I just love MiG’s. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we’ve put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we’re commies.
Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.
Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?
Here, i’ve made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I’ve added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don’t need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn’t aim at as well.
But, they aren’t us anyway so… And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo…
The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.
I am glad you made this comment about the MiG 31 so I didn’t have to, lol.
Fancy schmancy j58 turbo “ram” jet with convoluted design that has two different afterburner / bypass loop modes, with crazy air bypass/recycling plumbing?
Nah, fuck that.
Just make the entire engines out of titanium and nickel, we have a lot of that shit in Siberia, and, use a fuck off huge heat exchanger system in the single bypass loop.
Also, this quote:
During the flight research period, two aircraft were lost - the first prototype and the first production one. There were no casualties, and this, in comparison with the results of other machines being created, was quite a good indicator.
ENGINES OF RUSSIAN COMBAT AIRCRAFT by Kotelnikov V. R., Khrobystova O. V., Zrelov V. A., Ponomarev V. A. (Mediarost, 2020)
Nah, you need more than afterburners. The SR-71 had some very advanced nozzle inlets for its engines which allowed the plane to move and bounce the supersonic shockwave around in the engine inlet to generate extra compression and to keep the incoming air from just building up and flowing around the engine instead of through it. If you took a F22 and pushed it up to those speeds, it would flame out and stop working long before it got near the SR-71’s too speed.
Sometimes. The SR-71 has red paint on critical leading edge pieces to emit red and infrared radiation more effectively to keep the surfaces cooler in flight and awww I’m just fucking with you.
I just love MiG’s. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we’ve put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we’re commies.
Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.
Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?
Here, i’ve made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I’ve added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don’t need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn’t aim at as well.
But, they aren’t us anyway so… And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo…
The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.
I am glad you made this comment about the MiG 31 so I didn’t have to, lol.
Fancy schmancy j58 turbo “ram” jet with convoluted design that has two different afterburner / bypass loop modes, with crazy air bypass/recycling plumbing?
Nah, fuck that.
Just make the entire engines out of titanium and nickel, we have a lot of that shit in Siberia, and, use a fuck off huge heat exchanger system in the single bypass loop.
Also, this quote:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/secrets-of-the-d-30f6-turbofan.44489/
Apparently this is where you go when you’re too old to know what a ‘Warthunder’ is, lol.
Anything can match the SR-71 if you strap enough afterburners to it.
Found the Kerbal.
Nah, you need more than afterburners. The SR-71 had some very advanced nozzle inlets for its engines which allowed the plane to move and bounce the supersonic shockwave around in the engine inlet to generate extra compression and to keep the incoming air from just building up and flowing around the engine instead of through it. If you took a F22 and pushed it up to those speeds, it would flame out and stop working long before it got near the SR-71’s too speed.
SO YOUZ SAYING WE NEEDA PAINT 'ER RED TOO OI, DEM BURNAS MAKE 'ER GO FASTA
Sometimes. The SR-71 has red paint on critical leading edge pieces to emit red and infrared radiation more effectively to keep the surfaces cooler in flight and awww I’m just fucking with you.
Dis wun iz smart. Dey understand how physics work. Red iz 'da fastest kolor.
Introduced in 1966 and people still feel this threatened by her sheer superiority. Incredible. That’s why she’s the greatest.
I love Soviet stuff, too, but didn’t know the story of the MiG. I actually have a small collection of Soviet watches, mostly space/aeronautics themed.