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  • in reply to: A Tiger with powerful claws #2215787
    slipperysam
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    Interesting to note in that old video where its landing and taking off from soft ground its fitted with twin wheels on the nose leg.

    in reply to: MiG-21 Lancer #2220104
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    Preferred the Bison as well… specially with the bigger canopy, more room for a helmet sight

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    in reply to: NH90 v Blackhawk Down Under #2236942
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    I don’t understand this problem about the gunners, NH90 have rear ramp to load/unload troop and you can put gunners on the doorway and on rear windows..?

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    Maybe the MRH90 have a different design ?

    Huh? you dont understand???

    With the door gunner in the way… how do troops get in and out? Do they limit themselves to the rear ramp only?
    (and yes the weak rear loading ramp was also an issue)

    The rear window appears to be fixed on the MRH90, unlike those photos which you posted appear to have a sliding window.

    in reply to: NH90 v Blackhawk Down Under #2237291
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    Blackhawk has only side doors, and a lower interior roof. It cannot carry pallets of material.

    MRH-90 has a rear ramp in addition to the side doors, and a higher interior roof. This allows faster loading/unloading of troops, and carriage of loaded pallets. It also carries more troops than Blackhawk.

    You missed the part where they want to put door gunners in and found they cant load/ unload troops while someone is in the doorway shooting…. unlike the blackhawk which has a gunner in the window. This is one of the issues i mentioned above and a complaint made about the helicopter.

    in reply to: NH90 v Blackhawk Down Under #2238626
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    Uh Oh—A Crappy Italian Company Might Build The Netherlands’ New Stealth Fighters

    The NH-90 seems to suffer from manufacturing and/or design defect that is still being rectified, particularly the naval variant. If I were to build a large naval helo fleet, I would begin and end my search at the Seahawk. The whole system is tested with a vast supplier list and has gobs of equipment cert’d on them.

    Since the thread is about Australian Army NH90s… what does the naval variant have to do with it? Australia didnt buy it….

    Next some of the issues were poor seat designs which were not compatible with the aussie soldiers webbing, kit etc….
    The fact that the door gunners blocked the doors so troops cant get in and out….
    Theres been two (that i know of) uncommanded shut downs of the engine in flight (single engine shut downs).
    Then of course the usual cost over runs, delays etc….

    in reply to: Malaysian B.777 MH One Seven downed over Ukraine. #491146
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    As has been said the airspace above 30000ft was open… why? simple… the separatists only had shoulder launched SAMs.
    They cant hit a target at that altitude. All previous shoot downs inside Ukraine were with shoulder launched missiles aimed at military aircraft flying at low and medium level.

    Its been alledged that the BUK SAM missile system was taken from a Ukrainian base which was over run a few weeks ago. Now if correct how would they know how to use it?
    It would take weeks of training etc in order to work how, unless of course those using it had previous experience.

    Video emerged today of a BUK missile launcher on the back of a civilian flat bed truck in the immediate area of the shoot down, with one of its 4 missiles missing.

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2286436
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    Wow and still some of you persist it writing the most disgusting comments on here.. nearly 300 people killed and barely a “how tragic” post… but just drivel crap and lay blame squarely at malasian airlines.

    in reply to: Malaysian B.777 MH One Seven downed over Ukraine. #491195
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    Why this plane was flying over that heavily disputed region of Ukr is the first question any inquiry have to answer.

    Who gave the authorization? Who did not put a ban for such commercial overflight? What went wrong BEFORE the sh** hit the fan?

    Let’s sort the things in the right order.

    What a sad story. What a plea for the Malaysian ppl.

    There was NO airspace restrictions over Ukraine or Russia… If there was it wouldnt be flying there.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-18/malaysia-airlines-passenger-plane-crashes-in-ukraine/5606004

    295 people killed in act of murder

    in reply to: Malaysian Airlineus 777 shot down over Ukraine #2286676
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    wow 295 people killed and some of you truely are sick individuals.
    Great to see so much concern for the dead!

    in reply to: Nice photoshop? #2291572
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    So a fictional helicopter about a fictional rescue… lol

    in reply to: Mig-25 #2218226
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    How good of a dog fighter was the mig-25?

    Ah why ask a question about a role it was never intended for?
    Bit like asking how good was the F-15 as a CAS aircraft….

    Mig-25 was designed as a straight line interceptor of heavy bombers (as a reaction the XB-70 as stated).

    in reply to: Chinese Air Power Thread 17 #2223099
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    compare to the f-22 the guy’s head is almost touching the wings
    http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/10/110302-F-MQ656-941-660x439.jpg

    Actually the guy is about to walk around the nose of the aircraft and is no where near the wing. So you cant make a comparison due to the distance from his head all the way back to the wings leading edge

    in reply to: Dambusters Remake Latest #932043
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    Yes but he didn’t –which part of that don’t you understand ?

    Cleary he doesn’t and if people keep feeding the troll then it will just go on and on….. disregard his comments and move on as he is obviously just interested in arguing a point which makes sense to everyone else.

    in reply to: Impressive Weapons Load 2 (again) #2228478
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    Re: the B-1 photo- which of those stores have never been identified?

    Given its from a book from the late 1980s…. a lot of sotres were never published. Nice er “painting” by the way, long before photoshop….

    in reply to: Mysterious plane over Texas #2229029
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    Gerard

    B2 … no way! angle of the wing is different see silhouette;

    sigh… im sure I speaka gooda English.

    THE COLOUR picture shows a B2. The plane is not directly overhead so the “apparent” wing sweep appears different.
    Its not rocket science.
    The Black and white picture has been altered or is a different picture. The two photos are NOT the same.

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