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Originally Posted by KND Given what we know now that the bulk of the Warsaw Pact air forces were made up of obsolete planes, how could they have possibly won in the air? |
Thats because
at the time when it was a problem they were not obsolete and countries like Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other minors trained their pilots to a much higher level then the West.
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Originally Posted by KND I'm thinking specifically about the period of time (1980 and on) when Reagan took over, and when the US would be putting F-15s and F-16s in the air. The only way that I can think of that the Warsaw Pact could have negated US air power is with mobile SAM launchers. |
At that time neither F-16s nor F-15s had any significant combat winning advantage over MiG-29s, yes they were superior but not to an extent where they could just take the sky and the Warsaw Pact had a whole lot more planes and pilots.
In fact if you read up its the West including USA that tried to negate Soviet airpower with oodles of AA.