Mali Air Force´s Mig-21s at Bamako Airport…

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They look as they are in an immaculate condition. Has anyone more information about the current state of these aircraft? Thanx!

I see mainly Tornado ECR from the nearby Lechfeld AB as well as sometimes Transalls, UH-1D from Penzing, F-4F from Neuburg or even Eurofighters from Manching. 😎

German Luftwaffe also used several road pieces as landing strips. Most prominent here was a piece of A1 near Oldenburg. You can still see some of the relevant installations there today but they are all used otherwise. Aircraft used were Fiat G-91, F-104G and even Transall

I also saw some former landing strips at highways at Croatia. There is for example one piece at the highway between Rijeka and Zagreb only some kilometers after Rijeka. There are also still hangars in the mountains but they are used for civilian storage today.

The Gripen sound like a good idea, but isn’t that a bit pricy?

And what is going on in Serbia and Montenegro, I’ve heard alot about ‘breaking up’ lately, can you provide more datail?

News reports said, that the parliament of Montenegro refused permission for this years parliamentary votings for whole Serbia and Montenegro. This will mean government time will expire this year without a legal succession. And this would mean the end of the country. And as the votings in both part-republics will take place, this will most probably mean a breakup of the country. This could pose further problems in this region.

What about the 50 years of opperssion you serb ****?!

I’d propose you stop you private little Albanian-Serbian war on the Forum! Not enough that both sides murdered in the 1990s as they wanted and NATO had to stop this ugly war…a little bit less nationalism would be good for you, Shqiponja…
And even IF your damn stories were true…Albania would nevertheless be a small light and the most obsolete state in Europe. No military, economic and political power, dependet from US and EU economic support.
And this tank is definitely NOT from DDR…i suppose it’s an African example. Only DDR tanks were T-55 and T-72. BTW: your story of getting used Leopards from us is also a nice joke. 😀 I really doubt that you guys could keep running such state-of-art tanks with your budget.

Thats because they gave money instead

Word contribution, Source: Reuters, United Nations

World Bank: $250m
UK: $96m
Sweden: $75m
Spain: $68m
China: $60m
France: $56m
EU $44m
Netherlands: $36m
US: $35m
Canada: $80m
Japan: $500m
Australia: $27m
Switzerland: $23m
Norway: $16.6m
Denmark: $15.6m
Saudi Arabia: $10m
Taiwan: $5.1m
Finland: $3.4m
Kuwait: $2.1m
UAE: $2m

Perhaps some information about German help, not only because Bundeswehr is heavily involved in the flood help and I not yet read something about it.
The government decided to donate € 500 million (not only a few people are heavily in doubt if we can really afford that… :rolleyes: ) in addition to € 330 million of private donations by the German people. Not involved is any kind of help by official organizations like Technisches Hilfswerk (Technical Help Organization).
Bundeswehr is involved with its two MedEvac A-310MRTT (German language information about the flights here), flying out injured German and other European tourists of Phuket and Bangkok.
The German Navy supply ship “Berlin” will soon arrive at Bandar Aceh. It has over 100 beds for injured people on board, as well as two rooms for intensive medical cases.
Also with a A-310, the first 50 medics arrived a few days ago. They will build up a field hospital at Aceh and run it over the next months.

Generally I’m heavily impressed by the international help for the flood victims. Even small countries like Mozambique donated $ 6 million and parts of their really small crop harvest.