Man I’ve always liked Northrops little fighters and these upgrades just cement the feeling. I do wonder about the mechanical maintenance side of things with them though.

Daniel

Bahrain operates the ex FFG 24 USS Jack Williams as the Sabha, pennant number 90.

Daniel

Iran knows how the US likes to negotiate… they share a border with both Afghanistan and Iraq. Why shouldn’t Iran be allowed to set up its own air defence network and upgrade it as it sees fit? It is the US that has decided that the Iranians are trying to make nuclear weapons. Just like it was the US that had decided that Saddam had plenty of WMDs all over the place and was ready to use such weapons and we had to go in now to take out that threat to the whole world. …and of course we all had to go into Afghanistan to take out the Taleban to save the world yet again… now the US is crying wolf again for a third time… are you dumb enough to believe this has anything to do with nuclear weapons, or do you see that black liquid as being the direct link?

Well unlike Iraq the US seems to have ample support from the Euro’s on Iran. Televised firings of SRBM/IRBMs with the range to reach European nations and major terrorist attacks in European capitals are probably to blame for that. Tehran being historically more closely linked to terrorist organisations that Baghdad ever was. Sure the Iranians have the right to as a sovereign nation to buy weapons, but other nations have the right to choose not to sell and third parties have the right to lobby potential suppliers. Everybody has rights. Life still isn’t fair though.

Daniel

Okay then, I did wonder about the bulges on the rear. Pity, I rather like the WC-130. Wish my bosses would buy a few or something similar 🙂

Daniel

Actually I think its a WC-130 “Hurricane Hunter”.

Note the AFRES tags on the tail while the aircraft in question has the current AFRC tag for the Reserves Command. AFAIK the MC-130s are operate by the Special Ops squadrons and these are all regular Air Force. Finally here is a Combat Talons nose.

However those bulges on the rear of the aircraft in question are different, if I had to guess I’d say they were some sort of countermeasures thing which would be strange on a weather recon aircraft.

Wow. That’d be an interesting discussion.

NO, no it would not. We do not need another bloody Rafale v EF thread.

Daniel

Then why the hell this topic. India wont be attacking russia with Carriers, while chinese have none in working condition, nor have any experience of fielding a carrier in a war.

Well Garry did neatly ignore the second sentence of the first post which states the real reason for the whole thread. 🙂 All a bit silly really since there are a lot of things about Vikramaditya’s fittings etc we don’t yet know and the final purpose the Chinese have for the ex-Varyag is still pretty much anybody’s guess. She may not even have engines so all that stuff about staying out range of MiG-29Ks while attacking with Su-33s could so much crap 🙂

Daniel

I don’t know, I’m skeptical about Iran’s series of new “stealthy” weapons. When I first heard about the radar-evading missile I was quite shocked becuase I thought- “How did Iran get that sort of technology?”

LOL. Wasn’t my first thought. Incidently, I have this bridge for sale. I wonder if you might be interested 🙂

Daniel