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As far as I'm concernd this person you talk about hasn't convinced me he even flew it, and the FAS.org site is based on documented facts, so you can believe what ever fiction you want but I'll stick with facts.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
FAS, or American Scientist or whoever you want can disagree all they want. I'm going to take Fulcrumflyer's word over every single one of them because he ACTUALLY FLEW THE AIRPLANE. I'll take the word of someone who has been there and done that any day over some guy sitting in front of a computer running a simulation. Computers sit there and they look at straight performance facts and compare them. That isn't going to tell you the whole truth. The people that have been there and done that KNOW the difference. No armchair general or analyst is going to know that the MiG-29 has horrible vision between the 5-7 position, so they won't factor that in.
MiG-29s of the German Luftwaffe have demonstrated their advantage in within-visual-range (WVR) engagements during training missions against Western F-14, F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 fighters.[3]
The success of the MiG-29 during DACT was partly due to its ability to use its helmet-mounted sight (HMS) to achieve high off-boresight targeting solutions for the Archer SRM.
In contrast, the U.S. aircraft were only able to lock onto targets in a narrow window directly in front of the aircraft's nose. However, the USAF and US Navy achieved Initial Operational Capability of the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System and AIM-9X in late 2003."
In reality, Block II & Block III Super Hornets used in an integrated package will have far superior sitautional awareness, countermeasures, and weapons, with only slight, irrelevant, or non-existent, deficiencies in some key areas, compared to potential adversaries.
As far as I'm concernd this person you talk about hasn't convinced me he even flew it,
Nice Avatar you have there are you a boom?
YES thats true BUT your forgetting the FACT IS ALL MiG-29's that have went up against F-15/16 were MiG-29 A/B's which didn't have the same upgrades as 91/99 era F-15/16's and thats aFACT you CAN'T DISPUTE FELLA.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
And the FACT is that every time a MiG-29 has gone up against an F-15 or F-16 it has lost. You can hold onto your fandom and claim it's fact, but the fact remains that the MiG-29 has YET to demonstrate how superior it is to the Eagle, the Falcon, or the Hornet.
Originally posted by 1000hanz
YES thats true BUT your forgetting the FACT IS ALL MiG-29's that have went up against F-15/16 were MiG-29 A/B's which didn't have the same upgrades as 91/99 era F-15/16's and thats aFACT you CAN'T DISPUTE FELLA.