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Toju200:
Another naval agusta flew past again.....low level and high speed wish I could get the pics

fabselad:
SAD to say Cameroon lost 16 soldiers yesterday during a BH or ISWAP attack.

Henry240:
KDF AW-103

On a side note, the Nigerian Air Force is buying 5x units of AW-109K and 1x unit of AW-103

Henry240:
Wikipedia can be updated by everyone including you and I. It's not a credible reference for information.

We might have ordered before Myanmar, but Myanmar went through China, however Nigeria is going through Pakistan. Different channels and lines hence the Delay.

Toju200:
pls any news about the ichoku combat drone..it's been long o...even the NAFSA eagle Aircraft

Tobiloba2407:
i remember NTA and buratai , talking about gatling guns and it was even in the news, and i actively paid attention, but never for 1 saw a picture or video of the gatling guns.

Tobiloba2407:
you sure you saw a gatling gun? how recent is the video

jteku:
Offtopic: copied


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-UHWJf0Gk0#




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DfkrYJdgAo#menu

The first mock air combats took place when 510th Fighter Squadron (FS) “Buzzards” belonging to the 31st Fighter Wing (FW) from Aviano Air Base in northern Italy, flew against Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader 73 (JG 73) MiG-29s in May 1995 during a German Fulcrum deployment to Decimomannu Air Base, on the southern tip of Sardinia

As told by Capt. Mike McCoy one of the 510th FS F-16 pilots that flew against JG 73 MiG-29s

“In a low-speed fight, fighting the Fulcrum is similar to fighting an F-18 Hornet, but the Fulcrum has a thrust advantage over the Hornet.

An F-18 can really crank its nose around if you get into a slow-speed fight, but it has to lose altitude to regain the energy, which allows us to get on top of them.

The MiG has about the same nose authority at slow speeds, but it can regain energy much faster.

Plus the MiG pilots have that forty five-degree cone in front of them into which they can fire an Archer and eat you up

“Some of their capabilities were more wicked than we originally thought, we had to respect the helmet-mounted sight, which made our decisions to anchor more difficult.

How F-16 should go against Mig-29 in combat

Below 200 knots, the MiG-29 has incredible nose-pointing capability down to below 100 knots.

The F-16, however, enjoys an advantage in the 200 knot-plus regime.

At higher speeds, we can power above them to go to the vertical. And our turn rate is significantly better.

By being patient and by keeping airspeed up around 325 knots, an F-16 can bring the MiG-29 to its nose. But the pilot must still be careful of the across-the-circle shot with that helmet-mounted display.”

Limitations of the MiG-29

“Their visibility is not that good, their disadvantage is a real advantage for us. F-16 pilots sit high in the cockpit.

All the MiG-29 pilots who sat in our cockpit wanted to look around with the canopy closed.

They were impressed that they could turn around and look at the tail and even see the engine can.

Besides visibility, I expected better turning performance, the MiG-29 is not a continuous nine-g machine like the F-16.”

Other limitations were experienced when the centerline fuel tank was carried by aircraft

such as the inability of the fighter to fly supersonic with the tank attached, an operational scenario that also limited the MiG-29 to four g’s when the tank had fuel remaining.

blacKDalia:
When I see all these pix, I tend to ask myself if these guys have been blooded yet.

Henry240:
OK guys, let's read up on the state of the art ECM pod currently been used by Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunders.

The more I read up on this capability, the more I fall in love with the JF-17. It really is a very capable fighter jet.

https://www.indracompany.com/sites/default/files/indra_alq_500p_v_1017_ing_b_1.pdf


The JF-17 can use both Chinese, Russian and Western systems. Serious advantages.

Stephandeswardt:
What makes you certain?

Tobiloba2407:
was this a targeted hit or just random killings?