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July 19, 2007 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Romanian naval Puma – first flight #2527524

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Romanian Pumas don`t carry any filters or guards over the engine intakes. The only ones that I`ve seen with filters installed were the ones dispatched in Bosnia.

None of the 4 SOCATs deployed to Bosnia had engine filters. You can verify that by searching on Airliners.net for “SOCAT Bosnia”
Numbers 56, 69 and 78 are the only ones to have filters (yet).

Fact is it decreases engine power, maybe that’s why it isn’t used too much on the Romanian Pumas.
Besides, a Puma can safely land on one engine if the other is hit by a bird.
Just my 2 eurocents:)

July 18, 2007 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Recent Attack Helicopter buys? #2527773

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THey supplied 26 SOCAT societies.

25 actually

July 18, 2007 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Romanian naval Puma – first flight #2527777

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anyone know what the EW suite fit is?

No EW suite. The self-protection suite is identical to that of the IAR-330L Puma NATO: LWR/RWR sensors, chaff/flares dispensers as indicated by press.

Sorry if said before but is this for SAR use? and it looks like it can carry Sea Missiles aswel?

Yes. SAR, recon, transport, diver teams infiltration/exfiltration.
No ASM – in fact no weapons at all are carried.
The only ASM Romania has is the old P-21 (SS-N-2 Styx)

But having the same electro-optical sensor as the Puma SOCAT gunship, it can designate targets for laser-guided munitions launched from other platforms :diablo:

July 18, 2007 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Romanian naval Puma – first flight #2527843

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Sa fie!

Although, it looked better in the light grey paint scheme.

Actually, the greenish grey on the first flight was primer, not paint.

On another issue – does anyone know what is the red “bowl” on the side of the tail boom? Or rather what’s under it? I’ve also seen it on some late-model Cougars.

July 17, 2007 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Romanian naval Puma – first flight #2530632

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Puma Naval enters service

The first of the 3 Puma Naval entered service with the Romanian Navy on 13 July.
The pictures were taken at Constanta military dock.

More pictures:
http://www.mapn.ro/fotodb/20070713

July 14, 2007 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Laotion Airforce Planes #2531499

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^That’s Bulgarian

July 14, 2007 at 9:52 am in reply to: Government, Paramilitary, and Quasi-Military Aircraft #2531545

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DELTA Squadron of the Romanian SRI (intelligence service) based on Otopeni IAP, Bucharest

They have 4 Dauphins used only for VIP transport (the president, prime-minister,…) They do not have civilian reg., being serialled 201-204.

http://myaviation.net/?pid=00815167

2 IAR-330L Puma (#108 and 109), complete with airforce roundels used for deploying SRI’s anti-terrorist brigade – a small elite unit specialised in urban combat, assaulting buildings, planes,… fortunatly until now they haven’t had a real situation.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1191555/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1112861/L/

They also have an IAR-316B Alouette III serial 125 with the same paintscheme as the Pumas

Plus an An-26 VIP serial 606 with white-blue paintscheme slated to be transferred to the air force:
http://www.milaviapress.com/gallery/2006/romania/index.php

July 11, 2007 at 7:31 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2532249

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Oman Super Puma with the new, 5-bladed main rotor

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5998767

MB-326 LD of the Dubai Air Wing seen in 1975

July 10, 2007 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Uprated Cheetah Atar9K50? #2537797

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Romanian ex-Mig-21M/MF upgraded to Lancer C uses it

Actually our LancerC are fomer MiG-21 MF-75 subvariants, only one being an MF (attrition replacement), whereas LancerAs are former M/MF/MF-75s.

Here are the figures for the detection ranges of a fighter sized-target by the Elta EL/M-2032 installed on LancerC:
– Lookup: 35-55 NM
– Look-down: 30-45 NM

Bear in mind that the antenna had to be downsized in order to fit into the nosecone of the Fishbed. Also, the cone itself is new, from a different material on the Lancer C (black) while the Lancer A/B kept the old, dark green cone – it had something to do with the conductivity of the material.

June 27, 2007 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Austria – down to 15 (used) EF2000 #2539502

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In 2000 they ordered 24 Typhoons Tranche 2.
Reduced to 18 due to the budget shortages caused by the huge floods of summer 2001.

The new (socialist-green) government installed late last year said they would cancel the program all together (it was one of the highlights of their election campaign). once in power, they found out they can’t cancel the order without paying a lot of “domage et interets” so they reduced the order.

The variant I heard was 12 tranche 2 machines.

Getting both tr 1 and 2, new and used would be really dumb. They might as well add 6 or so MiG-21s for a hi-low mix with the Typhoons :diablo:

EDIT: sorry eagle, we posted at the same time, i didn’t see that you answered the question fully.

June 25, 2007 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2540382

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Does anybody have other images of Ivory Coast Pumas, apart from these two:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0350178/M/

and

June 25, 2007 at 2:47 pm in reply to: Continued utility of the modernized F-7 series??? #2540455

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The real price is around 11 million USD – that’s what Nigeria payed.

June 24, 2007 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2541735

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Saudi Navy Super Puma

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1225242/L/

Libyan C-130B with UAR markings 6 July 1975

Myanmar Mi-17 code 66-07

June 23, 2007 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Continued utility of the modernized F-7 series??? #2542369

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US-made cockpit equipment such as martin-baker ejection seats

Dude, Martin-Baker is a British company 😀 😀 😀

June 22, 2007 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #9, for Pictures and Discussion. #2542917

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The czech Mi-17s – why the white paint? Are they going to keep it in Angolan service?

Moldovan An-2 in high-res:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1121900/L/

Congo-Brazaville MiG-17F
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