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Planning to update some of my uploads.

 

First in the row will be the JASDF F/A-18FJ:

 

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Three-tone camo will follow soon.

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2001, and the first Hawk 125's arrive in Dhimar to supplement the earlier models, which by now were sporting the grey air defence scheme fleetwide 

 

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They bring with them increased weapons capabilities including LGBs, and both Maverick and HARM and anti-radar missiles for stand off attack

 

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And AIM-120 AMRAAM air to air missiles to supplement the trusty AIM-9 Sidewinders

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Although that doesn't mean that dumb bombs weren't used where needed so that the crews did not lose their manual bombing skills.

 

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Operating in concert with newly acquired E-2C Hawkeyes the Hawks were in action very soon after arrival as Parani fighters probed the vast desolate desert border between the two countries to test Dhimari capabilities.

 

A flight of obsolete MiG 17 Frescoes crossed the border, tasked with carrying out a bombing raid on one of the many Dhimari observation posts that studded the frontier.

 

Scrambled from a forward airbase the Hawks would be waiting for them

 

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The result: Four MiGs downed for no loss

 

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The arrival of the Hawk 205 in 2005 gave the Dhimari Air Force it's first single seat fighter since the retirement of the Hawker Hunter over 20 years previously

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Initial armament was the AMRAAM/Sidewinder combination as sported by the two seater 125s, as well as the ubiquitous gunpod.

 

Perhaps the most important thing about the 205, however, was the inclusion of the air refuelling probe.

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Together with a newly purchased squadron of surplus USMC KC-130s Dhimar now had a force that could could loiter, carry out extended border and coastal patrols and deep strike missions against targets in the previously unreachable interior of Paran.

 

It is believed that the Hawk 125s and the remaining Hawk 65s will be retrofitted with refuelling probes in the near future.

 

The new Hawk 205s brought with them more advanced armaments (which would also be available to the two seat Hawk 125 fleet) including AIM-132 ASRAAM missiles to supplement and eventually replace the venerable AIM-9 sidewinders as well as advanced bombs such as Paveway III & IV LGBs and JDAMs, as well as Brimstone and ALARM missiles. 

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The Hawk 205s represented a significant purchase both in terms of the increase in Dhimar's capabilities and also as a vital stepping stone to the acquisition of the EF-2000 Typhoon in 2017.

 

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Continuing updatework with the addition of a lizard-style camo to the Hispano-Suiza HA.304 Trueno (spanish MiG-21MF masquerade)

 

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Control,

 

The intruder is huge beyond belief,  is invisible to our infra-red missiles, and it appears to emit a wake that interferes with our radars and warning receivers!

 

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Control,

 

The bogey appears to be surrounded by some sort of protective barrier. Our missiles and cannon rounds cannot penetrate it, and are detonating harmlessly against it!

 

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wha! no cloaking device!

Klingons in TOS did not have cloaking devices. The only possible evidence that they did, was after they shared technology with the Romulans in a season 3 episode, "The Enterprise Incident".

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