I remember reading that the SR-71 did a few sorties aorund egypt in 1973, during the Yom kippur war. Do you think that the two may have met in the air(MiG-25RB, not PDS)? Would be interesting…

Does anyone know anything about a claimed f-15 vs MiG-25 incident when a Iraqi MiG-25 tried to intercept a U-2 and was chased off by the F-15?

Is Mach 2.5 fast enough to intercept a MiG-25 flying at Mach 2.8?

What’s the point of designing the F-15 to fly at Mach 2.5, if it’s still possibly not fast enough to catch a MiG-25R on a recce mission (which I presume was the target they had in mind when they designed the F-15 to fly so fast in the first place?)?

Mach 2,5 is clean…With some extra rockets and fuel carried aboard, I think M2 is the limit, if not an even lower speed.
Well, I think the F-15 was designed mainly to counter the P version of the 25. Remeber, they thought it was a well manouvering dogfighting machine back then, before Belenko and his (sometimes dubious) claims.
I think possibly the only 3 planes to be able to go that fast fully armed would be the Avro Arrow(sadly, we will never know), the MiG-25P(DS)/MiG-31 combo and the YF-12.

No problem for the F-15 as it was shown by real kills. Even when that MiG-25R got away unharmed, there was no physical damage from that except some pride may be hurt.

Yeah, but those MiGs were flown pretty slow and low, where they weren’t supposed to operate. I wonder what would be the result if someone would match a F-15 to a MiG-25PDS/MiG-31 at high altitudes and speeds.

Fighters armed with medium AAMs with Mach 4+

Mach 4+ relative to the non-moving observer on the ground, or relative to the plane they were fired from(exclude the Lorentz factor, they ain’t that fast:D )?

Here’s 2 pictures…

our guys practicing

and some stuff left by russians:D

Here’s a link to a thread on a croatian forum discussing our guys in Afganistan and their equipment. Loads of pictures, directly from there! It’s in croatian, but you can see the pictures.

Enjoy!

http://www.maketarstvo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1935&start=0

Ok Ustasa, nice pics…but… What’s the point of posting pictures of croatian armed forces in topic named Macedonian Armed forces?

Maybe some of the moderators could open a new topic…

Politics aside?
Yes you’re right about a advanced trainer…. it would be nice to have a couple of small jet’s but we proved that it’s possible to do without with somewhat more experienced pilatus pilots (400 hrs). Any way is much cheaper to buy a couple then to start a production line.
I also seriously doubt that the Serbs ware able to keep their old aviation experts and train new competent aeronautical engineers… as we struggle with that and we are objectively in much better economic shape.
With an introduction of a new plane we won’t have the money for a jet trainer, anyway. Joust, eventually, arming the PC-9’s will be enough for now. And the PC-9 is not so far away from a jet trainer (pilot training wise) as you would think.

Yes, we have proved that… but, in addition to a squadron or two of modern multi role fighters we might buy, it would be nice to have a squadron of advanced trainers which would also have some usable (Light)ground attack role…
About serbs…there’s no need for any experts…the production line is there, but money isn’t. The G-4MD is basicly a avionics/sensor upgrade to the basic G-4…nothing more, nothing less.

What about hose Zlins our airforce bought? When are we getting them?