By: Ja Worsley – 11th September 2004 at 05:44  – Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Jonesy: Yes indeed she was a tough little ship as were all of that class! I remember the RAAF trying to sink our old D.E. HMAS Swan, it took so much to sink her, something like four Harpoons and several unguided bombs, they even straffed it.

Ex-HMAS Swan DE 50 was sunk as a dive wreck. Are you thinking of ex-HMAS Derwent DE 49, used by DSTO for testing before being scuttled? Ex-HMAS Torrens DE 53 was sunk by HMAS Farncomb using a Mk48 torpedo, but no River Class Destroyer Escorts were sunk as targets by the RAAF?!?

https://swandive.com.au/

https://youtu.be/LV8NhBpFNGo

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/09/01/1448475.htm

More pics from the Vientiane Times coverage of Lao Military Day, first one shows the new segmented roundel quiet nicely!

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Armée de l’Air Gabonaise Mirage 5G airborne – http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=1656625

Brunei PC-9 delivery

http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=1423718
http://www.aircraftslides.com/auction/images/63b6ae3a93603.JPG

Ugandan Hind

Interesting it still has the old 1964 roundels, unlike the new ones on the ex-Polish MiG-21’s

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/13264000-rescuers-find-one-ugandan-copter-gunship-at-crash-site-in-mount-kenya

An-14

Are you sure this is Guinea Bissau? The roundel looks like Guinea to me.

By the way, the Mongolian An-14 and the DRC Mi-8 are fantastic! Thanks!

Actually looking closely it almost looks like a Djiboutian roundel, they certainly used the An-28 Cash derived from the An-14 although are not listed as a user of the latter at all. :confused:

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6674/an28dji02wapig3.jpg

Tunisian F-5F’s

Just below their tail codes, Tunisian F-5F’s have a smaller set of numerals.

Can’t see them on the E’s, but Y 92502 & Y 92506 definitely have them.

Does anyone know what they are? Former USAF serial, construction number, ???

Thanks SO much MSphere!

Well, maybe your eyes are better than mine but I can read something like SF S5304 on this MiG-27.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blindshooter/3591619063/in/photostream/

In the photostream you can also find many other elements of the SLAF like C-130 (SQH-3402?), PT-6 (SBT-1607?) or Mi-17 (SMH-4309), all were re-serialed.

Pure gold, definitely SFS5304 on that 27 and I can see SFW5201, SFW5203 & SFW5204 on the Kfir’s, pity the F-7’s aren’t readable apart from SFTXXXX on the FT-7.

That An-32 in the Ukraine seems to be the only one wearing those blue bars!