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  • May 31, 2011 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Great crashed mirage 2000D pics in Astan #2326906
    Merlock
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    Nice pics.

    What amaze me is how in a good shape the Mirage still looks even after a crash!! 😮

    *EDIT*

    And, by the way, thank you.

    May 25, 2011 at 8:39 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -III #2003027
    Merlock
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    http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a3933fceb-1f6c-4584-a57b-35b5bab3fd86&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest

    Interesting to see someone considers that concept. Return of the surface-dash boats, semi-submersible variant a la Tupolev G5. Funny, I wrote about the potential benefits of that hull concept for SSKs two or three years ago.

    Oh yeah. The SMX-25.

    I still can’t make myself an opinion. Is this concept totally smoked out, or is it a sort of soft naval revolution, like the torpedo boat was in its times… ? :confused:

    May 25, 2011 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Eurofighter Typhoon News & Discussions Thread IV #2334196
    Merlock
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    Just like what EELightning said. And if I may say: Being a fighter pilot requires nerves and the ability to get drunk and disconnect for a while from reality. Those guys are not machines, after all!

    That’s (more or less) what Pierre Clostermann said about his fellow pilots, and I guess fighter pilots have not much changed since then…

    May 22, 2011 at 9:04 am in reply to: Rafale News X #2336821
    Merlock
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    But did the Rafale’s advertising team proclaim it was combat proven before now? :confused:

    Uh… I can’t remember for sure, but I think it’s quite probable, yes. :rolleyes:

    May 22, 2011 at 8:39 am in reply to: French Navy mothership #2003646
    Merlock
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    I think the photos from the links you posted come from this site:

    http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=114796

    Maybe a little google translation may help ? I can help to fix the possible translation troubles if you wish…

    May 22, 2011 at 8:28 am in reply to: Rafale News X #2336828
    Merlock
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    Didn’t take them long to tag it as combat proven did it…

    Oh yes: five years or so since its first deployment in Afghanistan, right ? Quite a short time.

    May 21, 2011 at 10:31 am in reply to: Eurofighter Typhoon News & Discussions Thread IV #2337338
    Merlock
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    Right, very nice photo. Is that a laser designator pod, we can see under the belly ?

    May 16, 2011 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Foxbat revamped with French parts #2341792
    Merlock
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    And you enter the volume of the surface-to-air system of the target…..
    And the vector plane is detected at long range by the ADS……
    Don’t drop the missile. Crash with it o the target!

    I never said it’s a bright idea, just that I had been told this is possible, at least in theory.

    May 15, 2011 at 8:26 am in reply to: Bin Laden Raid: Stealth Helicopter Mods? #2342883
    Merlock
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    Delta participated.

    Oh God: Chuck Norris’s the guy who shot Bin Laden!!! 😮

    May 12, 2011 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Foxbat revamped with French parts #2344681
    Merlock
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    You have to feed first the missile with the location of the target!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Exocet will active its own radar when it is supposed to be close enough to the boat!
    No radar data before alaunching, no possibility
    of hitting!!!!!

    Unless you shoot your exocet at shorter range after the missile’s radar got a lock-on. This drastically reduces the missile’s range, but it works (or so I’ve been told a looong time ago)…

    May 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Foxbat revamped with French parts #2345805
    Merlock
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    There were loads of Iraqi aircraft that were fitted with French equipment in the 1980s. What about all those MiG-21s with Matra Magic missiles? Or the alleged MiG-23BN with Exocet?:rolleyes:

    There was also that story about a Mig-23 fitted with Super-530 missiles, but this one had been debunked.

    How sad! This would have made a nice plane/missile combination… 😉

    May 9, 2011 at 4:41 pm in reply to: Bin Laden Raid: Stealth Helicopter Mods? #2347539
    Merlock
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    Question: isn’t it wiser for a stealth helicopter to use a Fenestron ? This sytem is interesting in reducing both the radar and acoustic signatures.

    Apparently our stealth chopper does not have one… :confused:

    May 2, 2011 at 8:19 pm in reply to: MMRCA News and Discussion 8 #2352911
    Merlock
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    Get a grip! Air&Cosmos really… a French magazine that would certainly be interested in Rafale winning!

    Hey stop it!!

    Air & Cosmos is in France, what Aviation Week is in the english-speaking countries: a venerable and well established journal read by most professionnals from the air & space industries and administrations.

    I do work at the DGAC (the french civilian aviation authority) and my bosses always get their weekly issue (which I sometimes manage to get my hands on…).

    It has a reputation of seriousness and impartiality, and from my point of view, it deserves it. I’ve been reading its issues since well the end of the 80’s and I have always been impressed by the excellent quality of its articles, both in the business & industries domain, the Defence domain, and the technology domain.

    I can’t say Air & Cosmos never shown some resentment at all the Rafale-bashing by the english-speaking aeronautic press (ESPECIALLY the JOUST story), but it was never complacent to Dassault nor the rafale.

    Plus, if the Rafale received its share of honors from A&C, it was only after it proved it deserved it after the operations in Afghanistan or, more recently, in Libya…

    January 12, 2011 at 6:54 am in reply to: J-20 Black Eagle – Part 3 #2321766
    Merlock
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    Already posted ?

    http://airforces.fr/2011/01/11/maiden-flight-for-j-20-black-eagle-stealth-fighter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+airforcesfrfeed+%28Prepa+PLS+Anglais%29

    January 8, 2011 at 1:33 pm in reply to: Brimstone Carriage #1799107
    Merlock
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    I “Bump up” the thread for two reasons:

    1-wolfhound’s question is interesting, and I’d like to know more about it, please.

    2-For the same reasons stated abow, could a Brimstone be adapted on a helicopter with a 4-missiles carriage, similar to the Hellfire’s ?

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