The A-10 (serial 81-067) over Kosovo didn’t lose the engine, but just the engine nacelle. The nacelle is now on display in a Yugoslav Musuem. It was repaired in Macedonia and rejoined its unit in Italy.

TJ

My Mistake. Wasn’t one of those Yugoslav sites (you know the ones, claiming hundreds of NATo planes destroyed) calling that nacelle evidence of an A-10 being completely shot down?

Aye, the E-8 and C-18 fleets are second-hand aircraft, but it could be argued that the stored 707s and 720s at AMARC were used for spares for them too. I guess you could even say that about the E-6s too.

An interesting note, the average number of hours on the KC-135 fleet is about 17,000. The latest review says that they can keep going to 35,000 hours. The main problem is that the TF-33 engines are getting pretty unreliable (no matter how many sparesd they have). An E-8 lost an engine over Baghdad a little while back, I think it may have caused it to cut its mission short.

The TF-33 is getting some pretty heavy useage lately, on the B-52, KC-135, E-3, E-8, and the few C-141s that are still flying around.

Edit: I meant E-8 not E-6, we all know those have the CFM-56 powerplant.

Actually, those photos ARE of Cpt. Kim Campbell’s Warthog.

There are also some good photos of an A-10 that lost an entire engine over Kosovo, but managed to get flown to a base just fine. Interesting to see a grey A-10 later with a green replacement engine.

That’s a TU-154 in the background (as evidenced by the 6 wheel maingear bogies) with some sort of belly pack.

My opinion: DPRKAF Airforce-One
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040709121144.gps12bhh.html

Nah, Kim Jong Il doesn’t fly. He takes a special train everywhere he goes (Including China and Russia).

I think this may be related to the 2 ROKAF C-130s mentioned in the other thread. Getting something from the south, but the south not letting the IL-76 fly in to get it, and the North not letting the C-130s flly in to deliver it, so thy meet on “neutral” territory.

Interesting to see the different configurations of the JCM there.

The TOW-2 family is seeing extensive use in Iraq right now as it is cheaper than the Hellfire, yet still fairly accurate and has a larger warhead than the Javelin. It seems to be the preferred method of precision strike on a building. I just visited Rock Island Arsenal this weekend, and their museum had a good photo collection from the ongoing conflict. There were quite a few shots of the USMC using the TOW in action, including TOW-2 teams and the Stryker-TOW combination. You even see quite a few used in high profile operations (the standoff to get Uday and Qsay) mounted on Humvees.

The main questions I have are:

1) What is the approximate inventory of TOW in US arsenals.
1b) about how many have been used lately

and

2) what is the cost per round of Hellfire, JCM, Brimstone, TOW-2(a or b), and Javelin?

If you want, here are f-16 w/os by a/f. I count airframes that crash and are relegated to instructional airframes or ground trainers as w/o, as they aren’t used for combat sorties anymore.

Italy: 1
Belgium: 33
Egypt: 15
Venezuela: 3
Greece: 5
Israel: 24
Pakistan: 8-10
Portugal: 1
Bahrain: 1
Denmark: 9
Jordan: 1
Netherlands: 38
Norway: 17
Taiwan: 4
South Korea: 4
Singapore: 3
Indonesia: 2
Turkey: 13
USAF: 307
USN: 2

So, about 491 writeoffs so far since 1979.