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January 18, 2007 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Chinese News, Photos, and Speculation #10 #2531519

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-01/18/content_5622098.htm

J-14. Snore.

January 18, 2007 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Japanese forces video #2068182

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http://www.jrt.co.jp/news/scripts/newscont.asp?NewsId=9247

News video in Japanese. 01m05s.

9 January 2007:
Three TC-90 and two UH-60J.
Tokushima Kyouiku Koukuugun, JMSDF, based at Matsushige Town, Sakano County, Tokushima Prefecture.

JMSDF first training flight in 2007.

January 17, 2007 at 7:34 am in reply to: Chinese News, Photos, and Speculation #10 #2532652

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IRIAF F-14

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243858,00.html

“Iran, China Seek Military Equipment From Pentagon Surplus Auctions”

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen

for countries — including Iran and China — who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department’s

surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components.

[Reminds me of the scene in the movie Godzilla, when the main characters disguised themselves as US Army soldiers, and Reno explained to Broderick that they didn’t need to smuggle in all the bombs and guns; they just bought them locally.]

January 12, 2007 at 6:34 am in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2534682

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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19113

“The Maserati of the Skies”

In 2006, the F-22 Raptor began rolling off the assembly line. The Air Force plans to buy 183 of these high-tech, radar-evading stealth planes, each at a price tag of $130 million, being manufactured in a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing. But it turns out that the $130 million per plane cost is just one-third of the total price, once development costs are factored in. The whole program is slated to cost the Pentagon 65 billion big ones. In July 2006, the Government Accountability Office asserted. “The F-22 acquisition history is a case study in increased cost and schedule inefficiencies.”

http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_4933430

“Holloman replacing F-117 with F-22”

Article Launched: 01/02/2007 12:00:00 AM MST
Year in Review
Alamogordo Daily News
By Laura London, Staff Writer

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/2006121920589.asp

“Japan Demands F-22 Secrets”

December 19, 2006
by James Dunnigan

[Long live zombie threads!] 8D

January 12, 2007 at 5:56 am in reply to: F-22A Pics, News & Speculations Thread #2534698

Don Chan
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

] Just see Don Chan’s custom avatar!

“Sir, yes, sir!”

(Seriously, after China resumed jurisdiction over Hong Kong in 1997, geopolitically now I’m on the other side of the Bamboo Curtain.
Then again, back when I was playing Falcon 3.0, I deliberately tried to not win in the Japan vs Russia theatre of ops, where the player flew the FS-X.)

] He always uses the thumb down icon, when he posts about military equipment stationed in Japan.

To be fair, I use the thumb up icon, when I post about accidents in Japan where the pilots/crews survive.

January 11, 2007 at 8:55 am in reply to: F-22A Pics, News & Speculations Thread #2535131

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http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/domestic/us_armed_forces_in_japan/?1168500626
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070111-00000017-ryu-oki

12 F-22 deploy to Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture, from 10 February 2007, to May 2007.

January 10, 2007 at 1:20 pm in reply to: [Accident Report] PLAAF accident in March 2005 in PRC #2535521

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http://www.zaobao.com/special/newspapers/2007/01/others070111zb.html
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070109/12/1zmzh.html
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070109/12/1zmx0.html
http://news.phoenixtv.com/mil/2/200701/0111_340_61543.shtml

9 January 2007:
Probably fighter or trainer.
Probably 9th Division, Guang Zhou military region, PLAAF, based at Cheng Hai AB, Shan Tou City, Guang Dong Province; which operates J-7, J-8IID, Su-27, and trainers.
About 3:30, crashed into a valley near Nan Shan Town, Jie Xi County, Jie Yang City, Guang Dong Province.
Reportedly one of two pilots martyred.
The other ejected (reportedly parachute had holes, damaged by debris or fire), wounded (reportedly cracked ribs or lightly burnt), and taken to Nan Shan Town clinic, then Jie Yang City hospital; after he requested villagers to preserve wreck and debris, and to contact police.

January 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests #2535523

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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=149999&TICK=RTN&STORY=/www/story/01-09-2007/0004502788&EDATE=Jan+9,+2007

“Raytheon Successfully Tests New Solid-State Laser Area Defense System”

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 9, 2007 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) successfully tested a prototype solid-state laser weapon that combines
the proven capabilities of the Phalanx weapon system with the power and
effectiveness of lasers to defeat rockets, mortars and missiles at an
operationally significant range.

January 9, 2007 at 3:47 pm in reply to: Japanese Apache AH-64D #2536156

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http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200701/070104/07010406.html

4 January 2007

“Strongest attack helicopter
Apache Long Bow
JGSDF flight experiment unit
Smooth practical use examination”

January 6, 2007 at 10:41 am in reply to: [Accident Report] PLAAF accident in March 2005 in PRC #2537844

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-01/05/content_5568756.htm
to
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-01/05/content_5568756_5.htm
with photos (of crash site, pilot, his wife and sons), reports:

14 November 2006:
Single-engine jet fighter.
Lan Zhou AF, PLAAF.
After training, while landing, collided with flock of pigeons, and crashed, 600 m from end of runway.

After collision, pilot comrade Colonel Li Jian Ying chose to not eject, avoided crash-landing onto local villages, retracted landing gear, attempted to emergency belly-land, and was martyred.
Aircraft carrying 800+ litres of fuel, 120+ rounds of cannon ammo, and one round of rocket.

Weather excellent. Visibility 10+ klicks.
11:17, Li (callsign 639) and wingman took off.
12:04, returned to base. While landing, at altitude 194 m, distance 2,900 m, had bird strike.
At 127 m, engine shut down.

January 6, 2007 at 2:23 am in reply to: Chinese News, Photos, and Speculation #10 #2537960

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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=61736

“P10-B AFP procurement OK’d”

January 6, 2007
By JAMES MANANGHAYA
The Philippine Star

The US supplier is offering to sell the deadly attack Cobra helicopter; China, the attack Phoenix gunship; France, the equally versatile Euro Copten attack helicopter; Russia, the “Hinds” transport and attack helicopter, while Italy is offering its Augusta Westland gunship.

[The attack Phoenix gunship?]

December 31, 2006 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Why is the F-2 never mentioned? #2539478

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Can anyone post some F-2 cockpit pic`s.

Try the other F-2 and FS-X message threads in this message forum.

December 30, 2006 at 5:36 am in reply to: Why is the F-2 never mentioned? #2540014

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/news/20061224i312.htm

24 December 2006:
Jap government announced: in FY 2007, JGSDF, now with 155,696 personnel, will decrease by 2,476.

Number of F-2 will decrease from 98 to 94. Spare aircraft for accidents, &c, will be cut. Since delivery from 1996, FY 2007 budget will receive two years worth of eight F-2, and complete supply of all 94.

December 27, 2006 at 3:09 pm in reply to: [Accident Report] US military accidents in 1972 to 2000 in Okinawa, Japan #2541077

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http://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/pdf/2004090516M.pdf

PDF file in Japanese, one page, in the Okinawa Times site, with list and some photos of US military helicopter accidents and crashes in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, from 1972 to 2004.

December 23, 2006 at 4:42 am in reply to: Chinese News, Photos, and Speculation #10 #2541974

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ROCAF

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/12/09/2003339684

“More than 800 airplane bird strikes reported since 2002”

Saturday, Dec 09, 2006, Page 2
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA

FEATHERED MENACE: [ROC] Air force planes have been brought down by birds in recent years, which have also caused civil aviation nightmares

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/12/19/9_military_tech.html

“9 Military Technologies That We Want”

POSTED Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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