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[Bizu]

Now that the MF is released and we have a LanceR skin for it (I feel there will be more )

[GGM]

21.02.2012, Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria - day/night flight training in winter conditions.
Photo by Anton Balakchiev, great choice!



Whole set here.

[BravoFxTrt]

Very nice Pic Eugene!

[Bizu]

Beautiful, thanks for the link!

[BravoFxTrt]

Oh, cool, thanks GGM

[Sleepingdragon]

Very nice. Thanx for the effort.......well done.

[Bizu]

[Sleepingdragon]

GASP !    Man I wish I could spend a couple of weeks in India hanging out off the end of the runways of several airbases. Those guys have the neatest combo of aircraft..........reminds me of the USAF/USN in the 50s-80s. More than one plane to do everything.....I love it.

Although...........I dunno if I'd wanna be the maintenance guys. It was tough enough keeping up with all these Rusn spare parts. Now with C-17s and P-8s and some other stuff they are aquiring, East/west parts for so many planes won't be as easy. Even the screws are totally different. I bet former IAF mechs can get a job anywhere doing anything, fix anything.......once they get out of mental counseling they will need for trying to keep up with all that stuff. 

We don't have that problem in the US anymore; the F-35 is gonna replace everything from the F-16 to the C-130 and B-52 it appears.    Future sims based on the USAF will only have one plane, but the IAF will be a great subject for a sim of its own.

Thanx for posting that magnificent shot. A really fascinating air force.

[Bizu]

Btw that's a nice tech tree in the picture 21 23 25 27 29

[SAS~Storebror]

To be precise they mixed the tech tree, it's flying 21 23 29 27 25 (unfortunately).
Neverless extremely nice birds each of them.

I recall a report of a (west) german fighter pilot who converted from F-4F Phantom II to the MiG-29 from former east german air force.
Besides the fact that he felt like having swapped from a 40 tons truck to a porsche 911, he was extremely impressed by the dogfight capabilities of the Fulcrum.
They did a set of practice sorties agains U.S. F-15 and F-16 - the U.S. pilots were all but happy by the outcome.
At long/medium distance the Fulcrum couldn't hold against the U.S. jets, however as soon as they entered their infight, the tide suddenly turns.
Since during these practice missions visual identification was mandatory, the two Fulcrums participating the trials scored 64 kills against the U.S. jets which scored plain zero kills, even though the odds went up to 8 (U.S.) vs. 2 (MiGs).
Later during evaluation of the sorties (where the U.S. pilots temporarily left the room for being that pissed) all participants concluded that the combination of the Fulcrum's helmet visor and the superb Vympel R-73/AA-11 Archer missile made the Fulcrum virtually invulnerable at close distance.

Best regards - Mike

[Bizu]

Hello Mike,

I know it's mixed but I wanted to say them in order 

I'm not sure about this but I've read somewhere that the Fulcrum is one of the best maneuverable fighter jets ever made. (don't remember the exact words so it could be false)
But I'm sure about this: At the time when Fulcrum was made, in the 80's, it was specially build by the soviets to be superrior to the F-14 and F-15 and F-16 in air combat.

In my opinion modernised Fulcrums like the ones which were recently modernised by Russia or the Sniper variant would make a deadly opponent.

[Bizu]

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