as a big problem?

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2224671
    Levsha
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    Exactly which part of the claim that UAF might have been using civilian lines as cover for their aircraft looks like a “conspiracy” to you? It is an entirely realistic possibility, with no links to Illuminati, little green men, chemtrails or similar stuff.

    If this is the line of argumentation you want to apply to counter my claims, please do us both afavor and restrain from answering to my posts.
    Thanks.

    It’s quite fascinating that you say that without a blink in the eye but at the same time don’t ask yourself why on earth would someone allow an airliner over such zone..

    No, it is a very serious accusation to make, and it is up to you, the person making the accusation, to provide the evidence to show that the Ukrainian af were indeed using international passenger flights as ‘cover’. Tell us, why would the Ukrainian AF need such cover – how would Ukrainian Su-25s operating below 10,000 feet take advantage as cover of a Malysian Boeing 777 flying at 33,000 feet?

    It’s quite fascinating that you say that without a blink in the eye but at the same time don’t ask yourself why on earth would someone allow an airliner over such zone..

    I agree that is a very good question. I suppose the Kiev government were very hesitant to declare that they had lost control of a large section of their own sovereign air space- which country’s government wouldn’t – without taking a realistic assessment as to what a Buk M1 SAM system running amok might actually do. Certainly the Kiev government must take equal responsibilty for the shooting down of the airliner.

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2224917
    Levsha
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    I’ve given you an exact time in the video. Basically the SA-2 passed right by the cockpit and exploded behind the aircraft. Only a dodgy proximity fuse (a known issue on early missiles experienced by AIM-7s too) saved it. Most of the time mission planning kept it out of range as it only skirted borders but make no mistake, SAMs were capable of hitting it.

    Just watched the video (good video, very informative:)). There was no evidence mentioned to say that the Sr-71 was in any danger of being hit by the S-75 – it missed after all. No evidence either that there any fault with the missile’s proximity fuse. when there is a closing speed of over Mach 6 between the missile and SR-71 you can expect the proximity fuse to have a hard time estimating the exact millisecond to detonate.

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2224972
    Levsha
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    In my opinion, a mere presence of a military aircraft in the area at given time would not automatically mean proof of an R-60MK and/or 30mm projectiles having ripped the unlucky MH17 apart rather than a possibility that UkrAF started misusing civilian aircraft as a cover for their intrusions over the enemy territory. Which is, in my opinion, the most realistic theory there is as it partly satisfies even Russian claims while not contradicting the evidence provided by the West.

    My 0.02

    Such an outlandish conspiracy theory could work if we were to believe that the Buk missile system operators could recognise the difference between the Ukrainian air force and a civilian airliner passing through – but the Buk operators almost certainly didn’t know the identity of any aircraft out of visual range flying overhead, the had no IFF to go on – they simply attacked everything that flew overhead.

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2225000
    Levsha
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    See my video above.

    http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131829-Bad-decisions-by-the-Pentagon&p=2167201#post2167201

    I haven’t got one hour and 14 minutes to watch the video at this time. What is it you want to say?

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2225169
    Levsha
    Participant

    The SR-71 got lucky at least once over the Korean DMZ with an SA-2. The proximity fuse didn’t work correctly. That was the only thing between its ass and the grass.

    The SA-2 had hundreds of opportunities to shoot down SR-71s over Vietnam – they never did. There is no evidence to prove that the S-75, S-200 or MiG-25 had the ability to shoot down targets flying at Mach 3+ and 80,000 feet altitude, although an S-200 with a nuclear warhead might be in with a chance.

    in reply to: Bad decisions by the Pentagon #2225174
    Levsha
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    levsha

    If cancelling the B-70 was a good idea, how come we are still flying the B-52 probably up into the 2040s. A B-70 would carry cruise missiles to their launch point much higher, and 3 timess faster.

    Too expensive, when there are cheaper and equally effective alternatives to delivering armageddon to the USSR – it’s a bit like using a Ferrari to deliver pizzas.

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