Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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Flightdeck Friday - Maintainers

June 21st, 2007 6 Comments

Usually these spaces are given over to aircraft or the operations and battles they have flown in.  The aviators normally are well represented as well, but there is another group, without whom from the dawn of aviation, none of this would have been possible - aviation maintenance personnel.  Long before the mission is flown and [...]

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Nuclear Decisions (Part I)

June 21st, 2007 2 Comments

So here is the situation – you are an emerging regional power with a teeming populace and growing, albeit uneven, economic prowess. On your borders are two nuclear armed nations with whom you have fought (conventionally) within the past 40 years. Aware of your growing need for and dependency on imported energy, you have undertaken to develop and [...]

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Iranian Link to Russia’s MiG-31 Sale to Syria?

June 21st, 2007 3 Comments

 (Picture from globalaircraft.org)
Reports at the Paris Airshow this week that something was afoot between Russia and Syria over sales of MiG-31’s (and thereby updating Syria’s aging fleet of MiG-25’s) has generated a certain amount of heat over allegations that Iran is secretly funding the deal.  More below the fold:

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