L39 Fighet Jets for sale - £200,000. Bargain!

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/me prefers a MiG 15.

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Wayne wrote:
I have a dream...

http://mustang.cessna.com

(Flash site)

Look at the instrument panel (since I apparently can't say {bleep}pit) and you'll see why I want one.  Badly.

WOW...an all glass cockpit, I image they're touch screens, well they look like touch screens anyway.

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The thing with Eurofighter is that its designed in such a way as to make getting that shot off much more difficult (if you can outmanuvoure your oponant to the degree that eurofighter can do to just about everything out there currently) then you have a better chance of surviving in a dogfight.

Unless your the haplass victim of an AMRAAM or something along those lines.

Not to mention the potential to avoid the missile in the first place.

Considering most modern AAM's can pull turns in excess of 15G's, you would have to be real lucky.

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AMRAAM and as you say most modern AAM's are capable of very very tight turns for the speed they go at, but remember most of these missiles do mach 2 or better, so getting to 15G's isn't so difficult. Given that Eurofighters countermeasure systems are fully automatic (guaging when the best time to fire off chaff and flairs etc) and give pilots recomendations on where to point the aircraft to best avoid a strike, luck has less and less to do with it, eurofighter and Griffin are of the same stable in terms of design, they give the pilot a much greater chance of avoiding being hit by anti aircraft missiles (from ground or air) by being explosivly manuvourable and aided by computer controled countermeasures systems, inter-aircraft data link systems and so on.

Lucky the onboard computers aren't running Windows. :lol: