The YF-23: This Is What Regret Looks Like To The US Air Force
Posted on 02/25/2015 9:52:46 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
“What a freaking laugh. The regular Tomcat outclasses the Super Hornet any day of the week.”
In what manner? Range? Top speed? That’s about it. The Super Bug’s AESA radar is superior to the AWG-9 in every possible way. The Phoenix missile is irrelevant since it was a Potemkin piece of junk that never worked. It missed both times it was fired in anger. An old Navy Test buddy of mine that flew Tomcats confirmed this to me... “We really had the Soviets fooled with those things”. He spent enough time firing them at China Lake to know.
In the merge, there’s absolutely no comparison between the Tomcat and the Super Bug... the Bug is better in every respect. And the most important reason the Super Bug was chosen: operating costs. The Bug is far, far less expensive to operate and far easier to maintain. It’s also more versitile.
F-15 - Salma Hayek
The perfect Sensuous Air Superiority Triumvirate.
Don’t forget the super bug also replaced the A6 despite the fact that a rewinged A6 (A6F) would have been cheaper, have better range and payload, and still have an unmatched CEP in a N/AW environment.
An even better plan would be to "navalize" the YF-23 the same way the YF-17 was "navalized" to become the F/A-18.
Guess we'll never know...
Yes, good one!
I dunno, wish Pukin Dog were still around to chime in.
my memory also about the Phantom
Imho of course.
Ok, so hate me...
5.56mm
So, how many F-14s did we give away to allied/neutral nations, and how many are mothballed at Davis-Monthan?
Hehe....Salma's got those magnificent twin...err...umm...Pratt & Whitney F100s.
I am biased. I worked flight deck control on the Connie. Watching Tomcats being shot off the cats with full burners are some of my most cherished memories. Lord I loved those planes.
My wife called the Phantom a great place to nap.
She did NDI (Non-Destructive Inspections) while in the Air Force.
She could crawl up in the intake and catch a few winks before signing off so it could fly or not.
She is a lot more mature now. :D
And maybe....
F-18 - Penelope Cruz
Not a fighter but...
A-10 - Michelle Rodriguez
Yup. She fits the profile. Very good looking lines, solid, agile and able to make it home after a tough tussle.
The F-16 would be in the shorts of the F-14 and the original F-18,Which was previously known as the YF-17.When it,The F-16 was placed in a completion with the F-18 the 16 got on its six in a hurry.
i was in the navy during the late ‘70’s (carter years)...
i was on the FID with the F-4’s, and the Kennedy with the F-14’s ( i was a plane captain, worked the flight deck )..
the F-14’s were magnificent birds, with one problem..
after they landed and shut down, you needed at least 6 55 gallon drums, with the top cut off and on wheels, to catch the hydraulic fluid that would leak out of them..
then, before they took off ( after they had been started ) you would have to pump close to 200 gallons of fluid into them so they could fly...
basic design flaw, and it pretty much rendered the bird useless...
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