Had the mig crash near my apartment in mich last year Its a good investment

F104 insurance. At the time if you bought a plot of land in Germany then at some point you'd get a free F104.

I have Airbus

Just not always exactly in one piece​@@ABrit-bt6ce

Yessir

@@ThroneOfBhaal what does we mean here? Soviet plane took off from Polish border and flew across DDR. The question you should be asking is why cant west germany intercept plane from the east on its own but has to call americans in holland.

@@robertkalinic335 The whole point of NATO is that everybody works together. This means that everybody takes turns standing on alert so that no one country has to bear the burden the whole time. It just happened to be that there were no German squadrons on alert at that particular moment. There could easily have been one on alert the day before or later that same day. Notice that the other squadrons on alert were a Belgian squadron sitting in its home base and a British squadron in the Rhineland. The American squadron was selected for deployment simply by virtue of being the closest geographically. Besides that, we don't know the nationality of the various control stations. They could easily have been manned by Danish, Germans, or Canadians.

Nah, they'll figure it out

nice red october reference

Lol

Robots in disguise

its starscream

😂😂😂 that is the comment of the day lol

Starscream was an F-15.

FloggerOne right?

@@airlightshockZOV N23UB,

extremely irresponsible to allow the plane to fly unattended like that

​@Blox117 they figured it would crash into the lake they were over

I watched it happen and was one of the first ones off the boat into the area. That was crazy.

Agreed. I gotta say though, if I were to ever actually be permitted to *_choose_* the circumstances of my own ending then, if this was offered as an option, it would be pretty high on the list....

nobody would have believed him anyway.

@@daszieher wdym

omg just like ace combat 4

​@@daszieherlmfaoooo

In the first week of the summer holidays, decided to sleep it out. Man, that sucks!

Poor kid. Really speaks to the randomness of life. If there'd been a half-knot crosswind a few moments earlier, he might have woken up to his backyard exploding and had one hell of a story.

@@a.n.7229 The butterfly effect on the not-butterfly?.

I only know it as "The Belgian MiG". After all, the Belgians paid for it with one teenager.

Wow so profound lmao

Soviet Russia, ahead of it's time again...

Echo that - most channels would just have shown some stock footage of Luke F15s flying over the Arizona Desert so a good effort here !

You mean Bitburg. Yes. I saw none of them IRL but the old original 70's Airfix 1/72nd scale F-15A/B kit had a decal option for a B model based on Bitburg. With the "BT" tailcode of course 😂

Typical of officers, let the subordinate make the call, so you don't have to bear any responsibility if it's the wrong choice and they have to live with their decision if it's wrong, while at the same time you can claim you were letting the guy on the spot with the mosy information make the judgement. No, you just don't want to be the one who's responsible, yah jackass. Now the pilot has to live his whole life knowing that if he had made a different choice an innocent person might be alive.

NATO officers have far more freedom than their Russian counterparts. It's generally, and correctly, assumed that officers have both the training and the situational awareness to take better decisions than the ground stations.

As a kid in the late 1970's 80's I would have wanted an EE Lightning: the whole ground to 40,000 feet in 2 minutes and this was in a 1950's tech jet that could match an F-15 in everything except range and firepower. that being largely the fault of the UK government which had never really upgraded the lightning between the mid 1960's and the mid 1980s

@@davidmcintyre8145 Range and firepower are pretty vital. I loved the Lightning but no amount of fiddling would have made it competitive with the F-15. Much closer to the F-104 in concept anyway.

​@@davidmcintyre8145 If we're picking fantasy aircraft, that we get to sit in while doing a fantasy scramble, my pick would be the Vulcan. It's impressive enough just watching _videos_ of those things doing alert drills - an enormous, jet propelled, triangular slab of metal (big enough to have a decent game of basketball on top of it) goes lumbering off down the runway, gradually picking up speed until the nose gear _juuusst_ starts to lift off the tarmac, and then [WHOOSH!] . . . It pitches up to almost vertical, then blasts *_straight up_* into the sky as though it was a Saturn V or something. Just imagine how much better that show would be from *_inside_* the cockpit? Right? You all know I'm making sense. (Close second place would be a B-1B.)

@@stickiedmin6508 if we're doing Fantasy now let's Talk CF-105 Arrow.

Sure enought they'd give their drone some sort of a canopy. Flying without a canopy makes for very bad aerodynamics.

That sucks. I hate not being able to sleep, it drives me nuts. If I lie there for more than five or ten minutes I start getting irritated, usually I fall right asleep in a few minutes, as long as it's my own bed and room. Thank God for little blessings I guess. I work pretty hard to get that tired though.

Probably felt nothing about it.

@@SaladofStones How can we know either way.

@@AndrewGivens They are Pilots in the Air Force, they lack empathy.

@@SaladofStones I call bullshit. See "No bullets Fly" by Sabaton.

@@SaladofStones My point is that others are essentially unknowable, not to suggest a definitive rebuttal to your statement. But I understand from where you are coming.

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idk if I'd say stolen it was just dumb luck nobody intentionally caused that accident.

Don't panic, don't panic...!

I think he knows what a continuous rod warhead is. A miss is usually when it fails to pass within lethal radius of the fuse or warhead. A _direct_ hit is what it sounds like. The missile doesn't like intentionally miss the target and pass beside it, they just used that because it was so hard to guarantee a direct hit. If the missile just happens to hit directly, it's going to do more than enough damage anyway. Also different warheads come on different versions of AIM-7. They aren't all CR warheads. They have frag and blast versions too.

it's not wire it's tungstun rods welded end to end into a ring and folded up like origami around the explosive charge.

I mean this guy dose military content so europe=nato

What "notorious unreliability"? And yes, it's shocking that it actually flew at all, everyone knows that when people say a plane is "unreliable" that basically means that any given mission is going to end with complete failure and the plane crashing after the engine dies. No wonder they built so many of them, it was so attrition didn't deplete the entire fleet in a year.

@@justforever96 Russia bot detected, opinion rejected.

​@@createstadler pro neo fascist government simps when they see a person with different option:

​@@createstadlerthat's the thing... he's not exactly wrong.

@@maxedout1046 The original comment was clearly a joke, and some angry russia bot decided that he disagreed with this comment which was against the motherland its just so unnecessary

Not really. That was unusual because the plane landed itself. A plane flying on by itself isn't that unusual.

@@justforever96 Very much so. Like the unmanned Heinkel that crashed near Ipswich in 1940. No-one could tie it in with either a shootdown or a crew until the end of the war, when a mystery aircrew who'd been captured in the West of England turned out to be the ones who'd bailed when the engines (always the engines) threw a tantrum over the Dorset-Somerset border area. The bomber (which you have to believe also sniggered) leveled off and then flew on okay in a big lazy arc to starboard, right across Southern England - but it didn't land as well the Delta Dart did; it just ran out of fuel and crashed. And that's surely the more likely outcome of a rogue plane.

They had plenty of time to shoot it down. They didn't want it crashing over their people. Someone would have gotten in trouble , right? Disappeareded to a gulag.

@@paulwoodman5131 Well regardless, the point still stands. If such an aircraft still had a pilot, they would've shot it down no matter who or what was down below

You are hysterical, both of you.

Kind of says a lot that there WAS no Warsaw Pact/Soviet air-defense response, in what was the most-heavily guarded airspace of the world at that time.

Kind of like in Star Wars, when the Imperial gunners held their fire on the escape pod carrying R2D2 and C3PO because there were no life signs detected. I bet those guys got force choked later.

Political? Same. But if pilot shut down and there would be more casualties and investigation would happen if he did the right thing, best case - kicked out of force, worst case - prison.

radioactive fallout arguably worse than mig parts for civilian health

"Genie would have vaporized it's target..." And may have caused radiation sickness for thousands of people in the area. And then radioactive fallout would add to that. And then there's the problem of frying thousands of electronics equipment. If they hit it too low altitude, the shockwave alone would kill people on the ground. Yeah, great idea!

Tacnuking your own territory is generally considered a bit gauche.

@@JonBrase The whole point of the Genie is to use it over your own territory. The high-altitude air burst does not create an appreciable amount of fallout and the only real danger to your civilians is eye damage if any of them happen to be looking at the blast at the point of detonation. The main danger is still debris; however, unless the unguided Genie detonates very close to the target, the MiG would be damaged by the shockwave and the crew given a fatal dose of neutron radiation, and the aircraft will then go on to crash similar to any other missile hit.

IIRC, it’s to do with compass alignment. In a normal startup, you wait for the earths rotation to affect the rotation of the gyro. If you’re facing directly north, the roll gyro will rotate to the left. If you’re facing directly east, the pitch gyro will rotate upward. A NE direction will cause both gyros to rotate In a normal alignment, you have to wait for the rotation of the earth to measure your heading. In a stored startup, the gyros already have this heading alignment done. However they absolutely cannot be moved if they have a stored heading. This is why you will sometimes hear referencing to “stored heading startup” Another interesting fact, if a carrier wanted to have Tomcat on ready 5, or whatever term the navy uses, they weren’t allowed to turn the carrier. If they needed to make a manoeuvre. The F14s would need to be re-aligned. Unsure if this affects modern aircraft

​@@catfunt5583interesting discussion, thank you.

Welcome to KZfaq. You must be new here.

yeah im pretty sure. for drones too, any air kill manned or unmanned.

Por favor ¿CÓMO? La economía actual es mala.

Mi amiga me habló de ella hace unos años, de cómo cambia vidas de manera positiva y lo intenté y, efectivamente, se registró el éxito.

Lo mismo aquí comenzó con 7000 hace dos meses, ahora puedo decir con valentía que he recibido más de 23,000. Dios es genial☺️!!

Al principio estaba un poco escéptico al respecto, pero ella me dijo que la vida sin inversiones es vacía, gracias a Dios seguí su consejo, hoy gano mucho y ahora tengo 2 super mart en Estados Unidos.

Por favor 🙏, ¿cómo puedo comunicarme con esta Regina Maria Howard? Realmente he oído mucho sobre ella.