Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Su-27 Message-ID: <1990Sep20.022235.15238@cbnews.att.com> Date: 20 Sep 90 02:22:35 GMT References: <1990Sep12.014855.29015@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep14.042620.1299@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: att!utzoo!henry >From: Allan Bourdius >There's only one interceptor in the world that can engage its targets in >excess of 100 nautical miles and that is the US Navy's F-14A+/D... Assuming, of course, that it has positive identification on the targets at a range of 100 nmi. Historically, this has seldom been possible in real combat. >From what I've read, the Su-27 is comparable in capablility to the >original F-16A, an aircraft that was never designed for air defense in >the first place. Uh, really? I wasn't aware that the F-16A was a heavy interceptor. :-) Last I heard, the Su-27 was thought to have the biggest radar dish of any fighter aloft, F-14 included, and range and warload to match. Are you thinking of the MiG-29, perhaps? Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry