The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 27 days agoThe incredible skill of a trained pilotlemmy.worldimagemessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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minus-squareSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoThe MiG-31 is only good at one thing: speed. That bad boy can intercept damn near anything but it can’t turn on a dime or go too fast unless shear forces tear its wings and airframe off. It’s pretty much a cool looking paper tiger.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·27 days agoThis seems like a fantastic example of “if a metric becomes a target, it fails in being a metric”.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoEh, it works for what it is. The whole plane is basically a manned stage-1 of an AA missile.
minus-squareDogWater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoAre you thinking of the mig 25? The foxhound was supposedly much more capable at low speed than the foxbat. Genuinely curious
The MiG-31 is only good at one thing: speed. That bad boy can intercept damn near anything but it can’t turn on a dime or go too fast unless shear forces tear its wings and airframe off. It’s pretty much a cool looking paper tiger.
This seems like a fantastic example of “if a metric becomes a target, it fails in being a metric”.
Eh, it works for what it is. The whole plane is basically a manned stage-1 of an AA missile.
Are you thinking of the mig 25? The foxhound was supposedly much more capable at low speed than the foxbat. Genuinely curious