Don Chan] the uh60 are still alive because US still supplies the
] spare parts to the chinese using underground channel.
Possible… The Chinese Black Hawks flown by, for example, the PLA in China, and the ROCN in Taiwan, are S-70s that might be treated as civilian or commercial, and not as the militarised designation UH-60…
And like the US aircraft in Iran, the PLA has all the S-70 technical manuals and tools needed for maintenance.
Don Chanhttp://mainichi.jp/area/hiroshima/news/20081108ddlk34040530000c.html
8 November 2008:
On 28 July 1945, after USAAF B-24s bombed the IJN base at Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, a B-24 named Taroa was shot down, and crashed in Ishiuchi, Itsukaichi Town, Saeki Ward, Kure City.
Three of its crew were captured, then A-bombed at Hiroshima City.
Their remains, if any, were not recovered or returned to USA.
A (then) school boy, at a farm near the crash site, collected a piece of metal debris from the wreck.
Recently, a historian named Mori Shigeaki (71) took the debris. 1 m X 24 cm.
In August 2008, he wrote to the relatives of this B-24 crew.
In October 2008, he received two replies from relatives of Charles Baumgartner (then 29), and Julius Molnar (then 21).
He cut about 20 cm off the debris, and on 4 November, sent the pieces to the relatives, as mementos.
Mori wrote a book about what happened to the crew of the two USAAF B-24s and 20 USN aircraft that were shot down on 28 July 1945.
Don Chan] any Zhuhai 08 gallery page..looking for JF-17’s newest shots
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2006-11/03/content_5284482.htm
to
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2006-11/03/content_5284482_12.htm
(13 pages) in
http://www.xinhuanet.com/mil/hkht/
At Zhu Hai 2008, no real or 1:1 mock-up of FC-1. Only models of it and its ordnance, and its flight sim system.
Don Chan] Chinese military said “no” to local engine makers and “no” to local makers of some key systems, instead buying these critical items directly from Russia.
This is dumb, IMO. PLAAF needs domestic engines and parts, to achieve self-reliant maintenance as good as the JASDF F-2 and ROCAF F-CK-1.
PLAAF and PLAN already have too many attacker and fighter types, some of which are obsolescent and IMO only fit for Kamikaze sorties against the 7th Fleet, similar to the IAF drones vs Syrian SAM sites in the 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee.
] and files this sobering report about the new J-10 fighter.
Although I think the J-10 doesn’t exist, that the J-10 photos are Photoshopped, and the J-10 vids are 3D CG rendered in Hollywood, by or for the China Threat conspiracy theorists; the J-10 topic is untrendy. The next myth to disprove, is the so-called WZ-10. XD
“These aren’t the droids we’re looking for… You can go about your business.”
Don Chanhttp://www.asahi.com/politics/update/1107/TKY200811070161.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/jnn/20081107/20081107-00000036-jnn-soci.html
7 November 2008:
JMOD intelligence headquarters director JASDF Lieutenant General Hokazono Ken’ichirou (57) becomes new JASDF chief of staff.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E8%96%97%E5%81%A5%E4%B8%80%E6%9C%97
says Hokazono Ken’ichirou’s previous posts include JASDF 5th Technical School principal, and JSDF Joint Staff College principal.
But as of 8 November 2008, it doesn’t or hasn’t mentioned he’s a pilot either.
Don Chanhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-11/06/content_10314750.htm
Claims AKD-10 AGM is used by WZ-10.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-11/06/content_10316737.htm
Claims TY-90 AAM is useable by attack heloes and UAVs.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-11/06/content_10317403.htm
Claims J-10 first flight was on 23 March 1998, and no aircraft crashed during test flights.
In one of the photos, is J-10 comrade 10132 tasked as ground display at Zhu Hai?
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-11/06/content_10317419.htm
WZ-11 light attack helo and its toys (ordnance).
http://www.recordchina.co.jp/group/g25615.html
Photos of UAV models at Zhu Hai 2008.
Don Chan] What is this ?
http://mil.huanqiu.com/aero_space/2008-11/273284.html
“Video: Flying Leopard suspected stealth version appears official video”
{snore}
Don ChanWhile yomping through Yahoo! Korea News (and I can’t read/understand Korean) for details of the ROKAF F-5E crash on 4 November 2008…
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/amxnxt/6167.html
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/donttellcokr/821553.html
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/ing89898/63300.html
http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/pks13693094/20918.html
Blog articles dated before/on 23 February 2007.
Captain BAK Ji Yeon (28), with (then) 652 flight hours. Jet fighter female pilot of 8th FW, ROKAF.
First ROKAF jet fighter female pilot qualified as flight leader of a four-aircraft flight.
Also, first female graduate of ROKAF academy, first ROKAF jet fighter female pilot, and first ROKAF couple with both spouses are combat pilots.
Don Chanhttp://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081104/1/18uz4.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/photo/url/d/i/081104/1/20081104_2211922/20081104_2211922.jpg.html
4 November 2008:
In as few as 40 days, civilian flights between China and Taiwan will become direct.
Flights from Taiwan will fly north along the B576 international path.
At the BERBRA [sic] waypoint (north 27 degrees 4 minutes 41 seconds, east 123 degrees), the flights will turn west, through two waypoints, towards Dong Shan, and avoid the ROCAF R-8 training area.
Afterwards, Shang Hai region takes over ATC, and guides the flights into China.
This special path is for China and Taiwan flights only.
Don Chan4 November 2008:
Two F-5Es.
8th FW, ROKAF, based at Won Ju AB, Gang Won Do.
About 10:30, during Ho Guk Exercise (“Protect Country Exercise”), while CAS training with ROKA, collided.
First F-5E crashed into a farm, in/near Il Dong Myeon, Po Cheon City, Gyeong Gi Do. 46 klicks north of Seoul.
One pilot ejected. Captain Lee (28).
Second F-5E tail and wing(s) damaged, and RTB, to Won Ju AB.
Each F-5E carried two AIM-9Ls. During the accident, the two F-5Es dropped all four missiles.
One missile recovered from beside wreck.
Another missile recovered from a hill behind a church in a nearby residential area.
Another missile recovered from a farm, 2.5 km from the crash site.
Another missile missing.
10:00, took off at Won Ju AB.
Both F-5Es were flying at 630 km/h, and 500 m apart.
No reported casualty on ground.
All F-5Es grounded.
Reportedly, both pilots have five years of flight experience. Captain Lee has 590 flight hours.
Second pilot has 260 flight hours.
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=12&articleid=2008110423495112734&newssetid=82
has a four-panel comic
http://img.news.yahoo.co.kr/picture/2008/34/20081104/2008110423495112734_100513_0.jpg
that graphically shows how the accident happened.
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=10&articleid=2008110602413495307&newssetid=80
has a drawing that graphically shows how the accident happened.
The wingman apparently (failed to maintain 500 m separation from the leader, tried to pull up at the last moment, and) rammed the leader from behind.
After ROKAF Captain Lee ejected, he landed in a nearby hill. Practically not wounded, he walked to a nearby house, and phoned the ROK military.
A ROK military HH-60P SAR helo, already scrambled after Lee’s F-5E was “contact lost” about 10:29 AM, went to recover him.
(IMO, this sortie was fortunately a milk run.)
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081104-00000042-yonh-kr
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=4&articleid=20081105222538665g0&newssetid=746
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081104/5/18uu1.html
Don ChanAs of 3 November 2008, Tamogami is retired at age limit.
Retire age for JASDF chief of staff is 62, and for Lieutenant General is 60.
As he’s no longer the JASDF chief of staff, he’s retired by age.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20081103.aspx
“Unforgiven”
November 3, 2008: The commander of the Japanese Air Force [sic], general [sic] Toshio Tamogami, was forced to resign recently, after the media noted an article he had written claiming that Japan was not an aggressor during World War II.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081103-00000033-yom-soci
“Former JASDF chief of staff Tamogami has a press interview – in a business suit – no apology or reflection”
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081103-00000014-maip-pol
“JASDF chief of staff replacement – Lieutenant General Tamogami retires on 3 November”
] By that same mentality, however, Spain would be considered a far more active Axis aggressor in WWII with their Blue Division and should have been invaded by the Allies.
AFAIK, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain were amongst the neutral countries in WWII Western Europe.
] Not only that, but the Italians and Russians were even active against the Japanese in China before the US, as advisers (in the case of the Italians–and even the Germans to a lesser extent) and actual combat participants (in the case of the Russians).
Back then, some Chinese militias had German advisers/influence/weapons, such as that Mauser semi-auto pistol with a broom handle.
Tsing Tao Beer, based in Qing Dao City, Shan Dong Province, was founded by Germans.
To quote Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street (1987):
“I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!
“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed – for lack of a better word – is good.”
Don Chanhttp://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20081103TDY02305.htm
“Contest organizer confirmed Tamogami would accept prize”
(Nov. 3, 2008)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The organizer of an essay competition won by former Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Toshio Tamogami with a composition that resulted in his dismissal contacted Tamogami prior to announcing him as the winner to confirm he wanted to accept the prize, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
(IMO, the organiser should’ve renamed it as the Mishima Yukio Memorial Award… although I respect the extremist Mishima for daring to do what other radicals (left- or right-wing) didn’t.)
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081103-00000005-yom-soci
Actually, as of 2 November 2008, Tamogami (60) is just removed from the post of JASDF chief of staff (top commander). He isn’t demoted, discharged, resigned, or retired yet.
Also, the JASDF mandatory retirement age depends on post and rank. JASDF chief of staff is 62.
For the JMOD, the ideal solution is he voluntarily resigns/retires himself.
Don Chanhttp://military.people.com.cn/mediafile/200512/08/F2005120815350402404.JPG
in
http://military.people.com.cn/GB/42967/3924565.html
The good old days: photo, dated November 1985, of a PLAAF Y-8A transporting a PLA S-70C.
Don ChanIIRC, before Pearl Harbour, the Japanese military in China were fairly civil towards the Americans and Europeans, such as those in the foreingers’ sectors of Shang Hai.
For example, ISTR when the Japanese sank an American boat on the Chang Jiang River, they were going to compensate the USA for the damages.
Earlier, in 1937, they were very angry at John Rabe, the Good Nazi of Nan Jing, who reportedly wore his Nazi armband, to distinguish himself amongst the foreigners, when he dealt with the IJA soldiers, who didn’t harm him after all.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/037540211X
Unfortunately, he departed China, returned to Germany, and was banished to Afghanistan or some-such.
For another example, IIRC, even after Pearl Harbour, the Japanese respected the neutrality of Macau, the Portuguese colony just west of Hong Kong?
OTOH, Hong Kong, as a British colony, was overrun and occupied, after the Governor surrendered on or about Christmas 1941.
*ON-TOPIC ALERT*
BTW, for winning the essay contest, his awards are 3 mil Yen, and APA Group hotel coupons.
As a public employee, I guess he can receive these awards after declaring them to his employer, and getting an approval?
Don Chanhttp://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?s=9274875
“Dummy Bomb Report Released”
Posted: Nov 1, 2008 04:57 AM
Updated: Nov 1, 2008 05:55 AM
By Richard Clark, News On 6
The Air Force may be blaming a local Air National guardsman for a dummy bomb being dropped on a Tulsa apartment building last spring.
TULSA, OK — The Air Force may be blaming a local Air National guardsman for a dummy bomb being dropped on a Tulsa apartment building last spring.
An F-16 from Tulsa’s 138th Fighter Wing accidentally dropped the practice bomb on the afternoon of March 13th.
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