Yes, some of our aircraft are getting old, and our ships are even older, but consider South Africa. It’s Air Force does their Maritime surveillance. Defense Web reports they use C-47/DC-3 airframes, updated to the extent of having their reciprocating engines replaced by turbines. That makes the aircraft close to 70 years old. I have to think, this is what happens when you put the Air Force in charge of your maritime recon. It takes last place.
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Give it time. We’ll get there.
BMC it has gotten better it certain areas we have been adding some new craft and replacing older ships like the Storis and Achunet.
Actually I don’t think you can say we have replaced Storis and Acushnet, only that we have decommissioned them.
Responses to the OPC request for proposals should be all in now. The next phase will probably take about two years before we are ready to award a contract. Four + more years before the first ship is finished. Then one per year for the first four followed by two per year for the foreseeable future. Even the 270s will be very old before they are replaced unless the build rate goes up.
Actually I think the Coast Guard’s aviation procurement is working relatively well. By comparison the Canadian and Brits have hung on to old aircraft (notably H-3, SeaKings) much longer.
I agree!
The 60 Tango is a great upgrade + re-build program, but I thought the 65s were a little old and lacked capability, upgrades, and attention. Boy, was I wrong!! The 65s have always equalled or bettered the performance of the Lynx (the highest-reputed light multi-role helo in the world), in a smaller package, and with better range too! And then, I see that there is a nearly-continuous on-going upgrade program with Delta and Echo versions being converted/upgraded.
Then, there’s the new HC-144, and the C-130 J-models.
In my opinion CG aviation is kicking butt and taking names!!
Chuch, We had one buzzing the Great Lakes all last summer, low too. Tail number N737H.
A local newspaper caught-up with someone connected and found or so they said, that the were taking photos for the Army Corp. Of Engineers.
I could track him on the ham radioo map page using http:www.aprs.fi
It ‘SHOULD’ come-up in your area, or type an arddress in the ares indicated. Of course he is not out there flying now, but you can still spot the ham operators in the area on both land and water.
Sort of works like Marinetraffic.com and yes APRS has apps for iPhone and Android, but I’ve never used then, I have a dumb phone.
An esoteric CG Aviation uniform question: does anyone know if the CG adopted the slate-grey Navy uniform which the Navy came out with from 1943-1946? And, if so, was it connected to the “Shore Establishment”? And, would CG aviators been part of the Shore Establishment back then?
The reason I ask is because someone located a NAP rating badge in slate grey, but it’s a PO1 rate, and the speculation is that it may be CG, since the CG dresses all ranks of Petty Officers the same, not just Chiefs which was the Navy way back then… (Of course, before the change to AF/CG blue in the mid-70s, I remember my dad wearing Navy Blue jumpers as a PO1, which begs the question: in 1945-era, did CG E-4 to E-6 wear the CPO-style jackets and dress shirts with ties, as they do today?)
Before 1975 our uniforms were the same as the Navy’s. Chief’s and officers wore khaki’s , E-1-E-6 wore the crackerjack, jumper uni’s just like the Navy. Although It seems to me that I’ve seen a pre-WWII picture somewhere of a PO1 wearing a blue CPO style jacket, wish I could remember where? The uniforms we wear now were instituted around 1975.