Croatia Buying 12 New Fighters

[Vekkinho]

It's not allowed to break the speed of sound over populated areas at all, I mean we had an incident 2 months ago when a Fishbed went supersonic over Sisak, boom was heard in Zagreb (at a 50 km distance) and everybody thought another bomb went off somewhere in the streets of the city.

 

We had a lot of complaints during Joint wings exercise with Croatian Fishbeds and Italian Falcons, USAFE Falcons, USN Hornets and Tomcats few years ago (IIRC June 2003) when some of these planes went supersonic over Kvarner and Istria causing sonic booms.Many turists got scared that another war's about the break in the Balkans so we tend to keep it as rare and high as possible :smilewink:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dbFQwjcwmk&feature=related

[nscode]

Good lyrics in the second song :D

[Vekkinho]

Nice photo of Croatian Fishbeds and USN F-14A over coastline:

http://www.1000pictures.com/view.htm?caircraft/fighter+f021101-n-1955p-001_1280x1024.jpg+x1280+y1024

[nscode]

 

Eurofighter visits Pleso air base

[Vekkinho]

Yeah, it happened yesterday 8:30AM...part of Croatian/German defensive coop celebration...

[Vekkinho]

Last week our Fishbeds practiced GCI with USAF F-16 from Aviano AB over Lika in central Croatia and this week two Croatian Fishbedds took off to intercept German Eurofighter for his visit to Pleso. LAst year our (CroAF) pilots visited Ramstein AB and this year we returned the favor to German pilots!

 

Here's the entire article but in Croatian:

http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/eurofighter-njemackog-luftwaffea-sletio-na-pleso/435286.aspx

Edited May 28, 2009 by Vekkinho

[4c Hajduk Veljko]

 

Eurofighter visits Pleso air base

I wonder where did that Eurofighter flew from when it needed external fuel tank?

[JaNk0]

Germany ? :P

 

Just kiddin, maybe:

JG71 "Richthofen" Wittmundhaven

JG72 "Westfalen" Hopsten

JG73 "Steinhoff" Laage

JG74 "Mölders" Neuburg/Donau

 

One of these is possible?

Edited May 28, 2009 by JaNk0

[4c Hajduk Veljko]

What is the range of Eurofighter when it needs external fuel tank from Germany to Croatia? In clean configuration.

[JaNk0]

Hmm, I have the Eurofighter Manual (Eurofighter flight manual C.16 31 March 2005). I'll take a look.

 

Or if you can't wait, download it:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40769&highlight=Eurofighter+Manual

[Vekkinho]

Actually, EF2K took off from Cerklje AB, Slovenia, which is at 50 clicks distance from Pleso AB where it landed.

 

It had EFT because it did some CAP over Slovenian airspace (remember Slovenia pays by the hour to have NATO planes controlling their airspace) and when fuel reached Bingo it entered Croatian airspace and was intercepted and escorted by a pair of Croatian MiG-21UMD to land at Pleso AB.

[4c Hajduk Veljko]

Actually, EF2K took off from Cerklje AB, Slovenia, which is at 50 clicks distance from Pleso AB where it landed.

 

It had EFT because it did some CAP over Slovenian airspace (remember Slovenia pays by the hour to have NATO planes controlling their airspace) and when fuel reached Bingo it entered Croatian airspace and was intercepted and escorted by a pair of Croatian MiG-21UMD to land at Pleso AB.

That makes sense now.

[JaNk0]

Ah gotcha