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[walker450]

AWACS Pics

 

Here are some pics I took of the inside of an E-3 Sentry AWACS at the recent Tinker AFB airshow. I forgot to take outside pictures of it, but got detailed ones of the control stations. I was suprised that the jet was basically the same as it was back in the late 70s when they went into service. I imagine they have some modern upgraded ones but the crew claimed they knew nothing of any upgraded versions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2010 by walker450

[nscode]

nice TFT, just like it was in late 70s ;D

[Vekkinho]

:music_whistling: So no color TacView like displays as in Fighter Pilot - Operation Red Flag documentary...

if I could only find that thread where some of us swore it's a standard equipment of modern AWACs...

[hitman]

Ok here it is:

By Marina Malenic, Defense Daily

 

LANGLEY AFB, Va.-- Air Force leaders are currently in discussions over how many F-22 Raptors will be modernized to full combat capability over the next five years, the service's chief airpower provider said last week.

"As we look to the future, there is going to be continued modernization of the F-22," Gen. William Fraser, the head of Air Combat Command, told Defense Daily in a June 18 interview here.

"We are not all the way out to the 3.1 and 3.2 software drops, which will give us increased capability," Fraser said. "As those capabilities are brought on, we'll of course thoroughly develop the tactics techniques and procedures on actually how we would employ that aircraft, be it in formation with itself or information in complement with other legacy platforms."

In 2001, the first Raptors flew with the Block 3.0 software--the first combat-capable avionics version. In 2009, Increment 3.1 was tested at Edwards AFB, Calif. That upgrade provides a basic ground-attack capability through Synthetic Aperture Radar mapping, Electronic Attack and integration of the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb. Operational testing of 3.1 is scheduled for later this year, according to the Air Force.

Air Force documents detailing the F-22 program of record show that the modernization plan is expected to yield 34 Block 20 F-22s for test and training; 63 combat-coded Block 30s with Increment 3.1 software; 83 combat-coded Block 35s with Increment 3.2, and three Edwards AFB-test coded aircraft. The service will also have to decide whether to upgrade the Block 30s to the Block 35 configuration.

Officials here said timelines for the software drops are contingent on the program objective memorandum, or POM, talks, which will determine the service's proposed five-year spending blueprint beginning in Fiscal 2012.

"The Block 3.2 upgrade will include integration of air-to-air weapons--AIM-9X Sidewinder and AIM-120D AMRAAM missiles--and some sustainment improvements," said one official who asked not to be named. "It takes the two blocks of the F-22 that we have and brings them up to the same air-to-air capability."

"It will also reduce out maintenance burden and related costs," said another official. "Because we have fewer Raptors than we expected, we have to make it the most capable platform that it can be."

The Air Force had initially planned to purchase 381 of the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built stealth fighter.

However, even with the Block 3.2 software, the F-22 will still lack a helmet mounted cueing system to allow the aircraft to take advantage of the AIM-9X's high off-boresight capability. The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) may be integrated at a later date, according to Air Force documents.

The service will have to spend approximately $8 billion for the Block 3.2 software upgrade, then-top Pentagon weapons buyer John Young said in late 2008 (Defense Daily, Nov. 21, 2008). In May 2009, Air Force leaders told Congress that retirement of legacy fighters would be the cost trade-off for the effort (Defense Daily, May 16, 2009).

Officials here said both F-22 and legacy aircraft operators are still studying how the two generations of fighter platforms will work together.

"The initial location of the first operational squadron here at Langley, co-located with the F-15s--those two platforms and those two communities have done tremendous work in integrating them and have laid the foundation for how we more generally will integrate fourth and fifth gen," said one official. "That will continue as we bring on the F-35."

 

They are negotiating the time line for closing down the F-22 line here, but the air force is going to need part of that line open for replacement wings should it come down to it. This is about the same time the F-35 center wing assembly line opens up here as well. They only have 4 more airframes to be built, and Im still looking for a flight schedule for some test flight sorties. I gotta get me some vids of them taking off from here.

Edited June 28, 2010 by hitman

[walker450]

 

 

 

The power lines in the background make it look like a screenshot from LOMAC/DCS. :)

[mvsgas]

LM Code one magazine new website

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/index.html

Edited June 30, 2010 by mvsgas

[SuperKungFu]

looks a bit like the X-32

[mikoyan]

Very rare video of a mig-21 accident

 

for some reason the youtube tags wont work under vista, could that be a virus? when I switch to osX it works correctly :huh

Edited July 1, 2010 by mikoyan

[nscode]

Fire in one of Almaz-Antey's buildings

 

Almaz is the manufacturer of S-300 and other rocket weaopons.

 

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/06/30/11085391.html

 

 

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Edited July 1, 2010 by nscode

[zakobi]

Fire in one of Almaz-Antey's buildings

 

Almaz is the manufacturer of S-300 and other rocket weaopons.

 

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/06/30/11085391.html

 

 

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That's one skilled pilot... :thumbup:

[Bucic]

New EADS project ;)

 

[Flаnker]

[Airway]

New EADS project ;)

 

 

Several years old :music_whistling: FM + BB is flying since 1986 ;)

 

http://www.adlertag.de/heute/fliegend.htm#G-6

[mikoyan]

That's one skilled pilot... :thumbup:

those helicopters would bee a good tool to extinguish fires on high rise buildings here in the States; is there a similar system manufactured by an american company?

[Pilotasso]

No, but they can be exported. We have 6 here.

[mvsgas]

Several interesting videos, just choose the story on the upper right corner

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/how/

Edited July 2, 2010 by mvsgas

[DarkSoul]

From The Midnight Sun Airshow, Finland kauhava (25.6.2010) :music_whistling:

 

F-16, Belgium

 

Edited July 2, 2010 by DarkSoul

[Airway]

I can post big pictures too. I hope it freezes your computers

 

[DarkSoul]

I can post big pictures too. I hope it freezes your computers

 

 

:megalol:

[topol-m]

I can post big pictures too. I hope it freezes your computers

 

:laugh:

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Didn't work. Could you post some more to see if they can freeze it? :D

[Renato71]

Didn't work. Could you post some more to see if they can freeze it? :D

 

How about some nice Gibraltar Airport panorama :D

 

[jpm1]

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/3/7/1732731.jpg

 

Nice find

[mikoyan]

those could have been useful on 911 don't you guys think?

[L4key]

those could have been useful on 911 don't you guys think?

 

How exactly? Perhaps if one was already there and hit one of the planes before it got to the towers! A bit like pi$$ing on a volcano otherwise.