Foster

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I suspect Ryan ran into Mako in the intro-post.
-So that probably went well... @Massasauga

That or Icicle.

Yuril will probably just click his heels together and shout "CLEM!" as an introduction and let things go from there.
-Sense of humor, that one.

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@Pilatus
"Russian G-Suit"

....

You mean a pressure-suit, right?
-Even until the late 1990's, the Russian Air Force has yet to field G-suits in significant quantity (or quality), and their pilots have been reluctant to wear them.

It's a mind-bogly thing, but yeah. The VKK-6 is still not very popular. Even if it was kinda essential for MiG-25/31 missions.

For those who didn't need plan to hit the edge of space on a mission (or flying anything built after the MiG-21), things were a bit different. Normal uniform, a pair of compression-leggings, and an elastic cumberbund.

*shrugs*

I think we'll just assume that means the VK-3M "Ventilation Suit" (temprature-regulating jumpsuit). Since the pressure-suit (if worn) is essentially an undergarment, and the G-suit is a package of accessories.

List of kit

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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.

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

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@Silverwind Blade
So I can haz mine put into tabby?

Not sure if you saw the serious bio, or the pre-emptive april-fools "Everything is Yuri" bio.

I hadn't heard of the specific MLD variant of the MiG-23 before, it sounds like a good one.

@Silverwind Blade

MiG-23MLGD was an upgrade-program meant for allied states that was canned for not being economical.
(MiG-29 was just that easy to build, and that much more capable. Although in terms of maint-costs they were same. A second engine is harder to keep running than a set of properly built swing-wings)

Its limitations aside, the MiG-23MLD served quite well as dissimilar aggressor aircraft (which were the ones with the sharks-teeth), not quite as-manuverable, but like most third-gen fighters, has brute power, rate of climb, and acceleration.

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_{Note to non-british people that don't get teh orgin of the brit slang for the M270, as it was a joint US/UK thing originally called the "General Support Rocket System" or GSRS, and thus teh gridsquare-backronymn. As it was never officially called that in US nomenclature, the "removal-service" bit went over most people's heads and they called it based more on form than function.}

I think we call it somthing of a big woodland-camo grid-square eraser. Because of its brick-like lozenge shape.
-The rockets themselves are known as steel/Iron Rain. Those who named it off of function tended to refer to it as a commander's personal shotgun, as it could lay-down some mighty impressive counter-battery fire in the event of surprise-artillery (and as that threat became a non-issue, as a 70km sniper rifle much like its 203mm older brother).
--In short, it's the artillery-incarnate version of the A-10 Warthog.

For all the oopsies field commanders may see in need of removal to look fit and proper.

Strangely enough, you get desensitized to it. The vehicles tend to stay the same.
Sometimes they come back a little more or a little less banged-up than usual. Since this is kinda where MRAPs that run over landmines end-up.

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Land Rovers are a lot more common here. I cycle past a nice ex-military one that evidently belongs to a collector most days I cycle to work. It's still got the old markings and has the radio antenna bases still installed. I'll get a pic one day. There also a Humber Pig that just sits in someone's drive in my home city too.
I think because Portsmouth is a military town, there's quite a lot of stuff like that locally. One of the old defensive forts here was scheduled to become a museum, and they got to the point of bringing in a bunch of vehicles to exhibit, but never opened the museum. Now it's a park and ride for the local hospital, with a Chieftan tank out front, and apparently some more vehicles inside.

@Silverwind Blade

*Points at local Nat'l gaurd open-air armory, motor-pool, and Oshkosh truck MRAP storage/repair yard.

Have chatted with M270 MLRS crewmen back when CNN was still mistakening them for bridgelayers.

Doesn't take a 6 yr old long to count the number of tubes on one of those.

"Why doesn't it have more rockets?" (was expecting, like, 40... just like BM-21)

"It has enough."

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This RP is allowed to lean against the 4th wall, right?

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Notes that the first time I listened to "Bullets" by Archive, I thought the line said "Bullets off of beauty in the western sky. Bullets off of beauty and I don't know why."

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Bit of a long way to go back and ask ;) But maybe they'll do something like that if they refurbish them sometime in the future. Either way, it was something different to see. The whole museum was good, actually. Had a lot of unusual stuff for a museum over here, and things I hadn't seen before. A lot of the museums here only have ex-RAF, Army or RN aircraft. Seeing some foreign things was a nice change.

@Silverwind Blade

I guess I'm kinda spoiled to have a running T-34/85 just down the street by the airport.
(You'll have to ask the owner super-nicely, though)

Importing ammo for it is probably a pain, though.

Although I was somehow more impressed by the collection of vintage trucks.
-Vintage land rover trucks aren't common over here.
-Oddly enough, main battle tanks are exempt from this tax. So you can literally buy a gently used Centurion mk 8 for less than a Land Rover.
-I'm hinting that Vickers should start building tanks for the American public. Out-Hummer the Hummer already, show 'em how it's done.

BTW: a pound of chicken-meat is cheaper than a pound of eggs.

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Ask them if you can put a shark-toothed smiley-face on her.

Was tempted to do East Germany, for das Bundesboos out there.

But they get Su-22.

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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