Yeah that's great.......if I could read Arabic. Tell you what. YOU tell ME what it says exactly. It's 2010 in the game now so this isn't a case of "adding it back" as it's already there. Are they refitting and extending the Hunters OOS date ?
For the first time in more than a decade, flew fighter 'Hawker Hunter' of the Army Air Force in the skies of East Bekaa and carried out several sorties from a base at Rayak air.
Yesterday afternoon, the city of Zahle space construction spending and the noise of military aircraft, Fihra people to roads and roofs and balconies, believing it to be, an Israeli aircraft beating hearts from panic to joy to see them shine on the Lebanese flag Janhaa: it was a the 'Hawker Hunter', which has been reporting Press talk, since the cold war, qualify for the resumption of military preparation for their return to the air.
True, they are military aircraft are aging remnants of 'Izz el-days' air forces in the army, which was founded in June 1949 of President Fouad Chehab days was commander of the army, and it is a relic of British-made fighter gregarious processed by the Lebanese Air Force in 1958, but a flight home in the sky Indicators stages of restoration of sovereignty, and new evidence on the capabilities of the army and his creativity and the 'yield to what is there', in defiance of all Internal conflicts and interventions of regional and global accounts to prevent its development, this might be a sense of pride took up the implementation of the pilot maneuvers won admiration of people who spent an hour with a scene not seen generations.
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Re: Lebanon OOB
Aologies, Don - it was an "off the cuff" posting after having seen the news item; I hadn't even looked in the Encyclopaedia. I thought that some update work might have been done on this OOB prior to v4.0, so did not trouble to check.
I am astonished to see all the fast jets currently available in the OOB: I believe that no sophisticated equipment such as jet a/c have been flown by the Lebanon in many years, due to the troubles that have ravaged the country. Any such equipment has been in storage for a while.
Post No. 7 shows the depths the country has been reduced to - extemporised bombers from the Huey! Of all the fast jets in the "inventory" (i.e. storage) the Hunters were the easiest to return to service in view of their simple '40s technology.
So - as an unresearched glib comment: drop all fast jets from circa 2000, and re-introduce the Hunter from 11/2008.
Mirage III (No.s 185/186). ISD should be circa 1970: order was placed for these a/c in 1968. OSD more likely to be 1990 - a/c sold to Pakistan in 2000 for spares recovery.
Hunter (Nos. 180/181) - ISD should be circa 1960, with OSD circa 1985. (Wiki has last combat sortie in September '83 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Air_Force ) Back into service 11/2008
SM79 (No. 550) - OSD of 1974 very optimistic - suggest 1960 (Replaced by Vampires).
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