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The A-10 is an niche player, and it fills its niche well. Other airplane types, like the F-16 and in the future, F-35, will also fill the niche, but not as well as A-10 can. The ability to fly low, slow, carry a lot of munitions, take an inordinate amount of pounding is a capability that forces...

Airbus tends to have a policy of maintaining cockpit commonality with all of their recent products. That means a pilot that flys a A320 can easily fly a A330, after the pilot is familiarised with the handling characteristics of both airplanes, as the cockpits in both are very similar. Also, due...

It is the US Air Force that doesn't want them. The air force does not want any combat type airplane that is neither a bomber or a fighter, and the A-10 falls into a catergory into itself. The US Army loves the A-10. Given the opportunity, if the Army could operate them over the air force, they...

Surprisingly most of the articles regarding the delay have mentioned the possbility of cancelation of orders for the A380. However, it is not the clients bringing up that possibility, but Airbus itself. That gives a bit of wind into BAE's argument that Airbus is deliberatly selling itself short...

There is evidence that the A380 delays are intentional. BAE is selling their stake in Airbus to EADS, and BAE has already blamed EADS for causing the delau to sink the value of Airbus so that it is worth less which will make it easier for EADS to buy the rest of Airbus...

As mentioned South Africa is in a even more dire situation: they got Herc B's that are already way past retirement. Airbus was offering to find us Herc H's for an interm aircraft. Both Lockheed and Airbus said they couldn't deliver until 2010, so either way, we should get the more capable airplane.

Airbus made room for South Africa (they are also amongst the first ones to be receiving their A400M's). They already said slots for late 2010 / early 2011 can be made available to us. I am just saying, buy the C-17's now for heavy lift, and then the A400M to replace the rest of the Herc fleet...

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According to the Wikipedia link, most of the followers are relatives of this Phelps guy... They are one brainwashed family...

I was informed that Airbus has talked with L-3 for the Herc rebuilds. Airbus will provide the Hercs and send them to L3 for refurbishment. It was an idea floated to add some additional Canadian industrial offset. South Africa has purchased the A400M and they have Hercs older than our Hercs...

They already gave us interm aircraft, so we can wait it out, and severely fine Airbus for the delay, if the government is smart enough to structure the deal carefully enough.

I have the official crash result investigation report, this was sent to me by e-mail from a friend: Summary: Pilot error.

They no longer want them. Edit: I over-generalized. They no longer want the regular J's. They want to hold onto the J-30's, for now.

Like a Harpy UAV? http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/aircraft/uav/harpy/HARPY.html

The Antonov AN-124 has a service life of 24,000 hours, if the airframe was built after 2000. Anything built before 2000 has a service life of 7,000 hours. That is partially why an Antonov can be cheaper. Edit: Also, the Antonov drinks fuel at about 0.0125 tons per nautical mile, from my...

I have the entire Hercules production list for Canada as follows: Updated August 2005 MSN Last ID Type     Last Operator/Owner       Previous IDs             Notes 3590 10304 CC-130E Canadian Armed Forces 60-5453                 w/o 15.4.66, belly landing,after explosive...

Here's a good page on the Panzerfaust and all its variants: http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust2.htm Captured German factories producing the Panzerfaust continued to produce Panzerfaust for the Russians for quite a while. The Russians then developed Panzerfaust into their first...

If I remember correctly, the M8 AGS was canned.

No, but I do know someone who works at Airbus. On the other hand, I also know someone who is currently working with the C-27J Spartan bid team for the FWSAR project. I just think it is an interesting proposal that solves the current issue of no brand new aircraft until 2010.

Didn't Airbus offer refurbished Herc H's for us until if we get the A400M for an interm airplane? They are a known quantity with us, so introduction should be fairly straight foward, and the parts and support are already there.