Pardon my complete ignorance on this HotDog, but what aircraft is this and what are the markings?

Thanks,
Stu

SEPECAT jaguar

considering the size of the country and the fact that, usually, serbia has no business going to fight wars half the planet away, the Mig-35 would fit just nice.

a flanker would really be overkill, since its big size is dictated by the need to go far (carry tons of fuel).

one question, how do you shoot down an aircraft that’s landing?

A2A missile won’t do, and strafing isn’t the brightest idea you might have (there are plenty of pretty angry guys down there, that had been on the receiving end for some time now… and if you go down to the gun range, you’ll be pretty much an easy target for all the manpads that are most certainly positioned around the airbase)

as for “coalition can bomb anything with the zexcuse of protecting civilians”.. it’s pretty simple: they have sided with the rebels and keep doing the work for them.

if you believe even just for a second that that rebelion may end in a democracy or anything resembling democracy, you’re not just naive, but worse.. much worse… it is a civil war, tribe against tribe, and the winning tribe will “clean” the part it “liberates”… the only difference is that west nations are now involved (and therefore, responsible) if the rebels win… but hey, we don’t care… there’s a saying: “history is written by the winners”, so, all we have to do is win, and then, we’ll say it’s all good and nice, and by the time the reality comes out, nobody will care anymore…

it won’t be the fiorst time anyway… what’s absolutely crazy, is that there are recent examples showing that “bringing democracy” doesn’t work (irak, afghanistan) and yet, we continue de shove our noses where they have nothing to do… pretending “humanitarian reasons”

In the same way that Gadafi brought overwhelming firepower superiority to bear on unarmed civilians? And since when has the destruction of air defence and military assets been equivilent to “destroying the whole infrastructure” of Libya?

er,

– 1/ gaddafi had in front of him angry guys that were armed and wanted him dead or at least out of libya… he fought back. is ne nice? of course not, but the tales about “mad dictator sending troops armed to the teeth to massively eliminate innocent civilians” is just that: tales… there’s a civil war with armed people on both sides… libya is a tribes-based society, not unlike afghanistan, and it’s one tribe against another

– 2/ air defence assets? gaddafis residence is an air defence asset? (bombed yesterday) and it’s not the only one… you should wake up a bit: there’s the propaganda telling you “we’re there to save those poor innocent civilians” and the reality: “france, britain and others participants went in to get rid of gaddafi hoping to get contracts with the rebels who’d get to replace him”

and one wonders why germany got out.. they said in th efirst place that, as far as defense of civilians goes, they can participate, but they won’t go beyond the UN resolution -> since the obvious aim is to remove gaddafi from power (outside the UN mandate) they get out… at least one political leader that sticks to his word… it’s so rare today

the pattern seems quite regular. possibly F-15’s structure (seem to follow rivet lines et etc) lying underneath these cracks caused the skin to crack on impact

Design weight was a fail.
If SWAT did not happen I would say yes. But, SWAT did take place and all F-35s are meeting their MTOW goals.

er, design weight means “how much the aircraft weighs”, not MTOW.. and it is overweight, even today -> spec not met

so if it just meets MTOW (which is aircraft weight+load weight), that simply means that it carries less load than expected as the aircraft weighs more than it should have ibn the first place.

you mean “exceeded”, right? 😀

maybe he was simply flying low (to avoid detection by the awacs perhaps) which would result in very short delay before being hit and crashing, forcing the pilot into a low alt ejection