Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
Apparently NK has sent fighter pilots to russia to be used as seen fit.
https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea...report-1972650
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Yeah, cause I am totally sure that a spy just accidentally stumbled across this guy's body while walking his boss's dog.Telegram channels close to the Russian security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning
Well technically he probably DID discover the body.
Right after he turned the guy into a corpse.
R.I.P. Democracy
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Soviet front line fighters always had dogfighting edge against US ones : Mig-15 in Korea, Mig-21 in Vietnam, etc...
It was following the challenges faced by the missile truck Phantom F4 in Vietnam against the Mig-21, that the Fighter Mafia managed to steer development back to agile aircrafts like the F16.
And then the Mig-29 and Su-27 were designed to outmatch the F-16 in dogfights.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
The Su-27 maybe (I don't know all that much about that plane), but the Mig-29 was pretty much a parallel design to the F-16 that also had dogfights in mind. Both the F-16 and the Mig-29 have area's where they in theory beat eachother, but the problem Russia's Mig-29's have is that they tend to be less modernised than Western F-16's and they are way less durable.
There are no actual dogfight results between the two planes that I know off... a Yougoslavian Mig-29 was downed by a couple of F-16C's in 1999, but that was with an AMRAAM out of visible range, not what one would call a dogfight.
Both the Mig-29 and Su-27 were designed with more power, speed and maneuverability than the F-16.
The F-16 has indeed been modernized, but often by adding weight hence hampering its agility. Plus contrary to its design philosophy, it has often been used as a bomb truck. The ukrainians would also have to use it with fuel tanks given their theater.
While the remaining Mig-29 and Su-27 the Ukrainians have are fairly old. The Russians are not using these in Ukraine, instead relying on the more modern and agile gen 4.5 Su-35 as a front line fighter, which will outmatch any kind of F-16. More importantly they are using very long range missiles, and are complemented by Mig-31 acting as a combined mini-AWACS/flying SAM batteries from behind their lines.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
It seems we are finally starting to take this new escalation by Russia and NK with the sort of seriousness that it warrants. Germany has summoned NK diplomat for stern discussion.
Maybe after next escalation we will dare to call their diplomats to serious and stern discussion.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988