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Russia is putting up the planes and putting out the subs in order to make us look in another direction. Russia and China will prevent (veto) any UN resolutions re: Iran as the administration has lost the diplomatic front (Germany has bailed out) and military action is next. The US would be hard pressed to fulfill its NATO obligations if Russia decided it wanted its Eastern Europe Empire back while we are in Iraq and involved in a large scale air assault on Iran's air defences, military installations and eventually their nuclear sites. Just wait until after the primaries...
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Found this on Wikipedia... The F-11 Tiger is notorious for being the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down. On 21 September 1956, during a test firing of its 20 mm cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts mid-way through a shallow dive. As the velocity and trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling it and forcing Attridge to crash land the aircraft. The pilot survived.
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Syria Claims to Have Fired on Israeli Aircraft Violating Its Airspace Thursday , September 06, 2007 DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian air defenses opened fire on Israeli aircraft after they violated Syrian airspace overnight Thursday, a Syrian military spokesman said, in a new development in cross-border tensions that have brewed for months. The Israelis flew east from the Mediterranean Sea over the northern part of the country, broke the sound barrier and "dropped ammunition" over deserted areas of Syria overnight, the spokesman was quoted as saying by the official Syrian Arab News Agency. "Air defense units confronted them and forced them to leave after they dropped some ammunition in deserted areas without causing any human or material damage," the spokesman said. Israel's army spokesman declined to comment, saying under customary condition of anonymity, "We cannot discuss military operations." Witnesses said the incident occurred in the al-Abyad area near Syria's northeast border with Turkey. The Syrians did not say the aircraft struck targets, and it was not clear what the spokesman meant by dropping ammunition. Warplanes sometimes drop extra fuel tanks to make the aircraft lighter and easier to maneuver. Syrian Cabinet Minister Buthaina Shaaban, speaking on Al-Jazeera television's English service, would not confirm that Israel had attacked Syria, but did say the aircraft violated the country's airspace. "We are a sovereign country. They cannot do that," said Shaaban. The Syrian military spokesman did not specify whether the military used surface-to-air missiles or anti-aircraft artillery when confronting the aircraft. "We warn the Israeli enemy government against this flagrant aggressive act, and retain the right to respond in an appropriate way," the Syrian spokesman said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said the government was "seriously studying the nature of the response," but refused to indicate in an interview with Al-Jazeera television whether the reaction would be on the military or diplomatic level. He would not give any more details about the incident, but said it proved Israel's policies are based on hostility. "Israel in fact does not want peace," said Bilal. "It cannot survive without aggression, treachery and military messages." He said recent U.S. aid of US$30 billion over 10 years to Israel encouraged its government to "such arrogance that it delivered this morning message." Israeli defense officials have been concerned about an outbreak of hostilities, and had sent messages recently that the country is not interested in going to war, Israeli officials said. Israel acknowledges flying over Lebanon routinely, but it is unclear how often its aircraft fly over Syria. Israeli aircraft are believed to fly routine reconnaissance flights over the Golan Heights, in the south of the country, apparently to monitor Syrian army moves near the disputed territory. But the incident Thursday was reported over the other side of Syria, in the northeast near the Mediterranean. Israeli counterterrorism expert Boaz Ganor said that if Thursday's overflight occurred, it's possible Israel was "collecting intelligence on long-range missiles" deployed by Syria in the north. Imad Fawzi Shoaibi, a Syrian political analyst, speculated that Israel may have been probing Syria's new air defense systems provided by Russia, at a time when tension is running high between the two countries. Syrian officials, including President Bashar Assad, have repeatedly warned Israel in recent weeks that the occupation of the Golan Heights "cannot last forever." Concerns grew over the summer that tensions along the frontier could escalate into conflict, but both Syrian and Israeli officials publicly and repeatedly said they had no interest in war. Thursday's incident could stoke the tensions again, however. Late last month, Israeli security officials said the army had determined that war with Syria, whose military had reduced its war readiness, was unlikely and Israel began rotating forces out of the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Syria also is believed unhappy that other Arab countries are headed to a peace meeting in November at which the United States hopes for a high-profile meeting between the Palestinians and Israelis, and perhaps also with Saudi officials. Syria has long disputed any notion that a comprehensive Arab peace deal can be reached unless it also involves some resolution of the Golan Heights, which it wants back in full. At the beginning of last summer's war against Lebanon, Israeli warplanes buzzed the palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad in what analysts called a warning to Damascus. In June of the same year, they also flew over Assad's summer home in the coastal city of Latakia, after Syrian-backed Palestinian militants in Gaza captured a young Israeli soldier. In October 2003, Israeli warplanes bombed a Palestinian guerrilla base near Damascus, the first airstrike since the 1973 war.
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Stirring the pot I guess... Associated Press Norwegian and British fighters scrambled twice Thursday to monitor eight Russian bombers that neared the Nordic country's territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin, defense officials said. Lt. Col. John Inge Oeglaend, of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters, said the Tupolev-95 strategic bombers, also called Tu-95MC or Bears, neared but did not enter Norwegian air space in the far north. British defense officials said four Royal Air Force fighters also scrambled to monitor the flight, which did not enter British territory. "They followed a normal route in international air space," Oeglaend said by telephone from the western Norway port of Stavanger. He said they flew near Norway's northern tip over the Barents Sea, then over the North Atlantic and back. Oeglaend said two Norwegian F-16 fighters were sent up both times that the Russian aircraft approached Norway, in keeping with normal practice. Norway, a member of the NATO alliance, and Russia share land and ocean borders in the Arctic, including the vast Barents Sea. According to Oeglaend, this is the third time Norwegian fighters have scrambled since mid-July to monitor a rising number of Russian military air exercises. A British Defense Ministry spokesman, speaking on traditional condition of anonymity, said, "I can confirm that in the early hours of this morning four F3s launched from RAF Leeming and RAF Waddington to intercept eight Russian Bears, which had not entered U.K. airspace." Russian news agencies quoted air force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky as saying Thursday that Russian long-range bombers had begun patrols of distant areas of the globe late Wednesday, in accordance with plans announced by President Vladimir Putin for a resumption of the flights. "In accordance with the confirmed plan, 14 Tu-95MC strategic bombers on Wednesday evening began regular air patrols over the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans involving in-flight refueling," ITAR-Tass and Interfax quoted Drobyshevsky as saying. He said the flights were not violating international regulations and that the planes "are flying over neutral waters, not approaching close to the air borders of foreign countries," according to ITAR-Tass. Drobyshevsky said that "practically all (the bombers involved) are being shadowed by NATO jets," the reports said. In mid-August, Norwegian fighters scrambled to monitor a flight of 11 Russian bombers exercising off western Norway in the biggest show of Russian air power over the Norwegian Sea since the early 1990s.
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Attrtion is what will kill em.
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This is what I have. It looks good. I put the A4E bmp/lod files in the weapons folder. I just don't know. I did the save functiion of the weapons editor. AHHHHHHHHHH. [WeaponData1089] TypeName=A4E FullName=ALQ-100 RHAW/AVI HUMP ModelName=A4E Mass=100.000000 Diameter=2.000000 Length=4.000000 AttachmentType=NATO NationName=USN StartYear=1965 EndYear=1975 Availability=3 BaseQuantity=8 Exported=FALSE ExportStartYear=0 ExportEndYear=0 ExportAvailability=0 WeaponDataType=4 StoreType=0 JammerStrength=1.000000 [AvionicsHump] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=1 StationGroupID=1 StationType=EXTERNAL AttachmentPosition=0.0,3.82,1.82 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=2350.0 AllowedWeaponClass=A4E,EP AttachmentType=NATO ModelNodeName=A4E PylonMass=0.0 PylonDragArea=0.01 LaunchRailNodeName= MinExtentPosition= MaxExtentPosition= // Station 1 = Avionics Hump // Station 2 = Left Wing Station Outboard // Station 3 = Right Wing Station Outboard // Station 4 = Left Wing Station Inboard // Station 5 = Right Wing Station Inboard // Station 6 = Centerline Fueslage Station [AirToAir] Loadout[01].WeaponType=A4E Loadout[01].Quantity=1 Loadout[02].WeaponType=AIM-9D Loadout[02].Quantity=1 Loadout[03].WeaponType=AIM-9D Loadout[03].Quantity=1
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Weaponised version of Dhruv makes maiden flight
Hawk MMS replied to ghostrider883's topic in Military and General Aviation
helicopters are bullet magnets. i would not want to be in that thing when the bullets are flying. -
Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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These T-38's are from Beale AFB Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
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Wings Over the Wine Country Aug 2007 Pacific Coast AIr Museum http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/index.asp This is a great airshow put on by a great organization. I have been twice now and this year was great. There were many aircraft that you could climb in. Great static and museum displays. The F-16 demo was awesome. I left before the C-17 and F-18 demo as I have seen them many times and had been in the sun for about 8 hours (plus a 3 hour drive home ibecause of traffic).
