Something elegant about a one-engine jet fighter like Mitsubushi's F-2. It's not a F-16 although it plays like one.
>>6041982I'll convert so more later
>>6042992ESL!
>>6041982
i- it's a completely different plane!! see! it.. uh it has a canopy bow see! it's totally different!
>>6043704ITS THE SAME! BECAUSE IT JUST IS OK!?!?!?!
>>6041982> jet, USmeh> jet, Japanomg the F2 is amazing
>>6043807whipped this up just for you anonhttps://files.catbox.moe/52gxpz.jpg
>>6041982>It's not a F-16 although it plays like oneUh, what? It's literally a Mitsubishi F-16 derivative. >The Mitsubishi F-2 is a multirole fighter that was derived from the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, and manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Lockheed Martin for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, with a 60/40 split in manufacturing between Japan and the United States. The basis of the F-2's design is the F-16C Block 40. Production started in 1996 and the first aircraft entered service in 2000
>>6043822thank you anon, I really like this
>>6043871im glad you liked it
>>6043947
>>6044490it looks the same therefore it is the same
>>6044490F16-J, got it.
>>6041982the F-2 is a slightly scaled up improved F-16 idiot.
oof
>>6044786jesus christ
>>6045087poland?
>>6045308yes sir
>>6045068Funnily enough the 262's speed was a detriment to its ability to kill bombers. The pilot would only have a few seconds to take a shot. It wasn't until the R4M was developed that they began downing bombers at a rapid pace.
>>6045068Cringe AI audio.
>>6045068What glorious timeline it would be if Germany won WW2
really? no one posted the fighter jet yet shame to the house of /wsg/
>>6046481
When's the GRIPEN?
>>6046587I bet she mows grass like a mexican.
>>6046587I bet riding in that jet is like fucking a go-go dancer
>>6046390it would be if it wasn't for the fact the video is from the 90's.
>>6041982More USAF F-16shttps://youtube.com/watch?v=dDARXjdbnxQ
>>6041982https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a-C3QknhRM
>>6045345>His country spent tax money buying faulty planes I hope WE (EU) gtfo of nato and just go back to making our own shit
>>6051301That plane fell out of the sky due to maintenance failures as 1/3 of the hydraulic fluid was actually water. You are also a brown monkey and not European but that was obvious enough.
>>6051301is the EU leaves NATO they'll be fucked because they leech off of the US for money for military because they spend their own money on free housing and healthcare for arab invaders
JAS/F-35 Draken/Dragonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwF3SksvvQSwedish made.
>>6051680>Forced to buy faulty american tech >Forced to pay for immigrants Either way is bad but at least the shitskins can be used as dirt cheap workers plus we are rejecting the free border mentality already. American tech is just a hindrance not matter how you look at it
>>6053337too bad it's a piece of shit.
>>6051301>>6053784Meanwhile in reality: Norway, Australia and Belguim have all given up on the NH90 helicopter due to excessive maintenance requirements, high costs, and low reliability (Norway's could barely get 25% of the intended amount of air time). Instead, they will operate American H-60 Hawks, which can do all the same things, while being far more affordable and actually reliable. The indisputable fact of the matter is that Europe is too divided and individually too poor to do even half the things America does, and thus will always lag behind in military tech. Case in point: France's E-2s.If Washington says "We need a new carrier-borne AEWACs" then every state ponies up, because even though half of them are landlocked, they are all part of one country. Meanwhile if France says "We need a new carrier AEWACs" all the other European countries will say "We have no need for such a plane; we don't have any fleet carriers!" and will refuse to back the project. Thus, France would be left with three choices: 1) Spend a ton of money to design and build a completely new plane and radar system, even though they only need half a dozen at most. 2) Omit the AEWACS, and give up a major benefit of having spent so much money for cats and cables on your carrier 3) Just buy an American plane, since they have lots of carriers and thus have the expertise and economy-of-scale to produce an affordable and reliable plane for such a specialized role. The first two choices are obviously super stupid, which is why France chose to just buy American E-2 Hawkeye. Every country has its own needs and desires, and thus they will never pool their talents and money together the way the USA can. We saw it with France dropping out the Tornado project, the Eurofighter project, and we're seeing it again right now with France and the UK doing their own sixth gen projects instead of working together.
2 days agoI think this is somewhere in California
>>6055788Cool A-7s
>>6055834?
>>6055839He's probably making a joke about how the F-117s were operated in the early years in secrecy... as an A-7 squadron.
>>6056936I did not know this, thank you.
>>6056963The watermark was bothering me everytime I saw this video.
>>6055788So much for those all being decommissioned.
>>6058663Wait, that's not a jet. The fuck is wrong with me.
>>6051440why did he wave off? also how fucking bad would it have been if the hook grabbed a wire with so much aoa?
>>6058698it would have been extremely painful
>>6060518badass
>>6056868so fuckin cool
>>6058663>decommissioned.F-117's are good for low-heat covert operations.They have logged flight hours over Syria recently.
Does somebody have footages of sneak passes?
>>6060545>Dat callsing referring to the translation of his nameCool.
>>6064168They still use them for pentesting at Groom Lake, among other things. That shiny coating seen on Raptors and F-35s? They were used to test that.
>>6066265where's the F-35C?
>>6067872Entirely dependent on the carrier, only a few are capable of operating F35C's due to the engine being so hot it will destroy jet blast deflectors (the wall behind the jet right before take off)
