randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) (01/17/91)
From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent H. Besler) writes: >From: bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent H. Besler) >How many F-15's does Saudi Arabi have? I recall them having somewhere >over 100 of them _The Military Balance_, which in it's opening paragraph claims to be accurate as of 1 June '88, says there are: 15 F-5b's 63 F-5e's 10 RF-5e's 22 F-5f's 20 Tornado IDS's (probably more by now) 45 F-15c's 17 F-15d's The thing that strikes me most is the number of different modles they have. You'd think that they would standardize on one model of F-5's, one model of F-15's, etc. -Randy -- ============================================================================= My feelings on George Bush's promises: "You have just exceeded the gulibility threshold!" ============================================Randy@ms.uky.edu==================
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (01/18/91)
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) >From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) >15 F-5b's >63 F-5e's >10 RF-5e's >22 F-5f's >45 F-15c's >17 F-15d's > >The thing that strikes me most is the number of different modles they have. >You'd think that they would standardize on one model of F-5's, one model of >F-15's, etc. The differences are not as large as they look. About half of them are just single-seaters (F-5E, F-15C) vs two-seaters (F-5F, F-15D). You have to have the two-seaters for training, but fighters designed to be single-seaters often have poorer performance in the training variant, so you don't want all two-seaters. The F-5B is much older than the F-5E; those are probably 20-30-year-old aircraft held over in secondary roles. The RF-5E is a specialized recon variant of the F-5E: the whole nose is different, redesigned to hold cameras. So you really can't get rid of them either. -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund) (01/19/91)
From: dvlssd@cs.umu.se (Stefan Skoglund) The congress has agreed to sell 150 F-15E multi-role fighters to SA. Or something like that. It was in the pappers around 1 Sep. Stefan Skoglund, dvlssd@cs.umu.se