http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060123-00000074-nnp-kyu
reported:
In 2004, JGSDF also bought four Yamaha helo-type UAVs, and deployed to Iraq.
Patrol against night time mortar attacks.
Equipped with IIR camera, maximum altitude 150 m, manually remote controlled, and can memorise flight path to fly automatically.
http://jczs.sina.com.cn/bbs/2006/0123/21293219.html
http://nhcf.gxmu.net.cn/Online/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=4557
“Aerial robotics”.
http://www.hwhwhw.com/bve/air/chanpin-fuwu.php?table_a=air_products
Seems both Fuji and Yamaha export helo-type civilian UAVs to China.
C-130. IRIAF. 2003.06.25.
30 klicks south of Teheran, Iran.
Seven killed. 8(
] Does anyone have images of the 14 April 1994, US Army UH-60 Blackhawk
] helicopters shot down in the Iraq by USAF F-15’s?
Suggest you search by the Black Hawks’ details:
UH-60A. 87-26000 and 88-26060.
5-158th AVN, USA.
35 miles north of Irbil, Iraq.
26 killed. 8(
A-10 on a lead diet, fed in the correct and friendly way. 8b
F-22 Stealth Fighter. 8)
Probably some modellers’ dream job. 8)
OH-6D. JGSDF. 2004.05.15.
T-33. USAF.
More bandwidth-wasting, Japanime-based military humour. 8b
Dream on, dudes.
“Police raid Yamaha Motor over chopper export to China”
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/product/sky/index.html
Yamaha RMAX Type II G. Agricultural pilotless helo.
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/01/22/afx2467326.html
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/01/22/1304726.htm
“Police raid Yamaha Motor over chopper export to China”
[January 22, 2006]
(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Jan. 23_(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO)
Police on Monday launched raids on Yamaha Motor Co.’s head office in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, and other places to search for evidence on suspicion that the company illegally exported an unmanned helicopter to China, investigative sources said.
Possibly some science phantasy about Algeria and six other African and Eastern European air forces preparing to purchase FC-1 for US$ 1 mil per aircraft.
The last line of the first post, which is quoted in the second post, claims in November 2005, China will [yes, future tense] deliver eight more FC-1 to DPRK AF.
Yawn.
Vampire T55. JASDF. Circa 1956.
Acquired as sample for developing new domestic trainer.
Preserved at Hamamatsu AB, Shizuoka Prefecture.
http://www.geocities.jp/hggcm317/airpark26.html
http://sts.kahaku.go.jp/sts/detail.php?id=1007&key=100710111075&APage=30
Some more USMC/USN naval aviation humour?
*OFF-TOPIC ALERT*
why would the japanese making the Macross VF-4 if they could make the Gundam.
More bandwidth-wasting, Japanime-based military humour. 8b
Is that Bud Holland?
http://www.globemaster.de/airextreme/jets.html
has:
http://www.airextreme.de/B-52dwn_.avi
“B-52 crash
AVI 449 k”
http://www.militaryaircraft.de/video18/su-30_crash.mpg
“Su-30 crash at Le Bourget
MPEG 3.35 MB”
http://www.wackyvids.com/movies/aircrafts/74/oknowwhat.wmv
“Alright What Do We Do Now?
A helicopter is getting refuelled in high up in the sky. When control is regained he aims the nose to higher and breaks off his fuel line.”
(CH-53?)
http://www.wackyvids.com/movies/aircrafts/78/closeplane.wmv
“Jet plane crashes
A jet fighter plane is losing control and crashed to the ground near a church.”
(Gripen?)
WRT food and nationalism, IMO NASA should contract-out their space food to the manufacturers of the space food consumed in the Shen Zhou V and VI capsules. 8D
http://news.163.com/05/1013/16/1VV4ET0S0001125G.html
http://news.163.com/05/1013/16/1VV4ET0S0001125G_2.html
http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2005-10-12/12157150484s.shtml