ScottyB Wrote:hold the f'ing phone. aside from Justin, none of you pantywaisted cockmuppets have so much as mentioned the A-10 Warthog. come on! this is the plane that deficates all over the idea of stealthy tippy-toe zoomie aerodynamics for those hair-product wearing Topgun types, instead preferring to horse around with a gatling cannon the size of a dumpster....sort of the equivalent of a giant 6 barrelled ballsack hanging from its ugly mug. half the wing gone? that's coo, most of the systems are triple-redundant, so we'll still make it home in time to get a good table at the mess hall.

Quote:hold the f'ing phone. aside from Justin, none of you pantywaisted cockmuppets have so much as mentioned the A-10 Warthog. come on! this is the plane that deficates all over the idea of stealthy tippy-toe zoomie aerodynamics for those hair-product wearing Topgun types, instead preferring to horse around with a gatling cannon the size of a dumpster....sort of the equivalent of a giant 6 barrelled ballsack hanging from its ugly mug. half the wing gone? that's coo, most of the systems are triple-redundant, so we'll still make it home in time to get a good table at the mess hall.

i daydream of this plane. i love that it has survived and will continue to, based on pretty much nothing other than brute force. i love that its 2013, and yet the best way to use this thing is to aim the entire fucking plane at something and pull the trigger, and behold the world disintegrating before you.

KPWSerpiente Wrote:I've never heard a Bone (B-1) driver that didn't sound like Death atop a pale horse when checking in for an op or responding to a TIC.

Apoc Wrote:That's just too easy. Pick a plane that EVERYONE doesn't think is A1SuperHappyFunTime if you want to eat at the big kids table.

KPWSerpiente Wrote:I can't even tell when an A-10 is taking unless I'm looking at the flight line. It is as weak as it gets. The B-1 takes off with afterburners. It's basically like the 4th of July every time they launch at night.

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CaptainHenreh Wrote:Oh, and the USMC wanted the F35C because their harriers are older than moses and they want a new VTOL/STOL fighter. Not sure what they need it for but you know, they never get any cool toys anyway so whatever.

fuck off USMC, you just got the osprey. which likewise was overbudget unreliable and questionable utility (they sure did look cool as shit flying though)
VTOL is a joke and Im no battlefield general but I doubt there is much actual realized strategic advantage to a whizbang stealthjet that fucking hovers. thats like chrome spinners of the jet world.

HAULN-SS Wrote:I was always under the impression that the F35 was not supposed to excel at any one thing. It's more like a Gen 4.5 fighter than a Gen 5. I think the idea was to have a larger quantity. The F35 carries half the A/A missiles of the F22 for example. I think the JSF gets a lot of bad press because on paper its worse, but it was supposed to be.

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HAULN-SS Wrote:I was always under the impression that the F35 was not supposed to excel at any one thing. It's more like a Gen 4.5 fighter than a Gen 5. I think the idea was to have a larger quantity. The F35 carries half the A/A missiles of the F22 for example. I think the JSF gets a lot of bad press because on paper its worse, but it was supposed to be.

The F35 was designed to be a strike fighter platform, like the F-16 or F/A-18. The F-22's mission is air superiority, so it being faster, stealthier, and having more AA missiles is by design. The problem is that the F-35 is not shaping up to be as good a strike aircraft as it should have been.

Apoc Wrote:Did anyone else make a growling thruster/blowtorch noise when they saw this?

WRXtranceformed Wrote:Scramjet for the win. Who needs stealth when you can go faster than anything on this earth other than the light hitting it?

I'm all for continued drone technology so we can be overrun by Skynet someday. No but seriously, planes without people makes a lot more sense. I envision in the future that the last thing an Allah-fearing militant is going to see before being sent into his afterwordly throng of demon "virgin brides" is a USAF drone rocketing over the mountain, popping legs and arms out of its fuselage and spewing liquid napalm through the opening of his cave dwelling.