Kapedani give it up… It is painfully evident that Garry’s knowledge of the Russian airforce far exceeds yours.

Otherwise you’d know that the Russian airforce has Su-34’s operational already.

I won’t be surprised if Ukraine’s Russophobic government asks the military to replace Russian types with western ones, but the military definitely will not go for it.

Macedonia has bought the M-21 and is very pleased with it.

It is my opinion that “theserbian” is not a real serbian as his grasp of Serbian is just too bad. He can speak a few words but not really well, just like… a Kosovo Albanian.

I’m not so sure, because the air is so much thicker at 10,000 ft, that it might use up more energy to go downward at 10,000 feet than just to fly straight at 50. A missile’s range is doubled every 26,000 feet I think.

I wonder under what conditions it has a range of 100 miles. Probably only when launched at Mach 2 at 50,000 feet? What’s the longest range at which an AIM-120 ever scored a kill, something like 18 miles?

Are there 8 F-7’s remaining?

First get rid of the junk thats around now…and invest the money saved on runing junk to keep a small force of trainers…to keep flying up…and for a period of 10 years or so keep saving…so that 10 years from now you can buy a small force of some 24 multi-role fighters or so from western sources to facilitate integrating into NATO…whenever that day comes.

Pretty simple…achievabale…and what Serbia will need in the future.

What a great idea… not. If you have pilots who are current on a 3rd gen plane like the Mig-29, how does it make sense to have them stop flying all but AJTs? They will have to relearn many things from scratch like a novice pilot. That’s why it is imperative to get the Mig-29s flying again. It is at least a 3rd gen fighter with BVR capability, so pilots are current on a relatively modern fighter and will not have to learn things like BVR again.

Also, what about security concerns during those ten years? Having the capability to put a few Mig-29s in the air might not be sufficient to challenge Nato, but it could answer to threats that AJTs can’t, for example if a rogue Bulgarian or Hungarian pilot goes crazy and decides to bomb something.

And why should Serbia buy from western sources? What’s wrong with Russian tech?