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  • LOL !

  • @TNQTV my bad, i wasn't picking up on reheat "cycle". But the term reheat is also a synonym for afterburner.

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  • @TNQTV I get the feeling that you don't even have a grasp on the concept. With out afterburner/reheat engines effectively loose 50% or more of their thrust. Very few fighters are capable of supersonic flight with out it. And currently no Russian fighter is. The Russians use reheat just as often as anyone else to get the desired effect, which is to climb higher and fly faster. Watch any Mig or Su demo and they are in afterburner almost the whole time.

  • @TNQTV I always understood that is reheat and afterburner are the same thing. They are both the process of spraying fuel directly into the exhaust of the engine after the turbines. Reheat is what the Brits call it and the Yanks call it afterburner.

  • @TNQTV oh ok that explains it

  • neat

  • what an eco friendly jet! lol wtf is all that smoke comein out running on cooking oil or what

  • Germans in Migs.... OMG wouldn't want to dogfight them boys

  • @SubaruWRXtreme hehe

  • black smoke = full power

    no smoke = after burner

  • it is an mig29 of the west-german luftwaffe

    this video was made at the airport rostock - laage

    it (mig 29) was in service for the bundeswehr from 1990 till 2004

    they sold their last mig to poland and poland fly with them still today

    one day poland may give one mig back to the bundeswehr as a museumsaircraft

  • einfach nur geil diese power

  • russian junk.

  • @toyzruskid62 Actually, I know it's a sin saying this, seeing as I am a fellow American, but the Russians damn well know how to make high performance aircraft. If they made shitty planes, no one else would be buying them.

  • @toyzruskid62 the west german luftwaffe took over the migs after the fall of the wall... they remained in service till 2005

  • this the East German luftwaffe? I didn't think the W Germans flew Mig's? Where was this shot and what year?

  • @SNDNGRKLR

    The (west-)German Luftwaffe assume 24 MiG-29G from the former East German Luftwaffe and left they in service until 2004 :-)

  • @couteau86 awesome)))

  • At least you can see: The engines are running! :D

  • Leaking oil

  • BLACK SMOKE, HELL YEAH!

  • The reason why it's so smokey is because (just like the Luftwaffe Phantoms) they use oil in the fuel to prolong engine life.

  • I think what is more impressive then the fly by is the climbing roll radius he executes after it.

  • Beers and MiGs were made to be pounded!

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  • how can some people think it's a tomcat???? IT IS NOT!!!!!!!

  • No afterburner, just some smoke.

  • thts not a mig 29 its a tomcat with flames on it ☺☻

  • @luke6638 LOOOOOOOSERRRRRRRRRR Go and pull yer pud to top gun you turd burglar.

  • @luke6638 pause at 0:25.. Its a Mig 29. With the German Bundesflag on it, not flames..

  • thts not a mig 20 thts a tomcat with flames on it

  • lol the engines dont smoke on afterburner. no afterburner sorry

  • @jamesyak52 you're partialy right, it's not using afterburner, but tumanski engines are always smoky even when using ab

  • @grtorrest its not a mig 29 its a tomcat

  • @luke6638 re you out of your mind? Where's the swing wing mechanisms? where's the RIO (the guy in the back seat)?, wait a minute, where is the back seat?, when did the luftwaffe, more exactly JG73 in Laage, get the F-14?, have you ever see an F-14 or a MiG 29?.

    Man this is MiG-29G 29+20 (MiG-29A upgraded by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, now EADS, for NATO compatibility)

  • @luke6638 No its not

  • @luke6638

    BIG #FAIL DUDE !!!

  • No afterburner. the engine is always like that, smoky.

  • man Migs look like beasts.

  • @T1w4z das weiß ich jetzt auch, es sind zwei "Klimow-RD-33K-Mantelstromstri­ebwerke" - Sehr leistungs starke teile

  • @T1w4z das weiß ich jetzt auch, es sind zwei "Klimow-RD-33K-Mantelstromstri­ebwerke"

  • @anspren Du meinst das Cobramanöver? Der EF beherrscht dieses Manöver perfekt. Das konnte ich auf der ILA mit meinen eigenen Augen sehen.

  • I always thought they used kerosene to fuel jetplanes, not crude oil or browncoal brikets.... I like it!

  • Ich glaube, dass die MiG-29 garkeinen Nachbrenner hat !?

  • @MrSovjetunion sie hat die Nachbrenner

  • wow nice paint job .

  • Did that plane feature a custom paint job??! How cool is that?! (if it's not standard equipment, that is)

  • Nice fly-by!! That was an insane chandelle at the end! Awesome!! XD

  • Zu schade das wir die abgegeben haben... ich habe sie geliebt und werde den Anblick auf jeder Flugshow vermissen. Das Ding war nicht nur Leistungsstark, es sah auch noch verdammt gut aus.

  • @Sturmfalke010475 naja, zuviel spritverbrauch halt :D

  • It´s in Airbase Laage - close to Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

    Das war kurz vor der Ausserdienststellung und Überführung nach Polen.

  • Thats not a mig. its an SU-27

  • @Sethical Its a Mig 29G used by the German Airforce from 1990 to 2004. We sold them to the Polish Air Force for the symbolic price of €1 per item.

  • HAhaha whats up with the smoking trail ? To make it easier for the F15's ?

  • @cmtegaravello f15? even your grandpa could hit it with his entfield

  • @punisher17011990 ur right, but the smoking trail is BS

  • @punisher17011990 llolololol 

  • Boah, die quarzen ja wie die Luftwaffendiesel...

  • @melfiire no i think bad fuel

  • Those engines were seriously de-tuned. Willing to bet they were at the end of their life and were overdue for a swap. Russian jet engines do smoke a little but usually not THAT much.

    Russians boast about how the engines can go so many hours without any maintenance but that's because they get swapped out for new ones and the old ones turned in for re-building. Basiclly they just top off the oil and run 'em into the ground.

  • Tell me your joking?They really do that I mean swapped the engines out after running them out? Your a pilot or flight mechanic?

  • @kalikaputra

    I've read a little on the subject and seen documentaries about it. They build their engines tough and just make sure the oil is topped off and when the engines either have a problem or is at the end of their service life they just swap them for freshly re-built engines.

    That differs from the U.S where we do as much maintenance as we can in the field (aircraft carrier or base) until we re-build the engines.

  • In the stuff you read did they say which approach was more cost effective? thanks for the info man.

  • nah their engines really do smoke - at least at some conditions.

  • Fucking Diesel ! ;)

  • @ElephantKiller23 It might be smoky but when the Wall came down and NATO had a chance to see one up close and then fly it..... they had a massive, massive shock and realised thay could have been up against a formiddable opponent and lots of them. We'd been swamped.

  • @ElephantKiller23

    hah yeah.

  • I don't see no afterburner!

  • @Neutrinoghost whats afterburner?

  • @BlAhHaDaBoY123 Just type afterburner into youtube ...you'll see.

  • the smoke because the this mig are old and engines are old

  • Low/zero bypass turbojets. If it's like the Phantom a lil afterburner will clear it right up.

  • Because the Tumanski engines they use are very unefficient^^

  • as the phanom.

    hopefully the phantoms will serve longer than planned theyre real beauties.

  • i love that plane

  • to put a rest to all arguments like these

    Copy and paste this

    It happened and you all cant change it, just give up

  • beautiful plane great manouvreing .

  • Nice paint job.

  • Wow i like to rec that sound and put it into C&C Generals to the mig´s :)

  • Someday we will learn the truth, we shall se who is right who is wrong....could be anything tommorow. The only thing we have to do now is try to rebuild our country by ourselfs, rather then waiting for a foreign aid. I hate that. We should just be ourselfs, build and prosper on our own.....i hope that in the near future no war breaks out, but Kosovo is our greatest consern right now. Albanians wont stop there.

  • Thats it.....NATO attacked Yugoslavia just because they could, not because it would escalate. And besides although Miloshevic made some bad decisions in the past, the law was clearly on our side. Albanians wanted indipendence through violence against Serbs in the region. KLA was on the terrorists list, why not help us, or simply why not leaving us alone? The war in ex Yu didn't start because of Serbs only...it was much complex....

  • They were peacekeepers, but not like the UN...they were the part of NATO. KFOR is now a peacekeeping force, although they aren't doing what they supposed to. And why would NATO care what Milosevic does in our country? Why didn't NATO attack Russia when they invaded Georgia? NATO doesn't like Putin too.....so why not attack them too?

  • Sure they were peacekeepers.......and what does NATO want from Miloshevic anyway....why don't they take care of their own countries and business. Just leave us alone to deal with our problems ALONE.....they ruin MY life because they didn't like Miloshevic.....bunch of assholes

  • milosevic ruined a lot of innocent lives in the ex-yugoslavia, not to mention that he gave serbia into the hands of the criminals to do what they want with it..in the beginning he was ok but very soon political power made him a bad person.. there were few people who fucked up yugoslavia and milosevic was the no1

  • There were no carpet bombings, no one said there were, but striking factories hurt the innocent people, not the military. NATO failed because our military suffered almost no casulties. 500 soldiers died in the raids, many of them in the fights against the KLA. But instead over 2000 civilians died in the raids.

    And for your info about Yugoslav army limiting the action inside the country, how about three soldiers that got captured by Yugoslav forces? They were not in our country....

  • What is a Petroleum plant,or a Tobaco Factory?What about Flour factory?Or a Electronic industry?A National TV station? Food factories?Car factories?Those are not military targets, ut civilian ones.And trying to destroy a bridge with cluster bombs?For your info the cluster bombs that fell on the market may be the mistake, although the airport is clearly visible even from 10.000 feets. And about the cluster bombs that fell on Children Hospital and a Bus stop? There were no military targets there.

  • Whatever u think is right.......u are commenting the events according to NATO press releases and news that always presented Serbs differently. Also were u here when the bombings started? Were u here when they released Cluster Bombs on the market in Nish? And the Hospital in Nish? And a Bus station? How about a passenger train full of civilians? Or a Chinese Embassy? NATO didn't talk too much about that didn' they? ......

  • WE pulled back from Kosovo because NATO switched to bombing of civilian targets. When we signed the piece treaty many of the soldiers were outraged when they heard the news. They wanted to fight on. But then they realised more of our people would suffer. So we lost. And for what? For trying to defend our people in Kosovo and for fighting a terrorists. And about that UN prisoner exchange..are u kidding me...prisoners chanting Alahu EKber with AKs and uniforms. Are u kidding me?

  • I already said that stories on the net were not true. Bombing of Bosnia was not true, but the bombings in RInas were. And about our military. They were defending spirited defence, mainly against the UCK. Military suffered minimum losses, NATO claimed they destroyed 200 tanks, while in fact only 13 were destroyed. Same goes to all other military aspects except the planes, We had little cover for them.

  • Lol....i need to stop believing the press???? First pf i was there during the conflict. I witnessed the destruction of one airplane, my father witnessed two. The NATO said they lost 2. Remember the F 117....they said it was not shoot down, until we were able to capture the wreckage and bring newspapers so they couldn't bomb it. The bombings were a secret operation, nobody is going to celebrate that. As i said the stories on the net were not true.

  • No argument from me ...

    pentraksil is the one who is taken up with propaganda.

    he has his world , we have ours.

  • DO you think military reveals all the plans. USA "revealed" they invaded Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and look at Iraq now. There was UN all over Bosnia during the Balkan wars, but that didn't stop their planes to transport mujahideens to aid the Bosnian conflict....so stories about peacekeepers are "invention of an over active mind" . Search the youtube for mujahideens and u will find a video of them being escorted to the frontline.

  • LooooooooooL................it is true about F 86, really a great piece of work (although looks almost the same as the Mig 15)....but F-4 didn't do much after Mig 21 came....

  • Those stories on the net are bullshit, claiming they know what happened, i don't believe them too. My info comes from my father, a pilot in Yugoslav Airforce. They flew almost everyday and bombed the UCK positions in Kosovo, why wouldn't they bomb the one in Albania, or Tuzla?

  • why is mig dangerous? because of the high angle of attack, but. still this doesnt show it. because he is just flying this mig with AWWFULLLL PAINTING as a wuss

  • that would sound awesome being there!!

  • No ab anywhere. If they would have used it, there wouldn't be all that smoke...

  • No afterburner anywhere

    So you lose much of the smoke with AB, but isn't that a fuel consumption problem for an aircraft that CANNOT be refueled by a tanker aircraft?

    Maybe the Germans should go to Russia and explain how they cleaned up the

    F-4F's GE J-79's

    Saw a F-4F ICE at the Reno Air Races...I was shocked to see how little smoke was emitted with and w/o afterburner.

    Hell, the Russians are probably stealing this technology as I write this.

    Btw, does the MiG 29 still use a drag shute?

  • Ghostwatcher...a point well made. An illustration of your point is the Falkland Island War ( transonic Harriers vs Mach 2 Mirage) I just get tired of Russian comments here forever making excuses for why their "ass kicking fighters" have weak combat records. As the old expression goes, "put up or shut up!"

    Just saw your comment tonight, one thumb up from me.

  • Well they have weak combat records because the russian jets that were in combat in Iraq, Yugoslavia etc. are old dating from the 80s. How about Mig records in Vietnam and Korea???

  • Yugoslavia was a mixed bag of old and new, Iraq had the best of the stuff Russia has exported. (Oil money!)

    Korea: MiG-15's did well until the F-86 arrived shortly after.

    Vietnam: MiG-17's&19's gave us fits for a few years because of "rules of engagement rules" and a lack of proper combat tactic schools like Top Gun/Red Flag.

    In neither case did the U.S lose control of the sky.

    I keep on seeing comments from Russians and supporters regarding MiG aircraft "kicking ass" ....WHEN & WHERE?

  • Yeah sure......Yugoslavia had mix of new and old????Are you crazy???? Our radars couldn't detect further than 70 Km and could shoot from 40 km...USA lost wars in Korea and Vitnam...which means they lost control of the air space...unless there are some USA planes still flying there. I say again Mig KICKED BIG ASS in Korea....fact. O not to mention the engagements with the German Mig 29s and Hornets....Migs kicked their asses every time...

  • Pentraksil, I am going to give you a free one here.

    "Our* radars couldn't detect 70km and could shoot 40km".

    It was agains't Yugoslavia that the ONLY F-117 stealth fighter was SHOT down.....it has been mothballed so you guys you guys will FOREVER hold that distinction.

    You are short-changing your own people.

    In Korea and Vietnam... If the MiG's "controlled the air", please supply some dates and places where this happened and American ground forces were bombed and strafed as a result.

  • Well you lost both wars right??? So migs took over. And all the way until Sabre showed up Migs kicked ass. If they didnt then why do your pilots always say they shit their pants when migs are coming???

  • I am disappointed with you, an official no comment regarding your obsolete radar and a stealth F-117 shootdown?

    WWII vintage B-29 bombers were the aircraft that shot it's pants when the Communist MiG's decided the come play south of the Yalu river/Manchurian border.

    In Vietnam the MiG 17, 19 and 21's never strayed south of the DMZ while Lyndon Johnson made NVA airbases off-limits to bombing attacks. Are you aware of this?

    Compromise?

    MiG 15 did beat F-80

    MiG 17/19 did beat F-105.

  • Why comment on shoot down of F-117? We shoot it down because our army is trained in that kind of warfare-against superior foe. They shoot down 2 one is damaged, the NATO doesnt want to admit this or 40 other aircrafts that were shot down. The vietnamise army was not so technology equipped as USA was. They had very little amount of aircraft why risk a bombing or strafing with so little aircraft. Our military bombed during the 1999 war 2 airfields, one in Bosnia other in Albania losing two planes.

  • Explain to me how we lost the Korean War? Also, just because we lost the Vietnam war (or if any nation loses any war) that does not mean control of the sky was lost. In Vietnam the USAF ruled the sky and their biggest threat were ground based SAMs in North Vietnam.

  • Well there werent US planes in Vietnam after you pulled back so you lost control of the sky. It isn't like Iraq today where you won and still have control of the sky. In Korea just like in Vietnam you didn't achieve what you wanted, so you lost

  • in the korean war yes they kicked ass mostly to inept and inexperienced korean or chinese pilots but when a russian aces of ww2 took on the american sabres.......it often turned very hairy and it was a battle for youre life againts pros, the nk's and chinks were noobs but the russkies were far from being noobs very far.

  • These things put out more black smoke than an old Chevy Diesel!!! They should be easy to ID in the air if IFF system goes down.

  • I'm not aircraft expert but IMHO mig-29 (and russian weapons in general) looks sexy :)

  • The JAS 39 Gripen? The "Crash-King" from Sweden? You can't be serious! The Gripen had absolutely no combat missions. The aircraft is in service with the Swedish Air Force, the Czech Air Force, the Hungarian Air Force and the South African Air Force. It's no big deal.

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  • You kid, have no idea about Aviation. So shut the hell up!

  • In Germany there is a MIG?

    German pilots were lucky!

  • Это Миги ГДР советского производства вообще-то. ФРГ их присвоили себе после воссоединения. Очень гордятся этим. Хи-хи.

  • да я это уже выяснил.

    Но все равно им повезло!

  • Что значит повезло? Жалко, что мы их отдали. Они-то всю собственность наших бывших военных городков на территории ГДР себе присвоили. Все, тю-тю.

  • Немцам повезло говорю, что они в нахаляву столько МИГов получили.

    Да и не только МИГов....

  • 2 Veter23:

    вообще-то за ту собственность они заплатили дойчмарками. а вот куда наши генералы их дели это большой вопрос.

  • Чушь полная. ельцин отдал 777 военных городках и 36 290 зданиями в ГДР за 500 миллионов долларов всего. Сами немцы оценивают все наше добро в 30 миллиардов западногерманских марок. Это был просто подарок для немцев.

  • 2 Veter23:

    Так кто же нам доктор? Трудно обвинять немцев в том, что они поступили так как это выгодно им.

    Кстати есть интересный фильм по этому поводу:

    rutube точка ru/tracks/1043422 точка html

  • Никогда не говорят, что твоему конкуренту в чем-то повезло. Удача конкурента - это автоматом твоя неудача. Немцев, что ли, защищаешь?

  • 2 Verter23:

    Скорее говорю, что нам самим не надо быть дураками.

  • вот только не надо вгонять в комплекс "неполноценности". советую посмотреть, что стало с нашими военными городками за 20 лет. в каком они у немцев запустении, например Хиллерслебен, а таких море...все в разрухе.

  • the only downside to the MiG is it's exhaust, other than that, a bad ass of a plane

  • Yes, for a minute I thought it was an older f-4 Phantom going by !! ( I see the Luftwaffe F-4 ICE Phantom fianlly solved the smoke problem with the J-79's) Perhaps I missed it, but can someone tell me one instance where the Mig-29 kicked-ass in actual COMBAT...NOT an airshow? Let me know when and where...Thanks!

  • Ok can you tell me when REAL aka not this exported downgraded versions even Germans had ever saw combat? NO!? Well no wonder because they did not ;-) Besides that even with such planes Luftwaffe kicked the living shit out of USAF F-16's on the joint excersize... Now while Germans probably were the best Fulcrum pilots in the world at the time I can't even imagine what would happen if they had Fulcrums intended for Russian Air Force ;-)))

  • the russians didnt use it but i found way more where the mig was in use.

    Indian MiG-29s saw action during the Kargil War in Kashmir in 1999. The IAF used the MiG-29s extensively for providing fighter escort for Mirage 2000s which were used for firing laser-guided bombs on enemy targets. According to Indian sources during the Kargil War, MiG-29s from IAFs 47 (Black Archers)Squadron successfully locked onto two Pakistani Air Force (PAF) F-16s which were close to the Indian airspace.

  • if your trying to say that the Mig-29 cant fight in combat your full of shit to say the least... dont quote Iraq 91' because Iraq basically just used the Mig-29 shell... no Russian technology was left on the Iraqi Migs due to a sanction imposed at the time or something to that effect... the Mig-29 would kick the F-16s ass, and is on par with the F-18

  • If I hear another Russian crying about their "export" MiG's, I'm goin to scream!

    Heard the same argument about the MiG-23 from another Russian. Where is the "savings" of buying castrated 2nd rate MiG's if you get shot down ? The U.S tried the same gimick with the lesser F-16/79....no buyers....they wanted the real deal.

    Wake me up when the "ass kicking" starts.

    Heard about IAF MiG 29's chasing off Pakistani F-16A's...that it.

  • well Cabalfreak the East germans in the cold war had them and when the berlin wall came down the german air force just took them in and began to use em, but just for show the german air force uses the eurofighter typhoon 2000. (mostly)

  • und ob die deutschen mig´s besitzen und zwar sind das 5 stück insgesamt aus nva bestand !!!!

  • Die sind 2003 alle nach Polen gegangen. Get your facts straight.

  • die migs sind alle verkäfft man!

    nix mehrmitgood-oldmigs in luftwaffe

  • What a nice Plane! Böse im Kurvenkampf!!

  • We dont use Migs !!  we use tornado and eurofighter

  • Wenn ich gerade aus den Windeln wäre, würde ich auch noch nicht wissen das die EF in Laage ein ganzes Geschwader MIG 29 der Bundeswehr aus NVA-Beständen abgelöst haben. Alle BW MIG 29 wurden nach Polen gegeben.

  • yes doesn`t use migs, but look for 3 years ago.

    That was a mig 29 from gdr, later the migs was integrated in the Luftwaffe. look at wikipedia.

  • looks like he rearranged his internal organs after the flyby

  • ihr könnt das gar nicht einschätzen... wer weiß es denn am ende schießen die eine rakete aus kilometern entfernung ab un die wendigkeit is dahin...aber i welche spekulationen zu starten wer besser is halte ich für sinnlos

  • Nun ja, der Eurofighter ist eine gute Maschine, wie auch die Gripen, die MiG 29 würde ich da ein wenig schlechter einschätzen, auf jeden!

  • this MIG's got some probleeemooo's! it shouldnt shit that black smoke...

    anyway..MIG's are great plaes! :)

  • "it shouldnt shit that black smoke..."

    The Luftwaffe tinkered a bit with the engines to prolong their service life. That they spew such smoke in low-flight is a sidee-effect from that.

  • I like russian war equipment.

  • IMPRESIONANTE, MIG-29 FABULOSO

    gracias por el video, thankyu for video

  • NEED 3 SPEED

  • your lucky it didnt bomb you HAHA. juz kiddin

  • Die MiG-29 ist prinzipiell auch nicht schlecht, passt aber ersatzteilmässig, noch waffentechnisch zum restlichen Bestand. Man wollte sich da nicht länger von den Russen abhängig machen, und daher wurden die eben an Polen "verkauft" um sie los zu werden.

  • Germany

  • Germany gave it's 29's to Poland for 1 Euro each? Damn, I'd have gone to 5 Euro each for those pieces of aviation history.

  • well that thing changes directions real fast! hahahah awesome!

  • No reheat-Russian gas turbine engines are renowned for giving off large amounts of black smoke when run dry.

  • die mig29 ist doch noch aus beständen der nva oder?

    wird diese maschine dann im kriegsfall auch eingesetzt oder is die nur so showmäßig unterwegs

    gibts irgendeinen von der luftwaffe hier oder nen sonstigen experten der das weiß?

    danke ^^

  • Ja die MiG ist aus NVA-Beständen. 23 Maschinen waren von 1990 bis 2007 in Laage stationiert. Seit 2007 gibt es allerdings keine MiG's mehr in der Luftwaffe, wurden (fast) alle an Polen verkauft und durch Eurofighter ersetzt.

    In den 17 Jahren dienten sie im Angriffsfall als Alarmrotte. Auf NATO-Ebene simulierten sie feindliche Flieger und trainierten daher oft mit amerikanischen Piloten.

    Showmäßig waren sie sehr oft im "Flying Display" unterwegs, formationsmäßig eher selten.

  • OMG you dumb fucking whatever useless joke of a country you come from.

  • I didn't notice any afterburning going on. :p That was a non afterburning pass. Cool video though.

  • spoken like a true euro douche bag. Its SO much pollution!!!

  • Since the Berlin wall went down and they were left with a bunch of them from the east. They also had a few MIG21's and other older planes, they kept the 29's flying, but I don't think any fly anymore. The video looks like CG, though the color scheme is a real one

  • russian jets sure smoke a lot. Easy to see them coming...Cool video.

  • I doubt you could - they are heavily armored.... :P

  • u may see em, but u dont react as fast...

  • The GAF took them over from the former Airforce of the NVA. Unfortunately they were given as something like a present to Poland. Leo 2s were given them , too.

    One could have called it a "sold"out of the Bundeswehr- if they had just demanded proper prices and not symbolic ones. I would have wanted one too for a couple of Euros ;)

  • They have only a limited budget for their fighter sqadrons, and they wanted to have all their sqadrons with the EF 2000 Eurofighter.

    Also they were very expensive to use them, 4 times as expensive as the EF 2000.

    So that improved Bundeswehrs fighting capability, altough I must admit the EF 2000 does not have a lack of the elegance of the Mig 29. As far as I know Poland uses them as a part giver.

  • To be quite honest, I don't like Migs or Sukhois very much. I prefer Nato jets, although one has to admit that the ancient sowjet warplanes are very good espeially in a direct comparison of speed, length and maneuvarbility.

    But, all they have one problem in common: Maintenance.

    Nato jet's components are designed to fly economically for years, those of "russian" jets aren't: Migs are cheaper when bought, but with higher longtime costs.

    That's why the GAF decided to set them out of service.