Re: Plaaf Pic Thread
now tell me, what the hell do you expect to do with a combat fighter derived from the MiG-AT in today's world? Low intensity warfare? Q-5 can take care of that, and much more cheaply too. Point defense? Doesn't have the top speed, and who the hell does point defense today anyways? It's not the Yum Kippur war. Air superiority? What the hell are you going to use as a radar? My flashlight? Multi Role? Well, aside from the point that it can't fight other birds, have you seen the payload? It can barely lift me, granted that I'm a fatass.
A trainer is made to do one thing: emulating the flight characteristics of the more advanced, and much more expensive, combat aircraft. And as combat aircrafts get more expensive, so do the trainers. But despite the rising cost, the trainer still only does one thing, and that's emulating flight characteristics.