Cold War Aviation Porn
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A-10 Thunderbolt II
not-bono-ever
meh
you cant get into it and IIRC , the planes are well gone now. Like most top gear shows, they get access to places that are verboten to the masses. Heres an albania cold war pic that i have likely posted before
not-bono-ever
meh
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
That's the "Constant Peg" Fishbed-E that was stolen from Iraq by Israel. The US and Israeli pilots liked almost everything about it but it was supposed to be nightmarishly difficult to taxi. It's now in the Israeli Air Force museum.
Now the US just buys brand new ones off the showroom floor from China.
Now the US just buys brand new ones off the showroom floor from China.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It'll buff out.
T & P
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Cool-looking plane but too recent to be considered Cold War, unless we’re talking Cold War 2, which is where we seem to be heading to at present anyway....
gosub
~#
Heading towards? Never really ended and what with all the GRU murders and stuff seems to be warming up a bit
T & P
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A fair point
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
That monstrosity can actually get off the ground?!
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Watch yourself, he'll cut you like pork.....
SH-3D Sea King Helicopter
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Constant Peg MiG-17. Absolutely lethal at close range when well flown. No USN/USAF scrub ever beat it the first time when going up against the 4477th TES.
Lancman
Well-Known Member
Nobody could call the Nimrod a beautiful aircraft but that photograph captures for the better informed the essence of the Cold War. Taking off in winter weather the Nimrod and crew could reach the Mid-Atlantic faster than any other maritime reconnaissance aircraft in the world and then find and track a Russian submarine probably loaded with nuclear missiles targeted at a spot near you for hours on end.
I really don’t understand Idris2002’s comment, 9 hour flights were normal and after the fitting of in-flight refuelling 18 hours.
Wikipedia has a lot more information on the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod.
Handsome is as handsome does.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I loved the Mighty Hunter - I think my first cadet camp was at St Mawgan - and years later I spent many very lonely hours in grim places being calmly reassured by a bloke in an R1 or MR2 that he was watching us, that help was on the way.
I know lots of blokes - and me - who's kids have got dads because of quiet, calm blokes (and blokesses) sat in the back of Nimrods. They may have had pies and tea on tap, but they took big risks for us, and the kipper fleet memorials are full of their names.
I know lots of blokes - and me - who's kids have got dads because of quiet, calm blokes (and blokesses) sat in the back of Nimrods. They may have had pies and tea on tap, but they took big risks for us, and the kipper fleet memorials are full of their names.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Hang on, that was a Nimrod? I thought it was a Comet. Hence my snide comment.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Nimrod WERE Comets, sort of, I thought...
golightly
economically inactive
Indeed. Modified Comets.
T & P
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Not airplanes but they fly alright- so this is as good thread as any for a bit of missile porn.
The launch speed of this new Russian anti-ballistic missile is something to behold...
And whereas their new-ish anti-shipping missle doesn't launch nearly as fast, I find the multi-step launch & initial deployment quite hypnotic...
The launch speed of this new Russian anti-ballistic missile is something to behold...
And whereas their new-ish anti-shipping missle doesn't launch nearly as fast, I find the multi-step launch & initial deployment quite hypnotic...
interesting concept
