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St Hubert in Marche En Famenne
The regimental mascot of the Ardennes HuntersOriginally Posted by despirit
WTF????
Chasseurs Ardennais
St Hubert in Marche En Famenne
Looks like the guy on the right is wearing the good old dutch m90 boots!
where did you get these SFG pictures from?
(ou a tu trouvé ces photos des forces speciales?)
Probably from this book?
Raids published these pictures (or at least pictures from the same excercise a year or two back.
no, i know this book very well and these pics aren't in it....
These pics are from Raids or C&S. It was the same story.
I saw one of the Piranhas III with the cannon on them last week in Leopoldsburg. It was pretty inpresive!
Airbus A330-300
Last week the "new" A330-300 arrived to replace the two A310's.
Presentation of the new A330-300 of the Belgian Defense
Text and Pictures : Serge Van Heertum - S.B.A.P. (other as mentionned)
November 19th, 2009 was a special day for the Belgian Defense and particularly the Air Component who presented the new Airbus A330-300 of the 15th Transport Wing based at Melsbroek airbase. This presentation was done by the Minister of Defense, Mister Pieter de Crem and the representant of the French leasing company AVICO.
To make this day memorable, the VIP's and the press members did a flight with the plane around Belgium and during a high altitude flight, was intercepted by 2 F-16's of Florennes Airbase.
But this new airplane in the Belgian military fleet is not a brand new one and knows already very good the Belgian skies. Efectively this Airbus flown under the colours of the Belgian National Company Sabena between 1999 and 2001.
Before his Belgian civil carreer the plane flown first for Malaysian Airlines. After the bankrupcy of Sabena, the plane was taken over by HiFLY (Portugal).
The CS-TMT have also flown under the colours of Garuda International and Air Luxor
The arrival of this plane under Belgian Military colors is a real new concept. In fact this plane is leased for 2000 flight hours /year.
It was imperative for the Belgian Air Component to have a plane with long haul capabilities to replace the old Airbus A310 fleet. One of the A310 remain in service and the other one (CA02) is grounded due his limits before a "D" check (overhaul).
http://www.sbap.be/events/2009/A330/A330.htm
Some more images from the MoD's website, made by Eddy Kellens:
AIV 90mm/mm
I saw one of those in real life last week! looked impressive!
Any idea how they are doing in the field? I read somewhere that they are testing it and in the defence nota's I read that (contrary to the bold statements of De Crem) that they are planning to field them. Personaly I don't think they are a good "replacement" for the Leopard I (the only thing that can replace a tank is tank.) It was always a mistake to give the impression (party the responsability of the media) to do as if it was. But I do think the Piranha DF90 could be a nice complementary adition to the AIV fleet (if it works as planned). Its better in my opinion to have 90MM on operation supporting the troops than a Leopard in Leopoldsburg. It looks very nice but looks means nothing.
I think 90MM is the maximum the AIV platform realisticly can carry with somewhat armour and mobility. Ther Americans have a 105MGS but I don't think that's an ideal system.
Kunduz PRT 22
Photos of PRT 22 at Kunduz Afghanistan November 2009
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