https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B8knjApOQQ
>>64944626>"We haven't found anywhere near all the possible uses for it."—USMC pilothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5x4YfKGWw4
>>64944626because it was the front-line Navy bomber, the A-6 intruder programme is basically the story of evolving post-WW2 bombing capabilities:>A-6, 1960introduction of all-weather/night bombing capability with a CEP better than one German town>A-6B, 1968introduction of specialised SEAD bombing capability>A-6E TRAM, 1971introduction of laser-guided precision bombing capability, increased effectiveness against moving targets>A-6E WCSI, 1985introduction of air-dropped active-guided antiship missiles (Harpoon) replace laser-guided bombs for stand-off anti-ship capability and ever greater accuracy>1990sintroduction of multi-role combat aircraft with integration of land-attack missiles (Mavericks) to the fleet
it sure is ugly though
>>64946919
>>64944626>never get sloppy air head from your WSO
I miss dedicated attack aircraft. They just look so much cooler than fighters and multiroles.
I dressed up as an A-6 for Halloween once. That is all.
>>64947664Did the ladies appreciate your autism?
>>64948815Wanna see my intruder baby? It’s good at low level penetration missions ;)
>>64947664Good man.
Outta my way, cable car fucking SHITS!
>>64948815i was like 12 at the time so even if they did it didnt matteri was a fuckin strike aircraft for a night and got candy for it and that was the important part
>>64950100baseddisregard femininity, acquire hardpoints
>>64951982it looks so fat LOL
>>64946919>smooth slick flying drumstick/cute sky whalei never got why people call it ugly. even the air intakes are slick and aesthetic.
>>64952843They don't like anything that's not a pointy triangle.
>>64953001
>>64953013this is peak Attack
>>64952843it's a disproportionate mess>>64953001retard
>>64953462Apply for MAID, brown frostback
>>64953462>disproportionate messYouth is thinking that. Wisdom is appreciating its amazing lines and form even though they're different from other good looking jets.
>>64953516you can appreciate it all you want but it's still ugly. all the cope in the world will not change that.
>>64953462it's area-ruled, the nose is so bulbous because the wings are fat because he's a chonky boi who needs to generate a lot of electrical power and a lot of lift at the same time
>>64945624>CEP better than one German townnever let American war criminals fool you into thinking they are not war criminalsthe civilians who died in American bombings of Germany were almost all deliberately murdered, in an attempt to terrorize the remaining ones into submission, which did not workB-29 with a Norden bombsight had a CEP of under 50 metersEnola Gay nailed its target from 31kft, first try
>>64944626>FLIR>Laser guided weaponsDon't you idiots realize wild, untested AND EXPENSIVE technology like this DOESN'T WORK? I designed the F-16 singlehandidly btw.
>>64954125>B-29Distinction without a difference. Germany campaign was area bombing of entire civilian populations, both RAF and USAAF 8th. It was not precision bombing. B-26s (and A-20s, B-25s in some sorties) did precision interdiction strikes in Europe of hard and manufacturing, infrastructure targets, but even they were limited by altitude and bombardier accuracy.B-29s were used for low altitude incendiary mass area bombing of several Japan cities, burned to a crisp.All bomber aerial bombardment crews are war criminals by definition no matter national origin.
>>64954183I never said anything else. It was often claimed that bombers "missed their mark" but in reality if they could see the target they could hit it with pinpoint accuracyall the carpet bombing was intentional
>>64955404>we can drop tallboys and grand slams on sub pens from 35kft but we can't avoid hitting dense civilian housing sectors 3km away from the factory we're allegedly targetingyeah tell me another one
>>64955557>elite specially-trained bomber squadron can do it, that means everyone canby the same logic, clearly the fact that not every German tanker could fight like Wittmann and not ever German general could fight like Rommel and Model meant that the Germans threw the war deliberatelyidiot
>>64956671>not every German tanker could fight like WittmannGermans never claimed German tanks were worse than they actually were so idk where you're going with thatit's not just the weapons anywayenough documentation has survived that we could try "bomber" Harris and LeMay for warcrimes even now, just based on mission briefings and orders and whatnot
>>64956721>Germans never claimed that German tanks were worse than Wittmancorrect, thus by that "logic", according to you, that means they were deliberately throwing the war
>>64956827you can stop firing your flamethrower at that strawman you built, it's already fine ash by now
>>64956895it's not a strawman, it's the logical extension of what you claimedthe fact that you're calling it a bullshit strawman is your admission
>>64959190hot
>>64954125>all deliberately murdered >the factories and infrastructure weren't the targetsWhat fucking retardation causes this logic?
>>64954183>war crimes >wasn't illegal under the laws of warPost hand you shitskin.
>>64960437good question>>64960439if you condemn (and convict) for Lidice you must do the same for Dresden, simple as
>>64960500bombing Dresden is justified because it was used as a transport hubif you want to condemn and convict for Dresden, you would have to condemn and convict the entire German general staff, because bombing transport hubs was one of the innovations of "blitzkrieg" that made Fall Weiss and Fall Gelb possible
>>64957526harrier hardmogs
>>64960439not ximcrimes are not a legal inventionmorality is universalmaking an exception for yourself is a crime
>>64960567the justification was spurious and issued post-factumit was known to allied planners that Dresden was full of refugeesthis was a factor in choosing to firebomb the cityfirebombs do jack shit against rail lines and roads btw
>>64961680>firebombs do jack shit against rail lines and roadsthey destroy buildings very well, and the objective was to destroy infrastructure, not just to block up the roads with rubble and wreck rails, but also to destroy shelter that could be used by troopsinb4 fire bombs can't melt brick beams
>>64961716>could beit was being used, by refugees, and allied command knew that
>>64945624>a CEP better than one German townMinute of Dresden accuracy
>>64962179that is a lot of bombs
>>64962245
>>64963258I wonder what it says about me that I recognized that mountain range from a flight sim
>>64963303looks like Chocolate Mountains?
>>64949691>>64956702>>64957526when the USN had carrier air wings for attack
>>64945624>the A-6was the carrier air wing's long range heavy strike fist (somewhat analogous to what the F-14 was as long range fleet defense interceptor)It was the closest in that capability to the earlier A2J Savage, A-3 Skywarrior and (repurposed as reconnaissance) A-5 Vigilante strategic bombers, with additional interdiction and all-weather capabilities that 1960-later technology provided. It was also a more maneuverable airframe at lower altitudes.
>>64950004that was an EA-6B
>>64953013how embarrassing
>>64954174Has the retard ever been right about anything? He’s like some kind of IRL shitposter that has haunted me since the Discovery Wings channel…
>>64973873I got to give you retards credit fort being way the fuck better than Wikipedia on weapons. You on their site and you get like maybe 4 pics if you are lucky. Sometimes not even one single picture. Then I come and you guys redeem yourselves once in a while.
>>64954174> Pierre Michel Sprey (November 22, 1937 – August 5, 2021) was an American defense analyst. Working with John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie at the Pentagon, he was associated with the self-dubbed 'Fighter Mafia', which advocated the use of energy–maneuverability theory in fighter jet design. Sprey falsely claimed to be involved in the design of several military jets, including the F-16 and A-10.>Sprey died August 5, 2021. He was found in a hotel room in Washington, D.C. wearing women’s lingerie, and amyl nitrate bottles, or better known by the slang term “poppers”, littering the night stand. He died of a heart attack, the amyl nitrate was ruled out as a contributing factor. He was also found with anal fissures and rectal trauma, but this was ruled out as well.
>>64973958Are you drunk? Wasn’t this the same guy that didn’t want radars in fighters and endlessly bitched about the F-35?
>>64973873I was just reminded of watching the military channel and thinking this guy was a fag every time he was on, then watching him very slowly troon out over the years.
>>64944626Why aren't you people watching Flight of the Inturder?
>>64974577it wasn't that great
>>64974538Oh you have got to be shitting meI knew he was a bit fruity but I didn't fucking expect this
>>649622454U.
>>64973050This was the proposed successor to the A-6E.Same F404 engines (nonafterburning) as F/A-18
>>64947173It's too bad that the USN fixed wing fleet carrier deck complement is down to just a few Swiss Army Knife airframe types.
>>64961969So? The existence of refugees does not shield a strategic target in a total war scenario. It barely matters in a brushfire war with total air superiority.
>>64975787Don’t have cable but I was watching something on Hulu or something about aircraft and he popped up. I recognized his nasally whiny voice, and busted up laughing. He was on every show on the Military Channel, which I liked discovery wings better. I couldn’t believe it. He always seemed fruity but to troon out at his age. It cracked me up.
weird and deadlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchgcsXspaQ
>>64980431the only thing i think they really fucked up on is not replacing the S3 viking
>>64982757S-3 could've been kept around also. Even if the plan was to kabosh the dedicated ASW role it could've been repurposed with slighty lengthened fuselage into a tanker and COD transport (the C-2 should have been kept in intermittent low-rate production and updates also like its parent airframe the E-2 was), and the E-warfare variant retained.Entirety of post-1980s USN carrier aviation procurement and force strategy is beyond FUBAR.
>>64957526as of that photo the A-7 and A-6 had more advanced and capable systems (than the AV-8A)
This >>64987582 was meant as reply to : >>64961473
>>64960439>triggered
>>64978450The A-4 could also have been re-engined with the F404.
>>64994376yes
>>64953528coping brainlet>>64952843>>64953516It's an extremely efficient design. Look at film footage of the airplane maneuvering in flight. It's like a fighter aircraft even bombed up.
>>64952843You ever see a girl and you just KNOW she has a nasty pussy but you want her to sit on your face anyway?
I wish the Intruder or Prowler were still around. I'd love to fly one.
>>64961969>allied command knew thatHow? Satellite photos? Google? Support your statement with sources, jackass.
>>64987582That's a C though.
>>65002123So? A-6 and A-7 had much greater strike and all weather capability, than the 1st-gen Harrier
>>65000289reconnaissance flights over that part of Germany had been reporting columns of refugees flowing into Dresden by road, as well as passenger trains
>>64947684>buddy refueling>totally not a preview of the entire future of combat aviationAbsolutely amazing plane.
>>65002283I say again; support your statement with sources, jackass.
>>65003410A-4s did buddy refueling also
>>65003412Message CM-IN-259, SHAEF to War Department, Washington DC, 31 January 1945 establishes criminal intentcited here on page 7https://media.defense.gov/2013/May/23/2001329959/-1/-1/0/Dresden%20again.pdf
>>64960500Counterpoint:
>>64964800>I move away from the mic to check the VDI
>>64981708Me too, although I discovered his trooning watching a documentary on the Yom Kippur War.
>>65006245yeah you just have to win
>>64981708lmao I was sure he sucks cocks but this?
>>64982757>>64985349
original YA2F prototype had down-tilt rotatable exhaust nozzles
Condor
>>65009888
For me, it is the KA-6D. The most unsung Intruder model of an already unsung airframe.
>>65010174Blackburn operators discovering strange new worlds.
>>65010186Buccaneer was the A-6's British equal and contemporary.
>>65004023>establishes criminal intentcited here on page 7It does no such thing. I count 3 separate mentions on page 7 of military necessity of the bombing campaign, complete with justification.
>>65004023The message is dated 1954, you dyslexic fuck.
>>64957526Imagine some faggot seeing these and thinking "if humankind can make planes then it can surely make the technology for me to become a woman".
SEA camo mid 1960s
>>65010174
1962 factory fresh
>SEA camo mid 1960s
