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Demarquis wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:48 pm

Brother, you have no idea. The hardest part was becoming aware that I was doing it. Add the fact that I was training myself out of several other counter-productive behaviors at the same time...

Oh, i DO know. Because I failed in every discipline, i guess...

"In all my life I have never heard any human I have ever spoken with use the term "That is not even the most fortunate part" with regard to themselves or those they were with. I have heard humans say "That's not even the best part!" I think it´s a cool thing Arioch puts "broken english" like this i...

I am still having trouble following your argument. It´s probably me lost in translation again. ;) You do not consider that it can be a ground attack aircraft because it doesn't look like a ground attack aircraft? Other way round. The "look", or better: "form" follows function. Big static inlets are...

"Brave mind"; not too bad, methinks...






Sry for necroposting, just killing time on the internet...

QuakeIV wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2023 5:30 am

Conversantly Su-25 is a total death trap and increasingly for use against low tech barbarians only.

Well, within the range of anti-aircraft-missiles anything is a death trap.

I've been doing a little research. The sources I am reading all report a cruising range of well over 1500 miles on internal fuel (though not with maximum payload). Cruising != Emergency. And 1500 miles is definitely not "long range". It was deliberately designed to fly at supersonic speed at low al...

I am afraid I cannot follow your argument. My original comment was "I always wondered if it would have made any sense for them to have turned it into an air to ground strike aircraft. It might have given them some flexibility they didn't have." It appears that the Russians eventually did exactly th...

Yeah, the F-104 debacle was infamous, but that doesn't mean that every aircraft that changes roles is a failure. Nobody claimed that. It was just pointed out that a high speed high altitude interceptor is impractical/useless as ground attack airplane. That the first Mig-25 (imagine: those early Tum...

That's exactly what happened with the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. High-altitude interceptor turned into a ground strike aircraft. With a pretty telling record of striking the ground, indeed. The "Lawn-dart". My kind of humor. :twisted: At least some notorious bavarian politician had full pockets af...

send a special strike force team you do not expect to return but will be hailed as heroes, That´s sick imo. Life, at least "our" lives should be valued above all else. To me, that would either be the (absolute) last resort, or, a group of, say, terminal ill or so volunteers. and wipeout the entire ...

send a special strike force team you do not expect to return but will be hailed as heroes, That´s sick imo. Live, at least "our" lives should be valued above all else. To me, that would either be the (absolute) last resort, or, a group of, say, terminal ill or so volunteers. and wipeout the entire ...

If you ever watched Stargate SG1 then you know Samantha Carter is a miracle worker who blew up a star to destroy an enemy space fleet before jumping to hyperspace IF it would be possible to "blow up" a star, i guess it would be more devastating if it happened right before the fleet´s jump. What i g...

Yup. Very scary... Srsly: That´s en:wp gone weird. The DLV was only a governing body for glider pilots , an administrative step towards centralization. Later Luftwaffe (after reincarnation 1935) had not much to do with that. And while we're looking at pictures in the Wikimedia commons, you saw the ...

This thread is going places. :?: Um, my school english is a bit rusty - can you please "translate" to me? We're getting off topic/political/controversial. @Arioch: Please either lock or spin-off I think. Thanks for translation. And no, no politics for me, thx. The Germans take first prize on this o...

Now i´m surprised. MiG-25 and MiG-31 LOOK similar, but in fact are totally different airplanes with different roles. Not really, no. There are numerous significant modifications, but the air-frames are still highly similar, and until the 31K modification the role was downright identical - they are ...

Their R&D bureaus are top-notch, but their manufacturing base is quite inferior to ours. Compared to the rest of the world combined? Yes, in both points. But currently they churn out more shells for their artillery than the west can even produce; also tanks. And they pony up production of drones an...

they are not quite the unstoppable threat except to their neighbors in Europe. I´m probably lost in translation again, but that smells like a can of worms. I´d be grateful if we leave politics out of this forum. The Ukraine war has proven that and showed the folly of relying on pure numbers with ou...

Russia use mig-31 to launch air-to-ground missiles out of air defense affected areas on weekly basis. Now i´m surprised. MiG-25 and MiG-31 LOOK similar, but in fact are totally different airplanes with different roles. I thought a russian guy interested in planes would know that. There are differen...

It's also odd to say look-down shoot-down has anything to do with ground targets, You are right, i was lost in translation here - i was thinking of that special radar on some of the SU-25, which is a sort of pulse-doppler-radar, but slightly different from those on fighter aircraft. I confused "loo...

You cannot "turn" a high altitude interceptor into a ground attack aircraft. That would be a totally different machine then. Why not? It just requires mounting a different kind of missile. A ground attack aircraft is eg an A-10. A "different missile" still must be fired from a suitable aircraft pre...