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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Mig-29 operated by Iraq
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.015450.20374@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 01:54:50 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <1991Jan19.041309.4869@cbnews.att.com>, bell@krypton.arc.nasa.gov writes:
> 
> The avionics of the Russian version is primitive by today's standards. The
> Iraqi version is even more so. The outcome of a dogfight is mainly dependant on
> pilot quality; to some extent equipment is secondary, e.g. in WWII the Finns,
> with biplanes, bested the Soviets in more modern monoplanes. 

During the Winter War, the Finns *were* flying modern (well, the Brewster
Buffalo was fairly modern) monoplanes against Russian biplanes such as the
Tchaika.

At the very least, it wasn't completely one-sided.






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