Russ Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 who knows...........what the yanks have got, the Russians, the north koreas, china, middle east etc etc. I'll bet me lefty their cards are held close to their chests. Don't forget the big boomer stuff.......atomic bangers, for starters. Them p!ssfart jets, don't stand a chance, when it all goes pearshaped. Not to mention them nuclear subs, primed ready to go, lurking....who knows where. The yanks will be the catalyst for "others" to call them out, to pull their heads in.......or else. It's only a matter of time. ( the middle east debacle, being their latest c***up ) which dragged us and others into at the time. Now look at the mess that's getting worse by the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 There is one small African country that actually uses Vans RV7s. I reckon it's a great idea, what the hell do we need billion dollar jets for? If anyone was ever going to attack us then they will have a lot more than us anyway so we are likely kutrunped anyway. Now RV7's might be a little understated of course, I'm just refering to the general idea and surely we can make something at home a little bigger and faster and have a couple of them at every airport for Coastal defence rather than just a handful of frightfully expensive "You Beauts". Gives our Air Force Pilots a lot more hours as well and more of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 I don't think I would like to be a Syrian army person in Dor Ez Zor. You'd feel pretty enclosed by ISIS. Looks a bit like Khe Sanh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 A press report from the front concerning ground operations: https://www.rt.com/news/318338-syria-troops-hama-offensive-exclusive/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 16, 2015 Author Share Posted October 16, 2015 Some more photos from Latakia: It would be interesting to see how the canards react with the intake air flow on the Su-34. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 The new Canadian Government is withdrawing their jets from Iraq and Syria: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/canada-to-withdraw-fighter-jets-from-iraq-and-syria/6871992 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The new Canadian Government is withdrawing their jets from Iraq and Syria:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/canada-to-withdraw-fighter-jets-from-iraq-and-syria/6871992 I noticed that. The remarkable thing is that the decision has been conveyed to the American as soon as the election was completed: no delay there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 Canada seems to be undergoing quite a policy shift in defence. Talk of dropping the F-35 as well. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/analysis-canadian-f-35-exit-could-signal-wider-air-418043/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Yes I heard that too. Obviously way too early to tell but the new government seems to be hitting some winners so far. Wish ours had the smarts to drop that F-35. As for Syria, the place is going to hell in a handbasket and no one except Russia knows what Russia's true intentions are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 More photos from Syria. One thing I hadn't noticed until pointed out - all the Russian aircraft operating out of Latakia have the Air Force markings painted over, eg. the red star and RF serial numbers on the tail. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 18, 2015 Author Share Posted November 18, 2015 Some Syrian footage - not all that exciting, but history in the making. After all these years, the strategic bombers, Tu-95, Tu-160 and Tu-22 have seen combat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozbear Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 One thing Isis has done that the UN couldn't is unite Russia with the rest of the world in a common goal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 More photos from Syria.One thing I hadn't noticed until pointed out - all the Russian aircraft operating out of Latakia have the Air Force markings painted over, eg. the red star and RF serial numbers on the tail. [ATTACH=full]38923[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38925[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38926[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38927[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38928[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38929[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]38930[/ATTACH] From Russia with love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 From Russia with love. Dazza, the aircraft are incognito, but apart from that, a very serious security issue appears in the press PR photos. In a couple of shots, the pilots have their back to the camera and names are visible on the back of the helmets. Lucky for them the photos are fairly low resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 One thing Isis has done that the UN couldn't is unite Russia with the rest of the world in a common goal. The UN couldn't organize a chook raffle. A year is a long time in politics. Last G-20, we saw Shirtfront beating his chest and a public, politician and media frenzy calling for Putin to be banned from attending. Come the 2015 G-20 and Vlad is everyone's new best friend. No wonder he doesn't lose any sleep over the dickheads. Cheers, Willie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 This is all over Facebook: (Sorry - crashed my system Had to reboot.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 If it is all the will of Allah, everything is pre ordaned. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Russia using Syria to threaten the EU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 22, 2015 Author Share Posted November 22, 2015 Russian news agency, Sputnik, formery RIA Novosti, is running this article claiming that PBS has passed off Russian strike footage as American. Someone's right and someone's wrong, I guess. http://sputniknews.com/us/20151121/1030518092/pbs-newshour-russian-airstrikes-footage-us-lying.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 Link to a slideshow of the S-400 batteries deployed to Hmeymim air base after the shooting down of the Su-24. One of the photos has a An-124 parked in the background. http://sputniknews.com/photo/20151127/1030836346/s400-hmeymim.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 nitwits still think Putin is going to stop IS, no IS: no incursion into Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGL Fox Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I may have said this before but if all of these countries think they are going to bomb IS into submission they are all just kidding themselves and playing up to the media to make it look like are really doing something...boots on the ground at the Syrian border for one thing...stop the flow of oil would be the first objective...strangle their funds and then go from there, yes there will be casualties for sure but I can't see any other real way of breaking these mongrels up and once I had their leaders I would start some beheading of my own...see how they like it... David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Ground troops perhaps - but only female ones. Don't know where it was but someone said that the Kurds have a team of women soldiers and whenever ISIS realises that's who's fighting them, they up and run. Something about believing that they won't be martyrs if they get slotted by a woman. Sounds good to me. Force multiplier, psychological warfare, and a push for equality all in one. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 ''Twas I Marty. The cowardly IS barbarians are said to be terrified of being killed by a woman: not only will they not go to Paradise and collect 20 virgins (or whatever the going rate is), but they'll go straight to Hell. That's why these gutsy Kurdish women battalions set up a shrill female call to scare the ignorant cretins into retreat. That's what I call highly effective troops on the ground. Trouble is, even tho they seem to be the only effective opposition to IS, the Kurds are very wary of going outside their traditional territory, for fear of antagonising other ethnic groups. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Ground troops perhaps - but only female ones. Don't know where it was but someone said that the Kurds have a team of women soldiers and whenever ISIS realises that's who's fighting them, they up and run. Something about believing that they won't be martyrs if they get slotted by a woman.Sounds good to me. Force multiplier, psychological warfare, and a push for equality all in one. have you been reading GNu's blog? apparently, they also run away if you sprinkle them with holy water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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