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December 17, 2003 at 12:44 pm in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2687796

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Pink clouds for Boeings biggest future hope… Il liked your first contribution a lot better. It was real.

December 17, 2003 at 9:06 am in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2687875

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Be selective! Probably not all pics will qualify as “most beautiful”, will they?
Here’s another of my absolute favourites:

December 17, 2003 at 8:50 am in reply to: no respect for the Gripen #2687893

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If you check the Czech ranking thread you will find out that there’s actually plenty of respect for this little fighter all around. It just seems that quite a few American readers don’t really like it that much, but this might be because they perceive it as a competition to their good old F-16. In their own way they are also showing respect…. 😀

December 16, 2003 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Ur opinion on the World's most useless air force #2688096

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I don’t thik they were in port. Id’ assume they were refueling from a tank ship. This must have happend in international waters. It would have been highly critical to defend the carrier with air defence missiles. After all the Russians have the right to fly over international water and take pictures. If they are not intercepted in time, that’s tough luck for the US- Navy.

December 16, 2003 at 10:46 pm in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2688113

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Well, this is not about claiming ownership of pics. As long as no copyrights are being violated, there can’t be anything wrong with showing pics. I didn’t take the first one myself either.

December 16, 2003 at 10:22 pm in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2688120

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You’re probably right there. Good observation.

December 16, 2003 at 10:16 pm in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2688125

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Thanx! I especially like the Mig 27 top view over the desert. The camouflage is fitting there.

December 16, 2003 at 8:28 pm in reply to: The most beautiful air-pics. #2688165

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Suggestion: Just post your favourite one.

December 16, 2003 at 8:16 am in reply to: RAF Typhoon Guns? #2688625

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Originally posted by Tony Williams
Guns are much less important than they used to be, but they still have a wide range of secondary and backup uses. I understand that there was at least one Tornado strafing gun attack in Iraq earlier this year.
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Especially for the air policing role a gun is almost a necessity. How can you fire a warning shot with a IR- missile, for example? Once the interceptor is in very short range (to identify an intruder and give optical signals) the gun still is the most effective weapon in case the intruder doesn’t comply.

December 15, 2003 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Czech ranking #2688961

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Never heard of “the chocolate war”, even though I’m Swiss and chocolate is a topic here, sort of…
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😉
We will soon find out. It’s a political decision in the end, and if the Americans manage to come up with enough incentives and threats, the Czech government -like the Polish- might still go for the F-16.
It would just be so sad for SAAB if they lost time again because of political considerations. The Gripen seems to be a fine little plane.

December 15, 2003 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Czech ranking #2689029

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It’s interesting to see the F-16 is lobbied so openly.
One would think that behind closed door lobbying would be more effective.
The way it is most Czechs will feel that their expert commitee’s evaluation decision is wiped asside by the Americans as incompetent. I wouldn’t be suprised if this raised anti- American feelings there.

It also seems that the US- admin. take this tiny sell quite seriously. They might fear that the Czech’s decision might encourage other nations with far more purchasing power to opt for the Gripen.
By making it a political issue the US- administration also demonstrates that they don’t want to leave the arms trade to free market. (Or is it more: free market please, as long as you buy our products?)

December 15, 2003 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Ur opinion on the World's most useless air force #2689368

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We probably all suffer from schizophrania a little bit. 😀 😉

December 15, 2003 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Ur opinion on the World's most useless air force #2689377

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They are a nice sight, but if there’s no use for them, they are expensive toys, sort of. The question of usefullness is clearly not asked frequently enough. Take Switzerland, my own country: We’re about to select a replacement for our F-5 E/Fs and Mirage III RS.
With 33 F/A-18 we do already have a modern multi role fighter. A full grown war in Central Western Europe seems highly unlikely. So why do we need another plane? Probably mostly to be a little less dependent on Boeing and the US…

December 15, 2003 at 4:41 pm in reply to: EF2000 and F-35 #2689390

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Originally posted by Tempest
I should also point out here that France has offered Rafales to Austria at a cost 15% more expensive than the Typhoon.

Where did you get this from? As far as I remember Dassault came in after the decision for the EF was made and offered the package for 400 Mio. less.
(This of course doesn’t mean much since the offer was made after the decision more to annoy the Austrians and for marketing purposes, but they surely didn’t offer it more expensive than the EF…)

December 15, 2003 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Ur opinion on the World's most useless air force #2689431

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Re: Re: Matt!

Originally posted by matt

I honestly think everyone should have an airforce..
:p

Even Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco … the Vatican?

You at must concede at least that you couldn’t convince the Vatican, since they belive they have heaven on their side.

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