bro have u check ya facts? its not our proud F/A 18D that is grounded becoz lack spare parts and maintainnence....it is our MIG 25N Fulcrum's and our HAWK 100/200's that is......our FA 18D is the only aircraft in our inventory that are ready to fight and rumble......and sadly we only have 8 of them.....the rest is all grounded for the Hawks is the EADS Avionics didnt function properly in our weather.....for the MIG's is the spare parts where the local company holding the sole distributions rights of the MIG's spare parts are charging MINDEF way above the original price by tenfold.....so the gomen dont want to do biznez with them anymore......good riddance....
and as i said our Hornet is the one that is still flying.....but since our Sukhoi start coming already hopefully by end of 2008 we will have full MRCA squadron operational to protect our sky....and second squadron hopefully will be establish by end of 2010...
bout the nuri....our workhorse is an ol' workhorse......we need to get the Eurocopter EH101 fast......sometimes i donno what mindef is thinking...are they waiting the nuri's to go down one by one untill none left then they wanna buy?
but seriously bro....ill bet its none of the pilot error that coz the crash...its the platforms.....
yea i know we got migs n all.... I check with the air force... i got frens who are also in the air force....
*FYI, WIkipedia tell a lot of info..... about TUDM
sad la our country no planes like F-15 n all...... at least Singapore has a bunch of US equipment like F-16 n all..
N I hardly see our proud F-18 not flying... (from my looks bcoz TUDM subang base is near my house)
I hope with the Shukoi we have good maintainnence n parts... for a long term...
N i hope we get an AWACS....
oooo malaysia jadi Ace Combat...
back to topic.... i dunno la this NURI.. last time i heard 1997 or what year the worst NURI crash 3 or 5 crash at the same time...
anyway TUDM... always got la this crashers....
last year was a jet fighter lost control n dive into ocean n then gone...
Pilot was found dead in a sad manner...