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But the intake is over the fuselage. India must be kicking up a lot of dust for this to be relevant.Today I came across some experiences of Indian Air Force (InAF) with MiG-29 that suggest otherwise.
We've seen how well Russia trains it's troops. I don't imagine Ukraine is concerned about that.
I honestly believe that Ukraine is just holding the door hard enough to keep the Russians occupied while they are preparing to hit Russia hard.
If you look at the current front lines, Russia's ass is dangling in several places that are ripe for an encirclement and it seems to me that if Russia does a "push" in any of those areas, Ukraine will blitzkrieg them, hard.
But the intake is over the fuselage. India must be kicking up a lot of dust for this to be relevant.
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Perhaps the Indian MiG-29 does not have the intake bypass. I believe their naval ones do not.
Thump, I don't know how much Stalinist sat out of the world stage, more like the west did not pay attention to what it was doing in the 1930's. In the 1930's alone the USSR invaded Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. And after taking over Belarus & Ukraine earlier, they leveraged Hungary, Romania, & Bulgaria into ceding territory or be invaded? I don't consider that sitting out of events.Yet they seem unable to empower any winners. For all its population and resources, only the Stalinist USSR seems to have sat astride the world stage. All other regimes in that nation have struggled with simple matters like competency and efficiency. And we see what that ended up in. It's perhaps the biggest failed nation/state in history, and soon, I fear, to add another chapter to its dolorous history, once Putin falls as a result of this cruel idiocy.
Those are the auxiliary ones for take-off, Mig-29 can't go supersonic with those. The main intakes are below the fuselage siting very close to the ground and behind the front wheel.But the intake is over the fuselage. India must be kicking up a lot of dust for this to be relevant.
Perhaps the Indian MiG-29 does not have the intake bypass. I believe their naval ones do not.
I understand, and this is an advantage over the F-16 in rough ops.Those are alternate inlets. The main inlets are obvious, huge, and low:
Now I get it. Thanks. What they needed was a way for air to flow along the door's outer edge, thus clearing debris.This in theory avoids the ingestion of debris during take-off. However:
Since the doors retracted "up" into the inlet, debris that was kicked up by the nose wheel lodged on or at the bottom of the door seal and then was ingested into the engine when the door opened during the nose gear lifted off the ground during takeoff.
Not necessarily:I understand, and this is an advantage over the F-16 in rough ops.
I understand, and this is an advantage over the F-16 in rough ops.
Thump, I don't know how much Stalinist sat out of the world stage, more like the west did not pay attention to what it was doing in the 1930's. In the 1930's alone the USSR invaded Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. And after taking over Belarus & Ukraine earlier, they leveraged Hungary, Romania, & Bulgaria into ceding territory or be invaded? I don't consider that sitting out of events.
I was surprised to learn about all the wars that took place in eastern Europe after WWI was "Over"? I know I did not learn about it in history class in the School.
I agree that Ukraine is husbanding forces for a counterstroke. I think the Russians are doing the same thing. Who jumps off first, and who attacks the critical ground, will make the difference.
No Problem, I misunderstood your statement. But I don't think Putin is actually doing much diffently than what Stalin did in the 1930's. It's just the reaction to Putin's actions by a large part of the rest of the world is different. No one in the west seemed to really care what Stalin was doing, until he invaded Finland. I have never read of any support for the other countries (other than Finland) that were impacted by Stalin's actions.I wrote "sat astride", not "sat out" -- meaning spanning the world's stage, making a big impact, and so on. That's why I singled out the Stalin era as the one exception to my observation above.
I agree. And I don't mean to suggest there's anything about the F-16 that hinder UAF ops - I was more pondering how the F-16 dealt with the issues. They'll figure out any challenges. And of course, Ukraine is operating its MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters from highways and paved roads, and only after ground crews have swept the area for objects, and not gravel secondary roads.If dispersal is required, the F-16 is quite capable of taking off from highways, given a long-enough straightaway.
We obviously don't know but I would bet a penny to a pound, that the training the Russian troops are getting in Belarus isn't nearly as effective as the training Ukraine's troops are getting in the UK and other NATO countries.In October Russia was throwing them in straight from the "recruiter's" office to stop the retreating. But with this longer pause and with it known that a couple tens of thousands of the conscripts are training in Belarus, the Ukrainians are concerned, concerned enough about a resumption of the drive on Kyiv to make mention of it and keep forces in place.
I agree that Ukraine is husbanding forces for a counterstroke. I think the Russians are doing the same thing. Who jumps off first, and who attacks the critical ground, will make the difference.
As I understand it, Russian training is essentially hazing. They even have a term for it.We obviously don't know but I would bet a penny to a pound, that the training the Russian troops are getting in Belarus isn't nearly as effective as the training Ukraine's troops are getting in the UK and other NATO countries.
We obviously don't know but I would bet a penny to a pound, that the training the Russian troops are getting in Belarus isn't nearly as effective as the training Ukraine's troops are getting in the UK and other NATO countries.