7/10/23.

 A new kind of warfare inspired by the U.S.Backed Ukraine.

How the scorpion always has a sting in its tail and this was proved on the morning of October 7th, when three thousand Hamas fighters and their affiliates poured in across the Gaza border fence into southern-Israel, deploying a armed flight wing of two man motorized para-gliders with their militants dressed in Israeli army uniforms.

Drones were also deployed and later backed up with mortar, short and long range rocket firing in to C-Israel, all of what happened on this Saturday morning was an almost U.S. copy book of what the Ukrainians were taught to do to the Russian in the eastern Ukraine?

900 Israeli civilians and 300 IDF soldiers were killed, it is unknown how many foreign workers died or were among the 300+ kidnapped!

Terrorism has moved on now to a new level of Para-gliding, speedboats and drones, apart from home-made rockets and the simple use of light weapons and more of this is to come, unless there are more restrictions on the use of these technologies!

Meanwhile the Arab Media is playing the same baby-children propaganda as in the Ukraine too to win the heart strings of the naive?

Mikoyan-Gurevich. MIG-15. Part-Two.

Extensive Training Aircraft.

Many of the worlds air forces can boast today that it was the Midget (NATO-Codename) that got them where they are. This aircraft saw some twenty years as a front line fighter, before being moved on the roles of counter attack and advanced trainer.

Over eighty-seven countries received the type and it became the basis for Jet aviation production in the Peoples Republic of China, North-Korea, and a few other countries around the globe. The Soviet Union quickly revealed to the west the next generation the MIG-17/19, for a time it was not known if they were the same aircraft?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

N-Korea, Cuba and one or two other countries still may be flying the Midget in both counter attack and advanced training, since there are so many sanctions placed on them?              

Gunboats to Fast Attack. Part-One.

The Smaller Navy?

One would like to think so, because big nations that have access to the seas or large lakes have Frigates, Corvettes and Minesweepers? But this is not so, the development of the Gunboat has matured into the FAC (Fast Attack Craft), these newer vessels are now usually armed with the latest missiles, radar and sonar. 

The orgins of the FAC comes from the Cold War years, when the Soviet navy required their patrol boats to work against mini-subs in shallower waters and also to intercept at speed unidentified targets. The patrol boats of World War II were good up to a point, but they were limited compared to what is available today. Many countries initially received these new FAC Soviet boats, such as Angola, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, North-Korea and Cuba and from their on they made their own adaptions to meet their own requirements.

It was the rich Persian Gulf nations in the middle-east that preferred the FAC ability to change platforms and this opened the door to both the United States and Great Britain, with a few other countries to provide the latest versions.

Cessna C-172/C-41.

Most prolific aircraft Everbuilt.

The Cessna aviation company in the United States is one of the most prolific and successful for design and durability. Here we are going to look at this little light aircrat, which can be used for various multi-roles from Liason to Utility. From Training to Light Attack, and the there are hosts of other applications for this four seater.

Concieved in the 1950's this aircraft remains in production and is licence built in France by Reims, it is cheap to buy and to operate and is used by nearly every airforce, police and border security across the globe. It has enormous success in the civil market from pleasure flying to photographic observation and many more business and government uses.

It can be lightly armed with a 7.62mm gun pod and two to four rocket pods, some aircraft have been converted to operate with floats, while others as air ambulances or flying doctors. Developed from the O-1 Bird Dog a World-War-II design which came to fruitition in the late 1940's it is one of several designs that continue to operate such as the 152, Stationair, Caravan-I/II and the 337/0-2.

Jet Trainers.

From Training to Counter-Insurgency.

We will always need aircraft of differing types to train our pilots, from simple basics to advanced flight. One of the most versatile aircraft that is available to a host of nations for both training and light attack is the Jet trainer.

The British Royal Air force and Royal Navy have the long and well tested BAE Hawk-200 Jet, this aircraft has also been adopted by the United States of America and is known as theT-45A Goshawk. France and Germany developed their own Alpha Jet, which today is newly operated by the Nigerian Air force.

Spain and Italy have also designed the Casa C-101 Avio jet and the Aermacchi MB-339. Argentina FMA IA-63 Pampa, Taiwan the AIDC AT-3, the Czech Republic Aero L-39 Albatros

Many smaller nations cannot afford the millions that a fully fledged combat jet such as the F-16 costs, so they opt for light-attack and Counter-Insurgency. What seems a mid-level machine, still has the potential to do substantial damage combined with speed. These aircraft can be fitted with a host of rockets and missiles, some can carry a 20-30mm cannon and a variety of bombs and all sorts of combinations.

Having the ability to go from a two-seat trainer to a combat role saves time and money, but of course they have their disadvantages up against the dedicated fighter combat jets.