Mine is non-fighter aircraft carried on aircraft carriers like
>Breguet Alizé
>S-2 Tracker
>Fairey Gannet
>S-3 Viking
etc.
there was a time where dozens of such aircrafts were operated a time long gone imo a mistake...
I like to smear shit on my nipples.
>>33345759
>>33345759
Do the French have a carrier-borne tanker aircraft? I noticed the Rafale M still possesses a refuelling probe and was wondering if it sips from something off the deck or if it depends strictly land-based tankers only.
>>33345797
They use buddy-buddy refuelling.
>>33345797
>Do the French have a carrier-borne tanker aircraft?
With the S-3 retired no carrier in the world has tankers any more.
>>33345797
Yo dawg, I herd you like Rafales...
The Rafale can carry up to 8400l of fuel on external hardpoints, and is often used by the french Aeronavale to refuel other Rafales.
These threads are so weird. Manchildren desperately trying to hang on to their childhood fantasies. Face it fatsos, you're never even going to sit in one.
>>33345825
Lame
>>33345855
What the fuck man? What a waste.
>>33345759
>S-3 Viking
Most navies use helicopters now for their ASM roles.
>>33345898
>>33345925
>What a waste.
It is a more inefficient (about twice as much fuel burned for same volume delivered), but having 24-48 self escorting tankers on a carrier is a pretty big bonus.
>>33345855
it also used big ass cargo pods for cod truly a multipurpose design
>>33345898
FUCK OFF i will become the president of the usa and make us navy use s-3 vikings and f-14s
>>33345988
Bring back the A-6
>>33345975
well the problem is french carrier is p small so having rafales in tanker role takes them from doing combat shit
>>33345998
And each tanker would mean one less Rafale. Its not like the Rafale is a short legged aircraft any way.
My fetish is contra-rotative props.
>>33345898
Of course not, most of these planes have been decomissioned long ago.
But I clocked in a couple flight hours on the backseat of a Mirage F1 when I was posted in Ivory Coast :^)
>>33345996
yeah that too
>2 sq of 12 stealthy f-14s
>1 sq of 12 a-6
>2 sq of 12 a-7
>1 sq of 6 s-3 asw/cod
>1 det. s-3 awcas
>1 det. s-3 elint/signit
>>33346012
>no F-8s
Does your mom know that you're gay?
>>33346017
yeah she does