RE: What super hero.

bananaman because he is the saviour of the world- applications for the crow should be sent to my email address……………….

coanda

RE: Not Happy!

what colours do you want on it???

i’ll have ago at modelling it for you tonight if you like ja??????

coanda

RE: Serious Mozzie..

I dont think you can with version 5.52 but I tink so with anything greater than this buy the update to version 5.6- unless you went out and bought version six- i pity you!

coanda

RE: Falklands Remembered

the falklands wasnt just political, because the same thing happens with anyone, it was just more so because it was british territory. the falklanders wanted to be under british rule so we kept it, the forces did a brilliant job doing what they did, and whilst some of it was luck- like phoning up port stanley from a telephone! allot of it was sheer british military training.

there is another post on the mil av forum about what could have happenned if the argies fused their bombs correctly- well i think we would have had to have brough the carrier group closer, or pulled the task force shipping out during the day time- or suffered un recoverable losses- in that area we were very lucky!

the aerial fighting, which is what I know most about, was kinda one sided, i feel, there wasnt a great deal of competition ofr the british- which is no slight against the argentinian air force because they carried out many dangerous, low level attacks against shipping and were operating for the great part, at the limits of their range. this greatly reduced their chances to mix with the harriers, and perhaps show themselves better.

it is also said that the islands and geography down that way are also home to large deposits of diamonds, oil natural gas, and precious minerals………somthing you would want to keep tabs on???

coanda

RE: Favorite weekend activity (keep it clean!)

i like to sleep!! i have to work on a sunday, which is a pain in the arse, and earlyish, but my day consists of keepint the g/f happy, and supposedly doing uni work, but usually end up on the comp for a good few hours. my night out is a thursday! saturdays often sees me gliding with the uni club up at aston down.

coanda

are we exciting or what?

RE: Falklands Remembered

and all to direct peoples attention away from problems at home i think(for the argentine side of things)

I also watched the program, and it is slightly, well i dont know what the word is… to think my father actually had his feet on the sir galahad and was called off it by his warrant officer he was in the Royal medical corps, maybe only the TA division, but still………

I think the program was particularly informative and there was lots of ootage I had never seen before on their.

rabie, i have read sharkeys book twice and the high commands actions were absolutley infuriating before and after operation corporate, i dont think i could have stood the problems that sharkey, and his evidently more experienced and confident squadron and the ship he was serving on had to suffer. just think if he hadnt been quite so pigheaded………..

if i recall there is a section in there which describes an operation similar to which the navy appears to wants to do now, and that is use ship and rotor borne assets to patrol out to a greater range because they couldnt get the radar coverage, and had to withdraw to the extreme range of the shars fuel because they were open to attack when the shars were on deck, and over the islands on ops, i remember there being a bit of a hoo har about this because of the logistics of it, that and the valuable asset the shars proved to be when they went looking for the argentine carrier, and her support force, if the harriers had have been on station instead of transiting or being out of range, the galahad in my opinion would not have been struck, and air cover could have been provided for the two ships which sailed into teal inlet<?> and were again hit, because there was no aircover, and were not able to defend themselves adequately.

but then what would i know about that??

yes……hindsight is an exceptional piece of kit to have aboard.

coanda