Saudi AirForce auctioning off 79 old F-5 fighter jets

[nikimcbee]

In before Jim!

So will Mrs. Buna allow you to expand your flat to get one of these?

[eddie]

Watch Iran use a third party to buy some of them. Then they will proclaim, they have built a new fighter that can defeat anything the west can come up with.

[mapuc]

I was thinking

Wonder if IS is trying, through third party, bed/buy (on) some of them

Markus

[Rhodes]

They can re use it for Top Gun 2 - the return of the elusive MIG 28!

[razark]

Originally Posted by eddie

Watch Iran use a third party to buy some of them. Then they will proclaim, they have built a new fighter that can defeat anything the west can come up with.

I don't know that they'd pass them off as new. They might use them as replacements or spare parts for the ones they already have.

[CCIP]

Saudi Arabia selling weapons to Iran would be like the US selling theirs to China - they're very much regional and ideological opponents, and although the chance of them going to direct war with each other is low, they're not so dumb as to give their enemy an edge. Geographically and ideologically, they're at loggerheads - both are a threat to each other in their access to the Gulf, the main economic artery for both of them; and they couldn't be more different in their approach to governance - Saudis are a deeply conservative, traditional, Sunni monarchy; Iran is a radical, populist Shia theocracy that started out by overthrowing a traditional monarchy.
So, no deal there!

[em2nought]

I'm holding out for an A-10, wonder if I can get the contract to scrap them all and have the USAF pay me $1.00? USN style! LMAO

Where do you get spent uranium for the Lyman reloader?

[Stealhead]

From a nuclear power plant DU is made from spent fuel rods. I think you'd have a hard time buying an A-10 too many Hog drivers will refuse to be sepearted from their beloved bird.

Here's the loader for an A-10 one of the many pieces of ground support equipment I have worked on don't dare breath in or touch the dust you had to wear a bunny suit and respirator to work on them.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

In before Jim!

So will Mrs. Buna allow you to expand your flat to get one of these?

Flat?....I do believe you mean 'man cave'

Probably not atm seeing as how she has recently been informed three further additions are inbound

[eddie]

You do like living right on the edge don't you Jim!

[Jeff-Groves]

I need to put a bid in for demolition work.

[em2nought]

A-10s are so bad a$$ they need to be painted up Flying Circus style! Somebody should make a "good" A-10 movie.

[Stealhead]

A-10s have been stationed in Europe on a constant basis since they first entered service so I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. In the old day they flew from Spanghalem and Sembach AB Germany as well as from Bentwaters. The other major A-10 basing is in South Korea.

Today they fly only from Spanghalem(tail code SP) AB in Germany Sembach is closed down today its only used for housing the runway had a bend in it. It was decided in 1993 to move all German based Hogs to Spanghalem additionaly they split the F-16 wing at Ramstein AB between SP and Avaino in Italy.

The primary stateside A-10 base is Davis-Monthan in Arizona. Several air national guard and reserve units fly the A-10 as well some having swapped F-16s for Hogs this was due to the greater effect that the Hog has in COIN type warfare.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

A-10s have been stationed in Europe on a constant basis since they first entered service so I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. In the old day they flew from Spanghalem and Sembach AB Germany as well as from Bentwaters.

Today they fly only from Spanghalem(tail code SP) AB in Germany Sembach is closed down today its only used for housing the runway had a bend in it. It was decided in 1993 to move all German based Hogs to Spanghalem additionaly they split the F-16 wing at Ramstein AB between SP and Avaino in Italy.

Indeed, used to see the A-10s a lot flying out of Bentwaters, they were pretty awesome to see. I think the only two USAFE bases in the UK now are Mildenhall and Lakenheath and IIRC Mildenhall is running down now, which means the Ospreys will probably be leaving, which is a shame, been quite nice to see them passing through from time to time.
Bentwaters closing was a real sucker punch, especially since they'd only just finished upgrading the runway. Still, Carolyn Grace flies from Bentwaters now, and the Cold War Museum has been getting a steady supply of aircraft to do up.