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there is no endgame for weapon VS countermeasure.

Like it has been said before, today we also have better countermeasures. It's not by accident the US navy has been lobying for a larger IR stick and all airfroces have retained the gun.

Missed the the war over lebanon in 1982 with 80+ AA aircraft shot down. But Im really nitpicking here though. If we were to equip the sirforces just for the frequency these things happen, then we would be left with CAS aircraft only. ;)

The current mindset may lead most to repeat post Vietnam lessons. never forget. :)

I saw probably the first of the Romanian F-16's with their final paint scheme today. Its like this lancer: Except it also had a dark stripe on top of the tail.

cant believe no one mentioned this yet. First taxi tests of the ATD-X shin-shin? kYUfgepOPys

Madeira island: been there myself before the runway was extended. Loads of fun for me (mainly because I was too young to have a real notion of danger) while grownups prayed for their lives. See why. :) ArGS5yp4ED4

I'm just curious to see what comes out of the 6th gen fighter design and how they will gimp it in order NOT TO supersede the F-35 by accident. :)

1) Eurofighter 2) Tomcat 3) Hornet

Looks like early production examples of the RVV-SD on board of those flankers. 7Zt-MN5nUnw

Blue origin is at it again! GNrqEGKnrao

Does that mean turn rate or very high AOA without turning much? ;)

There must be a reminder that the F-35 is NOT the F-16's direct lineage descendant. It does things very differently without turning hard or climbing like a rocket. It makes me a sad panda that it does not, but things have changed since the cold war.

yeah, like everything Studio Ghibli is awesome and gorgeous, but may not please for the action diehards these days.

old gem. 6BDgQwlfHII

you prolly don't know but they will be making a galactic heroes re-make for 2017. Soon we will have macross delta. Not sure about the quality of this one (see below) but we will see. :) GMKiLsbWiHY

There are rumours there will be another giant UCS falcon. I don't know what Im gonna do if it comes out! :D

I also read that once F-14's were sent to train with Israeli pilots. The tomcats were handily outclassed in the WVR arena by the netz. The F-14 was deceptively agile for its size, but was still below the falcon in that regard simply because they were designed to specialize at different envelopes.

well... :) kSlnAhSxPWY

heh, but by how much?

I have doubts about that text. They have no scientific basis to come up with those numbers whatsoever. The article should be taken as someone's opinion and nothing more than that.

corner speed is at 350. Once at 6 o'clock it'll be hard to shake the guy off regardless of aircraft performance differences between 2 jetfighters of same generation.

I believe some of the details of the original TIE could not be achieved with a model any smaller than this. This was evident when making the cockpit area, and the details at the center of the panels. This is 1600 pieces VS 1500 of the X wing. The later would have to be in the region of 2500 pieces in order to get it to the same scale (B wing likely up to 3000). That would be 300$ plus worth of LEGO.

here we go gents. For those who intend to build one and haven't yet, letting you know it's best to build both panels at the same time rather than coming back for the 2nd time. It takes some time to build them and repeating can be tiresome. The cockpit took some 45 minutes and the panels about 3,1/2 hours. Look how the Tie dwarfs the X wing making it look like the playable version of it in the last picture (they are at different scales). It sets a new standard for UCS.

That's still better than the Mig21 (in theory), as the migs corner speed can only be attained well under 300nm/h. If you make it a fast dogfight your guaranteed to outturn the mig every time. It's an older generation plane.