"Brett" wrote in message ... "Richard Johnson" wrote: OK, I've seen Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Hart's War. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two, read up on the facts and researched...

Does anybody know what it was (I'm asking strictly about planes that saw combat, not the "blueprint superfighters")?

Excuse me please, but what frontline aircraft and weapons do each of these nations possess in the event of another Arab-Israeli war? Do either of them have anything remotely as good as the Israelis? I know Syria has a bunch of different MiGs and Iran has a mix of MiGs and left-over F-4s and...

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London Times May 17, 2004 Overweight Carrier Fighters Give MoD £10bn Headache By Michael Evans, Defence Editor THE Ministry of Defence is facing another procurement disaster after a minister disclosed that the fighter jet planned for two new large aircraft carriers is far too heavy. Adam Ingram,...

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are variable geometry intakes on fighter aircraft primarily there to reduce ram drag or to manipulate the shock wave in the nacelle? -- Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why!

I've been looking through Shlomo Aloni's Osprey book on Israeli F-4 Phantom aces, and I note that around the time of the '73 war when they want to carry AIM-9s, they either 1. don't carry any A/G stores on that pylon (when carrying two AIM-9D/Gs on the shoulder mounts), or 2. only carry a single...

Hey Gang: So with all of the recent anonymous smear campaigns- unsubstantiated, "howler" type accusations- you know, the ones from anonymous posters with all of the ~~~ symbols etc. . . . .. . . does anyone want to take up a rational, fact based discussion of the premise that "both sides do it" ...

On an earlier thread, some despicable mysogynist wondered whether a female suicide bomber got the 72 virgins issued to martyrs in heaven, which led some other lowlife to speculate that instead she might be multiplied into the 72 virgins. Well, further to those thoughts, here's a note from this...

Can someone suggest a nice book on Russian fighters and maybe bombers? I'm looking for lots of technical detail. Best would be discussions on why they made the design decisions they chose. -Thanks

http://w3.kill-9.com/rpg-man.mpg There is an mpeg file circulating around the net, showing a guy aiming a rocket launcher at ??? and I was curious if anybody else sees the same things that I do. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe all shots that were fired at this guy were fired from behind.

I think it will lose any fight against a French Mirage, because the French planes are much superior.

Since discovering this newsgroup I've been fascinated with the real technical aviation information being banded about. It's easy to ignore the trolling bull****. Just wanted to thank the real quality contributors.

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Trying to make sense of Vietnam air war ` By Brian Richard Boylan, Special to The Denver Post Between 1965 and 1968, 330 F-105s were lost in Southeast Asia, the majority of them over North Vietnam. Many of the young pilots were killed, shot down, wounded or captured. Ed Rasimus, who today...

I have often wondered. Given a 24 hour advanced notice that an attack was eminent in 72 hours or less, what would have been the outcome at Pearl Harbor? Say on dec 6, Pearl was given intel that an attack would come anytime in the next 72 hours. What could have been done differently to affect the...