Korean Flight 007 747 getting mistaken for an RC-135 and then getting wacked by a Soviet Flagon.

Personally,I never bought that story seeing as the RCS of a 747 vs. an 707(RC-135) must be at least double and since the Soviets in that area knew whazt an RC-135 looked like on radar since they were so common,its kinda hard they could have mistaken a larger plane for one.

There was also a story about another Korean Air Lines plane (i think a 707 this time) being forced down onto the ice,interestingly,i did some more reasearch on this on and it turns out 2 people were killed from the 2 AA-8 Aphids fired at the jet.One hit the wing and i guess it was mostly shrapnal damage to the body.Also interestingly,the interceptor involved was also another Flagon.

Personally,I think had either the Boeing Super Phantom or the PW1120 engined,canard equipped IAI Super Phantom been developed,there no doubt they’d still be in service.Might even be better in the swing role then the current F-15E.

My personal favorite is the Mi-8AMTsH Terminator gunship in the original guise with the Mi-28 style nose radome.Definitly an improvement over the older Hip E and F models.

The Mi-8NG which looks like a cross between a Hip and a CH-/HH-3E is also interesting,but i think it would be better with the ramp of the Mi-17MD variant.

Brunei S-70A-37
Egypt S-70A-21
Hong Kong S-70A-27
Chile S-70A-39
Jordan S-70A-11
Philippines S-70A-5
Thailand S-70A-6, S-70A-43 and S-70B-7
Israel S-70A-50 and S-70A-55

Anyone know if theres any pics out of Singapore’s S-70Bs yet?

Here’s a prototype drawing which I made a while ago. Don’t mind the colours, they got screwed up due the format change.

Is this scale too small or too large? Obinions and comments appriciated

In my opinion,it looks great,maybe make it a little bigger,but the way it is now looks pretty good.Colors aren’t too bad either.

Hmm,sounds like a good idea to me.Assume we could add helicopters to the mix as well?

I have a couple of questions concerning the Australian NH-90s.

1. whats the deal with them replacing the Blackhawk? The Blackhawk isn’t THAT old,and as a troop/utility transport,is above average in my book.Is it just a local preferance? I do know they picked the European designed Tigre over the Apache,so the NH90 replacing the Blackhawk would make sense if they were just going to go with Europe as their defense supplier.

2. Once they are replaced,what are the Aussies planning on doing with them? maybe sell them back to Sikorsky like Hong Kong did?

Those Korean S-92s look great too.

The issue of the Tomcat being obsolete is nonsense.The main issue the Tomcat had going against it was the lack of spare parts,for which Sec of Defence Cheney ordered distroyed.As a result,when one jet broke down,the only use for it was as a parts plane.This practice reduced the number of operational aircraft and made operation costs of those aircraft very high.

Assuming the spares would have continued to been made,this wouldn’t have been an issue.Alsothe idea the shredding the remaining Tomcats to prevent the Iranians from getting the parts is equally pointless since as stated above,they are and have been making their own parts,not to mention that the ones getting shredded are newer “D” models,which Iran never had and would be difficult(but not impossible) to intergrate into the older “A”.