Forum: Air Power

Hello, could anyone please give me information about the Soviet tactics regarding the use of their point defence interceptors e.g Yak-28P, Tu-128,Su-11, and others?

How did they plan to use them, and how effective they would have been against the B-52s and FB-111(i think in linebacker I&II no B-52s were lost to MiG-21s.

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You talking about PVO Strany?

Like Fishbed, Flagon, Firebar, etc?

I can tell you that when they were the bad guys, that they flew very disciplined intercepts under rigid GCI control. I was a good guy in ADC, and we did the same.

No dogfighting by we interceptor pukes, and at the time, a flight of Vipers would have kicked serious butt.

The PVO used a lot of stern conversions and few HO tactics during the 60's and 70's. As better BVR missiles came on line, I am sure they used cut-off profiles if they had a clear indication the tgt was a bandit. 'course, remember KAL 007 and a stern shot by a swine.

The Linebacker missions of the BUFFs were atypical compared to the SIOP nuke mission profiles. So no lessons-learned there. Go look at the 'vaark after-action-reports for something neat.

The low-alt profiles of the tactical jets and the 'vaarks would have been interesting. In fact, I knew a guy who claimed he flew his actual nuke profile in a Hun from FRG into Poland or such one day. No problems and he made it back in one piece without being detected. The later BUFF SRAM load would also have been interesting, as they could plow in shooting those things all the way.

So glad those days are gone, folks. All of us should feel that way............

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Forum: Air Power

PVO interceptors