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Was the Radar on the Mig-25 that a defector landed in Japan There's a similar story about the "sloppy" riveting work on the Mig-25. Turned out to have signific
by gaius 9y ago
Was the Radar on the Mig-25 that a defector landed in Japan
There's a similar story about the "sloppy" riveting work on the Mig-25. Turned out to have significant beneficial effect in the airflow.
- noir_lord 9y agoThe USSR was brilliant at doing more with less (advanced technology). That was brought home to me in a documentary I watched about the Mig-29, the US/Nato avoided FOD (Foreign Object Damage) by scrupulously walking the runway/apron every day and cleaning up. The USSR just put air intakes on the top for taxiing so crap didn't get sucked into the main inlets. It was such a simple design and yet the advantages in a war situation operating from crappy debris strewn airfields where obvious, they had Mig-29's taxing over rough dirt berms and all sorts of crazy things (at least from a western viewpoint).