talharim escreveu:Os Mirage F1 fugiam do combate.
Os próprios pilotos sulafricanos foram instruídos a não engajarem em combate os MIG-23 pela sua enorme superioridade.
Que grande "tanga".
Os Sul Africanos tinham tanto medo dos Mig 23 Cubanos que chegaram a utilizar o F1AZ, um aparelho de ataque ao solo SEM radar, como interceptador, estavam mesmo aterrorizados, não hà duvida nenhuma...
Se existiam aviões e pilotos agressivos sobre os ceus angolanos, esse alguém era a SAAF.
September 1987
It might appear surprising, but the SAAF at the time was deploying even its Mirage F.1AZ – the ground-attack version – for air-to-air tasks, as (then) Lt.Col. Dolf Prinsloo explained in an interview for AirForces Monthly magazine, published in December 1994:
During this time we did a lot of ACM camps and I would say that our air-to-air was better than our air-to-ground.”
The situation was such, namely, that the SAAF was preparing Mirage F.1CZs for retirement, while the third main fighter-jet unit of the air force, the No. 2 Squadron, was converting to the Cheetah. Consequently, the Mirage F.1AZs had to act as interceptors.
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_184.shtml Se quer ter uma comparação das reais capacidades dos dois aviões, uma boa ideia é comparar o sucesso dos dois quando foram utilizados na mesma força aérea durante um conflito de alta intensidade. Estou a falar do conflito IrãoXIraque, a Força Aérea Iraquiana só conseguiu desafiar o "Tomcat" aquando da introdução do F1, APESAR de já contarem com o Mig 23 no inventório...
Within the first six months of the war Iranian F-14s scored over 50 air-to-air victories, mainly against Iraqi MiG-21s and MiG-23s, but some also against Su-20/22s. In exchange, only a single F-14A was damaged - by debris from a MiG-21 that exploded in front of it.
Between 1982 and 1986 Iranian Tomcats were to see use in a series of slowly-developing campaigns: mainly tasked with patrolling the skies over objects vital for the survival of Iranian regime and economy, like Tehran, or the Khark Island. Most of these patrols were supported by the fleet of Boeing 707-3J9C tankers, and quite some lasted as long as 10 hours, thanks to up to four successfive in-flight refuellings. Time and again they were involved in new air battles, and have scored heavily, but their main role was that of intimidating the Iraqi Air Force: scared by previous heavy losses in battles against Iranian F-14s, the Iraqis were avoiding any engagement with them, so that the sole presence of a Tomcat over the target area was enough to force hundreds of Iraqi formations to abort their attacks.
By 1987 the Iraqis have suffered such heavy losses to Iranian Tomcats that they were forced to find a solution with which they could engage them under more equal circumstances. Eventually, in early 1988 France managed to deliver a series of Mirage F.1EQ-6 fighters, equipped with Super 530D and Magic Mk.2 missiles, to Iraq: after a series of air battles through February, March, and May 1988, in which the Iraqis suffered additional heavy losses to IRIAF Tomcats, in July 1988 the new IrAF Mirages finally managed to shot two Iranian F-14s down in a single engagement.
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_212.shtml
O Mig 23 era notoriamente conhecido por ser extremamente dificil de voar e de apenas os melhores pilotos conseguirem utilizar o avião om eficácia...
Budweiser 'beer' is like making love in a canoe - 'F***** close to water'...