DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
USAF F-105D
11 Squadron Javelin
Dutch F-104G
Canadian F-104G
Belgian F-104G
German F-104G
French Mirage IIIC
I'd take the Mirage. The Javelin somehow looks embarrassed to be there.
Cold War Aviation Porn
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USAF F-105D
11 Squadron Javelin
Dutch F-104G
Canadian F-104G
Belgian F-104G
German F-104G
French Mirage IIIC
I'd take the Mirage. The Javelin somehow looks embarrassed to be there.
T & P
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How old is that image? The second-from left fighter looks sleek as fuck with rather advanced-looking lines, almost like a precursor of the stealth 5th gen fighters...
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Grumman F-11F Tiger from the later 'long nose' production batch. It was probably used as a chase jet rather than participating in actual tests.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Niche pr0n.
Could never get my head around the twin prop thing.
Still better looking than the Gannet though.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I like the fact that you just know the chap flying the Martin Baker with the canopy open at 20’ was wearing a collar and tie.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Here's a niche one:
The Gloster CXP-1001, developed with Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government as it was losing the fight to Mao and company. It survived the move to Taiwan, but only a mockup had been made before the project was cancelled.
plane-encyclopedia.com
The Gloster CXP-1001, developed with Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government as it was losing the fight to Mao and company. It survived the move to Taiwan, but only a mockup had been made before the project was cancelled.
Gloster CXP-1001
The Gloster CXP-1001 jet fighter was the result of a joint Anglo-Chinese design venture initially conducted in 1946 to provide the Republic of China with a modern and efficient jet fighter. Based o…
plane-encyclopedia.com
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Here's a niche one:
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The Gloster CXP-1001, developed with Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government as it was losing the fight to Mao and company. It survived the move to Taiwan, but only a mockup had been made before the project was cancelled.
Gloster CXP-1001
The Gloster CXP-1001 jet fighter was the result of a joint Anglo-Chinese design venture initially conducted in 1946 to provide the Republic of China with a modern and efficient jet fighter. Based o…
No such thing as too niche.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Surely it is more the end of WW2?
IIRC despite being up there with the best of them, the MB5 flew just to late to be accepted into full production, being cancelled instead because the end of the war as already in sight.
Memories of the scramble rehearsals thundering over our house from Finningley throughout the sixties.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
That's got to be loud. One flew over my school on it's final flight and the building shook
T & P
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Obviously not Cold War related, but as we do not have any other suitable military threads going...
Brand new submanrine-launched ballistic missile unveiled by North Korea. Whether they're empty shells or working models remains to be seen. And do they actually have any, er, submarines operational that can carry and launch these massive bad boys?
Brand new submanrine-launched ballistic missile unveiled by North Korea. Whether they're empty shells or working models remains to be seen. And do they actually have any, er, submarines operational that can carry and launch these massive bad boys?
North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile
The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.
www.bbc.co.uk
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
They have a submarine that's classed/designed to be a missile boat, but as with most things NK, what's in the public domain is sketchy to say the least. Several stories have been heard, it may be a prototype designed to teach them things about building/operating a missile boat, it may also be the lead boat in a class of 3, and It may have been designed as the lead boat in a class that got shelved after the first was built...
It has several huge differences to what is normally thought of as a missile boat - first is its size, which is tiny: it's around the 2,000 tones size compared to the 15,000 tonnes of the RN's Vanguard class, with 3(?) missiles Vs 16, and secondly that it's a diesel/electric boat, rather than nuclear powered. Much easier and cheaper to build, but much harder to hide..
I'd put solid money on the missiles on the parade being plywood, not least because showing the real ones (to whatever extent they exist) would tell unfriendly eyes (which is all of them) far too much about their capabilities are.
It has several huge differences to what is normally thought of as a missile boat - first is its size, which is tiny: it's around the 2,000 tones size compared to the 15,000 tonnes of the RN's Vanguard class, with 3(?) missiles Vs 16, and secondly that it's a diesel/electric boat, rather than nuclear powered. Much easier and cheaper to build, but much harder to hide..
I'd put solid money on the missiles on the parade being plywood, not least because showing the real ones (to whatever extent they exist) would tell unfriendly eyes (which is all of them) far too much about their capabilities are.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Obviously not Cold War related, but as we do not have any other suitable military threads going...
Brand new submanrine-launched ballistic missile unveiled by North Korea. Whether they're empty shells or working models remains to be seen. And do they actually have any, er, submarines operational that can carry and launch these massive bad boys?
North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile
The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.www.bbc.co.uk
And then North Korea Unveils New Pukguksong-5ㅅ Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile - Naval News
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Those trucks don't look like the giant hummerlike transporters that Korean missiles are launched from
which led me to
www.upi.com
which led me to
Russia-built trucks replicated for North Korea parade - UPI.com
Trucks used to haul missiles at North Korea's military parade on Saturday may be of Russian origin.
www.upi.com
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Those trucks don't look like the giant hummerlike transporters that Korean missiles are launched from
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which led me to
Russia-built trucks replicated for North Korea parade - UPI.com
Trucks used to haul missiles at North Korea's military parade on Saturday may be of Russian origin.
The nerdy answer is the TEL trucks actually launch the missiles - the truck drives off into the countryside, raises the missile and fires it, then runs away - whereas the trucks carrying the SLBM's/Badgers/Cats are simply bog-standard low loaders painted green. They are used to transport by the missiles around, but they can't launch them.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I thought about starting a general thread that would cover military history and stuff that doesn't fit in the current tanks/helicopter/cold war slots but my thread starting record is poor so I bottled it.
T & P
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I for one would support and regularly contribute to such thread.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yes please to that thread idea! History, strategy, news, developments, etc. What sub-forum though? But please ban likesfish from it.
