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December 30, 2007 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Mig 25 thread #2528150

Don Chan
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Think Russian

http://orange.ap.teacup.com/nekogahoraki43/36.html

First Hasegawa 1:72 MiG-25 Foxbat-A model kit after the 1976 Hakodate landing.

http://www.ctn-japan.com/Tracon/Sky/mig25.htm

Now in 2007, costs only 3 mil Yen to ride a MiG-25.

December 30, 2007 at 1:44 pm in reply to: pic request: F-15J and/or F-2 pics with models #2528181

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F-2 Viper Zero

http://laird.fluid.energy.osakafu-u.ac.jp/wsf/diary/2004/ja2004/ja2004.html

Old news:
Photos of the F-2 Kai model.
Japan Aerospace 2004 expo, on 6-10 October 2004, at Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

(OK. F-2 models, not “F-2 pics with models”.)

December 23, 2007 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Thunderbirds display team gets a female pilot #2530552

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OK. My dumb question of the week: in the USAF (or other air forces), when a female officer isn’t called by her rank (Major or whatever), is she called “madam” (as with policewomen) or “sir”?

ISTR in the USN, female officers are called “sir”?

December 23, 2007 at 3:16 am in reply to: PLAAF News, Photos and Speculation #11 #2530693

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http://www.newsmax.com/smith/santa_china/2007/12/19/58254.html

“Santa Collides With Chinese Military Plane”

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:34 AM

Santa Claus has been brought down somewhere over the South China Sea in an apparent collision with a Chinese fighter jet.

December 23, 2007 at 1:58 am in reply to: NORAD Tracks Santa 2005 #2530719

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http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123080294

“AWACS’ special mission: Track Santa”

by Senior Airman Lorraine Amaro
552nd Air Control Wing Public Affairs

12/21/2007 – TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFPN) — Airmen from the 552nd Air Control Wing here will once again track the man in red and keep a watchful eye as he and his reindeer fly through the night to deliver presents to children all over the United States.

December 23, 2007 at 1:55 am in reply to: Japanese Apache AH-64D #2530721

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20071222TDY04303.htm

“Rising costs force govt to scrap plan to buy attack helicopters”

(Dec. 22, 2007)
The Yomiuri Shimbun

The government has abandoned plans to purchase an AH-64D Apache attack helicopter that the Defense Ministry had hoped to include in the next fiscal budget after the cost of the helicopter rose from an initial 8.3 billion yen per unit to 21.6 billion yen.

December 22, 2007 at 4:45 am in reply to: NORAD Tracks Santa 2005 #2531103

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http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=5847723

“Santa trades sleigh for C-130 to make smiles”

Thursday, December 20, 2007 | 7:56 PM
Local/State

December 21, 2007 at 3:31 pm in reply to: Japanese air show #2531365

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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071221-00000198-jij-pol

Friday, 21 December 2007:
During press conference, JMOD spokesperson admitted the JDA (now JMOD), a few years ago, studied SDF reaction to if Gojira (Godzilla) attacks Japan.
Gojira treated as animal. Same as if mass quantity of cockroaches or mice appear, based on SDF Laws, chapter 83, SDF can be mobilised as disaster relief.
Further, if Gojira berserks, SDF can use weapons and ammunitions, to “banish harmful birds and beasts”.

http://www.jiji.com/jc/zc?k=200712/2007122100706&rel=y&g=pol

Friday, 21 December 2007:
JMOD and JASDF may review procedures for when JASDF aircraft encounters UFOs.

[Yes, the JDA (now JMOD) either are anime geeks, or have a sense of humour.]

December 16, 2007 at 4:50 am in reply to: JMSDF 16DDH #2041673

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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071215-00000123-jij-soci
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%97%E3%82%89%E3%81%AD%E5%9E%8B%E8%AD%B7%E8%A1%9B%E8%89%A6
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%AC1%E8%AD%B7%E8%A1%9B%E9%9A%8A%E7%BE%A4

Friday, 14 November 2007:
DDH-143 JDS Shirane, Shirane Class helicopter destroyer.
Flag ship, Escort Flotilla 1, JMSDF, based at Yokosuka JMSDF Base, Kanagawa Prefecture.
About 22:20, caught fire, while docked at Yokosuka JMSDF Base.
Extinguished after eight hours.
100 square metres burnt, centred at CIC inside bridge. Cause was possibly electrical system trouble, or radar display.
Two crew lightly wounded.

December 12, 2007 at 2:32 pm in reply to: NORAD Tracks Santa 2005 #2538077

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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/army_santasite_071117w/

“NORAD’s Santa-tracking site goes live”

Posted : Monday Nov 19, 2007 5:40:42 EST
Staff report

The program has grown continually since it was first presented on the Internet in 1998.

“In 2006, the Web site received a whopping 941 million hits from 210 countries and territories,” Perini said.

On Christmas Eve, 756 volunteers at the NTS Operations Center answered nearly 65,000 phone calls and 96,000 e-mails from children around the world.

December 11, 2007 at 6:29 am in reply to: Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests #2538356

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http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q4/071210a_nr.html

“Boeing Installs High-Energy Laser on Laser Gunship Aircraft”

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10, 2007 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has installed a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft, achieving a key milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program.

[Still awaiting the Colony Launcher and Solar System/Solar Ray System.]

December 10, 2007 at 6:31 am in reply to: Japanese Aerospace fading giant or reviving monster? #2538531

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http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E5%BF%83%E7%A5%9E&dtype=3&dname=2na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=02132300

FYI, Yahoo! Japan Dictionary translates “Shinshin” as “one’s mind” or “a person’s mind or mental condition”.

Alta Vista Babel Fish also translates it as “mind”.

December 7, 2007 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Japanese Aerospace fading giant or reviving monster? #2539487

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http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2007/11/09/736.html

Photos from the “Defense Technologies Symposium 2007” on 2007.11.07-08, in Toukyou.
Civilian companies and universities participate for first time.

The Gundam development, or “Advanced personal equipment system” development, is not what it is all hyped up to be.

At the bottom of the page are photos of the advanced technology demonstrator aircraft Shinshin: RCS test model, CG image, scale models (aircraft and XF5-1 engine), and canopy.

December 5, 2007 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Japanese Aerospace fading giant or reviving monster? #2540491

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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071205-00000061-mai-pol

Wednesday, 5 December 2007:
Japanese first domestic experimental stealth fighter, Shinshin.
From next fiscal year, development for six years, including flight tests. Development budget, 46.6 billion Yen.
First flight scheduled in middle 2011.
Length, 14 m. Weight, 9 tons. XF5-1 high-mobility engine, can rapidly change directions and supersonic flight.
High-performance radar, can all-directions detection.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071205-00000137-san-soci

Wednesday, 5 December 2007:
JMSDF submarine JDS Souryuu [not JDS Souryuu Asuka Langley] enters water, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Koube shipyard.
2,900 tons. Based on Oyashio Class. Scheduled to deliver and operate by JMSDF in 2009 March.
Length, 84 m. Width, 9.1 m. Six torp tubes.
Has “Sterling mechanism” (AIP).
Ceremony attended by 200 people.

December 4, 2007 at 3:37 pm in reply to: Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests #2541596

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Set phasers on stun

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/military-reques.html

“Marines Request ‘Long-Range Blow Torch’ for Iraq;
Seek ‘Psychological’ Edge by Roasting Foes with Laser”

By Sharon Weinberger December 03, 2007 | 1:33:28 PMCategories: Lasers and Ray Guns, Planes, Planes, Copters, Blimps

Exactly one year ago today, the First Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq signed off on an “urgent operational need” for an airborne tactical laser that could, in the words of the formal request, create “instantaneous burst-combustion of insurgent clothing, a rapid death through violent trauma, and more probably a morbid combination of both.”
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