Thanks SpudmanWP for the new slide. Much clearer here!

Regards,
gTg

from the url posted above :
France is looking to field 150 Scalp Navals on Fremm frigates starting in 2014, with the 50 submarine-launched weapons due to come into inventory in 2017.

gtg

Maybe a C130 serviced at Marshall Aerospace

cheers,
gtg

Interesting topic!

what about another classic produced in numbers: mirage 3/5 series?

I guess the Belgian ones come from Charleroi as well.

cheers,
gTg

EDIT:oops, I only see now that Distiller mentioned the Australian mirages already.

This could be a photographic artifact, especially since the Viper in the back appears to have no such glint/tint on its canopy.

Do you have any more pictures to corraborate, this is not a one off.

it can happen even on the same viper:
http://www.zap16.com/images/J-264.jpg

cheers
gTg

IMHO this forum could use a Stalin Purge but that’s just me.

i agree! russian fanboys to the internet gulag, US fanboys to the internet guantanamao … however, purge brings nothing if the offenders know how to use a proxy… it think ice cold purge off unrelated posts would be better… for the sake of enjoyable threads…

PS: if somebody off the mods will apply this, this post can be deleted as well 😉

re missle defenses

Russia and IMHO, every country is better off putting the resources in more sexy planes, SSBNs/ICBMs, and/or whats really needed…

I consider as well that a nation wide ballistic missle defense is a complete waste of resources. There is no point of having one, as ICBM’s are a deterrent. The moment you have to use ICBM’s or have to defend against them, you have already lost. I love MAD, it worked, works and will work…

Even the logic to just defend against the 1-2…10 “rouge” missles (in order to save your capital city for example) is flawed. The resources needed to field a 10 nuclear tipped ICBM force are so enorm! Once you have the resources, your society is better off with spending them for other stuff, or going for the ICBMs using them as deterrent. Back to the above.

A lot of dammage can be done by a bunch of motivated and creative poeple using other weapons than ICBMs; just using less than 1/10th of the resources needed for a “form scratch nuclear tipped ICBM program”.

ABM is just an expensive way of generating a false feeling of security.

regrads,
gTg

Su-25 damaged in S. Ossetia

nice find!
It looks like an explosion inside the engine. I would expect from a MANPAD with proximity fuse more dammage on the wing and stores. Or was it AAA and the engine disintegrated causing the dammage?