AlphaChi1989F-22
I would like to see 200 built, which would be about 78 or so more.
This would keep USA jobs going.
The Pentagon reported that they may send 30,000 more USA troops
to Afghanistan, so they will need helos for mountain & cave warfare.
May need to shift some of the F-22 budget to troops, weapons, helos, ammo,
robots, remote aerial aircraft, flame throwers, etc.
AlphaChi1989Where’s Fossett?
Reports say wreckage found at 10,000 feet, high speed crash.
Inyo National Forest covers about 2 million acres.
Personal items found 5/8 mile from wreckage.
Sniffer dogs being brought in for searching groups.
Another report says governor was considering billing
his widow for the past $687,000 cost for the search after he went
missing.
Pre-crash aircraft photos & data at:
AlphaChi1989F-22, yes please
I’m for a minimum of 200 Raptors to be USA based only(replace old F-15 birds).:)
The legacy lives on…
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2006/Highlights/F15F16F22P51.jpg
AlphaChi1989London airports
I would recommend moving 30 million Heathrow passengers to a new international airport southward of London, maybe at, or near, Biggin.
This new airport could handle incoming high risk flights, such as drug
trafficers, jihadists, and older aircraft. Security could be very tight here.
Reserve new terminal at Heathrow for USA businessmen, Londoners,
brits, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, with Gatwick handling USA
and other mostly pleasure flights, and overflow.
A new London airport on the coast/river as recommended in this report
would be much more susceptible to Russian bombers, Sukhois, MiGs,and
subs.
AlphaChi1989Russian war
Getting back on topic…
If the Brits were given task of taking out Russian armor in Georgia,
might these be used?
From Wikipedia…
Length 1.8 m, Weight 48.5 kg, Range 12 km.
Fire and forget anti-tank missile.
Each launch system incorporates three rails This allows a single aircraft to carry large numbers of missiles, for example a Typhoon can carry eight launch system on eight individual pylons, which gives a payload of twenty four missiles – in addition to a useful air-air payload. In RAF service the missile will be carried by;
Tornado GR4
Eurofighter Typhoon
Harrier GR9
In addition to air launched platforms Brimstone can also be deployed from surface launchers, vehicles and helicopters.
AlphaChi1989Tskhinvali devastated
DZHAVA, Georgia – Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.
Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.
“I saw bodies lying on the streets, around ruined buildings, in cars,” said Lyudmila Ostayeva, 50, who had fled with her family to Dzhava, a village near the border with Russia. “It’s impossible to count them now. There is hardly a single building left undamaged.”
The timing suggests Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili may have been counting on surprise to fulfill his longtime pledge to wrest back control of South Ossetia — a key to his hold on power.
Saakashvili agreed the timing was not coincidental, but accused Russia of being the aggressor. “Most decision makers have gone for the holidays,” he said in an interview with CNN. “Brilliant moment to attack a small country.”
The United States was sending an envoy to the region on Friday to meet with the parties involved to try to end hostilities.
“We support Georgia’s territorial integrity,” State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos told reporters. “We are working on mediation efforts to secure a cease-fire.”
South Ossetian separatist leader Eduard Kokoity claimed hundreds of civilians had been killed.
Ten Russian peacekeepers were killed and 30 wounded when their barracks were hit in Georgian shelling, said Russian Ground Forces spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov. Russia has soldiers in South Ossetia as peacekeeping forces but Georgia alleges they back the separatists.
Georgia, which borders the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia, was ruled by Moscow for most of the two centuries preceding the breakup of the Soviet Union. Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, has angered Russia by seeking NATO membership — a bid Moscow regards as part of a Western effort to weaken its influence in the region.
Speaking earlier on Georgian television, Saakashvili accused Russia of sending aircraft to bomb Georgian territory, which Russia denied.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it was sending reinforcements for its peacekeepers, and Russian state television and Georgian officials reported a convoy of tanks had crossed the border. The convoy was expected to reach the provincial capital, Tskhinvali, by evening, Channel One television said.
Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili said government troops were now in full control of the city.
“We are facing Russian aggression,” said Georgia’s Security Council chief Kakha Lomaya. “They have sent in their troops and weapons and they are bombing our towns.”
Putin has warned that the Georgian attack will draw retaliation and the Defense Ministry pledged to protect South Ossetians, most of whom have Russian citizenship.
Chairing a session of his Security Council in the Kremlin, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also vowed that Moscow will protect Russian citizens.
“In accordance with the constitution and federal law, I, as president of Russia, am obliged to protect lives and dignity of Russian citizens wherever they are located,” Medvedev said, according to Russian news reports. “We won’t allow the death of our compatriots go unpunished.”
An AP reporter saw tanks and other heavy weapons concentrating on the Russian side of the border with South Ossetia — supporting the Russian TV reports of an incursion. Some villagers were fleeing into Russia.
“I saw them (the Georgians) shelling my village,” said Maria, who gave only her first name. She said she and other villagers spent the night in a field and then fled toward the Russian border as the fighting escalated.
Yakobashvili said Georgian forces have shot down four Russian combat planes over Georgian territory. He gave no details. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied an earlier Georgia report about one Russian plane downed and has had no immediate comment on the latest claim.
Yakobashvili said that one Russian plane had dropped a bomb on the Vaziani military base near the Georgian capital, but no one was hurt.
More than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers were at the base last month to teach combat skills to Georgian troops. Georgia has about 2,000 troops in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain.
South Ossetia officials said Georgia attacked with aircraft, armor and heavy artillery. Georgian troops fired missiles at Tskhinvali, an official said, and many buildings were on fire.
Georgia’s president said Russian aircraft bombed several Georgian villages and other civilian facilities.
“A full-scale aggression has been launched against Georgia,” Saakashvili said in a televised statement. He also announced a full military mobilization with reservists being called into action.
A senior Russian diplomat in charge of the South Ossetian conflict, Yuri Popov, dismissed the Georgian claims of Russian bombings as misinformation, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
Russia’s Defense Ministry denounced the Georgian attack as a “dirty adventure.” “Blood shed in South Ossetia will weigh on their conscience,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev later chaired a session of his Security Council in the Kremlin, vowing that Moscow will protect Russian citizens.
“In accordance with the constitution and federal law, I, as president of Russia, am obliged to protect lives and dignity of Russian citizens wherever they are located,” Medvedev said, according to Russian news reports. “We won’t allow the death of our compatriots go unpunished.”
Saakashvili long has pledged to restore Tbilisi’s rule over South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia. Both regions have run their own affairs without international recognition since splitting from Georgia in the early 1990s and built up ties with Moscow.
Relations between Georgia and Russia worsened notably this year as Georgia pushed to join NATO and Russia dispatched additional peacekeeper forces to Abkhazia.
The Georgian attack came just hours after Saakashvili announced a unilateral cease-fire in a television broadcast late Thursday in which he also urged South Ossetian separatist leaders to enter talks on resolving the conflict.
Georgian officials later blamed South Ossetian separatists for thwarting the cease-fire by shelling Georgian villages in the area.
AlphaChi1989Drinks & Doors
1) Drinks:
Isn’t the rule; Only one drink per hour in public?… Otherwise, things could
get crazy.
2) Doors:
One Quantas report (after oxygen tank blew) said that the door latchs
handle would shear off 747 if someone, or something, tried to open it without
authorization. Could the door handle have sheared if person(s) tried to
open the door on this flight?
AlphaChi1989Link Message
I had one; “Great Site” link , from airvanman Aug 1. Deleted it. Thanks for
notification.
AlphaChi1989Make or break
This airport has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Scariest Airports in the World…
The Top 10 list link:
AlphaChi1989AlphaChi1989By DAVID STRINGER
LONDON (AP) – In chilling videos shown to a jury Friday, men accused of plotting to bring down jetliners over the Atlantic called for revenge for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and praised Osama bin Laden.
Six of the eight defendants videotaped messages denouncing the West for what they said was its suppression of Muslims, prosecutor Peter Wright said as he outlined his case to jurors at a London court.
The defendants, all Britons with ties to Pakistan, are accused of plotting to blow up at least seven jetliners bound for the United States and Canada in 2006.
Some of the group were heard on secret police surveillance discussing plans to take their wives and young children on the suicide missions, Wright said.
Wright showed a jury clips of the so-called martyr videos, recorded for distribution after the attacks. Each man wore a black-and-white checkered head scarf and sat alone in front of a black flag inscribed with a message in Arabic.
“I say to the nonbelievers, as you bomb, you will be bombed. As you kill, you will be killed,” said Umar Islam, 29, as he angrily wagged a finger at the camera, denouncing the U.S. and Britain for their role in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.
Another defendant, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, predicted waves of new attacks on the United States and Britain.
“We will take our revenge and anger, ripping amongst your people and scattering the people … decorating the streets,” he said.
All the defendants “expressed similar chilling sentiment in their respective videos,” Wright said. The footage, in which the suspects spoke in English, was not publicly released.
Prosecutors calculated about 1,500 people on board the passenger jets – and potentially many more on the ground if the planes exploded over cities – could have been killed if the planned coordinated attacks had been carried out.
Soft drink bottles injected with hydrogen peroxide-based explosives were to be smuggled on board and bombs assembled in jetliner toilets, Wright said. A hollowed-out camera battery was to be used to hide a detonator.
Major disruption was caused to British airports and hundreds of flights were grounded when police arrested the suspects in August 2006. Airlines quickly imposed tough new limits on the amount of liquids and gels – and types of carryon luggage – passengers can take on flights.
Wright told the jury Thursday the group had expressed hopes of recruiting as many as 18 suicide bombers.
Seven flights from London’s Heathrow airport to Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, Toronto and Montreal were singled out for attack, Wright said.
The cell planned to strike all seven in a single afternoon in late 2006, though a precise date had not been selected, he said.
Wright said the group purchased an apartment in a London row house and used it as a bomb factory and had collected large quantities of hydrogen peroxide for use as explosives.
Wright acknowledged the men had not been able to assemble a viable bomb, but he insisted they were close to achieving success.
He showed a jury a video of an experiment by government scientists using the same ingredients to create explosives. Thick panels of reinforced glass shattered as the bomb exploded, spraying shrapnel across a laboratory.
In a pressurized airliner cabin at 30,000 feet, the same explosion would have caused a “devastating and lethal effect,” Wright said.
All eight men deny charges of conspiracy to murder and planning an act of violence likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft. Both offenses carry maximum sentences of life imprisonment, at taxpayers expenses.
Wright said one defendant, Assad Sarwar, had not planned to join the others in carrying out the suicide bombings. He was plotting to cripple nuclear power stations, a European gas pipeline, Britain’s electricity grid, an airport control tower and the main exchange for Britain’s Internet Service providers, the prosecutor said.
A suitcase buried by Sarwar, 27, in a wooded area at Kingswood, in High Wycombe, west of London, contained explosives and bomb-making equipment, Wright said.
In addition to Islam, Ali and Sarwar, the defendants are Arafat Waheed Khan, 26; Tanvir Hussain, 27; Mohammed Gulzar, 26; Ibrahim Savant, 27; and Waheed Zaman, 23.
AlphaChi1989Starship Troopers
Niner, Niner…come in starship command…
AlphaChi1989AlphaChi1989Where to put the jets?
Rear mounted jets may do more damage to the aircraft, and/or slice & dice
persons, in some cases…:eek:
1) News report of accident:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/15/engine.failures/index.html
2) Jet powered P-51!
http://www.combatreform2.com/p51wingtipjets.jpg
😀
AlphaChi1989My best westerns
Being a stud like Burt Reynolds, my two favs are:
1) “Best Little (Hohouse) in Texas”; 1982, with Dolly Parton. 😉
2) “100 Rifles”; 1969, with Raquel Welch.;)
🙂
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