I remember getting into trouble for ….
…who’d given me a roasting “Told you”. 😀

rofl x2

🙂

\Dan

I’m sure there are people that will cry it’s fake, but it sure is convincing to me.

It looks convincing but this is what makes me unsure:

1. Shouldn’t the Mig-29 fly faster? This beeing a warzone, shouldn’t the pilot fly faster for better survivability vs whatever AAA would be present? -> Filmed @ when not making a strafing run.
2. Shouldn’t the center of the flash be centered around the gun port, which is pretty much aligned to the wing?
3. Shouldn’t the flash geometry be differently shaped than circular? Given the proximity to the fuselage/nose.
4. The gun flash (coloring and light) looks fabricated to me. Am I wrong? :S

The gun blast/flashs geomentry doesn’t look like what I presumed it would look like. Granted I realy dont know how it should look like in reality. But given the gun port location and proximity to the fuselage/nose I predjudisticaly presumed it would NOT be circular.
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It’s on another site

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1n8z6f/what_are_the_new_aircraft_carriers_going_to_be/ccgz1cw

What!? No!:very_drunk: Seriously, any energy you put into his arguments is a wasted effort. /ignore ftw

\Dan

Are those the same multi-spectral sensors being used to blow up breast-feeding mothers in Afghanistan & Pakistan ?

Sad but true. Serbians effectively used logs to silmulate tanks in the bosnian war. In the end there will always be a human in the loop to decide what is a target and what isn’t.

\Dan

…to my knowledge there has been no development or research on turbojets for the last 30 years, or has there ?
Is there any modern turbojet around suited ?

Not that I know off either. Just like Yama said the P&W F119 would be close. But IMO a variable cycle engine seems more suitable like the GE YF120. I can’t remember why the F119 won though. Perhaps ADVENT and/or AEDT programs (same sh+t different names) could yield somethin usfull in the future. Targeted for the next gen bomber they are not putting much effort in thrust augumentation. I am also speculating that they dont want these programs to infringe on the F135 :dev2:

Air Force Magazine article from september 2012, last sentance reads: “We haven’t developed anything new since the F119 in the F-22.”

=> So nothing new in 20 years?

\Dan

…
Viggen … I think it still is the only Swedish ac to have gone up with the SR71 and succesfully obtained missile lock on.
…

It was usually intercepted between Gotland and the Swedish coast. I heard that on at least one occasion the squadron that did the interecept got a postcard with a picture of a SR-71. The sender was anonymous and the only thing written on it was “congratulations”. 🙂

some intercept stories

from Wiki
Swedish Air Force fighter pilots, using the predictable patterns of SR-71 routine flights over the Baltic Sea, managed to lock their radar on the SR-71 on numerous occasions. Despite heavy jamming from the SR-71, target illumination was maintained by feeding target location from ground-based radars to the fire-control computer in the JA 37 Viggen interceptor.[61] The most common site for the lock-on to occur was the thin stretch of international airspace between Öland and Gotland that the SR-71 used on the return flight.

Summary Assessment p.159
The surprise advantages of a small, supercruising fighter using passive avionics would represent a
much more dangerous threat ……

*three times the effective force due to lower cost,
lower acquisition cost, lower operational cost, and lower training cost,
allowing a threefold increase of pilot/machine for the same buck

^^ I think many people are focusing on the WVR aspect to much and missing this perticular point. Since size of an aircraft is proportional to all kind of associated cost (aqusition, training, maintenance, operative) => smaller mean more numbers for the same money. As Stalin said: “quantity is a quality in it self” 🙂

Also a point that many missinterpet is that BVR => LO => big aircraft. The largest contributor to radarcross section is shaping (90 degree corners), there there is also all the small hinges rivets etc on the surface. But what a lot of people (selectivly?) forget is that size also is a contributing factor. So a small size is still relevant to BVR sensing.

\Dan

…and the last gun kill was in 1999 (Ethiopian-Eritrean War) and before that probably Falklands War if you discount the A-10’s helicopter kills in Desert Storm. …

Wow it almost sounds like the 60’s ‘we don’t need any guns anymore since we are gonna kill bombers with missiles’ :P. Even though air to air engagements requiring guns have been few, guns are still relevant in ground support like in Afganistan. IMO all fighter should still retain guns for targets of opportunity. While GAU-8 Avenger is a nice anti tank weapon it would be overkill for a fighter. Maybe even M61 Vulcan with 750 rounds is to much… Anyway we should discuss this in another thread and not here.

\Dan