Spinners Posted November 26, 2010 Posted November 26, 2010 If you really want to get 'what-if', check out this website: http://tbo.wikidot.c...n-b-70-valkyrie As mad as a box of frogs.
+FastCargo Posted November 26, 2010 Posted November 26, 2010 Yea, pretty much...way too many variants and WAY too many numbers (573???)... I would disagree slightly with the assessment of the B-70 as a viable weps platform there Spinners. I think it could have been fiscally more optimized assuming that A) the B-52 was retired completely and B) the B-1 would have never been developed. The weaknesses of course would be that each B-70 could not have carried as many ALCMs as a B-52 could (the internal bay is smaller), and of course the aircraft would only have been medium to high bombers. The only way you could have compensated for this was to retain the FB-111s and/or even the B-58 as your low level penetrators. Also, the B-70 couldn't have done anything in the Vietnam War until the very end when the first PGMs arrived. Ultimately, assuming a war was never fought, the B-70A would definitely have been only good for SIOP from inception until about the mid-90s. The RS-70B of course would have been better, but it's survival over a dedicated IADS would be questionable (there is some debate as to how effective SAMs would have been against a Mach 3+ target at 80000+ feet). However, once, the use of JDAMs became wide spread, along with the migration back to med/high altitude bombing (everyone can afford AAA, but not everyone can afford big-ass SAMs), the B-70/RS-70 would have come back into it's own element as a standoff PGM platform. It's all debatable because none of it happened...it's too bad though. FC
+EricJ Posted November 27, 2010 Posted November 27, 2010 A VFA-2 and a No. 1 Squadron head south to Charikar for a joint CAS mission in support of operations in Afghanistan. Returning after a successful mission.
+Sundowner Posted November 27, 2010 Posted November 27, 2010 Just been reading about the guy that really did this....... 1
+Wrench Posted November 27, 2010 Posted November 27, 2010 zoom, whoosh .... zipping by my friendly neighbors, to annoy the bad neighbors, next door wrench kevin stein 1
+daddyairplanes Posted November 27, 2010 Posted November 27, 2010 (edited) Idea by Sony Tuckson rpm's provided by marcel dassault spinning in his grave! with your work on the TSR2's and the B-70/ RS-70's in the works sounds like a photo op for NATO or SAC bomb comp set in the 70's or early 80's. Edited November 27, 2010 by daddyairplanes
Canadair Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 zoom, whoosh .... zipping by my friendly neighbors, to annoy the bad neighbors, next door wrench kevin stein And what terrain is this wrench?
+Wrench Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 (edited) One that hasn't been seen in a llloooooooooooooong time, being totall reworked. wrench kevin stein Edited November 28, 2010 by Wrench
+daddyairplanes Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 If you really want to get 'what-if', check out this website: http://tbo.wikidot.com/front-door I FC wow............... spent a couple hours readin thru the site.............. verrrrrrrrrrrryyyy interesting and a big mind@#%$. love the great missle massacre though! and the aircraft and nations described, big time what if land
Spinners Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 BAe Systems Hawk FG.2 - No.16 Squadron, Operation Herrick, Afghanistan, 2011
Spinners Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 BAe Systems Hawk T.1A - No.79 Squadron, No.1 Tactical Weapons Unit, Royal Air Force, 1983
ktickner6767 Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 Is there some voodoo you guys perform to eliminate this unsightliness?
xclusiv8 Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 (edited) No Voodo as far as i know. Just pure luck Edited November 29, 2010 by xclusiv8
Slartibartfast Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 BAe Systems Hawk FG.2 - No.16 Squadron, Operation Herrick, Afghanistan, 2011 Lovely skin there for the Hawk... and at this rate thats all the RAF are going to have left flying...
+daddyairplanes Posted November 29, 2010 Posted November 29, 2010 Is there some voodoo you guys perform to eliminate this unsightliness? you guys see the report in wikileaks about the USAF's active visual cloaking ? a pic was included lookin suspiciously like GermanyCE:rofl:
+EricJ Posted November 30, 2010 Posted November 30, 2010 That's it ravenclaw_007, that... is to me the Screenshot Of The Year, seriously man great one! Another strike in Afghanistan, and while I'm not a complete fan of Ace Combat, I do like the artwork, and this is based off of a What If I found on DeviantART, "Razgriz's Ghost" F/A-18E
+daddyairplanes Posted November 30, 2010 Posted November 30, 2010 ravenclaw that is sweeeeeeeet! heres my ametuer hour adapting the old Arkansas ANG skin to the short nose Phantoms, F-4D_78 in this case for contrast some skins i've been playin with since afghanistan last year still workin on them compared to you guys i foften feel like the kid with the box of crayons workin next to picasso!
+Soulfreak Posted November 30, 2010 Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) LanceR A & C Edited November 30, 2010 by Soulfreak
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