Newsgroups: sci.military Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: Reinhard Kirchner Subject: MIG-29 tested at Manching Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 02:10:08 GMT Approved: military@att.att.com Message-ID: <1990Nov20.021008.26281@cbnews.att.com> Keywords: MIG-29 Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Lines: 30 From: Reinhard Kirchner Hello, a week or so ago we had a report in our TV-news about the testing of MIG-29 at the Bundeswehr test range near Manching. The Bundeswehr got 24 of these machines, 4 were brougth to Manching. The Bundeswher pilots said they were impressed by its performance, it could detect a F16 on 60km distance and fight it. US experts needed two days to find a solution to jamming the radar. US people are highly interested in these tests since IRAQ flighs also MIG-29 and the pilots were trained in the former GDR. On difficulty was reported as to the NVA pilots flying in Manching: They don't speak english, only russian, and so have trouble to talk to flight control -:) R. Kirchner Univ. Kaiserslautern Germany