the Su25 is a low altitude performance plane,from what I read before ..,including the Afghan campaign of USSR, built purely for ground attack the pilot having next to no all around visibility, and the air to air missiles are to shoot down helicopters and such, not to shoot upwards. and the 66000 feet ceiling I believe should be maximum altitude, not operational altitude.zzm9980 wrote:Su-25 can shoot the R-60, so the answer to SMS's question is "yes" it can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su- ... duction.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-60_(missile)
It is Infra-red guided, and has an optional radar-proximity fuse. So that's sort-of a "yes" to Sergei's second question?
20,000m/66,000f ceiling.
Impossible, because it is not about Russia or Russian people. It is all about one sick person who grew up in USSR and built his career in KGB. The propaganda is so strong in Russia that many Russians would prefer to die starving, but will keep belief that all that is going on at the moment is actually US aggression directed towards only Russia itself by means of surrounding countries. Even China tries to stay away as much as possible from those crazies (one gas contract a few months ago of dubious significance which was being prepared for a decade before signing doesn't show anything).aster wrote:Russia is a small economy (the size of Italy), and a primitive one at that: virtually dependent on exporting gas/oil.
How hard can it be to pressure a country like that into behaving properly?
The French were selling/re-supplying Exocet missiles to the Argentinian military, that were concurrently being launched from French-built Super Étendards bombers, sinking our ships (HMS Sheffield* etc) during the Falklands war. A re-supply of missiles, just out of France, was intercepted (with CIA assistance) in Chile during the war, en route to Argentina.Sergei82 wrote:France is still clutching at the money spent on building their mistrals. I wonder, how expensive are they if the whole country can't overcome the obsession about selling them to another country which can return on them fully armed to La Manche in very near future.
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True in a way because there is no logic to how the so-called Russian gov't will act. They don't care if the people get hit hard, those in power or their families won't be affected at all by what happens in Russia. That's why a lot of these sanctions are being targeted at oligarchs who are simply face-figures who hold the cash of those in the background that run the show.Sergei82 wrote:Impossible, because it is not about Russia or Russian people. It is all about one sick person who grew up in USSR and built his career in KGB. The propaganda is so strong in Russia that many Russians would prefer to die starving, but will keep belief that all that is going on at the moment is actually US aggression directed towards only Russia itself by means of surrounding countries. Even China tries to stay away as much as possible from those crazies (one gas contract a few months ago of dubious significance which was being prepared for a decade before signing doesn't show anything).aster wrote:Russia is a small economy (the size of Italy), and a primitive one at that: virtually dependent on exporting gas/oil.
How hard can it be to pressure a country like that into behaving properly?
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