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In a country where little kids dying from hunger are beaten up for stealing ten rupees and people living in mud huts are hauled up by police and bundled away in Hilux mobiles for picking trash from the street side ....

Hawker Typhoon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Second World War piston-powered fighter aircraft. For the later jet-powered fighter aircraft, see Eurofighter Typhoon. Typhoon Typhoon Ib EK139 N "Dirty Dora" of 175 Sqn. being armed with 500 lb (227 kg) concrete...

de Havilland Mosquito From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DH.98 Mosquito Mosquito B Mk IV serial DK338 before delivery to 105 Squadron – this aircraft was used on several of 105 Squadron's low-altitude daylight bombing operations during 1943. Role Light bomber Fighter-bomber Night fighter...

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (Wikipedia) The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States between 1941–1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or...

China’s Highly Evolved FC-31 Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight China’s high-low stealth fighter mix strategy is evolving rapidly. By Tyler Rogoway December 23, 2016 Chinese Internet The War Zone reported on the existence of a second rendition of China’s Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon stealth...

From the article 'FIRST FIGHTERS' (text only, not images), a report on USAF F-22s in the January 2017 issue of Combat Aircraft): "...With just six combat-coded Raptor squadrons, it’s easy to see why Air Force leaders openly state that they simply don’t have enough F-22s and that production was...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem From the article 'THE SECRETIVE SUPER EAGLE' (text only, not images), a report on RSAF F-15SAs in the January 2017 issue of Combat Aircraft): "The F-15SA is described as the most capable version of the Eagle, and as being more advanced than current US Air Force...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem From the article 'LEAN BUT MEAN' (text only, not images), a report on Royal Danish Air Force F-16s in the January 2017 issue of Combat Aircraft (answers some questions raised previously about PAF F-16s in this thread): "...Since the first delivery in 1980, the...

Since the 80s, I have personally favored designs similar to the current S-97 on noise, safety, landing footprint, and reliability considerations. Performance is high enough beyond conventional helicopters and range and payload can be maximized by sizing it correctly. The Mil V-12 below was not...

K-8 Karakoram General characteristics Crew: 2 (in tandem) Length: 11.6 m (38 ft 0 in) Wingspan: 9.63 m (31 ft 7 in) Height: 4.21 m (13 ft 9 in) Empty weight: 2,687 kg (5,924 lb) Max. takeoff weight: 4,330 kg (9,546 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Garrett TFE731-2A-2A turbofan, 16.01 kN (3,600 lb) How can...

https://fightersweep.com/6588/know-laser-guided-rocket-air-force-now/ Do You Know What a Laser-guided Rocket is? The Air Force Does Now December 22, 2016 FighterSweep Staff No Comments Air Force, Air Force, Military Aviation, News The Air Force recently added BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision...

Defensive Counter-Air [DCA] would probably be the more correct current terminology. Of course, the USAF means something different by Air Interdiction these days than the classical strike mission definition, so their terminology encompasses DCA/OCA [Offensive Counter-Air] portions as elements of...

Are ROSE-Is used for air interdiction? I would have thought they were only good enough for interception / air defense.

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem The original USAF requirement was 4,000 hours at a structural stress factor limit of 7.33g. General Dynamics showed that they could design for 6,000 hours at 9.0g limit while meeting all weight and performance goals. The original A model was later found to not be...

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/canadian-gov-stands-by-lav-sale-to-saudis-uk-upgrading-challenger-2-tank-france-to-get-2nd-mq-9-reaper-uav-in-2017-032517/ "Despite recent protests arising from recent Saudi Arabian executions, the Canadian government will stand by a multi-billion dollar...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem The B-1B's frontal Radar Cross section [RCS] is reported to be in the sub 1.0 square meter class. It also has decent enough RCS figures from other aspects as well as some thermal signature management, and excellent acceleration and disengagement speeds up to Mach...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Thanks bro. I believe you can only tag up to five people at a time - moderators should be able to tell you the exact number. Most people here probably did not get your tag.

Interesting article a while back on War is Boring: https://warisboring.com/much-of-what-you-think-you-know-about-the-yemen-war-is-wrong-fe178ffbc973

"A Thousand Apologies" - Caricature of the Oriental being subservient to superior (or is it supercilious) White Man's Knowledge Albert Moses as Ranjeet Singh in Mind Your Language (1977-1979) among other tropes of this genre. Come on bro, for a fellow Texan you seem to lack the wit, the...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Looks like an AESA Radar and Sniper Pod Testbed. A Testbed is an aircraft on which new electronics, engines etc, are mounted and which has enough room for instrumentation and engineer consoles on the inside so that the new electronics, engines etc. can be tested...