First of all,you definutely need to know that Mi-6 was never in our service.Just look at that big red star! And Mi-6 is an old machine, too loud, too hard for maintenance and too clumsy.

Second, the air force will stay the way it is for some years to come. Mig-29 upgrade is highly doubtfull,Mig-21s will have to fly untill 2010 at least and later who knows.Oraos and Galebs will also need to last more years as no funds will be allocated for any new airplanes. The only funds Air Force will get are the funds for overhauling (at a slow rate) and these will be for Mig-21s(some are already at Moma Stanojlovic facility) and G-4s respectively.

Speaking of helicopters,no Mi-24s will be obtained in the near future,there is no money for that and no immediate need.

In conclusion,there is not really much to say. The air force is struggling to survive.

Looks like practice bomb dispensers – I remember seeing pics of ’em back in the early 80s on Harriers and Bucs. Can’t remember the designation – but i think they carried 4 small rounds each. Aerodynamic nose shape cuts up to flat bottom.

http://www.flight-refuelling.com/products/ame/pbc.htm

JJ

Hmm,why would they carry those on an interception sortie? :confused:

Yes I remember seeing that and the skipper of one of the boats I was previlidged enough to have a trip on had standing orders to shoot anyone caught stealing any machinery. But since he was a well liked Skipper no one ever did anything bad, I remember hearing that he personally supplied all the vodka on board from his own pockets.

I was thinking anything but wine is forbiden on Russian subs?:)

I take it you haven’t seen this system in use. No problem I’ll see if I can find a pic for you, hang on (runs away looking in odd places). Well I didn’ty find any decent pics but heres a website that tells you how Snokeling works.

I have seen the photos of Snorkel in use,i guess i just mixed it up with something else.As i have a great knowledge in German World War 2 technology,i know that the late war German submarines did indeed use Snorkeling devices but these unfortenutely came too late and were too few.

Well that certainly would help with the air situation. I also hear that none of their boats are sea worthy anymore either, can you confirm this.

Sadly,none of the boats are seaworthy.Economic sanctions and the lack of money during that time have prevented any spare parts being bought/manufactured. Also,after the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991, the sea area to be patroled by the subs has reduced enormously,as they only operate from Montenegro now.They are simply not needed anymore as they have no task to fullfill. As of next month,the union of Serbia and Montenegro will seize to exist most probably and i guess those submarines will be scrapped.I would have liked if they save at least one as a museum.

I will try and locate a tunnel in the mountain where some of the ships and subs were stored. Some are also in the port of Kotor,tied to the piers.

If you would like,i can email you all the photos of our submarines.Just send me a private message with your address.

Sorry it seems a Dc-4/Dc-6 series aircraft. Il-18 engines configuration are different.

Woops,exactly.My mistake.It is a DC-6 indeed. Il-18 has a different cockpit layout anyways.

Still,i dont know why an F-86 would intercept a civil airlines from the same country.

DJnik: mate your chemistry equasion is bang on, yes nuke boat do have some heavy scrubbers for the air filtration units but they are ver big and cumbersome, the reason that SSk’s don’t have them is because of their size. Reguardless, they do still have to Snort every five days just to change the air in the tub.

When I was on HMAS Onslow, we snorted every two days and had oxygen candels in between. One HMAS Collins, we had a five day air supply but snorted every three anyway.

As for the ISS, they have something completely different and revolutionary, I don’t know what it is but it’s deeply classified in the US military files, I must conclude that they have something new that is on the new Seawolf boats, as most of the other systems are declassified

I read some time ago that the Russian nuke boats use some gold and other precious metals in their air filters and that these components were being stolen which as you can conculde is not a very good thing to do. As i recall it was on BBC.

I know that these filters are quite big but my argument above was that also during longer space flights,for example the Apollo missions,some kind of air filter was used and as you know what the size of these spacecraft was,why would it be hard to manufacture something today that could fit into an SSK?

When submarine snorts,does it use some type of a snorkel like device to get fresh air or it surfaces completely?

Our submarines in the Navy of Serbia and Montenegro cannot even dive anymore,so we have no problems with fresh air 😀

P.S: Are you still serving on subs or? I am jelous:)