R60 was built for being carried through a higher range of velocities underneath the fighter if I understand correctly.

I thought I read somewhere that the aircraft carrying R-60 was limited to a speed of around Mach 1.7?

R-40 is dated hardware. Current MiG-31BMs are using R-33S missiles.. The F-15 can get splashed from well over 100-150km distance. Even if it is able to evade the incoming missiles, a skilled Foxhound pilot can easily manage to stay well out of range of Eagle’s claws (AIM-120 ~ 40km?).

IMHO, it’s either a kill for the MiG-31 or a draw.

How did Iranian F-14A do against Iraqi Mirage F1, MiG-21, MiG-23 during the 1st Gulf war? Sadddam’s warplanes were still able to get a few Tomcat kills in the end, were they not – despite the long range of the AIM-54A missile?

It was an Iraqi AF MiG-25 that scored the only A2A kill against a U.S. fighter, during the first Gulf War.

It was, with R-40 BVR missiles (with reference to the ‘Missile evasion tactics’ thread).

Obviously a lot smaller – although ironically the F-20 was, unlike the F-16A, designed from the beginning to carry BVR missiles (AIM-7), if my memory serves well.

It coincide with my understanding, but better presented than i could ever accomplish.

It coincides with my understanding as well – there isn’t anything in it I can actually fault as such – but it is just stating the bleeding obvious. It’s a boring text. It reads like some sort of 19th century cookery book recipe. For example:

Thus there are several tactics to evade the missile, some of them very simple. First is a barrel roll. As missile is unable to track it, it will fly past and loose a lock in the process. Second is a simple turn, where pilot forces missile to follow it through a turn – this turn however must be well timed, and is very useful as an end move in more complex maneuvers designed to bleed off missile’s energy. It is also very useful in a dogfight, where rear-aspect shots are far more likely than front-aspect shots.

:applause:

To make things more complicated, there is also a vertical component which is usually neglected but its even more important if we are talking about MiG-25. You can fire an AIM-120 missile at 100+ kilometers to a target closing in at M2.5 at 50k feet; but if the target happens to have capability to suddenly zoom climb to 100k+ feet, you wont be hitting it even if you fire it from 5 kilometers, because 100k is certainly outside of AIM-120s ceiling. Hence, such target is outside of your NEZ.

Such a zoom climb maneuver by the MiG-25R would immediately terminate its reconnaissance mission there and then would it not? Mission kill for the F-22.
How would the MiG pilot know there was an amraam approaching anyway?

IMHO, it should work even better, as MiG-25R has at least some agility to evade missiles.

A MiG-25R flying at Mach 2.6 has no agility to evade missiles.

Hey, I’m merely quoting the World Banks most recent PPP charts, which were released a few months ago. This chiefly in response to the above “Brazil is richer than Russia” statement, which sounds a bit odd in light of the fact that Russia is the only BRIC to qualify as a “high income” country as of 2012/13 and it ranks above Brazil in GDP/PPP, GNI/PPP, GDP/Nominal/c and GNI/Nominal/c. Nominal values are usually less interesting in this particular context, though…

…Personally I’m very glad that this big neighbor of ours is getting it’s s**t together at such an impressive pace now. The last thing I want is a totally dysfunctional and volatile hellhole armed to the teeth with nukes just around the corner.

Now that’s a big post…:)

I honestly couldn’t disagree with what you have just written above, including the link you provided. Certainly the economic and social situation in Russia is improving, which is to be welcomed. Calculating these economic indexes is quite an art – it all depends on what it means to the man in the street.

from JSR:

Russia not only has larger economy than Germany but Russia economy is larger than whole of EU. These statistics dont take into account foreign money and foreign protection.(US military power) ( opportunity costs).

:rolleyes: