kikuyu1:
Wow! So Saffas had a Marine brigade til 1990! I had no idea. Especially when its now only a 2 coy unit.

Yep, and here they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrfksGA5kY

lionel4power:

Is your Hawks weaponized, I have never come across a picture of it carrying bombs. Care your share any??

More than just "weaponized"

It uses link-ZA to form a "radar" that allows it to engage air-to-air targets, either for training (by simulating the targets) or for actual combat

ATE explains that the radar simulation air-to-air target generation has two modes: Virtual formations can be generated within the system itself and simulated as radar targets. This function allows for single-aircraft radar simulation exercises. Secondly, up to eight co-operating aircraft can acquire each other as radar targets through Link ZA, a digital network protocol that uses one of the Hawk's three Reutech Defence Industries ACR500 U/VHF radios. Link ZA ensures that every aircraft continuously transfers positional data to every other. This data is then processed by the mission computer on the co-operating aircraft in the network to render a real-time radar page. Displayable on any of the six multi-function displays (MFDs) in the LIFT's tandem glass cockpit, the radar page provides the pilot with radar target information, as if the aircraft were fitted with a real fire control radar system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVX-IW8GHF0

In the above video you can see something rarely talked of - a 30mm auto-cannon (Aden gun-pod) mounted on the Hawk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo07sE-UVko

In the above video you can see the SAAF Hawk using the 30mm on ground attack, with impressive accuracy

Patchesagain:


More than just "weaponized"

It uses link-ZA to form a "radar" that allows it to engage air-to-air targets, either for training (by simulating the targets) or for actual combat




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVX-IW8GHF0

In the above video you can see something rarely talked of - a 30mm auto-cannon (Aden gun-pod) mounted on the Hawk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo07sE-UVko

In the above video you can see the SAAF Hawk using the 30mm on ground attack, with impressive accuracy

Everything is hush-hush concerning your Hawks.


But the Hawks themselves don't have radar I'm I correct?


There was actually a time the British used their Hawks as a second line of defense.

Hawk bombing runs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9AEHbswjug

That maneuver though

Hawk and Grip dropping ordinance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUhUl-ml-E

lionel4power:

Is your Hawks weaponized, I have never come across a picture of it carrying bombs. Care your share any??

picture or video?

.... Never mind see patches has responded.

lionel4power:

Everything is hush-hush concerning your Hawks.


But the Hawks themselves don't have radar I'm I correct?


There was actually a time the British used their Hawks as a second line of defense.

No, the data is transmitted digitally via Link-ZA (data-link) from nearby sensor nodes, be it ground based radar or Gripen and then displayed for the pilot like in any normal jet.

I am not sure as to just what capabilities this provides, I would assume it allows the Hawk to employ radar-guided weaponry as it can now feed targeting data to the weapon. I do know however that the Hawk 120 can fire IR missiles as standard.

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i just hope our tucanos and fourth generation fighters wont come in this camo. i am not an expert here, but i dont think a good military power paints its aircrafts in this camouflage. the US and other advanced nations do not paint their fighters in camouflage.

if i am wrong, pls correct me.

MiddleDimension:
i just hope our tucanos and fourth generation fighters wont come in this camo. i am not an expert here, but i dont think a good military power paints its aircrafts in this camouflage. the US and other advanced nations do not paint their fighters in camouflage.

if i am wrong, pls correct me.

That's the ground attack tactical paint scheme. Air superiority FSBs are generally gray.

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jln115:

Yeah your credentials are literally nowhere to be seen

Exactly so wouldnt´t be covert if it is would it?

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