Which big unmanouverable FIGHTER did the Russians operate in Frontal aviation?

The MiG-21PF wasn’t big and unmanouverable, but they omitted the gun. The MiG-23S was bigger, and was unmanuverable. It was very much like the F-4 in performance.

The real problem was that the Sparrow was crap, as were most missiles of the time.
They weren’t mature enough to mean a fighter could fight without his sidearm backup.
(Blind belief in technology leading to problems? Nahh, that could never happen could it?)

Very true, but you have to admit the F-4 was not designed to turn, visability was poor, and it didn’t have a gun because it was not expected to get into a dogfight.

And get rid of that DU ammunition for the 30 mm. It is just a health hazard.

I think weapons are supposed to be a health hazard. :diablo:

The F-16 and the F-35 are no replacements for the A-10. When your target is a tank in rolling hills and the overcast is down to the hilltops, what else is going to be able to manoeuvre with a load of weapons and go slow enough to terrain mask in a tight space and spot small targets in the vegitation? JDAM is no good on mobile targets, LGB can’t see through the muck, and nothing else has that big gun.
The Gulf was not the place the A-10 was designed for. Flat terrain and clear skies are for fast movers. Low ceilings and hills are the domain of the A-10.

Dark matter is matter of an unknown nature that affects the rotation of galaxies. We don’t have any reason to think that it is moving unusually fast. Its called dark matter because we can’t see it and we don’t know what it is.

Light can behave as either.

And the particles are called photons.

With all the use the AN-225 gets I’m surprised they don’t try to turn out a few more of those.

How many were built?

It can’t happen. You can suppose there is some undiscovered law of physics that would allow it, but I doubt that very much. Nothing in the natural world travels faster than light, for one thing. (Don’t talk to me about quantum tunneling. The freaky quantum world is for subatomic particles.) I know we don’t know everything, but I think we do know something. Am I starting to sound like a Donald Rumsfeld quote??

Joke weapon loads

Here is an RF-4C bomber!