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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF)
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To: Larry Brubaker who wrote (27319)11/18/1997 1:17:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 35569
 
Larry; The latest MIGs, if well piloted are a dogfight match for USA planes, for machine gun/cannon combat. When they first came out the MIG29s could move the plane of aim of the craft up to 90 degrees off axis(depending on speed) by vectoring thrust, and the US planes could not(now they do) You may have seen the cobra maneuver they(USSR) do at air shows.(at high speeds it is only a few degrees, but useful) This allowed them to shoot across the arc of the turn of smaller turn radius US planes, a very useful trick with guns. So the better turn radius matched the vectoring to a rough standoff. No arab pilots were ever trained to top russian grades, they got enough to allow them to be king of the walk among arabs, but to be no threat to the USSR from the south if they ever got ornery. In missile standoffs the US planes win all the time. Better missiles, better avionics, and better ECM(electronic counter measures)(ECCM ECCCM and so on)

Bill
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