Exercise Pitch Black Archives - The Republic of Singapore Air Force A-4SU Skyhawks.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2020
- Who doesn’t love a Skyhawk. #ExPitchBlackOnline today celebrates The Republic of Singapore Air Force continuous role in the exercise since 1990, including its magnificent A-4SU Skyhawks.
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WOW this seems like they put a real HUD and GPS Navigation in those A-4's! And the Paintjob makes them look menacing!
A proper WDNS (weapon delivery and navigation system), new MFDs, compatibility with smart munitions of the 90s, and other new sensors.
I never knew they had re-engineered the 'Scooter' to incorporate a completely separate rear cockpit. Thank you.
Hi Paul, RSAF’s two-cockpit skyhawk variant was around since early 70s. The A-4s incorported the new GE engine in the late 80s after a series of crashes showed up the age of the PW engine
@@IRP01 What a hot rod with the F404!
I can hear Hornet starting in the background 🤤Those Singapore Scooters look fantastic in the South East Asia Camo. Now I’m starting to have Fighter jet withdrawals. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
It is the Skyhawks starting up they use the Hornet Engines
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The scooters used the Pratt & Whitney J52 engine & the Hornet used General Electric F404-GE-402 afterburning turbofan engines.
I've heard Hornets starting on many occasion from my house near RAAF Darwin. I've only ever heard Hornets make that whining sound on start up
Google A4SU Skyhawks that what these are and they use F404s
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Did not know that.
Thanks for the info must of been non after burner. What a weapon the A4SU would of been.
I use to watch the Scooters as a kid at HMAS Albatross & they never made that sound starting up & that would be why.👍
@@matk4731 yeah I thought the same sounded like hornets starting up did a little google and saw they used F404 it would be an awesome little jet to fly around
Oh thank you so much for presenting this use d to love being down the end of the runway watching all the aircraft launch awesome so many great memories and fantastic crews of all the Nations stay safe all see ya
I remember reading that we plonked a new F404 turbofan engine onto the A4SU in its final upgrade, it overtook the (then) much more superior RSAF Tiger II in flight.
Correction - that's F5E Tiger II.
Everybody loves Skyhawks! We used to overhaul the RAN hawks as the Qantas Jet Base. But it was also nice see the F111's at 8:15 waiting their turn. Looks like a C and a G if my eyes haven't totally failed me.
Thank you👍
In1986 -1988 as a contract worker , A4 >>>Super A4 upgrading project .
Thanks Great Footage. Well Done RAAF.
Thank you, bring back good old memories. Manage to see a few old friends being captured in the video.
Thank you for the posting. Much appreciated.
A4SU & TA4SU；Thank you Australia～
The word "archives" seems to have been lost on some of you. This is video footage from more than 2 decades ago. Singaporean A4 Skyhawks first participated in the RAAF's Ex Pitch Black in 1991.
Wow, this is history.
Love Skyhawks! VMAT-102, VMA-211, VMA-214, VMA-311, MAG-42
Semper fi sir! Much respect!
Very nice. Thank you so much for this.
haha saw my batch guy from tab , wow we were so young back then.
Wow, my father flew a Skyhawk off the U.S.S. Saratoga CV60 like sixty years ago VF31. Nice to see them still in the air. You ac actually purchase a demilitarized Skyhawk
That's one BEAUTIFUL Bird !!! :)
It would nice to see NZ get some aircraft, the old sky hawks were almost a gift .
The Skyhawks look super-alien with the rear navigator (?) cockpit. Almost like the canopy of a Hind.
Curious as to why they didn't incorporate afterburners in at least some of those GE F404 engines. Maybe a length issue, or perhaps the airframe couldn't handle the stress? At any rate, I think it would have made for a decent short-range fighter aircraft. The A-4 already has respectable maneuverability, although I would screw those leading-edge slats in place like the Blue Angels to prevent any unexpected asymmetric instability. The extra boost from from an AB would be the icing on the cake.
no point; 1) the re-engining was mainly to solve reliability issues from the ageing J65s; in fact the particular f404s installed were down-rated to about 11.5k lbf dry 2) skyhawk's airframe was not rated to go past m1.0: it could but it would return damaged 3) the thing already had greater t:w than contemporary f-5's going at full afterburner! During tests, the su would outrun the f-5 chase planes especially at low altitude
@@aaronquak2139 Thanks! I knew they had to replace those J65s. I was initially curious also as to why they didn't choose the tried and true J52-P408, which had slightly greater thrust than the GE F404, but let me guess: age, weight, and fuel efficiency.
@@19580822 yes; by 1985-1992 you couldn't buy fresh J52s anymore. PW were willing to restart the production line, but the F404 was selected over the J52 and RB199 then under consideration. In any case the 404 was more reliable and serviceable, being designed for the Hornet, and was much lighter than the J52. ST Aerospace probably saw it as a chance to develop in-house capabilities too. The earlier TA-4S/S-1 were also totally different from US TA-4s and retained the J65 for commonality.
I used to work at McDonnell Douglas and one of the old salts told me that they once put an afterburning F404 in a Skyhawk as an experiment. He said the thing was a beast. I have no verification of that, though.
@@edwardbarocela3064Sounds about right - it would have been a beast!
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Wow
WOW Where are you Digging up from are New Zealand A-4 Skyhawks Films in there
Singaporean not NZ
Good team
Singapore had 2 squadrans of the Hawker Hunters before the Skyhawks.
A4SU if used today, will still be a formidable aircraft if u know how to fly and fight with it effectively. It would be a threat to anyone or any modern aircrafts and warships.
Only effective as a light bomber in the aftermath of an invasion.
Do u know that the A4SU is smaller but it can carry heavy ammunition and acts as a fighter bomber. Other aircrafts will need to fold its wings when they are stored in an aircraft carrier but A4 need not. With its short take off and short landing abilities, it can still match any modern aircrafts today. Served as an carrier airborne fighter bomber, it will remain and still is a threat to any modern naval fleet today. The day of A4SU fighting in a war may not be over yet especially with its ability to carry nuclear weapons.
@@kambehlan9216 subsonic speed is its drawback bro.
That A-4SU looks hot, where can I get a SUPER cheap A-4
Do u know that the A4SU is smaller but it can carry heavy ammunition and acts as a fighter bomber. Other aircrafts will need to fold its wings when they are stored in an aircraft carrier but A4 need not. With its short take off and short landing abilities, it can still match any modern aircrafts today. Served as an carrier airborne fighter bomber, it will remain and still is a threat to any modern naval fleet today. The day of A4SU fighting in a war may not be over yet especially with its ability to carry nuclear weapons.
Gd video quality!
Did RSAF mothballed these A4SU instead of scrapping them? We had more than 100 of these last time and made us a country that has the largest number of fighters in this region.
Australia is good, good, good, good. Trade is good.
1990 time machine video ? skyhawls still in service in singapore air force ?
Phased out more than 10 years ago .
When was this are they still operating the Skyhawk?
Where are they now?
6 months ago.
How come still got A4S Super Skyhawks??
Thought phased out 20 years+ ago during my service time. Or i travelled time machine backward?
If my memory serves me right RSAF skyhawks flew well into the early 2000s..
145 Sqn might be the last to fly it
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Skyhawk a 4 Malaysia buy 88 unit during 80s but only 44 unit can be in service but now all of them are not in service anymore.anyone remember Falkland war?
In Singapore we no longer using A4s. We only keep F16s, F15s. Soon we will be getting rid of F16 and bring in F-35.
This must be old footage. The skyhawks were phased out by the RSAF like donkey years ago.
Yeah, it says “archives” in the title... And “1990” in the description...
Que raro se ve el a4 biplaza.
El modelo que usan los Singapurenses es muy distinto al que tiene casi todos los operadores (incluidos nosotros los Argentinos) ya que comunmente el modelo de entrenamiento; es de una cupula singular; mientras que el modelo SU es la fusion de 2 cabinas del A-4 normal en un mismo fuselaje (con un diseño que recuerda al helicoptero ruso el MI-24), quisas lo hicieron con el proposito de darle un "realismo" mejor al entrenamiento del pilotaje de estos scooters.
بحال فيذية تيكتوك الولذ لي باغي يشرب اتاي انا تنقول بحالو a4 a4 a4
Dam they still using thoughs old aircraft
this was the 90s bro
Yeah, even the uniforms were old... The technicians wear pixelated camos nowadays like the USAF. The uniforms you see here is like 2-3 generations ago.
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These were cheap. To modify as inertia-parabola autonomous-drones is cheap in 2024. To build new to diss enemy-manufacturer is now a possibility.
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