Russian Military Technology

In article t,
Tank Fixer wrote:

In article , waltbj01
@mindspring.com says...
Every now and then I waste a little time wondering what will happen
when someone puts electrical power back on the ships of the Russian
navy or the Black Sea Fleet. There was one picture I saw that made me
feel sorry for the Russian Air Force - MiG29s with tarps tied around
them parked on pavement with weeds three feet high growing in the
cracks in the concrete. Getting those babies airworthy again will take
some hard work.

How long would it take to smelt them all down and build some real aircraft
from them ?

Well, since they seem to have been designed for use as target drones,
just slap a good R/C unit on them and get in some parctice.

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In article t,
Tank Fixer wrote:

In article , waltbj01
@mindspring.com says...
Every now and then I waste a little time wondering what will happen
when someone puts electrical power back on the ships of the Russian
navy or the Black Sea Fleet. There was one picture I saw that made me
feel sorry for the Russian Air Force - MiG29s with tarps tied around
them parked on pavement with weeds three feet high growing in the
cracks in the concrete. Getting those babies airworthy again will take
some hard work.

How long would it take to smelt them all down and build some real
aircraft
from them ?

Well, since they seem to have been designed for use as target drones,
just slap a good R/C unit on them and get in some parctice.

Even a target drone is not of much use if it only exhibits a 40 or 50% OR
rate--hard to shoot that puppy down if you can't get it up in the first
place.

Brooks

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