CrazyhorseB34

What where they doing marching? Especially in the RAF. Nobody does that crap anymore. Geez I had to get crushed and almost blown up three times before I got anything. Army getting soft. My opinion, male or female, if you want to bitch about something as trivial as "marching sores" then I think you owe the military money for wasting their time.

Good for kentcol. Good job Dave.

I love Harriers.

Brain and Baltika, that would be epic!

Eburger's Vietnam expansion does give you the "Captain Insano" flak option.

That is a MiG-17. Still cool!

I agree totally. That is the ultimate refinement of the engagement I mentioned earlier. F-35 is going to be a game changer.

I love Harriers.

I use HAL 9000 when I alpha strike Hanoi. "HAL, open the bomb bay doors." "I am afraid I can't do that Jamie."

Logan, the Polish lancers charging tanks is a myth. Anyway, that was said to happen in 1939. The Tiger I did not see service until 1942. I see your point, but the devil resides primarily in the details. MigBuster, that is an interesting thought about the self protection, but that is already a combat proven scenario. In 1991 two naval aviator from VFA-81 downed two Iraqi MiG-21s with their bomb load intact and still continued to the target and destroyed it. The whole "strike fighter" concept revolves around that. They don't call F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter" for nothing.

Sweet.

Most people cannot readily identify the exact type of ordnance that blows up in their vicinity. The usual human response to that situation is shit pants and seek cover. Followed by more shitting of pants.

The Serbs had junk MiG-29 9.12B's with broken and unserviceable radar. They where no match for the NATO air forces. They essentially committed suicide. The first shots of ODS where AGM-114's fired by U.S. Army AH-64A, not Tomahawks. The first shots of OIF where F-117's raid on the Dora Farms district of Bahgdad, not Tomahawks. Bottom line is, if you want to win you must buy the good stuff and train motivated intelligent young men to use it. Both of those cases are examples of how that idea was not followed.

Gepard, thank you for the correction. I was aware of the Sino-Indian tensions through out the Cold War, I just misspoke and lumped them in with the Soviets.

Caveat emptor. All you have to say about nations relying on Russia for top of the line jet fighters. Look at the Indian engine situation and the Algerian MiG-29SMT debacle. Like I stressed in the Indian refurbed crap Russian CV thread, when you buy Russian jets you buy crap. Now please let's steer this back to the F-105 is just as good as F-35 argument so I can get hours of belly laughs.

I read it. But did not agree with Streakeagle's assessment of it. I have been trying to prevent the "super Su" argument for days.

Su-37 does not exist in reality. So of the aircraft actually fielded by nations who happen to inhabit the Earth, at this moment nothing can match the F-22.

The Forger is Kitty Fodder.

F-105 can't out run an AIM-120C...... Stipe this thing started as a flawed comparison between the F-105 and the F-35. Now it has evolved into your twisted notion that the F-22 will be defeated every time by a technology demonstrator. In case you didn't know, the F-22 has vectored thrust also.

I love it.

Fokker Dr 1 has wings, B-2 Spirit has wings so.... Fokker Dr 1 = B-2 Spirit. I get it now. Quite a clever assessment.

You sir are stirring poop. That has nothing to do with a rather weird and possibly alcohol fueled comparison of the F-105 to the JSF. The fact is the F-35 is NOT the cheap disposable fighter that the F-16A was. It is actually the product of what the F-16 later became. Just because there are some rough size similarities between the two doesn't mean anything. Whatever.

That comparison is a joke. F-105 is a Model T compared to the F-35. Haters be hatin.

Not so much a cheat because the lift fan cover acts as an airbrake when the lift fans are engaged. With out that being simulated it is damn near impossible to slow it down to make a vert landing. Suit yourself,but I just sat it down center mass of the number four circle as gently as laying a baby in the crib with the Kiev going 20 knots using the air brake.

Yes! Numbering the engines 1,1,2,3 is what did it. That change is reflected in the data I uploaded. Notice I added an airbrake also so you can slow it down enough to land it. Good work dude!