You and those s***heads at Pravda have incorrectly identified an artist's image of an F-14 as an Su-27.
There's no truth in Pravda, and there's no news in Izvestia.
Posted on 07/21/2009 5:13:09 AM PDT by pobeda1945
Well, it is Pravda, afterall. I think they are about as, maybe more, trustworthy than the US mainstream media.
LOL
Not buying it. This was from “Pravda”....
Its okay - we don’t need the f22.
Pay no attention...
If it was from the NYT you could dismiss it out of hand.
Funny - at least 10 years difference between the designs, and starting with the F-15 in front of the saddled Su-27, and the F-15 doesn’t lose every time?
One can always set up a scenario where the lesser technology wins. In a phone booth you are better off with a knife than a rifle.
I would trust Pravda more than I would trust Newsweek, for example.
Not much either way, but the MSM is horrible.
I think the MSM watched Pravda closely to learn how they do things.
Unless you happen to walk into Superman's phonebooth.
Then you're f***ed.
LOL.
What a hunk of horseshit.
The US buys Russian hardware for a variety of reasons.
1. Yes, to test and evaluate them.
2. To get them out of irresponsible hands. Some of these jets, particularly the SU-27, are nuclear-capable. We’ve been buying them up for nearly two decades.
However, the SU-27 is a pretty good aircraft, and the F-15 is well over 30 years old. We need to keep up because we aren’t always going to be fighting “freedom fighters”.
Such as an F-15 going up against a dozen SU-27s?
>One can always set up a scenario where the lesser technology w...
Since we were the participants are you saying that we set it up so?
I just LOL’d
My brother-in-law flew F-15s out of Langley in 1992. I’ve just sent him a copy of the article, and I’ll post his reply when I receive it.
>Not buying it. This was from “Pravda”....
“Pravda” is no longer Communist Party’s voice.
http://english.pravda.ru/about/
From the tiny smattering of actual facts in the article, it sounds like it. Much as a football team practices going for 4th and 9, or attempts a 55 yard field goal, why wouldn't our pilots train to recover from a disadvantage?
Technology aside, our pilots fly so many more hours than almost any other nation, you could probably swap equipment, run the exercise a year later, and get similar results.
You and those s***heads at Pravda have incorrectly identified an artist's image of an F-14 as an Su-27.
There's no truth in Pravda, and there's no news in Izvestia.
Correct. Pravda is now Putin's voice.
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