American military aid to Georgia…..or speaking of Russian war trophies.

http://www.vesti.ru/videos?cid=&vid=149225

So, a typical three-position site would have had 18 ready to fire weapons and a maximum of 144 reloads, with 18 of them on the rapid reloaders and the rest in storage.

I hope you find it useful.
As you can read here(link below) the S-200 Vega site located near capital city Prague and nicknamed “Klondike” had three launch areas with six launchers. The main storage area contained 34 pcs of the 5V28 missile in containers, two missiles were permanently kept in alert status. With proper storage maintenance the missile lifetime is about 20years, but once the missile was filled with high aggressive fuel compounds, its lifetime droped rapidly. The missile had to be emptied imediatelly when alert warning went off. After five years these “worn out” missiles were sent to Kapustin Yar for live fire excercises. In late 80ies one 5V28 missile cost about 8million Czechoslovak krones. Because of these reasons only 2 missiles were filled and kept ready to launch during peace time.
The whole S-200 site lifetime was estimated between 30-40minutes during a war, what is discussible since NATO already knew the site location, thus expecting they would strike it quick. However, it was assumed the site will launch the whole package of missiles stored (36 pcs total).
http://www.fortifikace.net/pov_pvos_skupina_vega.html

What about a second location …., or a location inside Slovakia?

It was simple, after Czechoslovakia split in 1993, Czechs kept the stationary S-200 sites and Slovakia got the single S-300PMU package with the 5V55R missiles.

I’ve just been digging around the CIA’s FOIA website, and there is a lot of stuff in there on the OXCART flight, BX6734, when they found the SA-2 fragment.

How the SA-2 fragment looked like?

Similar to this?

No it doesn’t, they flew within DDR and WarPac S-200 range all the time during the Cold War.
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The SR-71 kept a safe distance away from WarPac state borders, so describe it as a combat zone is a bit strange. We knew the SR-71 is flying its “harmless” recce mission leaving the S-200 sites cold, no preparations for launch or set the S-200 missile on the launch position.
The S-200 Vega site at Dobrish in former Czechoslovakia…in detail
http://www.fortifikace.net/pov_pvos_skupina_vega.html
Czechoslovakia map with S-200 ranges depicted, look for two green dots with black circles.
http://forum.fortifikace.net/files/pvos_164.jpg

Only one small part. It didn’t cause any damage, it was just lodged in one of the corrugations on the undersurface of the wing.

A small part made of light alloyed metal from missile body doing more than seven thousand steel fragments comming from the warhead shell after detonation. Very interesting story indeed. :rolleyes:

I’d read the Mig that hit 123k used it but I didn’t know it was standard issue. Kindof a kludge for the envelope the Mig typically flies IMO.

…not a standard flight, it hit the altitude 37650m only once, what is 123523.6ft.
http://records.fai.org/general_aviation/history.asp?id1=21&id2=1&id3=4

It was the Blackbird’s J58 that often encountered unstarts, not the J93, but it had nothing to do with the engine and everything to do with the intake system. .

It has indeed, to do with the J-58 engine. The unstarts were caused by compressor unstable operation (stall) what resulted in a loss of compressor/engine performance, caused either by failure to maintain proper inlet operation or compressor active control. The difference between both engines is that the J-58 was more susceptible to engine unstarts due to the 9-stage compressor with much higher compression ratio, what needed complex active control(bleed system) with precise intake operation to ensure the stable operating region of the compressor, whereas the R-15B-300 was relatively immune to unstable compressor operation due to very low compression ratio of 4.75.

I don’t think so, and I think I know where the confusion stems from. There was one MiG-25P and three MiG-25Rs that were refitted with the -300 under the MiG-25M test program. One of the R models refitted was one of the jets that had been deployed to Egypt. .

I;m sorry but the article doesnt provide further explanation. What if the MiG-25R which was tracked flying over Israel at Mach 3.2 was indeed the one fitted with the R-15BF2-300 engines.;) Very good assuption, but do you have any proof for that, or is it just your personal opinion?.

P.S> Could someone provide details about the J93, no luck to find any good links

only f22? could you give me an official doc to prove it? thanx in advance

DOZER said that, are you deaf? So it is official, no need for further proof.