favorite plane

I like the harrier because it's just cool, but it's objectively a piece of shit. It can only hover for like 30 seconds, and has a very low range, payload, and speed comparative to other aircraft.

For me it's a tie between the F/14 Tomcat, the best fighter ever made, and the F/A18 SuperHornet, the best Attack aircraft ever made.

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>>34404363
F14 for you

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>>34404363
the f15 is better

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A E S T H E T I C S

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>>34404434

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>>34404434
>>34404449

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>>34404465
>>34404449
>>34404434

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>>34404477
>>34404465
>>34404449
>>34404434

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>>34404434
>>34404449
>>34404465
>>34404477
>>34404485

>>34404407
It's not a better fighter than the F14, and the F18 is a better attack aircraft. The F15 is a sweet sexy bitch, but she does the best of both roles, while the F14 and F18 outperform it in their designated roles.

>>34404465
Victors are fucking awesome.
They look like an angry bat.

The precursor to BRRRRRRRRT. Looks like a duck and has a 75mm tank gun mounted on it. Arrived far too late to do anything of note, but a greatr, although underperforming concept.

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>>34404549

>>34404508
The only thing the f-14 is better than the f-15 in is firing AIM-54s and utilizing carriers.

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boom boom coming through

>>34404508
F-15E beats f-14 and Super Hornet both in almost all aspects

It's a great fighter but has mostly been used for CAS, air to ground attack mission.

>>34404359
The F-16. I'm not sure why, though.

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BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

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>>34404407
This.

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Somewhere we are living in a timeline where this is our new plane

>>34404363
>Harrier is shit
That's because you're comparing it to CTOL aircraft. Having STOVL/VTOL gives a lot of advantages, even if you trade some other capabilities for it.

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>unf

>>34406043
>Hue hue hue into the future

>>34406153

>need to bail out
>get sucked directly into engine

great design

>>34406341
It had an ejection seat.

>>34404359
F5F.

The little plane that could.

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>>34406596
>The little plane that could.
>not the wildcat

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The T-50.

I am still stunned at how Sukhoi was able to build a plane thats even sexier than a Flanker.

>>34407626
pic unrelated?

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>>34407633

You wish.

>>34404377
I N N A D A R K

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>>34404359

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The F-5E Tiger II. She's so pretty.

>>34408327
This guy knows whats up.

>>34404620
>catches fire and burns you alive

>>34406596
>>34408327
>>34408356
F-5 series just screams sleek. F-5s, F-20, T-38 are beautiful aircraft. Even F/A-18 shares some of the shape, but the Super Hornets are a little to fat to be sexy. Then again, I like petite girls.

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Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack

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>>34406341
Thanks for putting that image in my head, gave me a good chuckle

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>>34404359
>this will never be declassified
why even live?

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I have a thing for parasite aircraft, like the XF-85 Goblin.

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none of these have anything on the B-1B(ae)

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>>34406149
This guy gets it