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Considering how the Chinese are using American carrier operations as their template I wonder how they are studying the Ouija Board for their deck procedures since there is little written about this vital operation of aircraft handling on the flight deck?
While there is an electronic version of the Ouija Board, a manual version exists because it has been shown that battle damage can put electronics out of action and years of operating carriers has taught the US Navy the lesson of having manual backups for major systems
How the PLAN handles these problems should prove most enlightening. I look forward to seeing their solutions
While there is an electronic version of the Ouija Board, a manual version exists because it has been shown that battle damage can put electronics out of action and years of operating carriers has taught the US Navy the lesson of having manual backups for major systems
How the PLAN handles these problems should prove most enlightening. I look forward to seeing their solutions
In the US the term "bannana Republic" has become synonymous with any tin-horn dictatorship of any kind (political or religious ideology) that says it is a "republic" with elections, but whose elections are in reality a mock, with toltalitatirian rule, and blusters endlessly about their abilities to crush their adversaries.
In that context...which I know is what AFB meant...the comparison indeed fits.
asif iqbal
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that point was not to say that Iran has operational Phoenix missiles, but to state how many they got, they do have some but for national day parade which is really just a display
as for what state they are in, well I think we can safely say they are not in any shape for combat duties, but if there is one thing Iran is good at, that is keeping things operational and combat ready and we have seen this time and time again over the years, not only that have successfully built their own versions through reverse engineers, that’s how they built Sattar 4 which is reverse engineered Aim-54
and F14 is not useless without E2 Hawkeye, sure it does compromise its ability, but during decade long war Iranian F14 Tomcats totalled many kills on Iraqi fighters, they even managed a 8 hours CAP mission with 4 mid-air refuelling’s in 1986 and even in the closing stages of the war they were flying combat missions over Iraqi territory, F14 may be hard to maintain but that doesn’t mean Iran can’t do it
the point here really is this, through the massive deals during the 1970s, today Iran has inherited a massive military industry which can trace its evolution back to all US supplied equipment, like Panha 209 a version of the AH-1 which was recently used to bomb Iran-Afghan border for drug smugglers and so many more examples
btw Iran still operates CH-53 captured during Operational Eagle Claw in 1980, more than 3 decades ago
Never stated it was useless.
It's limited. The team of an Hawkeye and Tomcat can do much, much more than track 6 targets. I believe that info is still classified.
Oh yea I'm well aware off the IIAF performance with Tomcats...Years ago in another forum we had a discussion about that. Please read.
IIAF website;
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It would be quite interesting to know how many of those A models were still airworthy, and to what if any extent they may be combat ready, but I would imagine a half dozen to be in the ballpark.
That is exactly my point, and thank you for the west texas translation, tin horn dictatorship, where you don't know who el-presidente may shoot next. The thread bd shares relates that many top Iranian military personel were also "purged", pilots and mechanics alike by the paranoid schizophrenia of the supposed "republic", a personality trait seemingly shared by most brutal dictators and gangs?
I know. In that sense I have even heard it use on BBC, but more often on a Dutch radio station, for the British monarchy. But the standard meaning is that invented by O.Henry, one of my favorite writers.
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I don't know about the Iranian F-14A but the USN Tomcats were ordered disabled after the blackmarket parts scandal.
All sales of Tomcat spare parts were halted..
More Tomcat pix with the original USN captions..
military power..5th stage afterburner!
Ah yes.. fond memories of the Tomcat..
TerraN_EmpirE
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The Navy even took the Step of chopping them not some thing they normally do. They were it seems worried parts might find there way too Iran as the only other nation with them.
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