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  • January 28, 2005 at 9:40 am in reply to: Afghans want their aircrafts back from Pakistan #2607153
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    Let’s go back to the topic, most probably those planes are not airworthy anymore, except few one like the transports and choppers. If ever Pakistan return those in flyable conditions it is not going to make an huge impact with Afghanistan Air Force.

    They should instead try to have a look at what is available on the market from former Warsaw Pact countries, am sure they would be more than happy to dispose some of them even for free.

    January 28, 2005 at 8:29 am in reply to: Afghans want their aircrafts back from Pakistan #2607192
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    Russia are going to give away couple of Mil-8 and Mil-24 either this year or the following. As about Pakistan it is better that they stay away from Afghananistan, it is not their backyard anymore, their support of the previous regime has done a lot of hardship to the local people.

    January 27, 2005 at 11:16 am in reply to: F-100 vs. MiG-19 #2607592
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    In two weeks from now I am going to have a long talk with a former J-6/MiG 19 pilot from the PLAAF, if you have questions in particular let me know, it is going to be first hand info, he flew 3000 hours on J-6 & J-7

    January 26, 2005 at 1:15 pm in reply to: F-100 vs. MiG-19 #2607909
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    Agree with you Phantom II, the F-100 was designed and built following the experience gained during the Korean War with the F-86 Sabre. The F-100 was designed with the idea of being superior to the MiG-15, MiG 17 series first. Then the Russians came with their own reply from the Korean War (many of the North Koreans pilots were in fact from USSR). They used this first hand exposure to design the Mig-17 then the MiG-19.

    The F-100 in AA mission used the early version of Sidewinders as well as four 20mm guns which were close to what the MiG was loaded with. From my discussion with my father-in-law who flew the J-6, he mentionned that it was pretty efficient in dogfithing as well as being a stable gun platform, the plane flew well, only once he had a flame out and was able to re-start it. So any encounters between those two would have been a closed one, the pilot skills would have made the difference

    January 24, 2005 at 4:25 pm in reply to: F-100 vs. MiG-19 #2608544
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    I am not aware of combat between the ROCAF F-100A and the PLAAF J-6, they might have had mock fights over the Taiwan Strait, but if you could wait two weeks so I could ask my father in law who used to fly the J6 for the PLAAF

    January 23, 2005 at 2:44 am in reply to: Best F-5 upgrades out there #2610050
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    Singapore F-16A/B were given to Thailand in exchange for a 20 years use of Korat AFB as training base

    January 21, 2005 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Misc Pics Thread #2610442
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    CF-104 Canada

    January 21, 2005 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Misc Pics Thread #2610465
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    F-104
    F-4

    January 21, 2005 at 12:26 pm in reply to: Misc Pics Thread #2610498
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    F-111 RAAF
    F-104J Japan

    January 17, 2005 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Argentine Super Etendards #2612272
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    Hi Phantom

    try this link, they have some nice pics of Argie Super Etendars

    http://www.ara.mil.ar/la_armada/MediosyCapacidades/Aviaci%C3%B3n_Naval/galeria_super_etendard.htm

    January 17, 2005 at 2:04 am in reply to: Argentine Super Etendards #2612511
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    The last time I saw those planes picture on AFM they were doing practice landing on the carrier USN Ronal Reagan on it is way to San Diego. They also do training exercise with the Brazilian Navy new aircraft carrier which they bought from France and was configured to handle the SE

    January 16, 2005 at 1:20 pm in reply to: F-105 Thunderchief pics #2612755
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    Hi Transall,

    The 105G has both AGM-45’s and AGM-78’s, the kit is very detailled, the price is also quite good about 50US$. The shop I go in Shanghai as the whole PLAF set, F-5,F-6, F-7, Xian-6 and so on..

    In Mainland China, this kind of hobby is not very common, besides been expensive, there is not many magazines available too

    January 16, 2005 at 9:58 am in reply to: Singapore Fighter Selection #2612823
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    The main threat Singapore will face within the next 20 years are going to be from the SU-30 series bought by Malaysia and Indonesia. The F-15 will offer a good package already tested in combat, however to stand against the SU-30s, the Rafale might be the best solution

    January 16, 2005 at 7:34 am in reply to: F-105 Thunderchief pics #2612861
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    Hello Milavia and Transall,

    Thanks for the info, help a lot, the websites are very useful too. I got a Trumpter scale model, 1.32. the quality seems to be fine, there are Mk 82 & Mk 117 as well as Bullpup missiles in the box.

    January 15, 2005 at 3:47 pm in reply to: F-105 Thunderchief pics #2613006
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    Thank you, it helps me quite a lot. I live in China and building a F-105G on 1/32 scale, however it is hard to get books about this subject here as well has having access to some website too.

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