SAAF Cheetah DACT | Cobus Toerien (Clip)

Former SAAF Cheetah pilot, Cobus Toerien, shares what it was like to fly and fight the Cheetah including going up against Russian SU-30/32S, Mirage 2000, Tornado F3 and more.
This is a clip from part 2 of Cobus's interview and you can watch both parts here:
Part 1 - www.aircrewinterview.tv/#/mir...
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[@petercampbell1648]

Guest pilot: "But what if something goes wrong?" Pilot who signed the plane out: "Don't worry - ejection seat very effective..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@lebogangsetlhaba7391]

This was a nice interview, so great to see how different can achieve in working together to advance our technological footprint 🔥🙌🏾

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers

[@MuffDiver71]

What a great interview! Watching the Cheetahs fly always made me want to be a fighter pilot. Sadly, that never happened though. I really hope the Cheetah will be added to DCS some day.

[@FGCH03]

Excellent interview, can you add subtitles please?

[@zilla11547]

small correction: 709 is not a Su-32 but it is actually a Su-27M (Su-35) It is a modernised single seat Su-27 with canards but NO thrust vectoring (711 got the thrust vectoring engines and was redesignated Su-37). The Su-35 designation got reused for the modernised Su-27 variant that is being produced today.

[@prokremelskidezolati1426]

yep...but the Su-35 is not the "modernized" Su-27, it is a completely new AC - Su-35BM.

[@krishorst4734]

So depressing how far the SA defence forces have fallen. We used to be top, top class.

[@jan-louisbezuidenhout6296]

Ask Cobus about the SAAF Mirage F1 fitted with a Russian Klimov RD-33 engine.... The French said it was not possible to fit this engine into a Mirage F1 frame...

[@useryggfdcc]

The Russian engine MTBF was too short. After 800 hrs it need an overhaul. I was doing n avionics course for the Cheetah D when the Russians were working at the Atlas factory. Those guys drunk a lot....the empty bottles were outside their rooms every morning. Good times.

[@prokremelskidezolati1426]

Too bad he didn't mention the score. It was supposedly 4:0 for Pugachov :))

[@alankucar8025]

Su-32 was part of the Su-34 programme and was a side by side two seater, not a single seater.

[@andresgarcia7757]

can't blame him for the wrong designation, the su-27 family designations requiere a book by itself.

[@useryggfdcc]

I know three pilots is this picture far left, next is Rankin and thirt for left look like Capt De Beer. Col Johan Rankin was our OC at 87 CFS Pietersburg.