Thats a good looking machine. I wonder, is the engine in it any good? What sort of thrust to weight ratio does it have? Why hasn’t it been exported?

Interesting pics, very interesting! Please do keep ’em coming 🙂

Oh that’s hilarious. Google image search “HOTAS Warthog”. The stick displayed next to that screen is an American made game peripheral. Even more hilarious is the fact that that used to be the top-end very best stick on the market until… A couple Russian companies (VKB and VirPil) put even better sticks on the market. XaXaXa!

The screen behind it is displaying a still from DCS, a flight simulation game built in Moscow by a company that is truly international.

More like 5 or 6 if the Soviet Politbureau sufficiently likes you, your cause and your chances to put a spanner in the international imperialist capitalist machinery 😀 And like the Man said; quantity has a quality all of its own. 12 floggers tag teaming a pair of vipers would probably not end well for the vipers. Especially if they don’t rock AMRAAM.

Must have something to do with the 21st century post 911 american cultural trend of militarism; games like call of duty and countless movies that have tacticool heroes with all their tacticool gear speaking tacticool lingo and pwning bishes left and right.

Excellent post. Have a cookie 😀

I still stand by my assessment of the F-5 as the superior of the mentioned planes. While the F-104 might be great at boom & zoom, there are too many situations where that just won’t work.

I been reading Red Eagles, about the secret squadron if MiG’s that the USAF had squirreled away at Tonopah. They consistently bemoan the -23’s horrible, terrible, awful flying qualities. They absolutely dreaded flying that thing in anything but a fast, straight line.

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