Come On guys, we have all gone way beyond the subject matter. This is about that magnificent fighting machine called the RAF, which against all odds, and despite all the cuts and reductionsin resources, squadrons, funds and numbers, is still ( probably) the best and most professional airforce in the...
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Jump to postDear OD720, I went through your revised table of the lebanese Air Force equipment and order of battle summary, and i would like to congratulate you for a job well done. You have managed to incllude all the recent updates and current developments , and I think that you have come up with a very accura...
Jump to postMost certainly an RAF example. No one else can perform such precise move and film it for the cameras. Just fantastic !
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Jump to postSeasons Greetings and Best Wishes to all for a happy and peaceful New Year 2008. I am rather surprised that no one has yet come up with any further info on that little obscure footnote of military history regarding the US offer to supply the Lebanese Air Force back in the 1960s ( or maybe it was the...
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Jump to postDespite all the initial (teething) problems with the F-111/TF-30 combination, it did eventally work out quite nicely. There is no doubt in my mind that the F-111 was way ahead of its time. It set the scene for a whole new generation of combat aircraft, both in terms of aerodynamic and engine technol...
Jump to postIt just occured to me, while there is currently a lot of talk about what possible equipment the Lebanese Air Force is likely to obtain in the near future, such as surplus Jordanian or Saudi F-5Es , that there was a period back in the 1960s when the USA offered to supply Lebanon with combat aircraft ...
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Jump to postBy the way, and in the midst of all these developments, is ther any new info about the future of the other types of aircraft believed to be still in storage with the <acronym title="Lafayette - Purdue University (LAF / KLAF), USA - Indiana">LAF</acronym>, such as the remaining Fouga Magisters, Bulld...
Jump to postThanks OD720. I am sure that both the Pumas and the AB-212s remaining will bi back in service soon , and so will be the Hunters, at least until the F-5s are delivered. So, I think Riad got it right this time.
Jump to postThe Saudi-Russian deal seems to be back on again. In fact, it now looks like it has been on all along, despite all the attempts to deny it, or pour cold water on the reports which first spoke about it. What seems most likely to have happened was that the information about the contract, which most li...
Jump to postQuoting OD720 (reply 76 ) Yes , you are right, I also saw it in various media outlets. But they were all quoting the original story from Defence News. I am not sure , though , that anyone had bothered to double-check it first with the US embassy, or indeed with US sources in Washington DC to try to ...
Jump to postQuoting OD720 and RJAF, I have been aware of this story rumbling on about the <acronym title="Taca (El Salvador)">TA</acronym>-3s supposedly offered to the Lebanese Air Force by the US. I honestly think, and with all due respedt to Defence News and its correspondent, that it is either a joke or some...
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Jump to postHere we are again talking about some ficticious possibility of Iran developing a 4th.. even 5th. generation fighter , with whatever that may mean as far as electronics, engine, navigation, aerodynamics, and other related advanced technologies are concerned. Please, please , please, let us get real f...
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Jump to postI fully agree. It most certainly looks like an SSN-2 Styx to me.
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Jump to postFurther to my previous message, here is some of the latest updates which I promised about recent and on-going developments re. the Lebanese Air Force : 1- Contrary to all commonly-accepted information, and quite a surprise to me, the supposed sale of the <acronym title="Lafayette - Purdue University...
Jump to postVery interesting, and very revealing indeed. It is the first time I see a photo of an Islamic Republic of IranAir Force (IRIAF) Ilyushin-76 in full camouflage and military markings.
Thank you very much indeed , and please let us have more of the same whenever it is possible.
I have just come across some very interesting new updates concerning the efforts which are currently underway to rebuild and revitalize the equipment and operational capabilities of the Lebanese Air Force. i am at the moment double-checking the accuracy of that information , and I hope I will be abl...
Jump to postThis site is in obvious need of some updating.
The Lebanese Air Force has witnessed a no. of very significant developments over the past few months. So please let us have some more info to keep this site up to date!
It is just great that we are now having such a serious and meaningful debate about Russian vs. Western ( or is it really US) equipment. The fact of the matter is that "nobody is perfect" . Like everything else in this world, we have to admit that some things are better than others in certain aspects...
Jump to postI find it hard to believe, and sometimes quite funny, to see and hear the way some people still deal with anything and everything that happens to be "Russian". Is it possible, even for just a moment, to forget the politics, the Cold War, the Russian Menace, the "Red Bear" (which is no longer there a...
Jump to postIf this is confirmed, it would be a most interesting development, and with huge political and strategic significance. In fact, this would be the first time that Saudi Arabia ever bought military hardware from Russia. They did it before with ]China , in the 1980s, when they purchased 4 batteries ( 12...
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Jump to postThe chances of the Rafale winning the Moroccan deal are not over yet, regardless of Saudi generosity or otherwise. The French president M. Sarkozy is on an official visit to Morocco at the moment, and one of the items on top of his agenda there is to push for a deal on a future purchase of Rafales f...
Jump to postNow that Iran and Russia have officially signed a deal for 50 <acronym title="Alitalia Team (Italy)">RD</acronym>-33 engines reportedly intended to power the so-called Azarakhsh variant of the F-5E Tiger , I guess it will have to be assumed that the Azarakhsh is a single-engined fighter, since it wo...
Jump to postGlorious. Absolutely glorious. To see this beauty flying again was just a dreamfor any aviation lover. And now the dream has come true. Even my 7-year old soncame running and shouting :" Dad, dad, the Vulcan is flying again", Of course, he was also quick to ask me the , with all the innocence in the...
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Jump to postTo KevinSmith,
Yes indeed. My apologies to you. But it is really not my fault. I thought I had used the right quote from F27 but for some unknown reason to me it took it down as your quote. let us just call it a " technical" error!
The Israelis on their own can not do it . That is a certainty and they know it .
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Jump to postAny further news or updates about the Lebanese Air Force inventory/order of battle after the end of the recent fighting against the terrorist group Fath al-Islam ?
And are there any new developments on the " Hunter back into service " story?
It might be worth mentioning that the far more interesting , and important , weapon system that the Iranians revealed in their recent military parade, was NOT the Saeghe, or any other fighter, but rather their new medium range ballistic missile, which they call the " QADR-1 ", and which they claim h...
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Jump to postIs it not missing the point slightly when the emphasis here seems to have shifted from exploring whatever info we might ,or might not , have on the Iranian Saeghe derivative of the F-5, to discussing the merits, or otherwise, of the F-20 Tigershark? Maybe we have to bear in mind for a moment that th...
Jump to postWith many thanks to SHAHRAM16216 for the info provided on the "new" Iranian fighter, this is obviously turning now into a kind of guessing game about how many variants of the "good old F-5 " have the Iranians managed to copy and develop, let alone prduce and deploy. Can somebody please explain what ...
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