There is a book on the E-99 (in fact not only on it but about all the ISR versions of the Embraer EMB-145 bizjet), released in late 2012. It is the FIRST title on this subject to date, called “Embraer EMB-145 ISR-Program, Versions, Operators And Employment” and can be found here:

http://www.aviation-bookshop.com/asp/bookview.asp?book=13558&page=booksinv.asp&rec=1. :eagerness:

Hi all ! There is a couple of recent reports on the Vietnamese Air Force published by the Air Forces Monthly: http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/view_issue.asp?ID=979 (December 2011, about the Vietnamese Flankers) and http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/view_issue.asp?ID=3138 (March 2012, about the Vietnamese AF as a whole).

The Brazilian Air Force C-130 Hercules travel to there in a regular basis, as the Brazilian govt has a scientific base installed in Antarctica.

Armed MiG-31B, note cannon:

The superb Foxhound is christened “Sergei Safronov”, in honour of the young MiG-19 driver who was shot down during the efforts to kill the U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers. 😉

Does anyone knows what it is doing as it flying again this morning over Waddington? I am very curious to know the possible reason for that…Many thanks in advance!;)

ZUYEV

Dear EdLAw, I am an aviation researcher from Brazil and the FLIR you mentioned is installed inside the AT-29B’s lugagge only. The AT-29B is the biplace version of ALX, and as the FLIR is not ejectable, the only external loads permitted are a pair of underwing fuel tanks, while the weapons are limited to a pair of Browning .50 machine guns inside its wings. The speed and load factors are 280 knots (Mach 0.56) and -2,5 a 5,0 G respectively. I hope have solved your doubts;););)
Sérgio “ZUYEV” Santana.

Japanese F-15 have IRST

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Does anyone here know the designation of such device? Is it a FLIR or an IRST? Thanks in advance;);)