There also was an interface problem between the Alamo Missile (AA-10) and the fire control systems of Russian design aircraft.

Source?

In almost all these cases, the Soviet designed aircraft never fired a missile at the head-on charging American designed aircraft.

It’s easy to forget under what cirumstances the serbian fighters were operating.

Had the Cold War gone hot in 1989, there would have been the #500+ F-14A’s, #1,000+ F-15C’s, #2,500+ F-16C’s (for NATO) and, #500+ F/A-18A’s of American air forces that would provided a large percentage of NATO air forces.

Allready discused before,and found that your numbers are totally wrong.

Riiiight. The far better avionics in the F-15 couldn’t have had anything to do with the success of the F-15.

He just said that.Vanilla MiG-29 against more advanced F-15.

In order for BVR to be useful it has to actually work. My point being is the system couldn’t even make R-27 work later in the E and E war… RuTech BVR up to that point in fighter v fighter = useless.

Making such assumptions based on a conflict between two nations that don’t maintenance and use their planes and missiles the proper way is just not right.You use this example only because it suits your view.

So…you both didn’t see that the thread is 3+ years old?

The derivatives, which are the really interesting part of the document, are the truly interesting content. Where else do you find drag data over Mach number for fighter-like aircraft?

Yeah i know that, and i allready thanked you.
I mean something else.When i look at this graphs, they are not so easy to “feel”.Just one graph can require atleast 3-4 unit conversions.Just an example.
Here nothing “tells” to me:this is high(value),this is low,this is far/close….after 5 conversion i can understand to some extent the scheme.

IMHO pounds, feet, inches, etc. are very easy to calculate to kilograms, metres and milimetres.

What about Slug-Foot²?Or Pound-Inch/Second?
Yes, i can convert foot, pounds.. to meter, kg easily without need for online convertor, but if there is need for 5(as in the example)more complex conversions?I must search in more than 300 measurement units,then choose the required unit in wich the result will be,type the value and copy the result, then again search in 300…It’s not that simple as foot-to-meter.For Pound-Inch/Second to Kilogram-Meter/Second i must multiply by 0.01152125

Still it is good source for rare info.

Nice post Arthur.Btw i’m from bulgaria and our last names end with -ov.For example i’m Diankov.

One of my ex-colleagues have few such photos from the Soviet war in Afganistan.Too bad i can’t contact him now.

Кабина Су-27СМ. Тренажер принимал участие в съемках фильма “Зеркальные войны”. У него на борту еще номер остался 801

Cockpit of Su-27SM.The trainer participate in the shoot of the movie “Mirror wars”.On the trainer there is still the number 801.