To add some information, all the aircrafts and helicopters from the Argentine Navy.
Attack aircrafts (19)
*11 Dassault Super Etendard
*8 Embraer Emb-326 Xavante
Cargo aircrafts (9)
*3 Fokker F-28 Fellowship
*2 Lockheed L-188 Electra
*4 Beechcraft B-200 Super King Air
Training...
The US Air Force, that put some years ago a new designation to the F-22 Raptor (F/A-22), have decided these days to re-designate the aircraft as F-22A.
Reasons? the Raptor wouldn't be a good attack aircraft, so the USAF decided to use it only as a fighter, with F-15E and F-16C as CAS...
DerAdler:
I know that the UK forces were using the Sidewinders long before 1982, but I am talking specially about the L version of the AIM-9. Not all the Sea Harriers were enabled to use them, as I know. They were modified during the war to be completely in service. Till that, the Harriers and...
I don't know when UK bought that missiles to Raytheon or the US Navy, but I am sure that the UK didn't buy them a long before the South Atlantic War. Why? The half of the Harrier fleet couldn't use them. Only could use the standards AIM-9B and AIM-9J, so I think the AIM-9L wouldn't be a veteran...
Well, it wasn't a Su-30MK. The Su-30MK doesn't have TVC, and the 711 (or Su-37) showed in Le-Bourget in 1999 had them. They could be showing another aircraft, in order to have more customer to that aircraft, that could be made faster than the Su-37.
The only prototype of the Su-37 Super Flanker (or Terminator) was the 711. By 1999, that aircraft was re-modified to the standard Su-35 (very similar than the Su-30), and several changes were made, as in avionics or modifications in its TVC. Its painting sketch was modified too, and the...