Odd test serial here then…salvo fire saturation attack with disparate weapon types, with disparate control suites, and different attack profiles against a minimum aspect target.

OTOH, if you ever want the stuff to work in real combat, you have to test out more challenging set-ups as well.
This ship is about 111 metres long, 3500 tons, so size of a small frigate. Probably a real warship would be tougher than a barracks ship, but given how widespread the fires are, the odds for some sort of ordnance brewing up must be quite high.

I dug around a bit, and these barracks ships were actually made in Finland. PKZ-35, which met its grisly end here, rolled out from Valmet shipyard in 1986.

The amount of America-strong in there is overbearing.

It’s more F-16 fanboism which grates me. Some time ago I decided to check out F-18 Hornet -thread there and man, was it full of garbage. There was like 1 or 2 guys who seemed to know what they were talking about, but their comments were buried by all the mindless noise about how F-16 totally owns the Hornet in every respect…

What happens when Moskit (or two of them) hit a target (@ 1:20):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvigKyp_hcs

Actually looks like it was hit by 2 different missiles almost simultaneously?

Ukraine crisis: France halts warship delivery to Russia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29052599

Possibly two Mistrals going cheap…..

Au contraire, if anything they’d cost signifantly more than stock cost.

Anyway, the delivery is only ‘frozen’, not cancelled.

I don’t think Sukhois were operable at that point yet…may have been a chopper pilot, wasn’t there a report of a helicopter shot down?

mercernaries means retired soldiers which simply cannot handle the task. Irak needs active pilots that are trained on advanced simulators and active flying, can use communication system with air to air and air to ground operations. mechanics that can maintain aircraft for round the clock the sorties. and basically unlimited supplies of missiles/rockets.

The point of this kind of deal is not to get the most efficient, modern, capable air force on the planet, but get some planes and pilots in a situation where you need them yesterday. Few aged jets with mercenary pilots may not be that much, but it is better than no jets and no pilots.

To be honest he is grasping at straws a bit, he does have air power.

Well in fairness to Maliki, Iraqi air ‘power’ is minimal. Basically handful of attack heloes and couple of lightly armed transport planes are only ‘sharp end’. No question attack jets would have been handy trying to contain advance of ISIS, even though maybe not decisive.

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki: Russian jets will turn tide

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has told the BBC that he hopes jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.

“God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists’ dens,” he said.

He said that the process of buying US jets had been “long-winded” and that the militants’ advance could have been avoided if air cover had been in place.

Isis and its Sunni Muslim allies seized large parts of Iraq this month.

Mr Maliki was speaking to the BBC’s Arabic service in his first interview for an international broadcaster since Isis – the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – began its major offensive.

“I’ll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the US],” Mr Maliki said.

“We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened,” he went on.

He said Iraq was acquiring second-hand jet fighters from Russia and Belarus “that should arrive in Iraq in two or three days”.

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Funny stuff. I kinda agree that F-16 deal was bit lousy, but perhaps he should avoid giving antagonizing statements about US at this situation.