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April 9, 2007 at 8:45 am in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2543824

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I’ve found a bunch of hi-res Vietnamese choppers at Airliners.net

Mi-171 SAR version painted orange
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1166918/L/
Another UH-1 still flying in ‘nam
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1170312/L/
Mi-8 up-close
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1163755/L/
Armed Mi-8
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1084729/L/

April 8, 2007 at 9:14 am in reply to: Lithuanian Air Force to buy new fighters #2544186

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They should get Romanian IAR-93’s.

:confused:
What for? To put them into museums maybe..
Romanian IAR-93s are “stored” (left to rot) for 9 years already, most are stripped of engines, ejection seats, etc… some were already scrapped last year.

Source: http://www.targeta.co.uk/craiova_2006.htm

Besides, even in their good days they had almost no air-to-air capability.
No radar and only the last dozen or so IAR-93B’s from the production run had the capability to carry (and launch) 2 AA-2 Atolls.

April 7, 2007 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2544441

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rumcajs, thanks for the lovely pictures! Any idea when and where they were taken?

April 5, 2007 at 7:15 pm in reply to: Aircraft With Weird-Looking Modifications #2545130

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what is this?

April 5, 2007 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Lithuanian Air Force to buy new fighters #2545160

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the Gripen C’s refuelling system is different from that of the A/B

Indeed it is “different” – the Gripen A/B don’t have an IFR probe.

I mean, do they have any tanker capability ?

None, and they won’t get any. It ain’t needed – look on the map at the size of those 3 countries.

April 4, 2007 at 5:52 pm in reply to: The "But that aircraft never flew with that airforce"-picture thread #2545662

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“Egyptian” F-20 😀

April 4, 2007 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Lithuanian Air Force to buy new fighters #2545667

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2 available at a time in QRA (fueled and armed in a shelter at the end of the runway) are all they need. Say another 2 flying usual training missions, another 2 in maintenance. Most fellow NATO countries deply only 4 fighters for Baltics QRA for 4 months at a time. The only ones that don’t participate arre the Italians – they already fulfill their duty by policing the Slovenian airspace.

April 2, 2007 at 3:20 pm in reply to: Pictures of Croatian Armed Forces and their Equipment #2546777

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IIRC an S-300 round in a container needs some maintenance once every 10 years. So if they bought them in the mid 90’s they might be unuseable today. Also, maybe they weren’t able to buy the whole system during the embargo (only the missiles and launchers, but no radar? – possibly that’s what the quote meant by “the remainder of the system”)

April 2, 2007 at 3:13 pm in reply to: L-159 Alca #2546781

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would it be possible to turn it supersonic by adding an afterburner to its engine ?

Technically, maybe, but it wouldn’t make too much sense: the L-159 has a lot of drag (compared to F-5), a straight wing. Its fuel quantity would be too small to support an afterburning engine for any useful period of time.

March 31, 2007 at 11:28 am in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2547835

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The show must go on…

Zairean MB-326 under maintenance

Ethiopian AF F-5 lineup

Libyan Galeb on 13 June 1983

March 30, 2007 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2548393

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Abu Dhabi Hunter FGA 76 in August 1972

Mirage 5P at Le Bourget in June 1969

Omani Strikemaster at Salalah in October 1973

March 28, 2007 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Yemen Shoots Down Iranian Drone #2549207

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It’s more plausible that the Iranian-backed rebels launched it from land – altough launch from a ship can’t be excluded.

March 28, 2007 at 6:12 pm in reply to: Tamil Tiger Air Force? #2549231

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could someone produce some sort of RADAR Absorbent paint?

It doesn’t matter – the propeller accounts for most of the radar reflection of that kind of plane, and there’s no way of hiding it.
Is that thing in the pilot’s hand a portable GPS device?

March 28, 2007 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Tamil Tiger Air Force? #2549321

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I wonder if the US or India is going to help the lankans with IMINT for locating the airstrips and hangers and perhaps some TV guided PGMs ?

IIRC they already have PGMs on their MiG-27s – the only problem is to FIND the target on the ground – that’s where they would need help as you said.

March 26, 2007 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Egyptian F-15's?? #2550182

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1st of April is on Sunday, not today…
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