Cool. And of course it’s a great plane – it’s been designed by people who also make decent cuckoo clocks, pocket knives and watches. Their chocolate is vastly overrated though.

Question though: if you’ve ever gone up in a T-37, how does it compare? Both as an aircraft in itself, and as a trainer that is.

But while the US has been reluctant to deliver high-tech weaponry to the region (of the sort you’d use in fighting wars with another country), billions of dollars of military equipment were and are being handed out for the numerous government vs. population conflicts in Latin America, basically ever since the Spanish decolonised the region. For some fifteen years the goal of this is the War Against Unprescripted Medication, before that it was fighting communist freedom fighters, before that it was protecting the United Fruit Company’s plantations…

Challenge-I: Explain object; arrow to left:

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Some sort of tent/marquee. Look at the scaffolding/framework, that’s definately not a H-9 :diablo:

A similar mission like the Osirak raid isn’t likely either. The Saudis nowadays have E-3s, so zooming in over the Saudi desert is definately not an option. They should either take a detour across Turkey (not that this would help Turkey’s internal problems with their militant islamists, but that’s too much of a long-term problem for Israel to worry about) or via the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. With the aid of tankers and possibly some friends on that Eritrean or Ethiopian island-base in the southern Red Sea, i think that would be the most likely option.

It would of course be the perfect way for Israel to create instant peace and tranquility in the entire Middle East :rolleyes:

408 actually was a Hungarian machine, not Polish. It was from the same batch sold by Hungary in the late 1980s to the West as the two British machines, 503/G-BRAM and 506(for some time G-BRAN, but i don’t know what happened to that one).

Yes, that’s the Frogfoot. Additionally, the bigger part of those 12 years between Boscombe and Vyskov were in operational service.

Vyskov is great, btw. While definately the wrong approach for actual preservation, i do like that graveyard-look in a museum. Another great museum if you’re into this style of displays is Lvov.

Sounds an awful lot like two M2K-5 squadrons, and one EGM/BGM squadron.