For the Airplane enthusiast
-Mario- @ Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:57 pm
I didn't say that the eastern engine are crap... far from that. I just meant that they need to be taken apart and rebuilt more often than the western counterpart. While we are talking about the Mig29, are they replacing it with the Typhoon?
BTW sealynx... Does your name as to do with the helicopter.
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dgthe3 @ Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:24 pm
wow, i'd never think that the russians would sell their stuff to the west that fast, but i guess they are selling rocket engines to the states and ride up in space, so why not MiGs?
SeaLynx @ Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:25 am
-Mario- -Mario-:
I didn't say that the eastern engine are crap... far from that. I just meant that they need to be taken apart and rebuilt more often than the western counterpart. While we are talking about the Mig29, are they replacing it with the Typhoon?
BTW sealynx... Does your name as to do with the helicopter.
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BTW sealynx... Does your name as to do with the helicopter.
-M-
Yes, the Luftwaffe will replace the Fulcrums with the Eurofighter Typhoon.
And yes. The Sea Lynx (Mk88A) is a helicopter of our navy.
Our MiG-29 Fulcrums were fighters of the East German air force (see the pic).
dgthe3 @ Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:50 pm
i didn't really think of what happened to the east german hardware, so j guess i was still kinda right on the fact that the russians weren't selling their stuff to the west, at least on a large scale. Thanks for the clarification SeaLynx
SeaLynx @ Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:08 am
Not only the Fulcrums.
There were some MiG-21 Fishbeds, MiG-23 Floggers, SU-22 Fitters, Mi-24 D Hinds (Gun Ships) and anti-aircraft-systems. But the Luftwaffe and the Heeresfliegertruppe (Army Aviation) couldn't use the stuff. Too expensive and there were some contracts between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
The Bundeswehr (West German military) and the Nationale Volksarmee (East German military) had to reduce their weapons. After the reunion, the Bundeswehr and the NVA became one army.
The Bundeswehr didn't buy stuff from the Sovjets/Russians. It's all from the NVA.
MiG-23 Flogger of the NVA...
Suchoi Su 22 M-4 Fitter-K '546' JBG 77 Last Flight 1991
-Mario- @ Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:19 am
It must have been cool to see both airforces merge. All those planes, the selection of which ones to keep. BTW Sealynx, are you aircrew or groundcrew. I presently teach Communications and Data Processing Systems (D-Link, Ratt, CRatt) on the CP-140 Aurora. American P-3C with an Avionics Package from the S-3A Viking.
FYI: Did you know that the EH-101 Merlin (Cormorant in Canada) has technologie developed from the Lynx. I kinda wish Canada would have looked at the Lynx instead of bying some glorified Twin Huey (Bell 412).
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