Invisible Threat

PeriscopeDepth · 05-01-08, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

@ subman1: Do we know reliable the Russian copies are of our AA missles? (not SAMS, we already know how well those work

) As far as I know, our air to air combat technology, training etc has totally dominated to Soviet stuff. When was the last time a US pilot was shot down in air to air combat? Vietnam, I think. In 91, the name of the game for the Iraqi airforce was "run for your lives."

Did the Serb airforce even show up for Kosovo?

I beleive a MiG-29 made the first kill of the war. Not sure though. Let me look.

-S

PS. Here is something saying the same thing - http://jrv127.tripod.com/nato.html

This is a wee bit more authoritative than some Yugoslavian kid's wesbite:
http://s188567700.online.de/CMS/inde...d=37&Itemid=47
That USN pilot who was supposedly captured by the Iraqis was the first to get shot down, by a MiG-25. Several more may have been made, but nobody is really sure.

PD

PS, how can you consider that a decent source SUBMAN when on the front page is posted:

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This is not the website of the squadron of heroic pilots of the Yugoslav Air Force like Nebojša Nikolić, Zoran Radosavljević, Slobodan Perić and all the other pilots of the 127th squadron of the YuAF, but rather the website of a squadron of cyberpilots who fly on the flight simulator "Jane's Fighters Anthology" on the internet. Although it's not the same thing, we dedicate each of our victories to the Heroic pilots of the YuAF who fought bravely to defend Yugoslavia. Cheers!