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February 9, 2008 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #10 #2502381

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Spasiva, Cy24driver1 !

Shamefully I can only contribute a high-res Chadian PC-7 reg. QAA, as seen in August 1987:
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=426833

February 8, 2008 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #10 #2502581

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^ in fact a JJ-5 (Chinese two-seater version of the MiG-17)
The same picture can be found in Istvan Toperczar’s “MiG-17 and MiG-19 unit of the Vietnam War”, page 13

February 5, 2008 at 9:52 pm in reply to: photos of MIGs #2503209

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Use the search function of the forum – or google for that matter
Indian MiG-23BN/27:
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Images/Current/
For the ethiopian ones check the “Small Air Forces” threads on this forum

February 4, 2008 at 3:47 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #10 #2503419

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A small reminder for the ongoing conflict in Chad:
An old (march 1988) but gorgeous photo of a SF-260 #490 reg. TT-QAE. Nowdays they are using mainly Mi-17V-5 against the rebels

http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=425741

February 2, 2008 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #10 #2506032

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Omani armed Strikemaster #418 at Salalah on 26 Oct 1973:
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=425301

Togolese Buffalo reg. 5V-MAG seen on 7 Aug 1977 at NAS Keflavik – wonder what was it doing that far up north?
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=425530

Moldovan Mi-17 #02 before being painted white overall:
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=425641

January 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2509760

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Hey guys, nobody said they had to serial their F-7s from 0300 onwards
Might as well be from 0310 going up !
According to sinodefence they have 12 F/FT-7s
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ARMED Tunisian SF-260
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=423914

January 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm in reply to: Book Reviews! #2512149

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This is a complete lack of professional ethics.
What kind of a writer would have such utter disrespect for his fellow authors to beg for a scan insted of buying the book?
And than he says he’ll include in the sources the person who scanned the material, not the author! What a (bad) joke!

January 21, 2008 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2512816

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Cameroun Alpha Jets
banking
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=422884
coming in to land
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=422882

January 21, 2008 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Soviet Air Power #2512837

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The MiG-29C had to pay in a loss of agility through higher weight, but had some more minutes in endurance by that.

You forgot to mention the Gardenya active jamming unit in the spine of the Fulcrum Cs 🙂

January 20, 2008 at 6:16 pm in reply to: Country with the *best* arry of SAM/AAA in service? #1789036

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I’m very curious what SOC has to say on this

IMO it’s not only the SAM systems themselves that matter, but also a number of other things, varying from country to country.

Since you picked up Greece, the question in their case is how well are the western and Russian systems integrated in the Greek AD network? How are the IFF/RWR issues solved, especially in what concerns their own fighters?

Survivability is also an important factor – how fast can they pack up and move to another site?

How good is their ability to jam enemy weasels and provide decoy emitters for anti-radiation missiles?

A lot of variables…

January 20, 2008 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Over-wing AAM rails? #2513444

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Stepping forwards to stealth applications, is it not a good idea to have weapons ‘pop’ out of the top of the aircraft rather than the bottom so that you have fewer panels etc on the bottom?

In that case you’d need to add a booster on all ordnance launched, plus initial guidance so that it doesn’t hit the plane – remember D-21 and Blackbird?

That brings weight and complexity, and above all useless risk; all of which is unwanted in any plane.

As they say “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it!”. Gravity never fails, that’s why they use it to drop stuff from planes. :diablo:

January 20, 2008 at 1:24 pm in reply to: Your favourite what-if fighter #2513652

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IAR-95 (IAR-S)

http://www.incas.ro/romanian/departamente/programe_aviatie/Romanian%20Supersonic%20Projects.htm

January 20, 2008 at 8:32 am in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2513753

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^ Namibian, right?

Here’s another one, before the service changed its name form “Namibian Air Force” (NAF) to “Namibian Defence Force” (NDF).
Anybody knows exactly when did that happen?

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Lithuanian L-39C #02:
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=420635

Peruvian Strikemaster #300:
http://www.aircraftslides.com/Auction/AuctionDetail.aspx?ID=422497

January 19, 2008 at 10:23 am in reply to: Tornado, after market for them? #2514272

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but the F3s will probably be scrapped once they have been withdrawn from service by 2011.

They’ve already started with the ex-Italian examples:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1280215/L/

January 17, 2008 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2515203

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syrian mig 29:

Sorry mate, I don’t buy it. From that angle and with that kind of resolution, it could just as well belong to a large number of other nations.
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