Vladimir Vladimirovich just got some serious competition:D

Well, the primary mission of Russian Mistrals shouldn’t be an ASW mission, but these ships should rather be used as supportive tools for naval infantry, thus packing a flight or two of recce and attack helicopters. The Ka-27 can do that job (ASW) just fine till its replacement is gonna be ready.

Excellent spot for a Top Gear segment: drag race anyone?

LOL, I was thinking of the same thing:)

Remember that old French commercial with a carrier?

Somebody send these photos to Jeremy Clarkson:D

Well, this is a reply with much delay, but i don’t always read all topics…

In Turkey they have F16 female pilots too.

In Greece, women are having a hard time inside HAF’s pilot school. But i am sure that it is only a matter of time, before a political order arrives from above forcing HAF to boost women.

Till now , to my knowledge, there is 1 female fighter pilot, in RF4, who aspires to go to F16s one day:

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And this is the 2nd one, in C27 Spartan (the photo was pubblished from defencenet, as being from Alenia’s trainning facility, where she went to get certified on C27J)

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Who should be the same as here, when she later returned to Greece:

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Women in HAF are about 10%, but as flying personnel, well, not many. In summer’s flying personnel graduation class, there were 45 men, 1 woman. There were also some cases of daughters of HAF pilots that made it in HAF’s school, but were subsequently “cut off”.

Part of the problem is also the way that one ends up in HAF. One must compete in pan-hellenic exams, where he must have almost perfect grades in subjects like physics, maths or chemistry. Then there are those that had another faculty as 1st choice, their grades weren’t enough and had HAF as 2nd choice. These usually have a hard time to keep going (male of females). I think that this system should change, to allow less good students to get in HAF, if they really want to fly. The problem is that once in HAF, you have then to pass HAF’s internal selection and what you did in the exams won’t cut it anymore. And for some reason, not many ladies manage to come out of HAF as pilots. They have much better success percentages as engineers, traffic controllers, etc. To be honest i don’t think though that the candidates are many either, because in the past 20 years alone there must be over 100 pilots dead in HAF, so a female’s preservation of the species instict, should push her away from wanting to become pilot.

Anyway, you can call me whatever you like, but nature has made some differences. Male pilots don’t get to abbandon flying for almost a year because of pregnancy. If they are sent for readyness on an island, they surely won’t have “one of those days”, that may give them trouble to go out there and start pulling Gs.

Thank you for a really informative reply aspis🙂

Yes, I have it, but… it´s my treasure :dev2::dev2::dev2::dev2::dev2::dev2:

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Roberto, did you change your mind:p:D

ink, you should’ve let us dream a bit more:)

Dispersed Gripen A supporting & supported by S-300+ and/or passive systems,

think wanshan wrote this

I like that idea:)

Whoever proposed upgrades of existing Fulcrums should know that there are only 4 left (including one UB). 3 of these have been overhauled (including one UB) recently while the fourth was left waiting for funds (or was intentionally left for spare parts).

ATM, the trainer is a no go. There are still G-4’s with decent flying hours in them, especially those transferred from Montenegro. There were plans of upgrading them to G-4M standard but AFAIK that didn’t materialize. New Lasta should become a new basic trainer.

Now, back to reality:(

The only remaining Serbian MiG-29UB fully loaded with AAM’s:)

Photo taken by amazing Dimitrije Ostojić, a.k.a Dicus.

nice hips!

Ivan, I can’t see anything. Are you sure the link was right?

I mean changing the antenna for a PESA will much improve the radar performance.

It is not neccesary to equip them with Irbis, but something like a Bars will be great.

We are speaking of only 12 planes here, Rodolfo. Not more. It would be costly to develop something for such a small amount of planes. They are an interim solution for both VVS and the Knaapo. For VVS to make up the numbers and get used faster to Su-35’s avionics suite and for the Knaapo to keep production line open till the 35 ends state trials.

Well, the F-15 was initially never intended to carry bombs either 😉

Remember “Not a pound for the ground” 🙂

True. I was thinking the same when I was writing previous post 🙂 But when the F-15 was designed nobody was thinking “multirole” that much. Today “multirole” comes as a must for most of the air forces around globe.

I know these are war machines but sometimes IMHO designers/engineers overreact when they want to make flying perpetuum mobile. Kind of you want to have a vehicle that can beat Formula 1 car on the track and later beat Land Rover Defender or Mercedes Benz G class off the road.

Still can’t find that old magazine:(