from wingless to topless :diablo:

Like I said, I was only guessing. You mean 30 regular airfields in West Germany in the 1980s, or 30 highway-strips?
I’m asking this question about airfield numbers because I’m interested in how NATO could disperse it aircraft in the event of a war against the WP. There is also the question as to how effectively the Warsaw Pact could attack so many NATO airfields with a limited number of aircraft.

No, just the Highway-strips.
Here’s a link to a German site about that with all the location of these. It also has the location of some DDR strips.
http://www.geschichtsspuren.de/artikel/41-luftwaffe-luftfahrt/113-autobahn-notlandeplaetze-nlp.html

Then why are the German armed forces hating it so much?

There is a 100 pge german report listing an impressive amount of shortcomings from insufficient ground clearance to tender floorplates, weak seats, a poor hoisting system….

the report recommends to use another helicopter wherever possible and if I am not mistaken, has led to a large delay of the NH90 programme while re-designing parts of the aircraft.

You are aware that you’re reacting to a post from the 10th October 2006? 🙂

is that a F-18 problem? Here the same happend with a USN F-18. But here also the cockpit window was smashed.

At first I had this one

than I realised you need the upper surface
Hope this will help

Here is KAF 321.

I know that it’s a blurry pic.

Tu-214SR with SLAR (Special Purpose / Airborne Commandpost ? operated by Rossiya, 6 ordered)