Page 13 – Key Publishing

ink

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 181 through 195 (of 1,597 total)

← 1 2 3 … 12 13 14 … 105 106 107 →

Author

Posts
June 18, 2012 at 6:18 pm in reply to: China Space & Missiles tread v.1.0 #1792495

ink
Participant

This news may be a bit stale but I figured it would be good to throw it in anyway:

China sold missile transporters to NK

May 30, 2012 at 5:54 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2299654

ink
Participant

For bombing some cave-men in mountain area, the dumb bombs works just fine

agreed. but then the plane is overkill.

And if you can make your pilots use dumb bombs well, the guided munitions become a breeze

don’t agree with that, however, precision-guided munitions require different tactics and so training with those would be better for the pilots – adapting to wwii style dumb-bombing would then be a breeze.

May 30, 2012 at 4:30 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2299666

ink
Participant

and the implications of such configuration

the implications of such a configuration are that you’re going to be flying your high-value asset right over the target area – seems a bit excessive for a drop-and-hope bomb run.

where are the stand-off, satellite-guided, high-precision weapons that are going to take out high-priority targets without getting entangled with air defence systems? seems to me the russians need to show those off a bit more it they want to look credible.

May 30, 2012 at 1:07 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2299679

ink
Participant

Nice…

Russians still favouring dumb bombs I see 😡

May 23, 2012 at 10:01 am in reply to: Military Aviation News-2012 #2301934

ink
Participant

Saudi shells out US$3bn for BAE Hawks

BBC News on BAE Hawk sale

April 25, 2012 at 12:35 pm in reply to: RuAF aviation, news and development thread #2322070

ink
Participant

Ken,

Imagine a V-shaped wineglass

I’m thinking that would have to be a martini glass… and now I’m thirsty 😎

PS. I second calls for a video, if there is one

April 19, 2012 at 10:35 am in reply to: Indian Missiles News #1793607

ink
Participant

News of this new missile is good for India-China relations – basically, the two countries will never be able to afford to go to war now.

April 4, 2012 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Serbian AF: Future Equipment #2335249

ink
Participant

yes, i think getting surplus Gripen A/B may be more economical in long term than getting old mig-21s and F-5s and upgrading them to gripen standards.

Better still, why not get nothing at all? Unless somebody is willing to give Serbia some old airframes for free, or the country suddenly acquires an ability to build its own combat jets, no solution is “economical”.

April 2, 2012 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Serbian AF: Future Equipment #2336183

ink
Participant

Aca, thanks, interesting evolution.

There’s a B92 report on it here: http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/srbija.php?yyyy=2012&mm=04&dd=02&nav_id=596605 (as always, google translate is your friend)

There have also been reports recently that Serbia and the Ukraine might cooperate on a medium transport helicopter. Rather unlikely but perhaps worth mentioning nonetheless.

Mercurius, you’re wasting your time responding to posts more than a year old.

January 30, 2012 at 10:56 am in reply to: Military Aviation News 2011 June – #2353479

ink
Participant

Now what you guys think of this !

Iran’s ‘flying boats’ go on display at sea

Other than for very basic eye-ball reconnaissance, I can’t see that they have any military value whatsoever.

January 26, 2012 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2356445

ink
Participant

just a quick question on the Backfire, does anybody know how useful the tailgun is? i’ve always wondered whether its just a dead weight… or whether it might be good enough to do something useful, like knock down an incoming missile.

January 19, 2012 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Attack Helicopters #2361376

ink
Participant

BTW, guys, thanks for bringing this ancient thread back to life, makes me nostalgic for the days when Vympel, GarryB, Arthur, Steve Touchdown and Tony Williams were regular posters.

December 12, 2011 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Azerbaijan Air Force #2305887

ink
Participant

what are the chances of those Mi-35Ms staying white? what colour are the azeris thinking of painting them? if they don’t end up red, green and blue i will be most disappointed!

December 10, 2011 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Military Aviation News 2011 June – #2306487

ink
Participant

😡

December 7, 2011 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Good Russian aviation thread part 6, the return of Ivan Drago #2308425

ink
Participant

great pics! thanks!

though it did occur to me that they’d save themselves a lot of trouble if they just painted the entire tail section black and moved the markings to the forward fuselage.
Author

Posts

Viewing 15 posts - 181 through 195 (of 1,597 total)

← 1 2 3 … 12 13 14 … 105 106 107 →