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Sorry, but something must be wrong with my Google server, it cannot link me to the previous messages, so I had to answer this way. 1. The AGM-62 Walleye is a TV-guided glide bomb from the Vietnam era. The AGM-65 Maverick is a powered weapon (has a motor) and is more recent technology.

This is another quite interesting view from a few years ago I found on this subject: http://globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1992/MAR.htm Jacek

Sorry for posting on topic, but I can't help talk about the beloved F-14! Recently, I finished reading Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop's book on the 1980 Iran/Iraq war, and the role of Iranian f-14 units in the conflict. Overall, the book states that the US and other sources greatly underestimated...

Old news to some, perhaps, but it was new to me -- the Gosport has gone modern: http://gosport.pensacolanewsjournal.com/ -- John Miller Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm Remembering is for those who have forgotten.

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John McCain, NeoCons, the Israel Lobby and Weekly Standard (Ron Paul mentioned): http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot.com/2008/03/make-people-aware-subscribe.html Here is a tiny URL of the above one: http://tinyurl.com/358b8c

Subj: Gen. Zinni: Neocons Hijacked US Foreign Policy for Israel Date: 5/23/04 12:42:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: To: Sent from the Internet (Details) Friends,

If a mobile phone game accurately depicts a real fighter's multi-function display, would you be interested in playing it? The game's screen would look like the one on the right of the link below and you would control the fighter in the center - a T-shaped blue object - with directional keys on...

I just acquired a WW-II Wobble pump(D-2) and would like to make a handle for it--can anyone steer me to a picture of one WITH HANDLE ? I have already broached an 8" length of 3/4 SQ aluminum to fit the shaft---I'd just like to make it similar to an original pump handle. Thanx Jerry

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I'm just about ready to add weapons to a Hasagawa 1/72 F/A-18F (decal option taken will be VFA-2), and would like to do a war-at-sea load. Besides the two AIM-9X and two AIM-120s that came with the kit, what weapons would be suitable for a mixed war-at-sea load? I'm thinking 2x HARM, and 2x...

"It's Boeing's latest artist's conception of the U.S. Navy's proposed F/A-XX replacement for the F/A-18E/F, notionally needed on carrier decks around 2025. It's described as "6th generation", but quite what that means I'm not sure - expect that it's tailless for all-aspect broadband stealth, like...

STARTELEGRAM.com Sky Talk April 17, 2008 Osprey Fire Days Before Big Contract Awarded Whoops, this wasn't reported by the Marines or Bell/Boeing last month when they were counting down the days to the Pentagon finally awarding a five-year, $10.4 billion contract for 167 new V-22 Ospreys.

Cindy Sheehan wrote that her son died for a PNAC Neocon agenda to benefit Israel and then didn't have the courage to stand behind what she wrote: http://www.slate.com/id/2124788/sidebar/2124791/ http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2005/08/cindy-sheehan-mother-of-spc-casey.html A War for...

Israel Preparing For Military Action To Stop Iran's Nuclear Program... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/01/21/israel-preparing-for-mili_n_14231.html?p=9#comments Ex-Pentagon man gets 12 years spying for Israel in AIPAC case (hardly any coverage in serving Israel first US...

Anyone familiar with NAS Miami during WWII? I am trying to determine a naval location reference NAS Miami as "Pt. Affirm" I can't find it on the net. Not sure if it is merely a local naval aviation reference point, a swallowed up town, or a point of land. Surely there are still some naval...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001663.html Father and Son, Separated by War, Crash and Disappearance, United By Candace Rondeaux Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 21, 2006; B03 James E. Plowman Jr. was just a boy when he first visited...

On 22 October 1980 two F-4D from the 71st Tactical Fighter Wing (TAB 7, Shiraz) as usual in very low altitude on their way to attack a large Iraqi Air Base at Habbaniyah, some 120 kilometers due west from Baghdad. As they flew into the SAM defense of the Iraqi capital, Sadly one Phantom was shot...

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