F-111C/F add-on on 'competing' platform made me cry.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

F-111C/F add-on on 'competing' platform made me cry.

It is so gorgeous! Made me cry, I want it so bad on DCS.

Charlie for Oz friends.

Foxtrot for the rest of us.

Were late 1970's to mid 1980's really that awesome for NATO Cold War combat aviation? The golden age.

Harriers, Jaguars, F-4E's, F-15A, F-16A, F-111, Tornados, B-52s, B-1Bs, AlphaJets, F-104G (NATO), A-4M, Mirages, G-91

Edited June 21, 2024 by DmitriKozlowsky

[cfrag]

On 6/21/2024 at 8:29 AM, DmitriKozlowsky said:

Harriers, Jaguars, F-4E's, F-15A, F-16A, F-111, Tornados, B-52s, B-1Bs, AlphaJets, F-104G (NATO), A-4M, Mirages, G-91

You forgot the Queen of the skies: The Vulcan (not to mention Operations Black Buck). There never has been an aircraft more beautiful and mysterious than that. Of course it's a Golden Age plane.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

1 hour ago, cfrag said:

You forgot the Queen of the skies: The Vulcan (not to mention Operations Black Buck). There never has been an aircraft more beautiful and mysterious than that. Of course it's a Golden Age plane.

V=Bombers were kind of done by late 1970's. Their heyday was late 1950's, 1960's, and early 1970's.

Victor is , IMHO, far more mysterious and baddass looking then Vulcan. Vulcan was all area rule and ogive delta wing blended lifting body organic. Flying cuttlefish. Or mantaray. Black Buck mission, as heroic and legendary, really showed to RAF and NATO that Vulcan was not a global strike platform. What was difficult for RAF Vulcan and Victor tanker package in 1982, was everyday work for USAF SAC B-52 and KC-135 crews. Takeoff from anywhere in the world, and strike anywhere in the world, then return.

If Victor was flying today, it would be stealth black RAM coated, cerramic IR suppressing nozzles. It would look like it belonged sitting next to B-2A and B-1B. With glass pit, SniperXR pod, AESA LPI nav/attack radar, carrying LRASM, JSOW, and hypersonic ASM.

[cfrag]

6 minutes ago, DmitriKozlowsky said:

If Victor was flying today, it would be stealth black RAM coated, cerramic IR suppressing nozzles. It would look like it belonged sitting next to B-2A and B-1B. With glass pit, SniperXR pod, AESA LPI nav/attack radar, carrying LRASM, JSOW, and hypersonic ASM.

I was talking about beauty, not utility. Today's Teslas smoke the living crap out of a Series-1 E-Type Jaguar performance-wise, yes. I'd still prefer the Jag. 

[Beirut]

1 hour ago, cfrag said:

You forgot the Queen of the skies: The Vulcan (not to mention Operations Black Buck). There never has been an aircraft more beautiful and mysterious than that. Of course it's a Golden Age plane.

 

I made a poll a while back asking which plane was cooler: F-111 or Vulcan?

 

And the winner! 

 

[cfrag]

1 minute ago, Beirut said:

poll a while back asking which plane was cooler: F-111 or Vulcan?

Obviously and predictably. The unwashed masses have no taste.  

 

[Beirut]

12 minutes ago, cfrag said:

Obviously and predictably. The unwashed masses have no taste.  

 

I, sir, have sat in an F-111. And I was scrupulously clean at the time. 

[cfrag]

24 minutes ago, Beirut said:

I, sir, have sat in an F-111.

We LOVE slumming, don't we?