Your Nation's Air Force Mark II:

[Britinthia]

Twin vs sijgle vertical stabilisers. As far as I can tell from google, twin tail on an aircraft is better in pretty much every way, except maybe cost and complexity, however this seems to be a minor issue in itself. So why do EF typhoon and Rafale use a single tail, surely there must be some advantage?

[Britinthia]

The nosecones look good, only critisism would be to smooth out the straighter lines of the nose so they fit the rest pf the profile.

So I have built my Air Force and Fleet Air Arm back to the mid 50's. The AF has each aircraft in service for about 25-30 years, with various incarnations of each. The FAA however is getting new fighters every 14 years on average. Does that sound like a problem? I can explain it away with an over-inflated budget, however it seems like a rather quick turnover.

[Britinthia]

Going on advice I was given a few days ago, I was wondering a few things:

-what sort of aircraft should I be looking at for reconnaissance? (drones, ultra lights etc)
-cargo aircraft, what are some durable low cost ones?
-Its primary roles are territorial defense, counter insurgency, moving men and materials throughout Padnak
-Padnak is a vary large collection of jungle islands (the largest being the roughly the size of Vancouver Island)

My airforce

If I may, I would consider consolidating your current fleet and reducing the overall number of different types of aircraft. The only reason you wouldn't do this is if you were unable to afford new aircraft and needed to buy whatever cheap second hand rubbish that pops up.

As for your question, something like a Pilatus PC-7 or similar will be good for reconnaissance and will double up as CAS for your troops. Plus if it does find something of interest it can kill it there and then if required. Maybe a light helo or floatplane would be helpful too, given your countries geography.

For cargo you seem pretty sorted. If you absolutely need strategic transport get a couple of C-17s.

[Brotherhood of nod]

Why do you need a bigger gun?

yust what to now teoritical option to GAU-8/A yout for the fun of it

I suspect he believes it would make it more effective in a contemporary scenario but I don't believe the reason why the A-10 could be near its obsolescence (if it is) is because its gun is not powerful enough but rather that the plane would be too vulnerable against state of the art anti air units.

I believe it would still be very effective if used against nations or forces that do not have a very strong and advanced anti air capability and in the real world there are still many of those.

I also think that if there ever will be a war between military forces that are both rather advanced and capable that all cards will be off the table and military doctrine will need to be reevaluated as was always the case in the modern past when strong, advanced industrial nations went to open conflict against each other. Something that has not happened since WW2.

what its biggest gun you can replace the GAU-8/A Avenger with in the a-10 airframe teorical and pratical

Why do you need a bigger gun?

some tink the GAU 8/A Avengers its not powerfull nuff to take down modern MBT like t-90 or m1m2 abrames or hard target.
use in senrario support troops with lose of gps satilite and/or high enemy ECM and sensor jammers, its hard if not inposible to jam the Avengers compare to JDAM

[Brznovia]

As Brznovia is a post-Soviet nation, our military is mostly equipped with Russian-origin equipment. The Brznovian Air Force's primary role is in air defence and army co-operation. Brznovia is primarily concerned with self-defence against external threats, and does not maintain a strategic component to the BAF. A brief breakdown of the BAF's inventory by role follows.

Initial Training Aircraft:
PZL-130 Orlik turboprop trainer

Advanced Training Aircraft:
Aero L-39 Albatross
Yakovlev Yak-130 'Mitten'

Air Superiority:
Sukhoi SU-27 'Flanker'
Mikoyan MiG-29 'Fulcrum'

Tactical Bombing/Close Air Support:
Sukhoi SU-25 'Frogfoot'
Sukhoi SU-24 'Fencer'

Reconnaissance:
Ilyushin Il-20 'Coot'

Logistics:
Antonov An-24 'Coke'
Antonov An-12 'Cub'

C3/AWACS:
Beriev A-50 'Mainstay'

Rotary wing aircraft are the concern of the Brznovian Army and Brznovian Navy.

[Bulgar Rouge]

Just how efficient is the MiG-21bis in the ground attack role, assuming no guided munitions are used ? Is it capable of performing toss bombing without ground attack avionics ?

[Bulgar Rouge]

Just how efficient is the MiG-21bis in the ground attack role, assuming no guided munitions are used ? Is it capable of performing toss bombing without ground attack avionics ?

Umm, you might be able to do some kind of dive-bombing esque tactic with it (like the Syrian Air Force), but it won't be very effective when compared to more Multirole aircraft.

It's pretty good with rocket pods, but I'm more interested in dumb bombs...specifically if it is capable of toss bombing.

[Bulgar Rouge]

It's pretty good with rocket pods, but I'm more interested in dumb bombs...specifically if it is capable of toss bombing.

Toss bombing technically requires avionics, though those avionics may well be mechanical, as it was in postwar and early Cold War aircraft

Examples of such aircraft/usage ?

[Bulgar Rouge]

Has anyone made any research on the ELINT systems of later MiG-25 aircraft ? Particularly the Kub-3M. I've searched a lot but nothing specific came out as to what the capabilities of that hardware actually are.

[Bulgar Rouge]

Has anyone made any research on the ELINT systems of later MiG-25 aircraft ? Particularly the Kub-3M. I've searched a lot but nothing specific came out as to what the capabilities of that hardware actually are.

Kub-3M is a side-looking airborne radar from the 70s that was found on MiG-25RBK Foxbat Bs. It's not found on the later models of Foxbats, but I haven't found anything on the specific capabilities.

That's as much as I found. I'm trying to figure out how good the MiG-25 is for reconnaissance.

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the F5E a good, cost effective multirole aircraft?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the F5E a good, cost effective multirole aircraft?
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Yes, assuming you don't have the money to buy anything newer.

Then it is good for its price

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

What would be a good but cheap ground attack aircraft? I'm stuck on the SU25

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

How about the F14?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the F14 a good fighter for its price?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Someone's never seen Top Gun.

I want to, but I've never gotten to

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Should I use these?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Should I use these?
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Kfirs are getting a bit long in the tooth, but I don't think there's that many issues.

Are they good?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the drakken a good fighter for me to use?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the drakken a good fighter for me to use?

Dude WTF, we need more info then that.

The Saab J35 Draken, would it be a good air supremacy fighter for me to use

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Is the drakken a good fighter for me to use?

Yes it's fine.

A bit old, though.

Can it dogfight we'll with modern fighters? I mean newer fighters like the F15?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Can it dogfight we'll with modern fighters? I mean newer fighters like the F15?

Not really, but it could probably give MiG-21 or something a run for its money.

Then should I just bite my tongue and pay that extra money for the grippen?

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Then should I just bite my tongue and pay that extra money for the grippen?

We have no idea what you'll be fighting.

I want to be able to at least go toe to toe with a mig 29

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Then should I just bite my tongue and pay that extra money for the grippen?

If you're going to fight F-15s, yeah definitely.

I've fought F35s, and my F5s failed miserably, though they did ok against mig 21s and we're good multi role

[Bulgaria-Serbia]

Then should I just bite my tongue and pay that extra money for the grippen?

If you're going to fight F-15s, yeah definitely.

And I could use the older Drakens for strike aircraft?