Super Tucanos instead of F-35s????

[Geoff]

You read correctly. SA-6 Gainful!  See page 9 under II. A. 7. of THIS REPORT to the UN Security Council. This would seem to confirm it, but I think I read it somewhere else first. At around the time the Ethiopians started to take part in the mess.

Interesting.  They must be using it in the visually guided mode.  I simply cannot see them being able to maintain (or use for long) a STRAIGHT FLUSH radar system.  Even with its 1960s level of technology, it would be as far as I understand it, beyond the capabilities of the Islamic Courts movement to maintain such a system for very long.

Might depend who they are paying to operate it. (Havn't read the report I have to admit).

[Gary]

Missiles... pah

What do you do if you're attacked with a banana?

I understand that this professor teaches silly walking.

[ChernayaAkula]

Interesting.  They must be using it in the visually guided mode.  I simply cannot see them being able to maintain (or use for long) a STRAIGHT FLUSH radar system.  Even with its 1960s level of technology, it would be as far as I understand it, beyond the capabilities of the Islamic Courts movement to maintain such a system for very long.

Might depend who they are paying to operate it. (Havn't read the report I have to admit).

Yeah. Looking at the list of the countries that operated or still operate the SA-6 complex, all the usual suspects for Islamists, mercenaries, state-sponsored terrorism or a combination thereof pop up. Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Russia, Serbia, Syria,...

[anthonyp]

Missiles... pah

What do you do if you're attacked with a banana?

I understand that this professor teaches silly walking.

Glad to see someone else sees the absurdity of this subject.   

Drunken Canadian Ace:  "BOWSSSSER'SS (hic) GOING DOWN!!!!!!  (hic)"