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Hubis posted:In the grimdark future warfare of 2214, all air combat will be a ceaseless chain of Pugachev's Cobras being performed while firing at BVR targets with no radar signature  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4yyOD2bjE&t=4138s
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VikingSkull posted:So the conversation just drifts to the Cold War and I start telling him about growing up in the 80's with the looming threat of nuclear war and all the fun stuff, and he just deadpans "so why is everyone so mad about crazy Muslims in the desert? "Well, little Timmy - this country has the attention span of a gnat, so something that happened almost 30 years ago has about as much significance to this generation as something that happened nearly 300 or 3000 years ago."
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Pablo Bluth posted:The RAF officially unveiled its first A400M today. Only 21 more to be delivered... A plane in search of a mission to justify its price tag.
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Hubis posted:Man, that Life photo set makes me long for good nose art. I hope museum pieces are okay.   
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This is adorable! So do they paint the pilot or is it the ground crew chief? 
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It looks like they're just mascot characters for a particular attack helicopter garrison, not the actual pilots/radiomen. Also the JGSDF has apparently ordered it cancelled. My sources, sadly, are more in the line of anime interest sites than aviation news, so I can't link them here.
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StandardVC10 posted:I hope museum pieces are okay. March Field! Such a cool air museum. Lots of Cold_War.jpg           
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Does anyone know what planes these are? I can't figure it out, and reverse-google searching them has been less than helpful. Edit: Looks like a C141, a C-123, a F 102, and a KC 97 (The last three literally had the model written on the plane.  )
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Beardless posted:Does anyone know what planes these are? I can't figure it out, and reverse-google searching them has been less than helpful.  All are easily identifiable if you zoom in."Spirit of the Inland Empire" - C-141 Starlifter - http://c141heaven.info/dotcom/65/pic_65_0257.php C-123M - As seen in Con Air - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-123_Provider George W. Bush's own F-102 Delta Dagger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger KC-97 - The B-29, but a Freighter, but a Tanker! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-97_Stratofreighter
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NightGyr posted:
Yeah, I took a second look at the pictures and realized that. Thanks though.
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Have some pilots flying insanely low.       More here: http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/325/Lower-than-a-Snakes-Belly-in-a-Wagon-R.aspx
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Bacarruda posted:Have some pilots flying insanely low. gently caress, humans are awesome
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gently caress some of those are literally two meters off the ground. In other, Cold War II related news, Putin's Russian Federation of Putinland successfully again tested the new ballistic nuclear missile Bulava. Also they play to open new army bases, radar stations and airfields in the Arctic.
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Where the heck are they getting the money to pay for all this, the price of oil is cratering.
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priznat posted:Where the heck are they getting the money to pay for all this, the price of oil is cratering. Hell even with oil prices high, they didn't have the money to pay for it.
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MrChips posted:Hell even with oil prices high, they didn't have the money to pay for it. I don't really know much about economics so the whole thing is a puzzler to me. They're still a pretty large economy I guess.
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priznat posted:I don't really know much about economics so the whole thing is a puzzler to me. They're still a pretty large economy I guess. Smaller than Britain and we're too poor for fancy new missiles, just lovely planes for our lovely carriers.
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Baracula posted:Smaller than Britain and we're too poor for fancy new missiles, just lovely planes for our lovely carriers. I guess they can save a lot on health care and old age pension when the life expectancy is poo poo.
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priznat posted:I don't really know much about economics so the whole thing is a puzzler to me. They're still a pretty large economy I guess. Should be smaller then California's. I don't know, strange.
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We'll see how much of it actually happens. The Russian aircraft industry post-USSR-collapse is full of vaporware and partially implemented ideas, I suspect much of their defense infrastructure may share those issues.
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OhYeah posted:gently caress some of those are literally two meters off the ground. From way back in the thread somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UntN_cZUQg8 (people on the ground) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1G-RrZbTL4 (cockpit view)
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priznat posted:I don't really know much about economics so the whole thing is a puzzler to me. They're still a pretty large economy I guess. Considering that their national budget is less than 1/4 the endowment of Harvard University...
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OWLS! posted:Considering that their national budget is less than 1/4 the endowment of Harvard University... Just wait until Harvard starts buying F-35s. Then we can have a Harvard-Yale dogfight...
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Bacarruda posted:Just wait until Harvard starts buying F-35s. Then we can have a Harvard-Yale dogfight... Until MIT punks them both with stealth weather balloons.
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OWLS! posted:Considering that their national budget is less than 1/4 the endowment of Harvard University... Well, Russia is less of a threat to American democracy.
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I saw the handprints first but I'm more interested in the nuke emblem.
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I don't think it's a nuke emblem so much as a radiation hazard warning from the radar. But it's a Frogfoot, so vOv. Only other thing I can think of is it's to demarcate that the aircraft is, or was once, nuclear-capable. The Soviets would rip out the arming circuitry (occasionally) and give their B-stock to allies and arms customers. That's how the MiG-29Cs we got from Moldova still had the arming circuitry in them - not that it does a tremendous amount of good without the bomb and codes to match it. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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I would assume that it is indicating that the nose laser gives of a fair bit of visible radiation when it's on. That or just aircrew/pilot graffiti.
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NightGyr posted:George W. Bush's own F-102 Delta Dagger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger Should have named that one "The Artful Dodger"
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bitcoin bastard posted:
It means radiation in the general sense, not nuclear weapons related radiation. For the Su-25, it's marking that there's a laser rangefinder right there and you probably shouldn't look directly into it. Some American jets have similar warnings:  Prowlers, I suppose, because most of the jet has the capacity to radiate.
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PCjr sidecar posted:Well, Russia is less of a threat to American democracy.  So the Nazis in 1940 had build the best long distance reconnaissance aircraft in the world. They had a prototype flying and everything. e: wait, this isn't the AI thread. Forget this fact, it is not cold war related. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:
Eh its more on point than a good chunk of discussion here. What plane was that?
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That Works posted:Eh its more on point than a good chunk of discussion here. What plane was that? This one. They flew the prototypes until 1944 but never did much of anything with it.
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Churchill's grand scheme to turn a rearmed Wehrmacht against Stalin never came to pass, but the British pulled off a smaller version in Greece.
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