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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ncrlnk!ciss!law7!military
- From: Markku Luoto <mluoto@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Subject: Re: Story of MiG-21F & BIS
- Message-ID: <By0tK1.8uL@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Keywords: loss rate
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <Bxo176.62K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BxvFLB.8xC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:26:25 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Markku Luoto <mluoto@cc.helsinki.fi>
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- In <BxvFLB.8xC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> co@chrom1.mednet.gu.se (Christer Olsson) writes:
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- >From Christer Olsson <co@chrom1.mednet.gu.se>
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- >|>
- >|> Finland has got an Air Force consisting of only 60 planes (about 30 Draken
- >|> and 30 MiG:s).This means that almost 1/4 of all the MiG:s bought from the
- >|> former Sovjet Union have been destroyed in crashes.
- >|>
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- >How many Drakens has been lost?
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- NONE, not a single one ! and they have now served two(2) mig generations
- (21F and 21bis) and even now, the 21bis seems to be falling apart faster
- ( two accidents this year )... allthough the first Draken that was
- bought to Finland as used one has retired, but if you ask me, I'd rather
- fly that one than ANY mig before the 29 !?!? (including unused ones)
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- By the way, did you know that the 21F had just a few kilos of dynamite
- under it's seat to "eject" it out... We had one poor fellow who had to
- bail out twice from 21F... now he's about 2 inches shorter than he used
- to be, because of the spine's softlayers crushed... he can't fly a
- fighter no more, but otherwice he's doing fine...
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