Somewhat against my better judgment, I got interested in the current Harpoon discussions and, googling about, found http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/missiles/wep-harp.html The Harpoon missile has been integrated on foreign F-16 aircraft and is presently being integrated on foreign...

Hizb-i-Islami jihadis ,supported by the Pakistan Army ISI have attacked a US Army patrol with an IED bomb and have a killed one US soldier yesterday(Nov 14,2003) near Asadabad, which is in Kunar province on the border with Pakistan. Meanwhile the Taliban have carried out their cross-border...

Video covering both past and present operation/restoring of the B-36 Peacemaker. Including flight footage and the restoration. $20.00 (A portion of the proceeds are donated to benefit the B-36 Museum) Archival footage along with current footage of the restoration of a B-36 in Ft. Worth. Over 1...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3273895.stm -- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

Happy Veterans Day to all of those who served this country(USA) so we can enjoy our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness....May God Bless you all.

Report: Sedatives found in pilot's blood (EXCERPT) , By Carlos Bongioanni, Stars and Stripes European edition, Saturday, November 15, 2003 An Army aviator flying an MH-47 helicopter that crashed in the Philippines in February 2002, killing 10, had high levels of a sleep-inducing medication in his...

Which plane do you like better? Why?

The postman just delivered IAPR Vol 9 - so I thought I'd share the contents with and go into smug mode 'cos I got mine and you aint !! Contents list.... Air Power Intelligence News Report - Operation Iraqi Freedom (yawn!) Debrief Aerostar's MiG-21 Upgrades Swiss AF Wartime Bases

On or about Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:21:18 +0000, (phil hunt) allegedly uttered: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:34:22 GMT, Bill wrote: These people actually believe that God is a judgmental homophobic snip Well at least you got one thing correct. ...

Lost my copies of the funny F-4 and A-26 "mooning" photos, are they still around and posted somewhere????

"oO" wrote in message ... Families of soldiers condemn Bush's war The October 25 demonstration in Washington was particularly noteworthy for the participation of a number of families that have been directly...

To whom it may concern. KA-52 TO BE FIELDED WITH RUSSIAN AIR FORCE About 12 Ka-52 Alligator multirole combat helicopters are going to be fielded with the Russian Air Force (RusAF) in the near future, according to RusAF Commander-in-Chief Col.-Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov. The Ka-52 is a

Thought this might interest you. "Nov 2 US Army Co/159th AVN CH-47D Chinook Tail rotor pylon hit by one of two SA-7 Strela shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles fired from a date palm grove at 0900hrs whilst flying with another Chinook, which was undamaged. The two were ferrying around 60...

Hi all, I live near a fort called "Fort Brown" in Brownsville, Texas and there is an historical marker that reads, "'First Army US Warplane', on this spot was made the first flight of US Army plane to be fired on in armed hostilities on April 20, 1915." Then it goes on about how the planes were a...

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...

Boeing & BAE have signed a deal that should the RAF adopt the 767 tanker BAE will get a slice of the pie. Myc -- " We need a socio-polical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness". To reply just remove the X's

I'm posting this to a couple newsgroups where I remember discussions drifting off-topic into units of measure. There's a vote going now on creating a newsgroup about the metric system: CHARTER: misc.metric-system This newsgroup is for discussion about the International System of Units (SI) or...

Seems my niece's husband will be home from Iraq Saturday. He's had a stress fracture in his back and muscle spasms to go along with it and is coming back on a medical. Member of the 101st and is in Kuwait awaiting his flight home. She is, needless to say, pleased.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001784342_concorde06.html Rob

The more or less final (some would say "cooked") figures are in, and Europe's performance is not entirely as shabby as I earlier posted. Japan says it will provide $5 billion, including $3.5 billion in loans (as if Iraq needed any more of those, after what Germany, France, and Russia extended to...