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  1. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Compared to some other airbases I've been to worldwide? That looks clean enough you could probably eat off of the floor. 😮
  2. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    With a name like Hawk Hunter....could he be related to one of the greatest hairdoed heroes of all time.....ACE HUNTER?? MEGAFORCE. DEEDS NOT WORDS! (Honestly the only real reason to watch this dreck was to see Persis Khambatta.) But on a serious Warbirds note, said movie had some...
  3. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    It lost out as a potential attack aircraft to the F-15E if I recall? As much as I do adore the F-15 series, would have loved to see this flying as an attack aircraft as well, damn it. (And in a parallel universe is, in a certain fictitious alternate history story I'm writing...)
  4. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Animarchy on Youtube has an informative, and entertaining video on the (HORRIBLE) history of the Russian Air Force, in multiple parts. Part 1 is below, Part 2 is coming. Please note, the history of the Russian Air Force, from the days of the Tsar, to the Soviet days, to now. Animarchy...
  5. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Yes, they in fact were. The F-15 was originally designed for one purpose: Kill MIG's, everything else like ground attack came later because it's just that damn good a plane. The MIG-29 is by no means a slouch, especially with it's helmet-mounted display, but the F-15 "drivers" (as some of us...
  6. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Had the Cold War gone hot in a conventional sense, almost guaranteed the F-15 would have taken the throne of "MIG killer" from the F-4.
  7. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Requires a LOT of maintenance to keep the birds worthy though. Former F-15 avionics tech here, doing work on the radar dish alone could be a nightmare at times. Then again, that radar dish has look down/shoot down capability with a range of over 100 miles, easy. An F-15 has, or rather had...
  8. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    The DeHaviland Mosquito was the warplane that almost wasn’t, the British Air Ministry thought the idea of a fighter bomber that utilized materials like wood (which would be in far greater supply than steel in the UK in the event of war) and forsook heavy defensive armament like gun turrets in...
  9. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Jeez, @Aaron Fox , you ruined my joke. You could have at least said "No, you impervious twit! Everyone knows there are no aliens at Site 51! They are at STONEHENGE!" :p And, while being admittedly biased as ex-U.S. Air Force, it's not so much the U.S. military would suddenly collapse over...
  10. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    And also the supposed home of the Aurora project, assuming it’s still around, or ever existed. And of course…. Aliens.
  11. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    “Hey, dem darn Aliens really are droppin’ outta the sky!” 😛
  12. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    Does strike me as a bit of a cross between an AH-1 Cobra and an AH-64 Apache.
  13. Tiamat

    Warbirds Thread

    For all this constant back-and-forth about A-10 vs fast movers in regards to aircraft losses vs aircraft damaged, etc. etc, I think an important factor is getting grossly overlooked: Did the damaged A-10s manage to make it home? Most of them in fact did, and yes, some took extensive damage...
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