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2004-10-13 Afghanistan/South Asia

Indian airforce loses second Mirage-2000 in a month

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Posted by Steve White 2004-10-13 12:15:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 French jet. Enough said.

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-13 12:24:46 AM|| 2004-10-13 12:24:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like maintence issues to me. Any AF Maint guys want to comment?

Posted by N guard 2004-10-13 7:30:57 AM|| 2004-10-13 7:30:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 First the MIG's, now Jags and Mirages. So, your nose wheel falling off is a mid-air technical snag?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-10-13 1:33:34 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-10-13 1:33:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 French aircraft have always been maintenance intensive. In a previous life, I talked with a retired two star from the Hellenic AF. He had had four squadrons of A-7s and one of Super Etendards under his command and said that the squadron of Super Etendards cost more to maintain than all the rest combined. He hated the French bloodsuckers.

Posted by RWV 2004-10-13 2:04:04 PM|| 2004-10-13 2:04:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Everyone is missing the obvious: "Fully cloaked" Pakistani warbirds using stolen Romulan technology...

Posted by borgboy 2004-10-13 2:13:43 PM|| 2004-10-13 2:13:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Some people seem to forget that the Mirage III was the backbone of the Israeli Force during the Six Days war and a significant part during the Kipour were the IAF got a kill ratio from over 20 to 1 in Air to air combat.

For Super Etendard being maintenance intensive, I would recall you that this varies with age and how they were maintained before that. And that all nations have had their share of hangar queens: anyone remembering the trouble with the B1?

Posted by JFM 2004-10-13 4:55:10 PM|| 2004-10-13 4:55:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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