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Good footage from the KnAAPO!:thumbup:

Ka-50 "Black Shark": action in special operations

Nice video (though soudtrack sounds like and ambulance coming while on drugs) :D

Nice video, Flanker. Is this the "Чёрная Акула" movie from the 90's?

Always wanted to watch it, but was unable to find it so far :( Maybe someone could do a DCS campaign based on it :D

Nice video, Flanker. Is this the "Чёрная Акула" movie from the 90's?

Yes it, shots from film "Чёрная Акула";)

Georgian Mi-24

Su25 Tactical doctrines

The author: Михаил KUSLIN2 Павлов - the pilot of plane Su25

http://video.mail.ru/mail/pavlovmv/-254611/369.html?tagpos=c_1#c_1

Bomb alarm at Munich airport

You may not have heard of this fascinating story yet. Today Munich airport was paralyzed by a bomb alarm. The BBC article isn't very clear about what seems to have happened. Reportedly a man's notebook was identified to contain explosives during a normal check in. The officers triggered a bomb alarm accordingly. Yet somehow the man grabbed his stuff and walked into the terminal without anyone trying to stop him or even following him. Not knowing where he was the officials then decided to close the terminal and search for him. After a couple of hours of search they haven't found him yet. They suppose he might have entered his plane which then departed. Apparently they didn't stop planes from still taking off immediately.

Looks like security is not only an issue in America as we have been told during the christmas days. Other authorities can fail horribly too. All those debates about the new generation body scanners are laughable when the people using them are just inept.

edit: btw, the planes which took off from the respective terminal went to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo according to a spokesperson of the Bavarian police. They supposedly left Munich at about 15:50 local time (1450 zulu/GMT).

Eddie the photos you post here are highly artistic. I'm deeply impressed. Really great works. :thumbup:

I'm a photo enthusiast myself. I noticed, there are a lot of HDR photos among the posted. :v: They look amazing! :punk:

EDIT: There are real stories beyond some photos. Really talent photographers. You can look on photos for hours noticing more and more meanings and feeling many new senses.

http://eurofighter.com/po_bl.asp?id=169

LOL pwnage! :weight_lift_2:

LOL pwnage! :weight_lift_2:

Nothing new there. Back in 2007 when were in the very last stages of qualifying Typhoon for A/A duties we took part in a NATO exercise out in the North Sea ACMI ranges over a 2 week period as the final trail.

Our pilots scored 208 kills (against everything from Eagles to Viper and even Rafales) for only 6 losses. And we weren't even allowed to use AMRAAM as it was a WVR excercise :beer:

There is a reason the yanks won't let the Raptors in the same airspace as the Typhoons, they are scared. (Although Raptor is technically slightly more capable in the A/A role for obvious reasons).

Didn`t know these results. Impressive! :thumbup: A Su-35 vs EF-2000 dogfight would be interesting.

Amazing footage of AGM-158 JASSM:

I noticed, there are a lot of HDR photos among the posted.

I have hard time believing many of them are actual HDR photos. The in flight photos could be photoshop as you can create that kind of "HDR" effect easily but shooting HDR in a fast moving jet is hard to believe.

Awesome photos nevertheless.

$245M to Lockheed Martin for 160 AGM-158 JASSMs

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Orlando, FL received a $245 million contract to produce 160 AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM). The contract include both baseline and extended range missiles to support the US Air Force and Foreign Military Sales customers.

more info: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/245M-to-Lockheed-Martin-for-160-AGM-158-JASSMs-06111/#more-6111

There is a reason the yanks won't let the Raptors in the same airspace as the Typhoons, they are scared. (Although Raptor is technically slightly more capable in the A/A role for obvious reasons).

... you mean because the brits said 'please no, we don't want to be owned' :D

As far as the article goes, sounds like they were up against F-15E's, so any 'dogfight results' are not all that surprising ...

Finnish F-18D crashed today:

www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/01/fighter_jet_crashes_in_forest_1384722.html

This aircraft became famous after 2001 mid-air collision with another Hornet which was completely destroyed. This one made it back home but was badly damaged. They decided to make a large repair/modification to join the rear part of the aircraft with a Canadian B-model (twin seater) front part thus creating a D-model. It made it's first flight just over a year ago.

Picture of the crash site (by FiAF):

And of the pilot's parachute on a tree (by FiAF):

... you mean because the brits said 'please no, we don't want to be owned' :D

As far as the article goes, sounds like they were up against F-15E's, so any 'dogfight results' are not all that surprising ...

Fair point, but even if they were A2A Eagles you'd still hope for Typhoon success given the relative ages of the aircraft surely?

P.S - Lucky we didn't send up some Sea Harriers, then your Eagles/F22's would be in trouble.... (sorry thread mix) :lol:

Yep, the typhoon should beat F-15C's in general, though probably not quite by that margin, assuming fully upgraded F-15C's (AESA, new ECM, etc).

The Typhoon would definitely enjoy an RCS advantage here, which makes ECM easier as well, and in dogfighting it's more maneuverable. IIRC it's a lighter plane too, so it probably takes the cake in acceleration as well. As for Harriers .... pffffft, talk about stop-gap measure ;)

Fair point, but even if they were A2A Eagles you'd still hope for Typhoon success given the relative ages of the aircraft surely?

 

P.S - Lucky we didn't send up some Sea Harriers, then your Eagles/F22's would be in trouble.... (sorry thread mix) :lol:

The distances are huge high above. Angular displacement is little.

With high ISO the exposure time could be very low.

EDIT: So the HDR is reality even with fast moving vehicles here on the ground.

Okay good to know. Though there are photos during landings with the same effect. I tried shooting HDR on a sunny day from my balcony and the trees got blurred even in non-existent wind. It's not an expensive camera though, I want that one! :)

Nice to know, you can find some software to make pictures just look a like HDR. So you only need oneshot pictures to create that.

Grtz,

Ross..

ps: picture taken by myself :)

All the photos are from the Photographic section at RAF Coningsby, so are all taken and 'photoshopped' by professional military photographers using cameras costing more than I make in a month and pro level editing software.

They are most certainly not taken by me :D, believe me. I posted some of my poor attempts a few months back in this thread, needless to say this batch is a tad better ;).

... you mean because the brits said 'please no, we don't want to be owned' :D

Believe it our pilots have offered to have a 'play' with them. Thing is, although the Raptor would almost certainly win overall, they would have a real fight on their hands (both a/c have essentially the same avionics capability, and very, very similar manoeuvrability and performance). And I'm not sure the USAF want an aircraft costing half as much to make the Raptor look fallible while they are pleading with their government to let them have more.

As far as the article goes, sounds like they were up against F-15E's, so any 'dogfight results' are not all that surprising ...

Don't knock the mud hen's. They might be a bit chubby compared to the C model, but they are certainly no slouch.

I mean it's a bit unfair when your adversary can see you on the radar from 'a lot' farther away without even having his own radar emitting and lock you up by just speaking a command into his mask, while you fumble around with a cursor control on the HOTAS. And some more gucci stuff besides. :smilewink: