What was it called a fighter?
>>65062466Supposedly to skirt around laws regarding bomber inventories so we didn't have to reveal to the soviets that we had such a bird, or so I've been told
>>65062466To troll the Soviets.
>>65062466Took more than a bus driver to fly missions.Only bus drivers would volunteer for a bus.
>>65062469>>65062470It would have had an 'A' designation if it was to be consistent with its role.>>65062478It's this. They wanted to bring in fighter pilots to fly the thing.
>>65062483>>65062478I thought it was a secret project, wouldn't they just assign who they wanted?
>>65062466checked, it's not and never was.The 'F-' designation was given as an intelligence agency deception, also note that '117' is completely out of sequence for the official U.S. tri-service designation system of 1962.Fighters for USAF also fulfil tactical strike missions which is what the F-117 is, a strike aircraft. It's not strictly a 'bomber' even though it's entire mission is delivering air-to-ground ordnance. (It probably could carry AIM-9 heat seeking AAMs but had no radar)
>>65062490That probably involves giving secret aircraft to people that (now) probably don't like you.
>>65062503Autocorrect spazzing out, don't have an aneurysm.
>>65062526Stop phoneposting, blight upon this earth
>>65062495Now this is a fighter.
>>65062559Nimrod my belovedI love early post war large british jets they have the perfect amount of bulbous ugly british design (exactly this is also on other british things like the black taxis or the police helmet, just to a lesser extent) to be very sovlful The Victor and Valiant are other great examples
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>>65062495>also note that '117' is completely out of sequence for the official U.S. tri-service designation system of 1962.Of note is that the F11x series were used for Soviet aircraft captured or otherwise acquired by the US military.YF-110, YF-112, YF-113, YF-114, YF-116 were all Soviet aircraft, so naturally one might assume YF-117 would be one of them as well.
>>65062653>>65062657Love them, peak ugly british design languagethanks for posting anon
>>65062466The same reason the F-105 was a "fighter"
>>65062540W-we have rights too
because it fights DUMBASSalso picrel always looks like a military jet to me
>>65062841and this is the actual picrel I meant, shut up
>>65062469No thats lie based on literally nothing. They wanted top pilots thats it. when the B2 came out stealth was prestigious enough it didnt matter
>>65062490>Hey, Captain Bigdick, I've got an assignment for you. I need you to fly the literal coolest thing ever on crazy missions deep into enemy territory and be an invisible assassin that nobody knows anything about>Oh my god I hate you forever!???
>>65062466To trick people that wanted to fly a fighter into flying it
>>65062918>hey, I've got a secret project that I'd like to read you in on, but you'd have to agree to pilot a bomber before I can tell you about itYou haven't met enough fighter jocks if you don't understand why they'd refuse.
>>65062845I find that giving the different shapes names helps me complete these capchas easier>fish with tail>one dot and line>two dots opposing linesetc etc
>>65062478Retard question, is it true that strategic bomber and transport pilots are the lowest graduates of flight school (and that all of the high-rate ones go into fighter aircraft and rotary)?
>>65063070I don't think rotary is that sought after, but think about it this way. Do you know many people who'd join the military to fly a glorified airliner, or do you think the people who really are driven to be military pilots do it because they want to fly the cool fighter jets? I can tell you that all my OCS buddies wanted to fly fighters, except for the few smart ones who were after Poseidon positions because they're land based in some very nice places.
>>65062677checked
>>65063032Autism
>>65062466Enjoy your dead subreddit, janny
>>65062670this makes the most sense out of decades of silly explanations which I've ever seen
>>65063198Where do you think you are?
>>65063094Pretty sure more people desire to fly earth-hugging missions in Apaches and rescue ther buddies dunked into icy waters with SAR choppers than to ferry ISO containers of McDonuts from Altus, OK to Jalalabad...
>>65064143>more people desire toeveryone DESIRES to be Tier One James Bond operators of Delta Team Sixwhether they are QUALIFIED to do it, is a whole nother matter
>>65062918You are severely underestimating the size of the egos, and severity of the hissy fits, that fighter pilots have.
>>65064143Apaches are flown by Army aviation, who needed people so bad they started the street to seat program, in part because they're flown by Warrants and not proper officers. Naval choppers mean you're going on shipboard deployments, but not even on the big fun carriers but instead on the small ships where you don't have any of your aviation buddies to hang around with and you're gonna spend the majority of your time doing UNREP when you're flying which is exactly like ferrying ISO containers from ship to ship, but with the added fun that choppers crash much more often then real jets. I can't speak to AF rotary programs since I have no experience with them, but I'm pretty sure they're also not desired because of the crash rates and the fact that all your buddies, and you, want to go fly fighter jets. Where they rank vs cargo and logistics flights, I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but I've only met one person who really wanted to fly rotary elements, and even they acknowledged they had to deal with the shitty parts of being deployed without the cool part of being a fighter pilot.
>>65062490No, even in dictatorial shitholes they need volunteer pilots (beside test ones) to be willing to fly the new thing. Coercion only takes you so far.
>>65062670>YF-117 would be one of them as well.Implying which Soviet plane was it supposed to be decepticonned as?
>>65064153S.E.A.L.s or fighter jocks, which are worse?
>>65064597At least in fighter jocks the ego is justified. I wouldn't trust a SEAL with my car, let alone a hundred million dollar aircraft.
>>65064594>which Soviet plane was it supposed to be decepticonned as?YF-116 was the Mig-29, and YF-113 the Su-23, so it would have been any aircraft newer than those
>>65064623Definitely SEALs are worse, fighterjocks only kill people when on mission and it's usually the enemy. Even bomber pilots don't go out of their way to kill civilians.
>>65064820>Even bomber pilots don't go out of their way to kill civiliansnah they just kill themselves and their entire crew
>>65064869The difference is that a pilot fucking up and getting everyone killed is noteworthy because it's not supposed to happen. With SEALs everyone is already expecting it.
Some pilots said it had a secondary role flying behind Soviet lines to attack AWACS with AIM-9s, and was part of the reason it had a big gimballed FLIR on the upper side of the nose, not just the DLIR for bombing
>>65064869People started to refuse to fly with that retard. Practice or actually on the open day I don't remember. He missed the bomb dump seen in that pic, that would have been fun.Crayon eaters are way better than him.
>>65064898>The difference is that a pilot fucking up and getting everyone killed is noteworthy because it's not supposed to happenI'm just reading how it happened repeatedly afterwards and that rules about it existed before it even happened. >The co-pilot on Holland's aircraft testified that he grabbed the controls to prevent Holland from flying the aircraft into the ridge while the aircraft's other two aircrew members repeatedly screamed at Holland: "Climb! Climb!" Holland responded by laughing and calling one of the crew members "a pussy".Man, I've worked with guys like that. One of my sailing instructors was that guy too, told me to play chicken with a America Cup winning yacht because we technically had right of way due to obscure licensing regulations. VirginNavigator.v.ChadPilot.jpgVirgin
>>65062466It was a bastard to fly and thus needed fighter pilots, who were already quite used to operating unstable and relatively small aircraft. Problem was that they'd never accept flying a '''bomber'''.
