– MiG-29M2 would not come at $165mil a piece

http://nation.time.com/2011/09/28/sticker-shock-iraqi-f-16s-165-million-each/

Wow! That’s a lot of money the Iraqis’ are paying for an aircraft armed with 1970s weapons. why are the Iraqis letting themseves pay for such extortion?

I recently had some problem reading Mr Aboulafia… For example when he is quoted saying:

just after the article states:

I had to unpack my calculator and type the result of the above number divided by 6: 137.8M$…

I wonder where he has been hiding during the last couple of months because I don’t know where man can found a much cheaper contract among those signed recently. 😉

The F-35 will hardly be any more expensive than Japan’s Mitsubishi F-2 fighter, that is one thing for sure.

Engineer Lukos found out that SAM are dangerous.
The question should be : does anyone still want to fly low level missions without the proper assets ?

What are the “proper assets”?

Anyway, it seems to me that Ukrainian aerial activity has been seriously curtailed since the Russian separatists gained better anti-aircraft “assets” – Buk missile systems, etc.

‘Teal’, for a colour – a ridiculous interior designers invented term (yes, really – that’s where it came from) for a set of shades of green-blue & blue-green.

Named after a duck – of which there are different types (Eurasian & North American) with patches of three different greens & blues between ’em, none of which is much like the colours I’ve seen in MiG cockpit pictures.

Would you be happy with the the so-called colour ‘cyan’ (which seems to me to be just as much a recently minted colour title as ‘teal’ is?)?

https://www.google.de/search?q=cyan+color&sa=X&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=AR5mVeWqI8WRsAG9soHADg&ved=0CC4QsAQ

That’s easy.

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That aircraft doesn’t look like an A-10…

That’s the point. Why use $60million+ aircraft against terrorist when they can use a cheaper aircraft with CAS just as good.

Terrorists, what terrorists? Terrorists are not usually armed with Buk and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles – the A-10 has been very lucky that it hasn’t had to face such weapon systems in the last 10 years or so – unlike the Su-25.

Former RAF Tristars to take flight again. AGD SYSTEMS will be operating (6) Tristar L-1011 aircraft that were previously in service with the United Kingdom – Royal Air Force (RAF).

AGD SYSTEMS Corporation Announces Capabilities with Addition of Six (6) Tristar L-1011 Tankers for Aerial Refueling, Cargo and Medivac Missions

Fantastic news!! So we may still get the chance to see the Tristar flying again. BTW what’s with Marshall’s of Cambridge rocket launching Tristar?

In Afghanistan, those choppers usually land in uninhabited areas.

In Nepal, relief helicopters usually land near villages and ththis is the main issue with the high downwash of large helicopters like the chinook and ospreys.

There is very little reason to believe that the downwash from a Chinook would ever be a problem to the local buildings – surely the helicopters can land sufficient distance away from any settlements, and surely the capabilities of the Chinook more than make up for the potential risk? Would the villagers rather go hungry and without medical care instead?