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Russkie Raider

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  9. Posted

    Why are celebrities (good ones) dropping like flies?

     

    The weird thing is, the day Farrah Fawcett, MJ, and Billy mays died, that morning I was listening to a certain song.

  11. Posted

    False and negatrons. My holes have pajamas.

    The person below me sleeps on the ground, and eats bugs and reptiles.

    :ph34r: CL

     

     

    True....Home is where you make it.

     

    The person below me loves Girougamesh.

  17. Posted

    Well, the Navy already has a Su-33; it's called the F/A-18E and F Super Hornet. There. I said it. I dispise that plane, but cannot deny that is is a kick-ass 4.5-gen fighter. It lacks what the Tomcat and Intruder had in strike capability, range, and sheer fleet defense power, but it is also the only plane I know of that has defeated the Raptor in a knife fight. Doesn't happen consistantly, but the evidence has been posted before. If that plane can get the better of a Raptor, it can take a new-generation Flanker. AESA gives it a deadly mid-range fighting capability combined with the AMRAAM, massive alpha capabilities make it a b*tch to fight close in, and good weapons payload at range (again, not as good as its predecessors, but still good) means it can fight longer without needing to tank than legacy Hornets.

     

    I don't think the US needs the Su-33 when the USAF has the Raptor and the Navy has the Super Bug, and both are getting the JSF. Two 5th gen aircraft and a good 4.5-gen, I don't see the point.

     

     

    I talked to some Raptor pilots at the NAS Oceana at last years air show. They believed that the JSF was a complete waste of money and that we should have learned from the Marines VTOL Harrier failure

     

    They were also Tomcat > Bug kinda guys :)

  23. Posted

    Wow, this is really makin' me rethink joining up.

     

    Could get a commercial pilot's lisence but the current airline situation is ridiculous too.

     

    I'm probably just gonna end up barricading my house for the coming s**t storm.

     

    It's a shame...

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