Russkie military technology is shit. They have this fascinating
belief that bigger is always better probably due to their tiny
penises. Bigger bombs. Bigger apartment blocks. Bigger bombers.
Bigger GUNS.
The Russian Gun That Kept Destroying Its Own Aircraft
"The only planes the GSH-6-30 ever shot down were the planes that were
firing it."
After the GSH-6-30's recoil damaged the forward landing gear on one
plane so it wouldn't deploy, "Thanks to the pilot's moral and
political training he was able to land without significant damage to
the plane." The next pilot that happened to was not as lucky.
"There were muliple occasions when firing the GSH-6-30 knocked out
navigation and communications equipment." The gun recoil cracked the
radio internally.
"The recoil broke the canopy locks and the rushing air tore it off the
plane."
"After firing the gun the plane's instrument panel fell onto the
pilot's lap when he tried to climb."
"The shattering of the landing lights after firing the gun was so
common that replacing them with plastic lights became a standard pre
flight procedure."
The MIG 27, far from being a flying death machine went down in history
as the only aircaft to regularly shoot itself down with its own gun.
"Fortunately, the MIG 27 never went up against NATO as it was intended
to."
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Russian ejector seats fire with the plane on the ground.
AFP Last Updated: Mar 23, 2021, 05:35 PM IST
Three military pilots died in Russia on Tuesday when ejection seats of
their Tu-22 strategic bomber malfunctioned, the Russian defence
ministry said.
"An ejection system malfunctioned during a planned preparation on the
ground for a Tu-22M3 flight at an airfield in the Kaluga region," the
defence ministry said.
Three crew members received fatal injuries due to the "insufficient
height to deploy parachutes," the defence ministry said in a statement
carried by Russian news agencies.
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Meanwhile, a US pilot safely ejected from ground level when his F35
failed to land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgajOAuc1Uc
Russian military technology is shit.
When The Soviets Tested The Captured F-5 vs MiG-21
The Air Force left a couple dozen planes at a base in Vietnam during
the evacuation including several F-5s. In 1975, these were sent to
Russia for inspection and the Soviets decided to test them against
their similar MIG-21s.
On the first test, the Russian runway was so pitted, grooved and
potholed it actually damaged the front landing gear of the F-5 and it
almost crashed before it could leave the ground. They fixed the
problem.
Despite the clear superiority of the MIG 21 in top speed, thrust to
weight ratio, rate of climb, and other parameters, in every battle
test against the F-5, the MIG lost. The Soviets' chief test pilot
said, "The very first flight showed it was senseless to compete
against it." The test pilots also much preferred the controls layout
and comfort of the F-5.
Then somebody got the bright idea of testing the F-5 (c. 1961) against
the MIG-23 (c. 1969), a next generation fighter, and the Russian
planes STILL lost.
The F-5 was so light and maneuverable and could handle such high
g-forces that it could get behind the MIG and attack before the MIG
could successfully counter the move. At G-6 the F-5 could hold a
target in its reticule, the MIGs 21 and 23 lost target after G-3.
Even though the MIG-23 was advantaged by its speed, over-the-horizon
radar and longer range missiles it still couldn't take on the earlier
generation, slower, more lightly armed F-5. The test pilots noted
that because the MIG faster, the MIG-23 could escape if the battle
turned ugly.
After this, the test pilots were accused of propagandizing for the
west and the test results were ordered to be kept secret.
When Ethiopia, equipped with F-5s fought Somalia, equipped with MIG
21s, the F-5s confirmed 9 MIGS shot down but not a single F-5 was
lost.
Ultimately, a number of F-5 features, including the cockpit layout,
found their way onto the next generation MIG 25 - two generations
beyond the F-5.
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You couldn't make this shit up if you tried . . .
The Soviet Fighter That Couldn’t Shoot Its Guns (MIG-9 history)
"On April 24th , 1946, the only existing prototype of the MIG-9 was
supposed to make a demonstration flight for the newly appointed
management of the Aviation Ministry and Soviet Air Force since the
previous management had recently been arrested and sent to gulag for
providing the Soviet air force with poor quality planes during the
war."
An early design change had been to move the engines from under the
wings into the fuselage to increase top speed. Good idea! The air
intake was in the nose and the underslung 23 caliber cannon was
replaced with a 57 caliber mounted in the center of the air intake,
again, to reduce drag. My first thought was, "The gun's smoke is
going to get sucked into the engines."
During the demonstration, the pilot disregarded orders and tried some
high G maneuvers. The MIG-9 disintegrated in mid air and crashed,
killing the pilot.
"After the crash it was clear the MIG's airframe needed significant
reinforcement but the worst situation was with the fighter's armament.
Whenever the MIG's guns were fired, its engines flamed out."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
But the Soviet leadership decided "that was fine" and ordered 15 more
planes for the next Soviet Air Force Day parade. Mikoyan was given 40
days to manufacture them. They were of poor quality and many were
missing engines and avionics due to delivery delays to the plant. One
plane broke in two when being rolled out of the factory.
Soviet leadership decided "that was fine" and ordered 48 more. But
because the main cannon were not delivered to the factory on time, all
these planes were delivered to their Air Force bases with dummy guns.
The MIGs sat unused at their bases with no main guns installed. The
pilots were sitting around doing nothing, couldn't even practice
flying the USSR's first jet fighter due to not having been issued
boots yet. As a result, the MIGs, sitting outside and uncovered,
began to suffer weather damage including engine rust because nobody
had thought to cover their air intakes. The remaining flyable ones
eventually had their main guns installed but even after all that time,
they still couldn't use their main cannon at certain speeds/altitudes.
Later, Soviet leadership blamed the *Air Force* for the whole mess
because "they had required new plane delivery without proper design
and testing." Eventually the MIG-9s were gifted to China but the
Chinese wouldn't fly them either.
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Swill
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East of Kyiv the Russians ran out of ammo so they started
throwing sticks of dynamite at the Ukrainian lines.
The Ukrainians picked it up, lit it and threw it back.