Try the Nigerian air force (Makurdi airport) – they should still have a few Jaguar airframes lying about, according to Google maps?:confused:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Makurdi,+Benue,+Nigeria&hl=en&ll=7.694815,8.607005&spn=0.002204,0.002411&sll=9.081999,8.675277&sspn=17.914956,19.753418&vpsrc=6&hnear=Makurdi,+Benue,+Nigeria&t=h&z=19

??? Internal bays weren’t new in the 1950s. Think of all those WW2 bombers. They were pretty common on tactical aircraft designed in the late 1940s & 1950s, as well as larger bombers.

Seriously, how many WW2 bombers could launch in salvo, air-to-air missiles at supersonic speeds from trampoline launcher rails from 50,000 feet or so?
There’s a big difference between the F-106’s missiles-internal-bay system, and dropping small loose dumb bombs through a hatch at 250 knots…

This provokes the question; what is the officially cleared maximum speed the F-106 could fire missiles from its internal bay (the top speed of the F-106 is mach 23-2.5, btw)?:confused:

Why would they be afraid of the MKI, the Su-27SM is better at a knife fight.

:p

It is? you’re probably right, but the MKI has an extra pair of eyes – very important in WVR combat, or so they say.

SM has newer engines so should have better thrust-to-weight than MKI, am I right?

Try here:

http://www.f-106deltadart.com/weapons_aim4.htm

I don’t want you saying anything bad about the “Six” – or the F-105 either…:)

Two of the most glorious aircraft to come out of the 1950s…:cool:

Beriev is Georgian, born Giorgi Mikheilis Dze Beriashvili. In fact most of Soviet-Russia’s aircraft talent are from Kavkaz/Caucasus. Artem Mikoyan, and Russian aircraft big boss, Mikhail Pogosyan are Armenian. Russia needs Caucasians to innovate their industries, Caucasians need Russia for the opportunity win win.. although Beriev may be turning over in his grave the day Beriev aircraft is used on Georgia 🙁

Indeed it’s true. And would you believe that some of the most talented aircraft engineers to work in the United States aircraft industry were also born in Tbilisi, Georgia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_P._de_Seversky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kartveli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gregor_(aircraft_engineer)

It’s a good bet Trident was referring to the “short legs”

What 1950s interceptor design didn’t have ‘short legs’?

… for about 30 seconds 😉

Is that the truth? I would have thought it could fly a lot longer than that?

It’s been widely published. Typhoon does not need A/B to go supersonic.

Indeed. It is probably more fuel efficient to use afterburner to reach supercruise speed – Concorde does the same.