Gomig-21 Sat Jul 13, 2024 4:25 pm
Mir wrote:The Mig-15 (also known as the Aluminum Rabbit) is the most produced jet in history - also numbering 18 0000+. Significant numbers were also produced in China, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Aluminum Rabbit, ey? I never knew that, that's a pretty cool nickname for that puppy.
It reminds me of quite the related historical event. After the disaster that was the 6-day war of 1967, Egypt conducted the War of Attrition which was almost exclusively aerial in nature, interdiction after interdiction, interception after interception and dogfight after dogfight for 3 years, from 1968 to 1970 when finally, a ceasefire was put into place. A lot of A2A kills from both sides but later both Arab air forces (Syrian & Egyptian) found out one of their major shortcomings was that bare aluminum, especially on their MiG-21s.
They actually noticed 2 things; they would get spotted out of nowhere despite being below radar coverage or behind mountains at the same time, they were also noticing the Israeli Mirage IIIs from a distance when the sun would sparkle and reflect something fierce off of its own bare, metallic fuselage. So they figured the same advantage/disadvantage was happening to them. The irony. At the time it was mostly the MiG-21PFM I believe.
Once they came to terms that it was a serious dead giveaway to the enemy, they decided to camouflage their aircraft and boy did they go nuts loool.
And many more insane artistry patterns. But the idea that the bare, shiny aluminum was a negatively impacting factor and even crazier is discovering that it worked both ways.
Mir wrote:The Mi-8 - which is still in production - is not far behind at 17 000+. It is by far the most produced helicopter in the world.
Even the United Nations peace-keeping forces use it. Seems to be the ultimate utility helo.
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