Some Gabonese stuff… 🙂

there were to have been 18 upgraded (perhaps the Adl’A examples) by Kelowna Flight Craft in Kelowna, BC.

Any details on the actual upgrade?
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Egyptian Su-7

Another image of the Nicaraguan AF S-58T taken on 26 Oct 1976

Lithuanian L-39C #04

Dude, you don’t know anything about Romania’s needs in terms of military aviation.

2 squadrons of multi-role Gripens run in the same way as they are in Sweden.
Later (1–15 years) another squadron of F35 run in the same way as the Gripens.

We need 3 squadrons NOW (1 OCU at Bacau, 2 combat units at Fetesti and Campia Turzii respectively).

Parked all around the country and using roads for take off and landing.

What the hell for? We are not at war with anybody, nor preparing for one. And just how do you plan on “parking” 2 squadrons all around a country our size? 1 plane in each county? 😀

1 or 2 squadrons of IAR99 ground attack.

The IAR-99 is underpowered as an attack aircraft. As a trainer, it’s fine, but not as ground attack. Mind you, the 3 squadrons we’ll get will be multirole planes, so no need for additional mudmovers.

IAR316 transport helis.

To transport what? A box of chocolates? :rolleyes:
Last time I checked we had in service some 3 dozens of Pumas (not counting the SOCATs) which are far more suited for transport than the Alouettes – which are by the way less than 10 by now, used for training only.

Around 100-150 Cobra attack helicopters – built locally, as planned, but cancelled a few years back.

We already have 24 Puma SOCAT gunships – that’s enough for our needs in the forseeable future. Show me a country which has 2-3 times more dedicated attack choppers than fighters :diablo:

The new scheme of the peruvian Su-25UB.

Repost. See previous page.

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Egyptian L-29 overhauled in Slovakia

Ghanese MB-326K serial G-715 is a strange camo

and Honduras AF F-5Es serial 4003 and 4004

Thai AF F-86. Notice the Sidewinder rail on the Sabre and the line of F-105s taxiing

Lithuanian AF L-39C serial 03

Indonesian F-5E, parked in front of a Belgian F-16, probably pre-delivery shot in the US

Jordanian Hunter FGA.73 705 (ex RAF XF379) photographed in 1965, destroyed during 6-Day War in 1967

UAE MB 339

“South Korean” F-20 😉

swerve:

Ah yes. But it could easily be fitted. It’s part of the C/D upgrade, which can be applied to the A/B in whole (a major rebuild) or part. All development work & testing done & paid for.

In order to make the A/B have an IFR probe it has to be rebuild around a C/D fuselage. Not very cheap, even if R&D is already paid for.

Logan Hartke:

…and that conversion has been carried out on some A/B models, both developmental and I think some of Hungary’s were originally A/Bs with C/D wings and air-to-air refueling.

Actually all Hungarian Gripens are A/Bs rebuilt around a C/D fuselage. Their wings, nose, canards, tail are all used ex-Swedish AF, A/B components.

Maybe you could just add a bolt-on probe on a vanilla A/B, like the Israelis did with their Phantoms to solve the problem.