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  • August 26, 2005 at 1:36 am in reply to: Tankers #2080341
    Hammer
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    One technical doubt…Does any navy around the world operate tankers able to keep up with its fast combat ships (25-30kts)? Or are tankers for ever doomed to be left behind in war?

    []s Hammer

    August 26, 2005 at 1:32 am in reply to: How would your mnid-sized navy use this ship? #2080344
    Hammer
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    Just to clarify this issue, the Atlantico Sul is still not operational due to some legal technicalities and lack of funds, it doesn’t have even a crew assigned to it yet…

    🙁

    Hammer

    August 26, 2005 at 1:30 am in reply to: How would your mnid-sized navy use this ship? #2080360
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    In my humble naval ignorance I thought that the bow area could be converted in a Large Hangar for Super Puma sized helos…and a large helipad could be set up there. The mid sections could be converted to personel (marine units) transport while maintaining the container capability abovedeck… Would it make any sense to have large folding floating barges hinged against the sides of the ship in order to simplify loading and unloading while at sea? Away from ports?…

    How much more vulnerable is a civilian converted ship when compared to a dedicated military ship buit from scratch for this purpose? Would you care to dwelve on this issue for a while? What exactly is an AOE? MHCs? T-AKE? 😉 In plain English please for the naval-impaired amongst us, please 😉 (ME!)

    Regards, Hammer

    August 25, 2005 at 5:22 am in reply to: More news on the carrier (China) #2080565
    Hammer
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    I dont think that chinese interest in CVs is related to an hipotetical Taiwan invasion plan…. I think the Red Chinese expect Taiwan to be drawn more and more into their economic gravity well… all the way to anexation (recal Hong Kong?)

    In a “post Taiwan” chinese expansion the CVs might be a giant sized tool in a scale able to push the US Navy back into the middle of the Pacific… Mybe back to Hawaii… Of course this wouul take a massive blue water fleet… At least some 10-odd Nimitz sized CVs at least and a matching number of escorts…

    Sounds strange, improbable? Remember it has happened before.. (Japan)

    Comments?

    Regards.

    Hammer

    August 17, 2005 at 4:19 am in reply to: hms invincible…for sale?…to who? #2083393
    Hammer
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    I wonder could the HMS Invincible be converted into an exclusive heavy/long range-UAV carrier? Would that make any military sense? It came to me that besides the Harrier no other regular fighter would be able to operate from it´s short and ski-jump configured flightdeck… Helicopter and specialy tiltrotors ara a another issue altogether…

    Comments?

    Hammer

    August 17, 2005 at 4:14 am in reply to: hms invincible…for sale?…to who? #2083430
    Hammer
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    Australia has been named before as a possible destination…

    Iran on the other hand might be interested.. :diablo:

    Regards, Hammer

    August 17, 2005 at 4:08 am in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2083434
    Hammer
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    Jokingly we call walkarounds of ships, “swimarounds”… and no we haven’t done any of them to this date, though it’s in our plans… 😀

    Regards

    Hammer

    August 12, 2005 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2084958
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    Well guys! next month we’ll showcase the French frigate Jean de Vienne´s and the HMS Spartan´s visits to Rio de Janeiro, plenty of pictures! In October there´s UNITAS a big multinational naval exercise with the Brazilian Navy operating aloingside the American, Peruvian, Argentine and Uruguayan navies.

    Regards!

    Hammer

    August 9, 2005 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2085675
    Hammer
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    Thanks Vajt, we´ll be there next time… Hell! we´ll be everywhere! 😉

    We have great plans for FIDAE 06… Lets see if we can get hold of an airline advertiser…

    Regards

    Hammer

    August 8, 2005 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2086451
    Hammer
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    P-95… hehehe sorry mate, yeah I love them and Barzil isn’t the only user of them now I hear

    Chile, Argentina (during the Falklands War…) and Gabon (some peoples say Angola too, but this is unconfirmed…)

    Go to the “Busca” (search) section of BaseMilitar and select “P-95” from the first form (“Aeronaves”/Aircraft) you’ll see what we know about all airframes that were put in service by the Brazilian Air Force… A complete walkaround is in our plans

    Regards

    Hammer

    August 8, 2005 at 3:04 am in reply to: Brazil to buy 12 used Mirage 2000-5 for US$50 million #2606996
    Hammer
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    Actualy Kovy it´s still far from done… there is a number of steps before this can be counted as a fact… Congress has to apporove this deal and the governments situation in relation to Congress is Chaotic to say the least… It will be an uphill batthe for the M2000C…. let´s wait a while before popping the champagne bottle…

    []s Hammer

    It’s done ! The contract has been signed this afternoon.

    12 used mirage 2000C rdi from the Orange base : €60 millions
    retrofit for the 12 planes : €20 millions
    With all the weapons and the maintenance, the contract is said to be worth about €150 millions

    It is on Reuters France : http://www.reuters.fr/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-07-15T124451Z_01_TOU543268_RTRIDST_0_OFRBS-FRANCE-BRESIL-MIRAGE-20050715.XML

    August 7, 2005 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2086838
    Hammer
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    Well the LAAD pictures were all repaired! Enjoy!

    “P-91”? the current MP aircraft in Brazilian Airforce Service is the P-95 “Bandeirante Patrulha” (EMB-111). Embraer is pushing the hypotetical “P-99” MPA, derived from the ERJ-145 but still this product seems to atract few fans or suitors inside the Air Force. Some weeks ago there was some sort of discussion regarding an E-Jet derived MPA aircraft (read the news item on the “Notes” section o BaseMilitar) possibly this is some possibility derived from the recente removal of the Embraer ERJ-145 airframe from the ACS competition in the US for being “too small and light”… E-170s and E-90 airframes are being considered now amongst airframes from other sources…

    I hope I answered your concerns adequately. 😉

    Regards!

    Hammer

    August 5, 2005 at 11:22 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2087595
    Hammer
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    OOPS! Sorry for that technical slip, we just switched to a new hosting company, we must have forgotten to upload some of the stuff… Will look at it ASAP! 🙂

    Regards,

    Hammer

    August 5, 2005 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Disturbing news #2087629
    Hammer
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    I read in the internet that the Danes were thinking of donating one of the subs to Bulgaria…. I would be a “NATO welcome gift”…

    Any news on that

    August 5, 2005 at 10:08 pm in reply to: Brazilian Navy on the go! #2087631
    Hammer
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    Thanks for the kind words Lamps, but we believe we must be doing something right…There´s been a notable change in one of Brazil’s top magazines for Defence/Navy matters, they suddenly started publishing a much larger number of pictures… It´s nice to help others to improve their news coverage. 😎

    Don’t forget to look up all the detailed aircraft walkarounds in our site, plenty of cockpit and system minutiae… 😀

    Regards

    Hammer

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