IAR-95

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They should get Romanian IAR-93’s.

Oh please, how can anyone seriously think India can contribute anything significant to the PAK-FA project? India has STILL not produced an entirely indigenous jet. LCA hasn’t entered production, and their first jet Marut was not designed by India but by some German guy. Meanwhile Russia is a world leader in pretty much every aerospace-related technology in existence, what help could they possibly need from India?

A modern fighter jet is a SYSTEM, you cannot take a radar from the UK and a flight computer from France and ECM from Israel and lump it all together and expect it to work with even close to the level of performance or reliability as something like an F-16 where each component was designed specifically to work with the other components.

As already stated India is not involved with the PAK-FA project AT ALL, it is involved with the light fighter project (a light fighter being designed by Mig intended for export, not for the RuAF) which has nothing to do with PAK-FA.

Maybe the PAK-FA already flew but it was done in such secrecy that no one found out?

What plane is used (my guess is G-4)?
Approximately when and where did it happen?

It’s 1991, a J-21 Jastreb firing 57mm rockets.

It was supposed to be 2007 but who knows, reports are contradicting, some say 2007 some say 2010 some 2012.

India is not involved with the PAK-FA and never was, India wanted to cooperate with Russia on another lightweight fighter, this was a separate project not related to the PAK-FA. I am unsure of the status of that project.

Everyone who’s not a fool knows that vodka greatly improves a pilot’s dogfighting ability. That’s why Arab pilots did so badly i 1982, and Iraqis in 91, and Pakistan in 1967/71, their religion doesn’t allow them to drink. Serbian pilots took a flask with them on every mission, that’s why they were able to accomplish amazing feats like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhfo_NVLRM

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4) NATO had an advantage of an 8:1 ratio in helicopters. The USAF had many A-10’s while the Su-25 existed in smaller numbers.
5) In air superiority, no Su-27’s in the V-VS (just a couple squadrons in the PVO), just a couple squadrons of MiG-29’s. The WP’s air superiority fighters would be the MiG-23 with assist from the MiG-21’s, against over 500 F-15’s, 1,000 F-16’s, 450+ F-14’s, Tornados and, F-4 Phantoms.

Your figures are WAY off. The were only two squadrons of F-15’s in Europe in the 80’s, not 500. The number of F-16’s was also pretty small and they carried only the AIM-9L. The WP on the other hand had hundreds of Mig-29’s operational by then, all carrying BVR missiles.

THe part about western superiority in AWACS is correct, but let’s not kid ourselves, these would’ve been easy prey for the Mig-31 which the west had no way to stop.

At this time, there were only dozens, not hundreds, of NATO aircraft in Europe carrying PGM’s. All these planes that carry them today, like F-16, Tornado, etc, these did not have them in the 80’s, they would’ve used only iron bombs. This is in contrast to something like 3500 Mig-23’s, Su-17’s, Su-24’s, and Su-25’s all of which were equipped with guided missiles and laser guided bombs from the get-go. Not to mention Tu-16’s and Tu-22’s which also carried them.

The NATO had the advantage from WWII until about the early 60’s, then they were equal up until abotu the 70’s, by which time the tide was turning in favor of the WP and by the mid 80’s the WP’s advantage was never greater, especially in the air.