Where can I see the horde of Russian tanks and aircraft? 🙂

There were no hordes of tanks aircraft and troops when Russia invaded the Crimea a few months ago, quite the opposite in fact – but Crimea is now a territory of the Russian Federation.

Isn’t the powerplant on the Sukhoi Superjet mostly of French origin? Don’t some Aviadvigatel PS-90 jet engines have parts “made in America” included?

Andraxxus;2162872]Specially adapted = addition of oxygen bottle for zoom climb and thats it. Record breakers Ye-155R-1 and R-3 and Ye-155P-1 were the prototypes of MiG-25R and P variants; nothing more, nothing less. They had no airframe or engine modifications. In fact, they did go on with flight tests after the record attempts and IIRC Ye-155P-1 (or R-1?) was lost in an accident afterwards.

Well, I thought some of those Ye-155 had a lightened airframe and special powerplant – but I don’t see were this argument is leading to.

No idea but no MiG-25P was lost to Iranian aircraft, and stories about MiG-25 eluding half dozen missiles during gulf war would make me assume it did go fast enough.

I am not doubting it is faster than any other combat jet out there – USAF F-15s certainly had a hard time catching the beast.

No source is “proven” reliable ever. The best way to actually try understand something is press review, mixing many sources and pulling what makes sense out of the bull**** you read everywhere.

Nic

Exactly. The usual question is what bull**** (or non-bull****) people want to accept or not to accept, as the case may be. You cannot indoctrinate (or just simply inform/educate) people who have already made up their minds.

A fuel bladder in the internal munition bay could possibly be made in a hurry

The F-105 Thud rarely used its internal bomb bay for munitions in the Vietnam war – an internal fuel tank was often carried instead.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/f105/Interior%20belly%20tank.jpg

From this thread:http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?33482-ANY-INFO-ON-F-105-THUNDERCHIEF-BOMB-BAY

Then you call MiG-25 what? M3.2+ aircraft?

The first problem with pilot claims is that there is really NOTHING scientific about them. On STD DAY with standard engine trim (without Vmax) F-15A can only do M2.24 when clean. At 10 degrees below standard day, F-15A can do M2.45. Just 10 degrees celcius colder air increases top speed by M0.2+ Now we also know MiG-29 can do ~M2.32 on standard day, and I do claim MiG-29A is faster than F-15A. You say manual is wrong, and fill me with BS of pilot claims that F-15 did M2.5+ on some occasions. I don’t say they are lying (which is also a probability); F-15A can do it with ease even with conformal AAMs, when its on cold winter day when air -30 degrees. Then people take this discussion to another form of idiocy; “As MiG-25 can do M2.83, and F-15 can do M2.5, there is no real speed difference between them”. I will simply say F-15 at STD+10 degrees celcius tops out at M1.95, while MiG-25 did M3.2 on hot egypt deserts.

The other problem is some are naive enough to say “X is not actually a limit, as aircraft can exceed this”. By definition; if some value is limited below sth, it indicates exceeding it is possible, but dangerous and not allowed for some reason. Going from the same ratio above; Su-27 or MiG-29 can easily go M2.5+ given the air is cold enough, provided pilot is willing to exceed airframe limits, aircraft won’t explode if pilot tries this once or twice.

BTW there is no suprise F-106 beats F-4 when they are fully armed and flying with EFTs, according to their flight manuals.

No standard front-line MiG-25 could fly at Mach 3.2 – any standard non-adapted USAF F-106 should be able to do Mach 2.3 – I think that’s the point – regardless as to what is written in their flight manuals.

At M 2.83 the MiG-25 is alleged to have a combat radius of of only 300 km or so – so around 600+ km range. But at lower supersonic speeds the range of the MiG-25 rapidly improves – at Mach 2 the MiG should have excellent range.

The actual top speed of the F-106 is irrelevant anyway. Such a high speed, long-range passenger sortie would not be carried out at speeds above Mach 2 anyway – what is the range of the F-106 flying at Mach 2 compared to Mach 2.3?

The Mi-28 is almost as stealthy as the Mil Mi-12