Gollevainen's quizz of the week (older)

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I was about to say the Cobra too, but since you mentioned the wings.........The Tornado came in at about the same time as the Hornet. (The tornado is getting replaced already?! WT*!) I would guess that the Germans had taken the Cobra, studied, and this became a failed concept for the Panavia Tornado, which ended up ultimately different.

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I know that the Swiss have 33 F-18C's..Ahemm I just looked that up.. Is this one? Do I get a prize if I'm correct? Didja know the Swiss AF is also know as the Luftwaffe?

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Actually, now I recognise it although I cannot name it off the top of my head. It's one of the German concepts that led up to the Eurofighter - obviously this model's ideas didn't win the day. It's probably not MBB because their's, the JF-90 (aka TFK-90) was most like the eventual Eurofighter, and it's probably not Dornier's because their's had a vertically stacked engine config and biplane wings. So my first guess is that it's .... um.... VFW-Fokker.


EDIT: After some research I now think this is an MBB design although I cannot trace this exact one. BAe also looked at similar designs - the P.96 and P.158 both looked a lot like this, though the latter had a twin tail making it almost identical to the F-18.

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bd popeye wrote:

I know that the Swiss have 33 F-18C's..Ahemm I just looked that up.. Is this one? Do I get a prize if I'm correct? Didja know the Swiss AF is also know as the Luftwaffe?

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1. It's not a Hornet - have you ever seen 4 missiles in such an arrangement under an F-18? I don't think so.
2. The (barely visible) roundels on the wings are German ones, not Swiss.

So no prize for you this time
And the Austrian AF is also called Luftwaffe

As far as I can remember it's a Dornier proposal, an ancestor of the Eurofighter - can't recall the exact designation

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1. It's not a Hornet - have you ever seen 4 missiles in such an arrangement under an F-18? I don't think so.

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Having actually worked around Naval aircraft for 20 years I have seen many different configutations for ordanance. But, Nope I have never seen this one.

2. The (barely visible) roundels on the wings are German ones, not Swiss.

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Good to know..my 52 year old eyes can't see that much detail. I can barely make out the cross.

Still loooks like some sort of Hornet to me.

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Well the right awnser was the MBB TKF-90, so I think it was palneman that got it right...

How about this one?

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Gollevainen said:

Well the right awnser was the MBB TKF-90, so I think it was palneman that got it right...

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Well, not to argue with the boss but I have to say that although it might have been an MBB concept which was put forward for the TKF-90 project, it certainly isn't the design that will go down in history as the MBB TKF-90 (later renamed JF-90).

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The ships is from Chile, or at least was once in service there.
Looks like the crusier Chile have now, but this is much earlier before any upgrade was present.

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I must say i'm very dissapointed with you...chilean cruiser...how about trying the country next after chile in alphabethical order??

It was chinese cruiser Ping Hai. She and her sistership were build in Japan for chinese navy just prior the hostilities broke up between these two. It was later captured by the Japanese and in 1944 under the great need of escort ships it was put on japanese service...

Here's one kindly provided by Googeler:

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Polish TKS Tankette?