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Character Name: Yuril Greggor
Nickname/callsign: Clem
Age: 26
Nationality: Bulgarian
Gender: Male

Bio:
Originally trained to fly MiG-29B, attrition while flying against the initial Yerrill invasion forced the Bulgarian and other eastern-aligned air forces to pull out their resserve-stocks of MiG-23s and make-do with whatever leftover avionics they had. Thankfully most of them had been retrofitted for improved dogfighting characteristics, but the older radar kits with a maximum acquisition-range of 70 km made them much more reliant on "flight leader" aircraft and ground controlled intercepts and less on individual manuvering than he'd grown comfortable with.

Things did not return to 'normal' until deliveries for replacement Zhuk-ME radars arrived for the MiG-29s that no longer existed, and so it was decided to fit the much improved MiG-29S's radar into the 25 year old airplanes and hope for the best.

Personality:
Calm, trusting, and skeptical. Often given the grunt-like part of any mission while other pilots had the privlidge to sit back and wait patiently for a radar-lock. Yet whenever his comrades got pinged, it was his job to race back at no less than 950 knots off the deck and sucker-punch a Yerrill fighter off their tail from below, or provide immediate close-air in the event of a bail-out over enemy territory to help the downed airman break-contact and flee to a rendezous with a friendly whirly-bird.

Appearance:

Picture

Personal Gear: A pair of Makarov pistols. (and Yuri)

Aircraft: MiG-23MLGD
Aircraft Colours: Woodland camo with shark's teeth
Character Theme: Bulllllllets!

Though I do like me some Su-22 goodies

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Probably going to take the old soviet approach of solving the lack of dakka with two Makarovs... at least until my character gets issued a Grach or PP-2000 (depending on how things go).

Massy, no making fun of my character's twirly revolver-fighty stance, and I won't point out that the P90 is smaller than a certain nine.

*Gets to work on crafting Yuri*

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Scans google

Bryan Walker ([e-mail]) wrote:
> The fact that none of us had any faith in these weapons led most
> of us to rely on somewhat unorthodox armament, including Desert Eagles,
> Mac-10s and 11s, and even some CAR-15A2s.

Fighter pilots.

CoD mentality. CoD mentality, everywhere.
-Apparently one Tomcat-jockey would check a MAC-10 out of the ship's weapons-locker for every mission.
-One Marine aviator tried requisitioning an M79 LAW, successfully. His WSO filled-out paperwork for a Redeye.

I remember reading the report on the Apache-Longbow rescue mission [this one] that involved a negligent-discharge of an SA85 on final-approach. The round bounced about the cockpit for a bit over an open-mic.

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Ditto, and plus there's a lot more choice. They don't get in the way as much either when you've got to wear all of that flight gear and then wriggle into a cockpit as well.

@Silverwind Blade

iirc, survival rifles are tucked into a compartment under the ejection-seat.

They were developed pretty much due to the realization that bringing a pistol to a stand-up gunfight is a bad idea.
-Such as the GAU-5/A, with a nominal barrel length of 10 inches and a half-assed suppressor.
-Later replaced by the GUU-5/P (essentially a rebarreled gun, as they retained the GAU-5's full-uto giggle-switch)

'course that's survival-kit stuff lodged deeply into the escape-kit, and not really a "sidearm" one wanders around base with.
-Unless you're a hangar-sentry, ofc.
-Plus, this is the upper-limit of what can be crammed into that compartment.
--The upside is you generally get six or seven mags of tracer-rounds for it, pretty much a "No batteries required" means of directing close air support when pucker-factor reaches twelve. (here, having a range that exceeds "suicidally danger-close" and full-auto for CAS are good things)

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Is this a challenge?

@Slypheed

If it is, I call dibbs on a belt-fed sawed-off CETME.

AKS74U and CAR-15 survival rifles are probably going to be the mainstay.

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F-15E Strike Eagle for the NES?

Both types could also be equipped with underfuselage 30mm ADEN gun pods, that looked much the same as the 25mm gun pod used by the AV-8B.

FYI in case I'm slow on responses or people wonder where I am; I work full-time and I run on GMT, so I'm in a different time zone to you US peoples, and I don't have as much time to check and respond to things as I might like, but I do my best.
Also, adult responsibilities, since I live with my partner, so cooking, cleaning, etc also have to come first :P
I also have other hobbies too, and I like to share my time - expect 1 post a week-ish (maybe two!) in the IC from me when we get going, and plenty of OOC chit-chat.

@Silverwind Blade

Well, I was writing more in regards to the ill-fated Harrier II program and efforts to develop a 25mm ADEN that led to nowhere, although it was stipulated that they could be retrofitted with the old 30mm, the project apparently got canned before that happened in favor of waiting for the F-35.

During which time the sea-harriers started flying themselves to pieces and the entire British carrier-program/naval-aviation was put on the chopping-block under the terms of "austerity". Which I suppose this being alt-timeline is a good thing.

Also, congrats on the gainful employment. Best of luck on adulting your way to success.

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Yeah but if you get painted by an enemy aircraft, it's over. The thing cannot dogfight worth shit.

@Massasauga

That Zaslon radar tho... Able to track and engage 10 targets out to 200 km out.
-Ultimately, its limiting factor is the ability to only hold 4 R-33 missiles (range of 300 km).
-Or six R-37s (200 km range)

MiG-31 BSM had in-flight refuel, an integral cannon, and an improved radar able to track and engage 24 targets out to 320 km.
-At which point it has command-authority to launch SAMs and various other strategic-level assets.
(because is Russia)

So think of it less as an ersatz F-14, and more like an E-3 that is vaugely capable of dogfighting.

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Figured I could use a changeup from spamming apps in Chengdu J-7s, McDonnel-D F-4E Phantom IIs, and Lockheed F-5Es.

Hopefully you won't get overstressed with work this May. ;)

BTW: AV-8B "Plus" model. The British model lacks a cannon... or radar.

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The main problem with the MiG-25 and MiG-31 is that they're supersonic high-altitude bomber interceptors and they can't turn for shit. The F-15 was made as a counter to the Foxbat and later Foxhound.

Think I'll start on an F-14D and then to an F-15E. Gonna app a REO alongside the pilot.

@Massasauga

MiG-31 still does alright in AEW, ECM, and photo-recon missions, though.
-Or for pissing off a flight to scramble early and GTFO, or to intercept a flight during mid-air refuel.
(Its wide flight vector would [distance it can cover in the time a flight can be sent to intercept] means it can cause ALOT of disruption to airfields simply by existing)

Strap some passive-radar guided ARMs to it, and they perform pretty decent SEAD(L) missions.

Probably going to get my MiG-23 to work closely with the MiG-31 until they can haz upgrade to Sukhoi airframes with companion-cubes mini-fridges.
(tempted to either pair two MiG-23s with teh MiG-31 for Migcap, or just "Borrow" the F-14 for a decent wingman)

Silver is probably taking the F-15A/C... just a guess. Making them the super-fighter of the flight.

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I'd suggest somethign chinese.
-Or a ground pounder.

A sexy one ofc.

Or if you want the ugly yet competant duckling, anything Isreali, French, or South African.

MiG-23 FTW. Otherwise Mirage 5D.