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  • October 22, 2004 at 10:16 am in reply to: Small Airforces Pics Request #2624299
    Arthur
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    Will check next week – i’m not at home right now.

    October 22, 2004 at 10:12 am in reply to: military helos with no tail rotor #2624303
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    Ah, the sensible way to leave an MV-22 :diablo: In helo-mode it’s like a Ka-22, with the two side-by-side rotors taking care of torque.

    October 22, 2004 at 10:04 am in reply to: Middle East Air Forces #2624306
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    I don’t think any KC-135A exist anymore. They are all either KC-135D/E (flying with the Guards/Reserves if they are airworthy) or KC-135R.

    October 22, 2004 at 9:56 am in reply to: Status LCA #2624334
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    for exercise Garuda were they M2K-5 equipped with RDY2 radar or just M2K-C with RDY ? Does french AF fly any M2K-5 ?

    Mirage 2000C’s have the RDI radar, the French have upgraded 37 of them to 2000-5 standard with RDY radar. The ones at Garuda were RDI equipped ones.

    October 21, 2004 at 9:33 pm in reply to: U.S. Navy Eyes Unmanned Boats for Key Roles #2068781
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    Well, the boats actually will be manned, but the sailors will be getting the new camouflage uniform so you can’t actually see them 🙂

    October 21, 2004 at 9:32 pm in reply to: New USN Digital Camo #2068783
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    Camouflaged swabbies? To make sure you don’t see ’em if you want to rescue yet another suicidal deckscrubber or what?

    Absolutely. Redicilous.

    October 21, 2004 at 8:49 pm in reply to: F-80's #1372261
    Arthur
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    Souda was Greece’s last operational T-33 base, they were retired in 2002 IIRC.

    October 21, 2004 at 7:24 pm in reply to: PATROUILLE DE FRANCE coming to HongKong! #2624686
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    Don’t worry Asia – your pics got my attention longer than the real Patrouille got last time i saw’em 😉

    October 21, 2004 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Caracas (AFP) Venezuela purchases 40 Attack Helicopters #2624724
    Arthur
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    The only military-esque support Venezuela has been getting from the US over the last years, was for the opposition. Not the government.

    October 21, 2004 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Small Airforces Pics Request #2624734
    Arthur
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    Okay, let us start…

    Turboprop cargo force: An-24PB Curl….

    Actually, that’s an An-24RV. Cyrillics…

    October 21, 2004 at 6:17 pm in reply to: Potential for the A-50/F-50 Golden Eagle? #2624749
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    Alternative name for A-50 Golden Eagle is Wei Kuo, foster brother of Ching Kuo. That’s because 100 engineers from AIDC involved in the Ching Kuo went to work on the A-50.

    I thought all Taiwanese aircraft got named after members from the CKS-clan? The AT-3 is the Tzu Chiang, the T-CH-1 (and R-CH-1 as well, i guess) Chung Hsing. Family members too, right?

    October 21, 2004 at 6:05 pm in reply to: BAF Thundercats #2624771
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    You’re right – they have been taken up again, flying with 8sqn from Bashar.

    And WTF about that respecting countries thing? It’s people that deserve respect or not, not the piece of real estate they love or were born on :rolleyes:

    October 21, 2004 at 6:01 pm in reply to: A-50 SRDLO #2624788
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    Yes, i’ve been inside an A-50. It was the prototype though, and the bulk of it’s radar operator stations inside were gutted. But it definately had enough operators on board to be able to do lots of controlling without needing to datalink it to the ground.

    October 21, 2004 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Current T-33 Operations #2624799
    Arthur
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    Last T-bird in USAF markings was the NT-33A flying with Wright Laboratories/CALSPAN from Buffalo, NY. It was retired in 1997 when it went to the Wright-Patterson museum. It still had that metal finish.

    Operational T-birds survived into the second half of the 1980s as squadron hacks.

    October 17, 2004 at 1:50 pm in reply to: US-India Cope Exercises #2627936
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    But countries like Belgium and Canada don’t have independent airforces… so how would you solve that?

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