First two Polish F-16

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 08 Nov 2006, 16:18

First two Polish F-16 has just landed in Krzesiny 31st Air Base, near Poznan.
http://www.31blot.com/31blot_eng.html

This way isn't it time to prepare a MAIW package "Polish F-16s"?

VulcanDriver · Post by **VulcanDriver** » 08 Nov 2006, 17:29

OK, I reckon you are the man as you are on 'the spot'

John

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 08 Nov 2006, 17:55

The problem is that modelling is my only work I can make here for living

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 09 Nov 2006, 11:59

An update:
now there are four of them: 3 F-16C Block 52+ and one F-16D Block 52+.

So fresh that their arrival was two days late because of a refueling system problems on one of them, just over the Atlantic Ocean ...
Not much time was left to fully test 'em

It will be a real fun to see a training fight between both Polish F-16 and Mig-29

Polish name for F-16s is "Jastrząb" [Yastshob], well not to easy to spell by foreigners. It means "Goshawk", btw.
There was a PZL-50 "Jastrzab" fighter prototype in 1939 ...:
http://www.altair.com.pl/files/sp/0605/p50.htm

OK, Poland will have 8 F-16 till the end of 2006, and 48 total until 2009.

PS. I've just seen a very interesting Russian series Udarnaya sila (Strike Force), a Mig-29 part. They said that during fighting tests between Mig-29 and F-16 in France, in the end of 80's, F-16 won JUST 1 fight in 50, over Mig-29 ?!?

drmweaver2 · Post by **drmweaver2** » 10 Nov 2006, 00:31

Things have changed a lot since the 80s. That weapon system has now been studied in some detail and tactics specific to defeating it have been developed since then.

Of course, there is always the human factor - an experienced/expert pilot who knows both his aircraft and his opponents' has a better chance of killing an opponent if his opponent possess the same knolwedge (possibly) regardless of the aircraft involved. Ex., Vietnam-era F-4s vs Mig-17/19s - huge shift over time as new tactics were developed and American pilots became trained in dogfighting again.

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 30 Mar 2007, 09:07

Bump, re-vitalizing

There are some rumors here, that Polish F-16 pilots will be trained in Israel.
Israelis say: "Well, The Americans tought you how to fly. We will teach you how to fight".

sitterwolf · Post by **sitterwolf** » 30 Mar 2007, 14:11

You lucky

You have got your first (modern) fighters in real-
but I´m in Austria always waiting for our first Typhoon

!

I hope I can use it in FS in the near future, as well I can use the Polish F16 today.

Savage · Post by **Savage** » 30 Mar 2007, 14:22

sitterwolf wrote: but I´m in Austria always waiting for our first Typhoon !

I recently saw news of Austrain Typhoons on the go, sure they carried Luftwaffe markings but they were Austrian...

sitterwolf · Post by **sitterwolf** » 30 Mar 2007, 14:33

Really ?

I only saw pics of the first Austrian - Typhoon, flying in the provisional markings of the Austrian Airforce in Germany

But - this is not for this Polish-F16-Topic. I´ll post in future at the Typhoon-Topic.