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  • July 18, 2005 at 5:57 pm in reply to: YAK-130 Request #2614501
    Billy Bishop
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    I know a lot about the Yak-130 and its derivatives, way too much to list in one post. What specific things do you want to know?

    July 17, 2005 at 9:51 pm in reply to: Best advandced jet trainer for combat operations? #2614839
    Billy Bishop
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    The problem is that many trainers lack decent avionics. No RWR, no ECM, no chaff and flare dispensers, no FLIR, no laser targeting device, no laser tracker and no radar.

    What is the difference between a AJT with all that and a “real” fighter? Isn’t the lack of (most) of the things you mentioned precisely what keeps it an AJT and not a fighter?

    July 13, 2005 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Blackbird vulnerability #2617557
    Billy Bishop
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    The pilot is the one who made the claim and he’s bsing.

    July 12, 2005 at 11:24 pm in reply to: Blackbird vulnerability #2617924
    Billy Bishop
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    And you know this how?

    Because it’s unrealistic. It flew 2410 sorties, the vast majority of them it wasn’t even detected. According to you a sam was launched at it every 2nd-and-a-halfth mission. The claim of 1000 sams was made by a SR-71 pilot who was probably talking bs, as pilots often do.

    July 12, 2005 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Blackbird vulnerability #2617964
    Billy Bishop
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    I understood you the first time. The Blackbird has not had a thousand SAMs launched at it in total.

    July 12, 2005 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Blackbird vulnerability #2617975
    Billy Bishop
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    LOL there weren’t no thousand sams launched at the blackbird, where are you pulling this nonsense from? ROFL…

    July 12, 2005 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Blackbird vulnerability #2618154
    Billy Bishop
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    You’re pretty dumb sferrin. The post says that the blackbird was slightly damaged by an SA-2. It was only luck that it wasn’t damaged to a greater degree and brought down, which could very well have been the case in subsequent missions.

    But anyways the main threat to the Blackbird weren’t SAMs but Mig-25’s firing R-40’s.

    July 12, 2005 at 2:17 am in reply to: aurora program #2618432
    Billy Bishop
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    The “aurora” refered to in the Pentagon budget request refered to a number of exotic aircraft, not a single aircraft.

    July 11, 2005 at 2:56 pm in reply to: aurora program #2618737
    Billy Bishop
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    The Aurora has been in service with the Canadian AF for some time. There are 14 based at CFB Greenwood and another 4 with 407 Squadron.

    Here are detailed information about it: http://gmam.ca/p3_cp140.htm

    July 10, 2005 at 12:44 am in reply to: F-15C Eagle: Today's best Fighter. #2619570
    Billy Bishop
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    No one is mentioning the Gripen. It’s a contender for the title, isn’t it? However I think the best weapons it is cleared to carry as of today are the AIM-9M and the AIM-120B.

    July 9, 2005 at 11:36 pm in reply to: F-15C Eagle: Today's best Fighter. #2619637
    Billy Bishop
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    Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t the Rafale been operational for some time? I seem to recall it did bombing missions over Afghanistan in 2001.

    As for the F-15 it itself varies a lot in capability, for example only a small number of them even have the AESA radar.

    July 9, 2005 at 10:24 pm in reply to: F-15C Eagle: Today's best Fighter. #2619680
    Billy Bishop
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    Ten years ago it was, but now planes like the Eurofighter, the Rafale, and the Su-30MKI can beat it.

    July 1, 2005 at 6:02 pm in reply to: Cruise Missile Defense #2623033
    Billy Bishop
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    Those ideas all have merit, unfortunately none of them are foolproof. If the target is important enough, the enemy will simply launch a very large number of cruise missiles and the chances of shooting down every one of them is very low. And in case you haven’t noticed, the US can build cruise missiles faster than the military can use them up (although this is not the case with any other country – yet).

    The only foolproof defence against cruise missiles is to destroy whatever is launching them.

    June 12, 2005 at 3:03 am in reply to: When to eject? #2632885
    Billy Bishop
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    So when a plane is hit, the pilot will most likely not be killed, even if hit by a large missile? I did not know that… I thought the pilot would die (unless hit by a very small missile like the SA-7) and so he had to eject before the missile hit.

    Don’t large missiles like SA-2’s have a blast radius of something like 50 metres? So what if an SA-2 explodes only a few metres from the plane, would the pilot survive?

    June 10, 2005 at 7:51 pm in reply to: When to eject? #2633665
    Billy Bishop
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    But you can’t assume the missile will hit the plane somewhere far away from the pilot, leaving him unharmed so he can eject… What if the missile explodes right into the cockpit!

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