I miss that show so much, you know what I don’t miss? It being hard to find pictures of fighters on the internet. I do declare this be a fighter thread
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>>65390185RAAF
>>65390185Mustang
>>65390185Never realized how large F-89 was.
>Gaijin finally adds the Voodoo>it's the cannon armed version (C) instead of the cooler missile armed version (B)SHAME
>>65390299I didn’t think it would be that big either, no wonder they relegated it to “interceptor” so soon.
>>65390611Speaking of big bitches.
>>65390236Best KD ratio, it's just math.
>>65390611Now THAT'S an airshow!
>>65390624Boom and zoom really works well when your enemies are made out of paper machete with a few pouches of gasoline in them. >>65390621I like “petite”, but big isn’t always bad
>>65390621How much bigger was an f 111?
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>>65390655
>>65390655>>65390670Quick compare says F111 is almost 11 feet longer, 3,500# heavier (empty) but 1 to 6' shorter wingspan (swung vs swept)
>>65390185literally all of these but 1 are interceptors, and they are all shitthat's pretty sad
>>65390621This is probably one of my favorite facts about the f35: nearly all military hardware has done nothing but bloat in size over the years. I was at eurosatory and every IFV on display there was so fucking xboxhueg it was ridiculou. I was a fucking midget next to them and im 6'3. The F35 is pretty small, or at least that's what i though when i saw it. I like small things.
>>65390236Prototype had better aesthetics
>>65390317Is that an IRST?
>>65390205>at bar with dad>I know small arms, 0.02% forgotten weapons audience watch rate>want to get into planes and been going to air shows with my dad becuase I remembered all the weapons>Hmmm dont recognise this as british plane but recognise the markingsDad, what is this>"well I think that's a zero thats been captured by the british">"but dad, we were mostly only in Burma, unless captured by Americans i dont think that's correct"Ai search it>he's right >I got his autism>love my dad
Even though The Mustang or Corsair are what people think of when you say “piston engine fighter” the true king is this little guy that can turn better, go faster and climb faster
>>65393557False
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>>65393569Not the “I can’t turn” mafia again. This thing is inferior to the mustang in every way except firepower if you count the ones with cannon. You’re a twin boom p-40. That’s it. A chump.
>>65393585>Dick BongSuck it.
>>65393583I never knew the voodoo was so big
>>65393593LooooongThat's an RF illustration to boot, but it works.
>>65393588>no imageI accept your concession. Only the largest, widest, most virulent and throbbing of members made it to Korea.
The ultimate dogfighter ended up being relegated to the role of a COIN aircraft in a losing war in Indochina.
>>65393557Bearcat has basically zero combat record. Sneed Fury wins ultimate prop contest by default.
>>65393616I am in no surprised you took it gay.
>>65393557>>65393644The ultimate fighter was bicrel. No combat losses and three bictories. :DDDD
> A-10 Thunderbolt / Warthog> Su-27 Flanker family generally (especially the advanced versions like the 35/37/30MKI/30MKK/J-16)> Mig-31 Foxhound> Tomcat> Phantom> Drakengap (order not exact after this point)> Gripen> Rafale> Viggen> Mitsubishi F-1 (see Godzilla 1985)> F-89 Scorpion> Su-15 Flagon> Gloster Javelin> Chengdu J-20> F-18 Hornet / Super Hornet> Freedom Fighter / Tiger 2 / TigerShark
>>65394083>f-1 >the cheap copy, not the original
>>65394088Huh?
>>65394149Huh?
>>65394206What the fuck were you talking about?The F-1 is a cheap copy of what?
>>65394567either you already know the answer and you are just trying to egg me on to admit something you want to ridicule me over, or you are genuinely clueless, ergo your list is worthless. Either way 20s of googling is all you need
>>65394708It being a militarized version of a trainer does not make it a cheap copy, it makes it a improvement.
>>65394733okay i'm not talking about that, it's fine. Go to bed.
>>65394761WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
>>65393616Yeah alright punk, let's each take a couple hits to the engine and see who makes it back to base.
>>65393585Umm, mustang sisters? Why did we adopt the twin boom ourselves?
>>65390640Here is the non-faggot version.
>>65394962While it isn't my favorite plane, it's just objectively true that the Corsair was developed to the absolute peak of what piston fighters can do. No other single engine piston has the combination of capabilties the F4U-5 has. Highly automated controls, good cockpit, 450 mph top speed, 2800 hp monster engine, S tier supercharger design, quad 20mm with a huge ammo capacity, tight turning in a dogfight, and a bomb load that would make it a medium bomber by mid-WW2 standards.
>>65395256The Corsair was a piece of shit compared to the Hellcat.
>>65395396Nobody likes the Voodoo
>>65394962I never said the Mustang was better than the Corsair in Korea. However, for the rolls it’s hard to argue why the mustangs and Corsairs survived when it should have been thunderbolts and hellcats.
>>65393557>airspeed record holder>little guy
>>65390236>*dies trying to land on carrier
>>65395698Not sure how the Hellcat stacked up off the top of my head, but the later Corsair could carry a large bomb load. It looks like the F6F dropped more bombs when operating from carriers, but it looks more like a function of the massive number of action sorties than preference. Also most of the tonnage for bombs dropped from Navy/Marine fighter bombers would've been marines in the corsair. >>65395738If I'm looking at it correctly Corsair operational losses on action sorties/ action sorties was looks fairly average for US Naval aircraft.
>>65390185Greatest Fighter Failures>F4 wildcatan underperforming dog out matched by Zeroes that created dogfighting tactics and eventually would outmatch them over the coral sea before corsairs and hellcats even had their tooling builttactics developed would be key in the marianas turkey shoot>de havilland mosquitoa wooden medium fighter bomber no one wanted that became the earliest radar resistant stealth fighter that flew into enemy territory, doing raids on French prisons and even pissed on hitters parade>Hawker Typhoon/Tempest/Sea furyover stressed under performing airframe that became a ground attack beast that could hold a complete battalion of rockets, 47mm cannons, race against V-2 rockets and intercept them, then later became the Sea fury that could rival Mig 15s>p-51 mustangman this is kinda just a shittier p-40 that uses more gas>stick a merlin with a blower in it OH FUCK
>>65396961It looks like the real outlier was the SB2C.
>>65396974didnt a guy run out of ammo and just said fuck it and air rammed a zero with one of those then flew home like nothing happened?or was that the dauntless?
>>65393583The mig progression looks like an uncut dick going erect and peeling back
>>65396999Both planes were slower than the zero, but I wouldn't be surprised. I remember hearing about a plane using its prop to chop a tail, but all I found was a F4U hitting a Ki-45
>>65396999Swede Vejtasa in the Dauntless I believe
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>>65390676Suck sexy planes
What is your favorite straight winged jet?
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>>65399006non, if i'm honnest. They all look kinda ass, probably some goofy early soviet or french jet
>>65395588checked, thisF4U was a big, heavy, fast bomb/rocket truck, the USN's equivalent to the P-47. Shitty forward view and bad ground/carrier deck handling.Hellcat was an actual fighter plane, the best carrier based naval fighter of the war.>>65393585Wrong. Not even the Merlin Mustang or P-82 had twin turbosupercharged V12s
>>65396974>and some of the pilots of SB2Cs were ready to agree with themjej
>>65396961>Carrier Operations>F4URE: raw numbers, also keep in mind that the Corsair wasn't operating from USN carriers until January 1945
>>65399006Despite its lacking performance. It’s still the most beautiful of jet fighters. It’s like it’s from fantasy.
>>65399006>>65400270I am the opposite, I think no good looking variable geometry wing jet aircraft has been made. I guess the F-8 looks alright, but that is about it.
>>65400361Sort of? Also its not exactly clear if it would help the Corsairs number or not.
>>65400915and how about this, sir ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhonine_Mak-10
>>65401550idk, all I know is that the F6F had been fully combat operational from USN fleet carriers since mid-1943and the F4U only during 1945
>>65399006long plane is long
>>65392654Hell yeah, the F-101, F-102 and F-106 were the first aircraft in history to receive IRST. The F-106 was also one of the first aircraft to receive a helmet mounted sight system (HMS).
Found a video of the HMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P5_12iBBNMF-106s also took part in the Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT), where they managed to curbstomp brand new F-16s into the ground, despite 20 years of difference between them. https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/51hl3m/f106_vs_f16/>The fun began as they lifted off and saw us on the edge of the ramp, “communicating”, with a raised finger over two rising moons! We had a hard time getting our crew chiefs to stop laughing so we could launch. A gate (full afterburner) climb to 41,000 feet put us in the airspace in 6 minutes when I called “fight’s on”! I felt sorry for my wingman because he would not get a shot on this first engagement. One minute later I called “Fox 3, KILL, two F-16s north bound at 18,000 feet. Nock- it off, nock-it off, fights over, return to your safe area,” was immediately passed to the Viper pilots. The LTC was so confused that the ground control intercept (GCI) controller had to tell him he had been shot by a “NUC” (Genie nuclear tipped rocket) and that him and his wingman were DEAD so return to your point! I told GCI to inform him that we had one more Genie but that we wouldn’t use it on the next engagement.
>>65396961>14.3:1 K:D ratio in aerial combat across all aircraft typesProbably some overclaiming in there, but the losses should be pretty accurate. Jap fighter pilots were really not good.
>>65401778I wonder why Avro didn't just make the CF-105 a smaller single engine plane, like the F-102/106 or Mirage III. The Orenda Iroquois is an absurdly powerful engine for its time, and also very expensive due to being mostly titanium, surely you only need one of the them to haul a quartet of missiles up to intercept altitude?
>>65401559Welp, another exception for my list. I genuinely thought it was going to be slavshit with that Mak-10 designation.
