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  • in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2216297
    gkozak
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    Guys,

    That´s the US seal for sure!

    So no chance those hueys are from El Salvador…

    In fact those machines are UH-1 Hueys II property of the U.S. Department of State Air Wing flying anti-narcotics missions in Afghanistan between 2006-2010. they were flown by private contractors…
    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235751[/ATTACH]

    check this (page 2):
    http://www.blraerospace.com/images/uploads/files/BLR_Rotorcraft_Brochure_Web_Format.pdf

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235750[/ATTACH]

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235752[/ATTACH]

    regards.-

    Thanks much for the clarification! Appreciate it! And for the insignia close-up! Is there anything you guys don’t know?

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2216620
    gkozak
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    That doesn’t look like US coat of arms to me.. There are few notable differences.
    Agree on FAES serial, though. A very nice find !!!

    Looks like the US coat-of-arms/seal to me:

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2216629
    gkozak
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    UH-1D with what appears to be Salvadoran number on nose, and silhouette US coat-of-arms on fuselage.

    in reply to: Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red Star of David #2220791
    gkozak
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235402[/ATTACH]
    Is this a red cross sign or something else?

    This is the Polish Navy SAR insignia.

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2228226
    gkozak
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    Lugansk People Republic (LNR) Air Force – Su-25
    Source – russian blog about Air war over Ukraine http://militarizm.livejournal.com/65680.html
    [ATTACH=CONFIG]234954[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]234955[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]234956[/ATTACH]

    Fantastic! Finally- real, and no Photoshop! Thanks!

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2260280
    gkozak
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    Haitian VIP S-58, serial H-1, Florida 1983…
    http://i59.tinypic.com/x0v2o9.jpghttp://i59.tinypic.com/v3eyqg.jpg

    note: pics taken from ARCforums, posted there by user Jennings

    Regards.-

    “Le President La Vie”- that worked out great, didn’t it?

    in reply to: Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red Star of David #2264017
    gkozak
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    Looking at these images it occurs to me that the civil ambulance helicopters like those seen in the US, UK and Germany don’t carry red crosses.
    Odd. They usually have bright paint schemes and plenty of identification so everyone knows what they are, but they (and most ambulances here in the US…and I don’t recall seeing any in the UK, though I certainly could have missed one) don’t carry the international symbol of relief/medical transport.

    Also, anyone else find it a bit ironic that communist (and presumably atheist) countries also use the red cross?

    That is a rather strange thing, come to think of it. Also, Islamic countries use the red crescent, not the red cross. I have seen a few exceptions, though, like an Afghan Mi-8 that was marked with a red cross.

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2216221
    gkozak
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    Hi Guys!

    I am looking for photos, informations of mali and algerian Yak-11. In scale models are available, but I didn’t found infos.
    Thanks in advance!
    Alex

    I think this will do quite nicely for you.

    http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Markings/yak11/yak11-1.php

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2220985
    gkozak
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    It’s been a long time since I collected that photo but IIRC they wanted it for a museum.

    I heard that they wanted to drop it from max altitude to see how far it would penetrate into the sand.

    in reply to: US led coalition against IS #2221349
    gkozak
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    Rather more vilanous eh?

    No, I don’t think China, or Russia, or little Cuba has killed more civies around the world than America has in recent memory.

    Well, let’s see- Stalin offed about 20 million of his own, Mao blew away who knows how many million of his countrymen, and Castro has quashed dissent by imprisoning, torturing, and executing countless of his fellow socialist brothers and sisters because they’ve dared to question him. And that’s just a start. Yes, I would say that nations consistently led by brutal dictators, psychos, and sociopaths qualify as “rather more villainous”.

    in reply to: US led coalition against IS #2221674
    gkozak
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    Care to explain connection between IS and Russia, China, Korea, Iran or Cuba? Something must have escaped me.. :confused:

    Mack8 ended his diatribe with the people’s democratic slogans “No to NATO!” and “No to WAR!” I was simply reminding him that there are other rather more villainous and evil minions of the devil he should note in his propaganda.

    in reply to: US led coalition against IS #2221701
    gkozak
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    I saw Rii’s post before being removed by the mods. I’ll say i hope he is right, however at present and on topic, me i’m awaiting any day now news that the US and their cronies started attacks against the syrian government and military, following some alleged “provocation” (like SAMs shooting accidentally or not at the “liberating” US aircraft or something like that) from the syrian armed forces. They didn’t managed to start their intended war back after the alleged chemical attacks, now they have the prefect excuse to put aircraft over Syria.

    It is also dejecting that these GCC puppets, who ARE by all intents and purposes responsible for arming and training these very same jihadists whom they allegedly fight against now, are participating in attacks on syrian soil. An offense to the 120,000 dead syrian civilians and soldiers, perhaps it was intended that way. If there is any real intention to fight ISIS then me thinks bombing should start from KSA or Qatar or other GCC puppets, but that’s not going to happen is it.

    On strictly military terms, imo you know what Syria and Iraq needs from US in order to eliminate these jihadists? They don’t need the US’s aircraft overhead, they don’t need their troops, they don’t need even any non-lethal support, all they need is them to order their GCC cronies to stop financing and funneling the jihadists in Iraq and Syria and other places. All the syrians will need then is just the stuff they had ordered from Russia like MiGs and Yaks, a few tens of attacks helos and some UAVs, a moderate number of armoured vehicles, and spare parts for existing stocks. Once cut from their supplies and a sponsors, the ISIS will be eliminated in 3 months. Same in Iraq. But again, this will not happen is it? The syrian and iraqi peoples are facing years more of war and death, as stated by the US and aligned officials themselves.

    One thing forgot in all this is the recently NATO “liberated” Libya. The situation there is as i understand it as bad as in Syria or northern Iraq, the country is partitioned by all kinds of jihadist militias (allegedly, supported from the outside), it is an incubator for jihadists, it descended into anarchy and chaos, and whatever government left is crying for help. But they are mysteriously ignored, only Algeria and Egypt are trying to do something there. I guess this is “democracy” at work. 😡

    While you’re at it, why not mention Russia, and China, and North Korea, and Cuba, and Iran in addition to NATO? Seems your pants are down and your bias is showing.

    in reply to: US led coalition against IS #2221708
    gkozak
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    Do those ignorant pukes have any aircraft of their own?

    in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2289116
    gkozak
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    I don’t believe there are any roundels or other markings on the wings of the Mozambique MiG-21.

    in reply to: WORLD AIR FORCE ROUNDELS #2292511
    gkozak
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    variation 11: The one used on the F-117: [ATTACH=CONFIG]229768[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]229769[/ATTACH]

    variation 12: The dotted line version: [ATTACH=CONFIG]229770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]229771[/ATTACH]

    variation 13: The red dotted line version. [ATTACH=CONFIG]229772[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]229773[/ATTACH]

    variation 13 and 14: Roundels integrated in camouflage patterns: [ATTACH=CONFIG]229774[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]229775[/ATTACH]

    Normally only one type is found on one aircraft but here is an exception: [ATTACH=CONFIG]229776[/ATTACH]

    If you know of more variations pls let me know.

    Extremely interesting- thanks!

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