The year of maximum danger: 1954

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 03:52am

Its seem the service ceiling of the Yak-25 was 13900 meters. It also had radar and a pair of 37mm cannon plus rockets. So if CGI could get it close it should have at least some chance of bring down a B-36. However total production was less then 500 from 1954-57 and the whole CGI thin is a big if. Basically its not going to matter very much.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 04:01am

Captain tycho wrote:4 words: One Big Nuclear Wasteland

Actually no, far from it. The Soviet Union has a vast amount of infrastructure and military resources. And the whole world has less then 100, possibul less then 50 megatons worth of nuclear arms. Allot more will be built of the length of the war, and many target will have to be reattacked.

But the US alone exploded 1151 nuclear devices in tests and the Soviets 969. A lot of those where atmospheric and many where fallout producing ground busts. That caused some major, but localized contamination problems. Its unlikely this war would leave the world any worse off after a few years.

In fact, while there may be more atmospheric bursts, there mostly going to be small atomic ones because they can be quickly produced. That may leave the world with much less contamination.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-02 02:57pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Its seem the service ceiling of the Yak-25 was 13900 meters. It also had radar and a pair of 37mm cannon plus rockets. So if CGI could get it close it should have at least some chance of bring down a B-36. However total production was less then 500 from 1954-57 and the whole CGI thin is a big if. Basically its not going to matter very much.

Any idea of it's high-altitude performance other than service ceiling (e.g. endurance at height)?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 03:08pm

phongn wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Its seem the service ceiling of the Yak-25 was 13900 meters. It also had radar and a pair of 37mm cannon plus rockets. So if CGI could get it close it should have at least some chance of bring down a B-36. However total production was less then 500 from 1954-57 and the whole CGI thin is a big if. Basically its not going to matter very much.
Any idea of it's high-altitude performance other than service ceiling (e.g. endurance at height)?

Not really. Though check with mulitpul sources, it seems 13900 meters is the max ceiling not service. Service was 36,000 feet. Max speed was 594 mph, no idea on what height that is. Range 1,200 miles, once again with no height data.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-02 03:14pm

Damn. Maybe I'll go search Google Groups to see if there's any information on it. They had quite a few "B-36 vs. F-86 or -vs. MiG-15/17 threads"

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 03:22pm

A normal google web search turned up only one site of any value, but it seemed to be formatted for about ten times the resolution I'm running at. Overall the plane is not well covered. I can find small amounts of data in books. But an aircraft which was never exported, rapidly replaced and only had a small production run just isn't that interesting.