There have been numerous reports that the Koreans have run into difficulty trouble-shooting the F-15/F110 combination. They get no help from the US Air Force when they run into any kind of fault codes or anomalies – since the US doesn’t fly this engine-airframe combination.

Could you please point me to any of those reports?

Cheers,
Sunho

Different war, completely different circumstances. The traffic separation principle was not appropriate to the limited war of 1982, & was not applied. The numbers of aircraft were much smaller, were operating in a restricted area, and the degree of fratricide considered acceptable in an all-out war in Europe was not acceptable to the Israelis.

Any documentary evidence to back it up? I would be happy to read it.

Whatever BVR missile you have, you must accompany it with reliable identification capability.

If not, the rules of engagement would almost certainly force you to visually identify your target before shooting at it, rendering the BVR missile to a ‘within visual range’ one.

Cheers,
Sunho

Does anyone know what is the status of OV-10 and Mk-53 replacement of Indonesian Air Force?

Below is part of the story I wrote for AW&ST last month.

Aerospace Business
Korea Aerospace Focuses KT-1 on Counter-Insurgency Market
Aviation Week & Space Technology
01/21/2008 , page 42

Sunho Beck
Seoul

… Indonesia is once again high on the list of prospective customers, this time for the KA-1, an armed forward-air-control version of the KT-1 formerly called KO-1. Jakarta wants to replace its Rockwell OV-10F Bronco counterinsurgency aircraft, introduced in 1976, with aircraft immune to Western arms embargoes, local media say. The Indonesian air force aims to choose either the KA-1 or the Super Tucano by 2009, although the PT6A engine seems to make both vulnerable to Western arms export controls. If selected, the KA-1 could be assembled by Dirgantara Indonesia with some parts made in the country.

Cheers,
Sunho

Hi Analayo,

Do you have any picture of the RTAF F-5E armed with Python IV?
I do have one picture that shows Python III, but not Python IV.

I’d greatly appreciate if you could post some pictures here, if any.

Thanks in advance,
Sunho

Ships were dispresed precisely to prevent a single nuclear initiation from taking out the whole CVBG. That was the reason behind Link 11 using HF radio.

In the Exercise Sunrise in 1948 (sixty years ago!), the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet staged a mock attack against a ‘Russian’ naval base at Plymouth and ‘Russian’ air bases in Devon and Cornwall. The idea was to try out the feasibility of attacking Russian bases in Kola Peninsula defended by nuclear bombers.

The Home Fleet kept its destroyers at least three miles apart each other and main units including three aircraft carriers 4.5 miles apart, a disposition unthinkable in the WW2. RAF Lancaster and Lincoln bombers could not find the elusive fleet for days and when a Coastal Command Lancaster finally located the fleet and simulated a nuclear bomb drop, the nearest ship was a destroyer 4,500 yards away. The fleet was deemed to get away relatively unharmed.

Cheers,
Sunho