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  • September 3, 2004 at 3:17 am in reply to: MRH-90 to Australian Army #2656921
    Charlie Echo
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    The Australian Army will be equipped with 12 new troop lift helicopters under a $1 billion project approved by the Howard Government, Prime Minister John Howard and Defence Minister Robert Hill announced today.

    “The purchase of these new helicopters will include a support contract that may last for up to 20 years, and the overall Australian industry component of this project is expected to exceed $300 million,” Senator Hill said.

    1 billion for 12 choppers? Is it in US Dollars? Do those 20 years of support cost that much? It’s like 85 million per unit.. It can’t be in USD. Or is it? 😮

    September 3, 2004 at 2:36 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073908
    Charlie Echo
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    CE,

    Don’t worry. Love the photos!! Not a lot of the modern SAN out there. The new MEKO corvettes look great! Thanks heaps for posting them.

    🙂

    Glenn 🙂

    Thanks mate! They are really very beautiful vessels, it was a lot of luck to see them “in the flesh” ! 😎

    September 2, 2004 at 10:33 pm in reply to: AN-225 Pics…. #2657173
    Charlie Echo
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    Nice pics John cheers 🙂

    September 2, 2004 at 4:24 am in reply to: Brazilian VIP Airbus: first pics #2657972
    Charlie Echo
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    Yeah, probably its callsign will be the same (imensely creative) FAB Zero-Uno :p 😀 :p 😀

    September 2, 2004 at 2:26 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073949
    Charlie Echo
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    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0006.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0003.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 2:25 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073952
    Charlie Echo
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    ACHTUNG

    Although these next pics were taken in Cape Town, South Africa, it´s a French Navy Vessel A 630 “Marne”, a auxiliary ship.

    I read in a Mozambican newspaper that it will help with the transport of two light patrol vessels that are being donated to Mozambique in conjunction with France.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0015.jpg

    The VA Waterfront is in the background:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT00004.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 2:13 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073957
    Charlie Echo
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    More A 301 (the quad lauchers are from SAS Amatola, in the backgroud)

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0069.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0070.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 2:10 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073961
    Charlie Echo
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    This is SAS Drakensberg Fleet Replenishment Ship, A 301:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0089.jpg

    Another shot (the Mekos are behind it):

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0067.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 2:08 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073965
    Charlie Echo
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    SAS Amatola / F 145. Sorry, not only the weather was miserable, but this angle was also impaired by those masts..

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0085.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 2:03 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073970
    Charlie Echo
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    Another one, probably SAS Isandlwana / F146:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0071.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 1:31 am in reply to: My pictures: South African Navy Vessels! #2073983
    Charlie Echo
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    A view of SAS Amatola (F 145, Meko A200 class frigate, note the quad lauchers):

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/carloseduardo/CpiadePICT0087.jpg

    September 2, 2004 at 1:10 am in reply to: MiG-23/27 Flogger and MiG-25/31 #2658077
    Charlie Echo
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    Not only could it burn through jamming, but it could kill deer at like 500 feet when on the ground 😀

    😮 😮

    😀 😀 😀

    I heard something about sterilyzing ground crew and pilots too…

    September 1, 2004 at 10:43 am in reply to: Brazilian VIP Airbus: first pics #2658472
    Charlie Echo
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    VC-1A

    It’s written on the fin also 🙂

    August 30, 2004 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Australia to get cruise missiles #2058998
    Charlie Echo
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    And these are the same neighbours that snub us when ASEAN meets!

    Sorry, but ‘being sensitive’ is utterly pointless! Apeasement is what eventually led to East Timor having to be helped out by the ADF, when their independence was threatened with indirectly Indonesian-backed anarchy back in 1999. Australia has learned, but from the 70’s. Australia has the US firmly in it’s corner, perhaps even stronger now than ever before since the end of WWII. With that, there is little chance Howard is going to make defence decisions based on how the region feels, nor does he have to. If the region doesn’t like it, stiff…!! 😡

    But wd1 has a good point when he says that a more careful choice of words wouldn’t harm Aussie interests, while keeping Asian neighbours calm.

    August 13, 2004 at 3:50 am in reply to: MiG-23/27 Flogger and MiG-25/31 #2647293
    Charlie Echo
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    Hey thanks Niels, Sean, Arthur, I didn’t have some of those air defense Flogger pics! Actually it’s the only pic collection I have!

    Go Floggers! 😀

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