Posted on 06/28/2012 10:47:31 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
AFAIK they had Yak-1 and Mig-3, both outperformed P-39 but there weren’t that much of them in 1941.
Wingtips: captive-carry dummy air-to-air missiles.
Under the wings, those are air-to-ground rocket pods.
As I understand it from the newest research on the defense of Moscow, there were NONE there in 41 early 42.
“You don’t know much about the history of aviation do you?”
Apparently he doesn’t.
The YAK 7 and YAK 9 did a pretty damn good job against the Me109s and FW190s. I think a YAK 9 shot down their first Me262.
I always thought the Rooskies stole the design off the P51.
Did you know F-35 is based on a Yak-designed platform?
LOL, you mean like the Backfire Bomber, based on the B-1 design that they already stole from us?
Sorry, but seems like you are totally ignorant in aerospace facts.
B-1 has absolute nothing in common with Backfire which is an earlier design.
oooook. I wrote the history of the X-30 national aerospace plane, and was told directly by people at WPAFB that in fact the designs were pretty much the same. Moreover, the B-1 was PRODUCED in the 1980s, but was on the drawing boards pretty early when it was canceled by Carter. But you know best.
I knew that .
I was questioning the poster's contention it is a trainer.
Looks like it's ready to rock-n-roll to me.
The F-35 is not based on any Russian platform though Lockheed Martin is said to have consulted with the Yakolev bureau on the lift-fan of it’s Yak-141 fighter for the STOVL F-35B.
Its always easy to shoot down fighter jets in movies.
Western gunfights are the same way -- one shot, and the guy is dead before he hits the floor. Amazing.
And, yeah, fighter jets -- line up the shot, push the button, the fight is over. It's so easy!
“Its always easy to shoot down fighter jets in movies.”
Only planes of totalitarian Muslim regimes who have taken an American pilot hostage.
A lot of totalitarian Muslim regimes actually happen to fly American planes.
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