Wardie, great pics. Any more?

Only some additions

[COLOR=”Blue”]Cockpit Design
1. Datalink
F-16C Block50+/52+ with Link 16
3. HUD (Head Up Display)
F-16I Soufa with GEC F-16C HUD
F-16C Block50+/52+ with GEC F-16C HUD
Other Sensors
4. Targeting & Navigation Pods
F-16I Soufa with something Isreali
F-16E Block60 with integrated FLIR (IFTS)
F-16C Block50+/52+ with ; CJ’s with Pave Penny, AN/ASQ-213 HTS, in Singapore with Israeli Rafael system (sorry forgotten name, but the version 3)
8. ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) System
F-16C Block50+/52+ with in Singapore with Elisra suite
9. Databus/Other
F-16C Block50+/52+ with MIL-STD-1760 data bus, AN/APX-113 IFF, OBOGS; D’s have dorsal spine compartment -1553B avionics databus – Note that -1760 is a databus to weapons stations

by the way our SH are costing $90,000 an hour @ 200hr per yr

Let’s not be mischeavous jackyjacky – where on earth does $90k/hr come from? If you are trying to compare it with something, then let’s please see orange & oranges.

‘You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.’
-Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)

How about the Wig & Mitre? – we used to meet there in the 1970s

Leslie Holden’s red SE-5a B129 was not flown on 2 SQN AFC, but on the Australian SE-5a training unit, 6 SQN AFC, based at Minchinhampton. Holden had finished his tour on 2 AFC, and was instructing – the intructors on the training squadrons had colourful identifiable aircraft. Cobby’s black-and-white check Camel of 5 SQN AFC at Leighterton was another example.

[QUOTE=mrmalaya;1582392]i have just read a tweet off of FlightGlobal from a regional journal that says Typhoon is being offered to Malaysia for the MRCA.

Malaysia is not an easy country to pin down when it come to second guessing their procurement.

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You’re right – not easy to pick procurement of several SE Asian countries, the way they do biz!!

Late 1980s it looked a monty that Malaysia would get Tornado. That fell over.

Funding is a problem – and they went Russian because of bartering palm oil instead of hard currency.

But now they have learned – bad serviceability of Fulcrums and Flankers, due to short component life and ongoing support.

Gripen – doubt it, as pointed out Thailand has it, they would want something better.

Eurocanards – prob too expensive, unless perhaps they could swing some funding assistance from another Muslim country, but in this climate everyone is stretched.

I think they would be happy with SH to replace both D and MiG, but again cost would be the problem. 12 aircraft, about $3bn.

Offcially flight radius is 2,500 km. I found at KAI’s data.

2500km radius?? Not a snow ball’s chance in hell!!