Hey Thanks IP Freely! 🙂

Tracks can be formed at ranges of between 75 nm and 80 nm (139-148 km).

That looks pretty good, although they don’t mention size or RCS of the target.

Chile, Equador and Peru have border disputes between each other. There are plenty of economically important things in the disputed territories.

There have been some clashes between Chile and Argentina in the 80s, about their extreme south border.

Recently, (landlocked) Bolivia has shown its renewed interest in having a sea route, but didn’t show any sign of being agressive, looking more as a diplomatic maneuver.

Chile doesn’t have borders with Brasil, and there doesn’t seem to be any kind of animosity between the two countries. (Except of course, in that Pre-World Cup game in 1989)… 😀

And I would say the Chilean Air Force is in very good shape, just like the their economy, the opposite of Argentina.

And FACh, when compared with FAB (Brazil), is smaller but much better fitted to the country size (Chile has an area similar to some Brazilian states).

Nice! 🙂 That one with the Marines was particurlarly interisting.

Originally posted by Victor
I think it was in Iraq, during the latest campaign, early in the war. A PAC-3 obliterated a F-16. I think that’s the incident you are talking about.

Hmm, I would say that it was a Tornado that was shot down by a Patriot, killing both crewmen.

The F-16 incident was the opposite: being tracked by a friendly Patriot radar system, and without knowing it was friendly, the pilot destroyed the battery with a HARM. The system was operating on automatic, IIRC 😉

December, 2001, South African Sunday Times:

Chinese website rips off Rooivalk

Roger Makings

A Chinese website has published an image of what it says is China’s new attack helicopter but is, in fact, a doctored picture of South Africa’s Rooivalk attack helicopter.

The picture of the Chinese “Z-10 attack helicopter” was published in the authoritative AirForces Monthly magazine but shot down by international experts last month as nothing but a bad fake of the Denel Aviation-built Rooivalk.

The picture shows a reversed version of the original Rooivalk photograph with the tail section of a French-built helicopter grafted on with a suitable “Chinese” background.

http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/12/30/news/news11.asp

Hey, that Lightning idea isn’t bad at all… But the “most wanted” would be, for me:
– MiG-23
– Tu-22M

But if it was some kind of thing in which shooting is involved, I’d surely stick with F-22 😀

I find this other pic of the same “MiG-27” vintage Flogger quite awesome too: