Fuerzas aéreas CIVILES

[A.M.E. Nº 4]

C-212 DE BLACKWATER EN AFGANISTíN

[Orel]

De militaryphotos: el SuperTucano de Blackwater dede otros ángulos:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7665/usn36722.jpg

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2058/usn36723.jpg

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7973/usn36720.jpg

[Roger]

Parece ser que cierra Thunder City, el operador sudafricano que permití­a volar en jets militares ingleses antiguos

o English Electric Lightning
o BAE Buccaneer
o Hawker Hunter

La crisis, un accidente mortal que acabó con la vida de un piloto el año pasado, los costes del seguro y algunos problemas con las autoridades parecen ser las causas

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=103256

[Orel]

Vaya, una menos

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Tactical Air Defense Services Takes Possession of Embraer Super Tucano Aircraft

May 13, 2011
Tactical Air Defense Services Inc., an Aerospace/Defense Services contractor that offers tactical aviation services, aerial refueling, aircraft maintenance, and other Aerospace/Defense services to the United States and Foreign militaries and agencies, is pleased to announce that it has recently taken possession of an Embraer 314 Super Tucano aircraft (the "Super Tucano" or the "Aircraft") through a joint-venture Services Agreement (the "Agreement") with its pending merger partner, Tactical Air Support, Inc. ("Tac-Air").

http://www.defpro.com/news/details/24495/

Esa empresa, además del SuperTucano, cuenta en su flota con:

- L-39 Albatros
- CF-5D/F-5B
- L-29 Super Delfins (P&W J-60 Engines)
- CT-133 (T-33)
- MiG-17F / MiG-15UTI
- Lancair 360 (OPFOR UAV Replicator)
- Mooney 20E (200 HP Lycoming IO-360 engines)

Un saludo

[Orel]

Dos ejemplos de empresas civiles de reabastecimiento aéreo de combustible para ejércitos:
http://www.omegaairrefueling.com/vms/
http://www.airtanker.co.uk/

[Orel]

El único Sea Harrier FA.2 privado del mundo completa su vuelo número 100:
http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm ... y_ID/28978

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

¡ En Libia, Obama a resucitado Air America... y sus DC-3 !
http://mobile.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/en-libye-obama-a-ressuscite-air-124820

Lastima que los aviones y helicopteros no tengan voz propia, para revelar los secretos mas inconfesables de sus cargas.

Saludos.

[Orel]

La flota del Departamento de Estado de EEUU:

The U.S. State Department Has Its Own (Surprisingly Big) Air Force
Diplomatic air wing deploys 130 planes and copters to train allies, battle drug traffickers

The U.S. State Department possesses just under 100 helicopters and more than 30 fixed-wing aircraft and deploys them all over the world, mostly as part of the America’s international drug war.

The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs’ Office of Aviation—a.k.a., the INL Air Wing—employs contractors and foreign government aviators to fly these aircraft in seven countries: Afghanistan, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Iraq, Pakistan and Peru.
...
These include helicopters like the Huey II, which Bell offers as a rebuild option using donated airframes, plus ex-Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knights, which the Air Wing has been acquiring as the Marines replace the CH-46s with V-22 tiltrotors.

Fixed-wing assets include the popular Cessna 208 Caravan and the Air Tractor AT-802 crop duster, the latter used to spray herbicides over drug fields. In the last decade, Air Wing Huey IIs and C-27A transports have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to help develop the air forces of those countries.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ee6a6204c680

Me recuerda a esta otra "fuerza aérea civil" yanqui, la de la DEA (US Drug Enforcement Administration). El dato más reciente que he encontrado de diciembre de 2011 es que tenían 92 aviones y helicópteros:

AUDIT OF THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION’S AVIATION OPERATIONS
U.S. Department of Justice / Office of the Inspector General / Audit Division / Audit Report 12-05 / December 2011
...
For fiscal year (FY) 2010 the DEA aviation program had an annual budget of $47.6 million.

As of May 2011 the DEA’s aircraft fleet was comprised of 92 single and multi-engine propeller airplanes, multi-engine jet aircraft, and single and multi-engine helicopters.
[Divididos en: 49 mono-hélice, 15 poli-hélice (8 en bases internacionales), 2 poli-reactor, 19 helicópteros mono-motor y 7 poli-motor (2 de ellos en bases internacionales).]

As of June 2011 the DEA employed 108 Special Agent Pilots. In FYs 2009 and 2010, DEA data indicated that DEA Special Agent Pilots flew over 24,000 flights and logged 63,000 flight hours. Over 50,000 of these flight hours (approximately 80 percent) were in support of DEA operational activities.

http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/2011/a1205.pdf

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Una venta enorme para este tipo de entorno, se anunció en enero:

Czech govt nods to redundant combat planes´ sale to U.S. firm
02.01.2014

The outgoing Czech government today approved the proposal to sell 28 redundant L-159 combat planes to the U.S. Draken International firm, Defence Minister Vlastimil Picek has told journalists after a government meeting.
The firm wants to buy 24 operable planes and four for spare parts.

The contract price will be between 434 and 516 million crowns, depending on the equipment of individual aircraft, Picek said previously.

The Czech military has 72 L-159 planes for which it paid 51 billion crowns years ago, but the pilots only need about a third of them. A total of 36 planes have been conserved.
Picek said the mothballing [preservación] of the planes cost the Czech military 260 million crowns in 2006-2013.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/c ... edium=feed

La empresa yanqui en cuestión:
http://www.drakenintl.com/

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Viene de la última noticia de enero:
Vaya con esta empresa: http://www.drakenintl.com/
Comprarán hasta 28 L-159 (seguro 14), y ya tienen cinco L-39, nueve MB-339CD, once A-4K Skyhawk, y... ¡veintisiete Mig-21!
Una fuerza aérea mayor que la de muchos países

17 Jul 2014
Private military contractor Draken International will buy up to 28 Aero Vodochody L-159Es from the Czech Republic under a three-way deal.

Under the contract, the manufacturer will acquire the aircraft from the Czech government and sell them on to Draken, which has committed to taking at least 14 aircraft. The L-159s are surplus to air force requirements, and have been in long-term storage.

Draken provides tactical flight support services to the US armed forces using a fleet of L-159s, L-39s, Aermacchi MB-339CBs, Douglas A-4 Skyhawks and RAC MiG-21s.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... 9s-401670/

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Continuando mi último mensaje, esto otro: la mayor fuerza aérea privada del mundo... y de las mayores incluyendo las militares. Y no sólo cuenta con entrenadores y aviones ligeros "civilizados", si no con Mig-21 y A-4K con capacidad militar, como los nuevos L-159:

ANALYSIS: How Draken International became the world's biggest private air force
3 Sep 2014

Any air arm able to field 30 operational MiG-21s, 11 Douglas A-4K Skyhawks and which ordered up to 28 light combat jets [L-159] (a minimum of 14 aircraft) would be placed well up the rankings in Flight International’s annual World Air Forces directory.

Lakeland, Florida-based Draken formed in 2011, and has grown rapidly since then. Currently the company undertakes a range of training activities for the US military, but is also actively looking at opening a European base.

As well as the Skyhawks -from New Zealand with AN/APG-66 radar, HOTAS controls, a glass cockpit and a MIL-STD-1553B databus- and MiG-21s, which were purchased from Poland, the fleet includes nine Alenia Aermacchi MB-339s –also courtesy of New Zealand– plus five Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros bought from various US private owners.



The single-seat ALCAs [L-159] have been surplus to requirements since 72 were built were built in the early years of this century, and have been stored awaiting a purchaser, having been built from 2001-2003. “They have no flight time on them and are packed with fourth-generation radar capabilities, as part of a suite designed by Selex”. The aircraft have a Grifo-L multimode pulse Doppler radar and a glass cockpit, plus HOTAS controls. “The big bonus for us is they’re hyper-efficient. They have a modern [Honeywell] F124 engine and use almost no gas”. Draken is spending additional money on the ALCAs to upgrade their performance. The improvements will include aerodynamic refinements to increase top speed.

Our aircraft cost around $7,000 an hour. “That’s $40,000 per flight hour in cost savings compared to an F-16. When you move up to something like a F-35 or a Eurofighter Typhoon, it’s something like $80,000.

Draken does not handle the high-end missions undertaken by US Aggressor units, however. “The Aggressors that fly F-15s, F-18s [and F-16s] can simulate just about every threat in the world,” he says. “However, there are a wide variety of threats from third-generation or early fourth-generation aircraft that it might be too costly to use Aggressor aircraft to simulate. “You would look to have the Aggressors focus on simulating MiG-29s and J-11s. We can easily simulate MiG-21s and other third/fourth-generation types.”

The company draws its pilots from ex-military ranks. “We have a lot of ex-USN and USMC pilots who used to fly A-4s and F-16".

http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=& ... 9129,d.d2s
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ir-402908/

Y el detalle de la mayor empresa privada de reabastecimiento en vuelo: AirTanker, que opera los 13 Voyager (A330 MRTT) de la RAF. Diez de ellos en exclusiva para la RAF y los tres restantes disponibles para todo país OTAN que lo pague aunque con preferencia para la RAF si los necesita: http://www.airtanker.co.uk/

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Si hay una mínima posibilidad, que los bombardee la OTAN:

Ex oficiales del ejército iraquí entrenan a combatientes del IS para pilotar aviones de combate
17/10/2014

El Estado Islámico cuenta con tres aparatos de fabricación rusa del tipo Mig21 y Mig23.
Fueron capturados por los yihadistas a las tropas de Asad en Alepo y Raqqa.
Las naves "capaces de volar y maniobrar" se hallan en el aeropuerto militar de Al Yarah, en el este de la provincia septentrional siria de Alepo, donde se lleva a cabo la formación por parte de ex miembros de las fuerzas armadas iraquíes.

http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/201 ... b4583.html

[Orel]

Y justo, tras la noticia de ayer (no me gusta aunque sólo sea algo excepcional):

This may be the first video to show an ISIS jet in flight in Syria
Oct 18 2014

In the last few days, several media outlets reported the news that the Islamic State has started combat operations using “Mig” fighter jets from an airbase in Syria.

Indeed, in 2014, ISIS has captured two airbases in central Syria, Tabqa and Kshesh, where Islamic State fighters have seized some Syrian Arab Air Force airplanes. Among these aircraft, several Mig-21s and L-39s, some of those, if not airworthy, were probably at least in pretty good shape.

http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/18/is ... -aircraft/

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Discovery Air Defence Services


http://www.discoveryair-ds.com/