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April 14, 2006 at 11:36 pm in reply to: bears and badgers #2594916

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I always imagined Tu-14 as an up-scaled version of Il-28.Can anyone else see the similarity?

April 14, 2006 at 3:25 pm in reply to: Good old times…Yugoslav Air force early jet age #2595106

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Nice….any info of those twin engined jets …what size they were, and what sort of engines did they use?

Ikarus 451 Strsljen

Engines : Turbomeca Palas 056 A each with 147 daN (150 kp)
Armament : One Hispano Suiza 404A cannon under the fuselage (20mm) and 6 RS rockets (6,8kg)
Wingspan: 6,775m ,lenght:7,45m,height:2,32 m,wings SA:8m^2
Weight: 897,2kg (empty),max. takeoff weight 1350kg

Ikarus 451 Strsljen II

Engines : Turbomeca Marbore II each with 392 daN (400 kp)
Armament : two fuselage mounted Hispano Suiza Mk2 cannons (20mm) and 4x60mm rockets
Wingspan: 7,70m ,lenght:7,77m,height:2,32 m,wings SA:10,50m^2
Weight:1846 kg (empty),max. takeoff weight 2936kg

This is all i could dig up so far.My airplane books arent with me at a time:(

April 14, 2006 at 11:46 am in reply to: Good old times…Yugoslav Air force early jet age #2595199

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More of the early 50s and 60s jets.

452,Zolja,Matica,J-451 Strsljen, Strsljen II, Galeb G-1,Galeb G-2,Jasterb J-1, Galeb G-4 and Galeb G-4

April 14, 2006 at 9:55 am in reply to: Mig-21 and Mig-29 at Batajnica AB – new photos #2595339

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Well you really have to ask yourself does it pay off to licence make mig AT? How many would the Serbian Air Force need,20-30? That is a number hardly worth to open the licence production of an airplane for. Also ,all the production facilities of Orao’s and Galeb’s were in Mostar,Bosnia. Utva in Serbia could hardly be rebuilt to be used for a production of anything.

April 14, 2006 at 12:18 am in reply to: MiG-29`s combat record #2595670

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Again, and again, :confused: :confused: this is just legend, the Migs radars were functioning. This was confirmed by my frend, who in that time was working on this Migs just before taking off.

Oh really now? So why is everyone but your friend not telling the truth? The radars have not been replaced since the airplanes were obtained in 1987,that means they were 12 years old at the time of the conflict. Now, without proper spares they could have not been functioning properly.Also nothing guarantees these airplanes came with brand new radars as they were refurbished and overhauled from old Soviet stocks. The maintenance crew had to change each of the cathodes(bulbs?) on the radar separately and not the unit as a whole,which was never done before and wasnt suggested.

The radards could have somewhat worked when the Migs were on the ground,but once they took off,due to extensive jamming and ECM,they failed completely.

April 14, 2006 at 12:17 am in reply to: MiG-29`s combat record #2595676

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Again, and again, :confused: :confused: this is just legend, the Migs radars were functioning. This was confirmed by my frend, who in that time was working on this Migs just before taking off.

Oh really now? So why is everyone but your friend not telling the truth? The radars have not been replaced since the airplanes were obtained in 1987,that means they were 12 years old at the time of the conflict. Now, without proper spares they could have not been functioning properly.Also nothing guarantees these airplanes came with brand new radars as they were refurbished and overhauled from old Soviet stocks. The maintenance crew had to change each of the cathodes(bulbs?) on the radar separately and not the unit as a whole,which was never done before and wasnt suggested.

April 14, 2006 at 12:10 am in reply to: Good old times…Yugoslav Air force early jet age #2595684

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No one knows exactly the current order of battle but Ka-25 Hormone’s are not in service anymore. Here is a photo of one of them i took some time ago at the museum next to Belgrade Airport.

April 13, 2006 at 9:00 pm in reply to: what military aircraft do you see over your home often? #2595807

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Kansas actually, and the Boeing facility here did the conversion work for the YAL-1. I got to see its “first” flight even!

Oh ok.Cause i was thinking we might be actually neigbours in 2 years:)

April 13, 2006 at 7:34 pm in reply to: MiG-29`s combat record #2595865

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Well according to that list,they didnt.

April 13, 2006 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Mig-21 and Mig-29 at Batajnica AB – new photos #2595893

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Another photo of one of the stored Mig-29s,a detail of landing gear and a Mig-29 wooden model decoy that got destroyed.

April 13, 2006 at 12:23 pm in reply to: what military aircraft do you see over your home often? #2596226

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Well here’s what I’ve seen flying around here (excluding airshows, of course)

KC-135R/T
E-3
E-8
B-52
B-2
B-1B
E-2
YAL-1
F-16
A-10
T-38
F-15
F/A-18
An-124
Gripen
C-130
VC-25

All the ones in bold I see pretty regularly. The others I’ve seen either only once, or on only a few occasions.

Hey SOC are you on the west coast?Isnt YAL-1 at Beoing’s Seattle facility?

April 13, 2006 at 12:17 pm in reply to: what military aircraft do you see over your home often? #2596229

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I am temporarily close to Geilenkirchen AB and i regularly see KC-135R/T and E-3 AWACS,while only ocasionally some C-130. As i spend most of the day by Nörvenich, a regular site every morning at 9am are Tornadoes from JG 31 Böelcke usually flying in pairs.

April 13, 2006 at 8:47 am in reply to: Mig-21 and Mig-29 at Batajnica AB – new photos #2596319

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The Mig-21s will be retired most probably by 2010.

Money my friend is what is missing.Only when the Air Force gets the funds,it can start thinking of upgrading G-4s and let alone buying new Mig ATs.

General overhauls are most certain to follow,as some sources say for the remaining Mig-29s and G-4s as the Moma Stanojlovic repair facility at Batajnica AB has the capabilities and skilled staff to perform these.

April 12, 2006 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Mig-21 and Mig-29 at Batajnica AB – new photos #2596818

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Also a couple of photos show Mig-21 on alert and there is also a nice cockpit photo of the same airplane. One photo shows surplus Mig-21s that are parked in one of the dispersal areas.

All credits and many thanks to the guys from http://www.airserbia.com who are doing an amazing job as usuall!

April 11, 2006 at 11:00 pm in reply to: bears and badgers #2597721

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I simply created them 😀

Thats simply amazing:) Can you please send me a private message and explain to me what programe you use and other details?

Keep up the good work!
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