[Centraal] Defensie 18, nu ook NSF56K dankzij SHERMAN.

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Op maandag 27 september 2004 22:39 schreef SHERMAN het volgende:
De eerste foto van de Merkava 4 in actie

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.One reason the Indian pilots proved so formidable is that their training regimen does not include a concept of 'red air'. Instead, they fly pretty much 'blue-on-blue' - a full-up airplane with no restrictions against somebody else’s airplane with no restrictions, and that leads to more proficiency with your aircraft....The service probably needs to take off the handcuffs that we put on our red air training aids and allow them to be more aggressive and make the red air tougher than we have in the past.”

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en. Hal M. Hornburg, commander of Air Combat Command, said the results of that exercise are classified, but he admitted they raised some concern. "It’s sobering when we find that some of our advantages aren’t as great as we thought they might be....Such an event leads me to remind people we need to continue to modernize our air-to-air capability....We have been saying for a long time that we need newer fighters to do more things....There is no doubt that some foreign aircraft are nearing the capability of ours, and that we’re going to be fighting a larger and more capable surface-to-air threat...We need stealth technology and other capabilities of the type that will be provided by the F/A-22 'Raptors' and F-35 'Joint Strike Fighter'....USAF’s current F-15s and F-16s are still very good, but they are becoming dated...He warned that the Cope India exercise was a reminder that the first thing that needs to happen in a combat situation is [to gain] control of the air....If we want air superiority, it doesn’t come cheap, and it’s not automatic. I see air forces across the spectrum and across the world becoming better and better as each year passes. That just means that we have to do the same thing....With air superiority, everything is possible. Without it, hardly anything's possible....People jump to the conclusion that it is ours just because we go. And that's blatantly false."

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Op maandag 27 september 2004 22:54 schreef Lone_Gunman het volgende:

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Ja hebt gelijk, in Pakistan zijn er ook Sikhs. Maar ik betwijfel het of er in het pakistaanse leger, sikhs zitten.

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Neutral media reports point out that the Americans had deployed ageing aircraft that were part of the USAF frontline, but cannot be said to be at the cutting edge, technologically. The high performance F-16's and F-18 'Hornets' did not participate in the exercises. Also the USAF pilots are usually trained to operate in close cooperation with Boeing E-3B ‘Sentry’, Grumman E-2C ‘Hawkeye’ AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) and other ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) platforms and their absence proved to be a great handicap.

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Op maandag 27 september 2004 22:47 schreef SHERMAN het volgende:

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Zwartevlek: hoort zo is van de lucht inlaat
Palestijn: weet je nog dat jij dat had opgezocht van die kettingen achter aan de koepel? Tegen RPG's toch?

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 15:43 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

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Iets zegt mij dat het bedacht is door de USAF generaals die bang waren dat men ivm Irak ze nog minder F22's zou geven, nu hebben ze een goed excuus "we hebben ze nodig, we kunnen India al niet eens aan".
Het is maar een theorie hoor

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Op dinsdag 28 september 2004 16:22 schreef sp3c het volgende:
dat waren westerse huurlingen ja ... zelfde geld voor bosnie C-130's landen en opstijgen terwijl ze door luchtdoelartillerie beschoten werden

da's wel ff iets anders dan Antonov's op Kabul international airport landen