and nothing of value was lost

>>34738739
F111... slow piece of shit ... the b-1b lancer can smoke the fuck out of it

Why are they doing this? Can't they scrap the frames and turn them into cock plugs or something?

Are those jets?
Why are they burying jets in dirt?
Why not just have them sitting out in some aircraft graveyard looking cool?
Or at least take them apart to recycle them?

>>34738777
It's cheaper to do this than crush them, plus the metal you reclaim won't be very high quality.

>>34738785
Just sit them out in the middle of nowhere above ground then, surely that's easier than digging a hole for them and burying them with construction equipment.

>>34738781
They've already removed anything of value. What they are burying is essentially just a hunk of aluminum and wiring.

>>34738739
Goodnight sweet prince

>>34738893
that plane was almost as bad as the f117
nothing was lost

death to burgers!

>>34738920
this.
the f117 was a disappointment with wings

File: SHALL NOT.jpg (53KB, 504x360px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 504x360px

>>34738739
they could give them to us. i mean, we did pay for them already.

>>34738781
>>34738785
>>34738861

Infact, it was all part of the deal made way back when they were first bought by Australia. As they were nuclear capable, it was agreed that they should be disposed in such a way that one could be sure they would not fall into anyone elses hands.

Sounds like garbage today, but a deal is a deal.

>>34738878
why not recycle them for raw materiel?>>34739103
Iran?

>>34738920
Fuck you nigger. The Aardvark is aesthetic as fuck.
Good night indeed.

>>34738739
They're just burying them in case SHTF.

by retiring f-111 burgers foiled the russian plans to destroy them with the new super weapon

https://youtu.be/hF9UufzGgYQ?t=232

>>34739194
Dumbass.

File: notices-your-bu-owo-whats-this-owo-3317942.png (141KB, 500x566px) Image search: [Google]

141KB, 500x566px

>>34738921
fuck you man, you can never destroy mcdonalds

You're right it wasn't many decades from now they will be dug up restored, put on display and / or will fly again.

It's better this way opposed to melting them crunching them all then melting the shreds in a furnace

>>34740232
why would anyone dig it up, let alone fly it again? its like digging up a turd or opening a scab

File: showpicture[1].jpg (62KB, 1027x682px) Image search: [Google]

62KB, 1027x682px

>>34740320
>because why would anyone dig up an artifact from the past and get it running again

>>34740353
while the Sherman actually has some history behind it, the f111 did nothing but waste time and money, and never even got a sing air to air kill
good riddance

>>34740465
Still some really rich guy 50 yrs from now will want one for some reason or another, and will have the capital to make it happen both legally and tooling wise.

Or he might want an airframe as a gate guard or a yard implement outside his house or something, trust me these type of people exist

File: news-et-atari.jpg (37KB, 634x300px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 634x300px

>>34740465
>Implying that people don't want to dig up artifacts that were huge disasters and buried for a reason

wew

>>34738769
>F111... slow piece of shit ... the b-1b lancer can smoke the fuck out of it

Original model aardvark: mach 2.3 top speed
B1-A: Mach 2.2 top speed
B1-B: Mach 1.25 top speed

Wut

>>34739315
Nice of the air force to line those jets up in an elephant walk.

File: 1651.jpg (57KB, 640x377px) Image search: [Google]

57KB, 640x377px

>>34738739
This is now military tech guro thread. Post non-battle pics where people barbarically execute beautiful war machines.

File: B-52-bomber-scrapping.jpg (33KB, 640x358px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 640x358px

Sad

File: 2nvcbjs.png (558KB, 1116x1600px) Image search: [Google]

558KB, 1116x1600px

>>34740641
>>34740630

>You will never get to use your F-111 to be a skitz cunt again

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Mh3dsln9M

File: f14-danger-zone.jpg (429KB, 1200x900px) Image search: [Google]

429KB, 1200x900px

A sad end for one of the most beautiful fighters to ever grace the skies.

File: Disposal-of-Lockheed-Martin-F-117-Nighthawk-3.jpg (62KB, 700x467px) Image search: [Google]

62KB, 700x467px

That F-117 was too pure for this world.

>>34740755
it was a piece of shit that was killed by outdated slavshit
good fucking riddance

File: 1452754638511.gif (1MB, 279x219px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 279x219px

>have museums all over the fucking country that would love to have more aircraft to put in them for exhibits or hanging up
>destroy them like fucking retards
Everyone involved in the destruction of equipment without taking into account reasons for them to not be destroyed need to be round up and be killed via firing squad

>>34740772
Retard

File: image027.jpg (98KB, 1200x800px) Image search: [Google]

98KB, 1200x800px

>>34738739
>>34738769
>>34738920
wait whats so shit/hated about this jet again?
>can carry shit ton of ordnance/equipment
>carried out the longest range bombing mission in history
>destroyed over 1500 iraqi tanks in 1991
>dropped 80% of laser munitions in the gulf war
>flew 4000 missions in 'nam for only 6 losses
>During Desert Storm, F-111Fs completed 3.2 successful strike missions for every unsuccessful one, better than any other U.S. strike aircraft used in the operation

yeah its no match for modern strike units in contested airspace but for bombing goat fuckers in Iraq, Syria(not SAA) and Afghanistan it'd be perfect with its longer loiter time and larger amount of ordnance

File: Caspian Sea Monster.jpg (219KB, 1200x797px) Image search: [Google]

219KB, 1200x797px

Russian prefers to use burial by sky method instead of granting their machines a swift death. That Ekranoplan got a plenty of time to think about its fate before slipping into nothingness.

File: Buran Energia.jpg (280KB, 960x720px) Image search: [Google]

280KB, 960x720px

The most elaborate execution yet. Let the shitskins handle the repairs of the hangar where Soviet Space Shuttle rests, what can go wrong? Everything. On May 13, 2002, roof of Site 112 hangar collapsed, burying beneath it a former space conquer, shuttle Buran. Not the military, but still notable.

File: 0_cbbe3_39b1c47a_orig.jpg (266KB, 1050x788px) Image search: [Google]

266KB, 1050x788px

>>34740859
The fate of her sisters is also cruel.

File: coral05.jpg (71KB, 705x295px) Image search: [Google]

71KB, 705x295px

Grisly remains of USS Coral Sea (CV-43). That agonizing death continued for 7 years, due to problems with financing and overall lack of caution.

>>34740859
>>34740876
what a piece of shit, only a single, unmanned use.

>>34740919
an unmanned landing back then was pretty rad

>>34740353
dat playboy bunny

>>34740320
terrorists could :^)

>>34740726
f14s were pretty shit

>>34741357
this.
most overrated plane. only reason people like them are dumb reasons like top gun and MUH AESTHETICS

File: 1484667645426.gif (712KB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

712KB, 320x240px

>>34740755
This is gore to me

File: 6332754214267859845068102346.jpg (38KB, 480x356px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 480x356px

>>34740799
it was a good dream

>>34742670
but not a good plane

>>34740919
>>34741357
>>34740772
>>34740465
>>34740320
>>34739026
>>34738921
>>34738920
>Samefagging this hard
>Sucking ivan's 2 incher this hard
>Literally having opinions this shit
Summer break for school should not exist.

>>34744972
>REEEEE STOP POINTING OUT OBVIOUS FLAWS AND LET ME ENJOY MY AUTISM PLANE IN PEACE
rule two

>>34744972
lamo americucks on suicide watch
cant have air dominance with shit planes that do nothing but waste time
china could(and does) do better

>>34740788
>destroyed over 1500 iraqi tanks in 1991

Doubtful. Chairforce overestimated the damage they've caused, land forces destroyed 90% of Iraqi army.

>>34745053
>lying about kills to make you look better
lamo. shartniks are so pathetic. china would kick your ass in the sky and ground

>>34745083
this.
china never lies about its kills
it just dominates

>>34745051
>>34745083
Poor bait

>>34745083
>>34745093
Samefag

>>34745097
how mad are you that your burger planes were so shit that even you government decided to get rid of them? china dosnt scrap planes because it just builds good planes to begin with

>>34745113
your just mad that more people are realizing Chinese superiority
your age is over, on /k/ and in the world

>>34740641
it looks like its trying to escape

File: tie fighter sounds.jpg (118KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 1024x768px

>>34740788
>>carried out the longest range bombing mission in history
nuh uh

>>34745675
>Igor we took wrong turn

>>34738781
>Are those jets?
>Why are they burying jets in dirt?
Because if they don't they might fly away.

File: b-2-spirit_008-ts600.jpg (22KB, 600x400px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 600x400px

>>34745698
You're both wrong.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368337/Libya-crisis-B2-stealth-bombers-25-hour-flight-Missouri-Tripoli.html

And then back in 2001: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-10-26/news/0110260239_1_b-2s-stealth-bombers-diego-garcia

>Unlike B-1 and B-52 bombers, which are based at a British airfield on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the B-2s operate from the middle of the United States. Theirs are the longest aerial combat missions in history.

File: 12-53-17.png (550KB, 720x1280px) Image search: [Google]

550KB, 720x1280px

>>34745766
B2's took off from Ohio, B1's took off from South Dakota, and both bombed Libya. B1 wins

>>34745118
The US builds things before anyone else this keeps us on top, but this mentality does come with some failures. China just makes average or below average versions of things a year or so after everyone else. Sure they don't fail as much but that comes at the cost of falling behind constantly.

>>34745913
lol no
Chinese planes are better than american planes in every way, especially in technology and build quality, and china never needs to be scraped as they are built future proof
america is just a wasteful paper tiger

>>34745969
go home chang, you're drunk

>>34746011
ha ha ha
thats a great argument
but thats about what id expect from your education. the american school system is almost as bad is its military. im sure there is a correlation

>>34744898
it is actually registered as a sea going vessel

File: BEST.jpg (142KB, 1500x1005px) Image search: [Google]

142KB, 1500x1005px

>>34745969
Surely bait.

We all know Chinese engine tech is rubbish, which is why they're hurling vast quantities of money at it. You see smoke trails coming out of Chinese fighters that wouldn't look awry from a 50s bomber jet. They might be able to copy the electronics and software, but they can't quite get making jet engines that are of truly modern standard yet. Maybe in a few years' time, but for now, they lag behind badly and they know it. If I were a gambling man I'd say that's why they're being cautious with regards a war in the China Sea - their aircraft are still unit-for-unit inferior to Japanese and American craft.

Here's a pic and an article as sources.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/chinas-j-20-set-to-receive-indigenous-engine-435075/

>>34746108
>american site
>good source
lol your entire media lies to you to maintain relevance
when your ignorance gets the best of you and china attacks, youre facade will crash to the ground and you will see how awful youre military is

>>34740611
ukrainians deserve everything bad that is happening to them

>>34746210
should have just bought Chinese

File: 1496169648455.png (196KB, 835x1079px) Image search: [Google]

196KB, 835x1079px

>>34746136
He's quoting a Chinese industry source from a Chinese paper, you silly sausage. You haven't even read the first three lines. I'm not even American.

More to the point, accusations about the reliability of sources are, quite simply, terribly childish. They betray an inability to consider a proposition that contradicts one's views as being worthy of consideration, and really can only be made in light of the source being exceptional in comparison to peer articles or other available evidence. The evidence suggests that Chinese jets are nowhere near as good as American or Euro jets, or maybe even Russian ones, because if the former were really that good, everyone important would be using them rather than their Western counterparts. Simplistic argument I know, but it'll do in a general sense.

Now begone, Beijing shill, and crawl into your shoebox apartment and choke on your 'benevolent' government's industrial fumes. Remember this - you will never enjoy the wealth you country's elite does. You would have to be an exceptional person, and let's face it, people posting bait on a Vietnamese wood-block carving forum are not intellectually or economically exceptional.

>>34740465
>Strike bomber with no A2A weapons didn't get a single air to air kill
It would be pretty impressive if it did desu.

>>34746266
youre just mad
you should really just give up and let china be the world police, they would be much better at it and it would be much more easy on you and better for everyone

File: 17630182_1427557193975111_1484380838997930072_n.jpg (28KB, 720x574px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 720x574px

>>34746307
>He ends his post, his poison-wracked lungs protesting in agony against the smog wreathing his city. He moves 5 metres to the other side of the room where he lives and shits, and where his only, morbidly obese, child is eating the last of the food. As he watches a pregnant woman get run over by a lorry so the driver doesn't have to pay for healthcare, and dogs are taken off the street to be boiled alive in vats, he reflects on the moral vigour and dynamism of his wonderful society.

Give it up mate. Your society is even more rotten and degenerate than ours. The future of the world does not belong to you, no more than it belonged to Rome or to the Third Reich.

Also, you still lost the argument. The truth tastes bitter, brother, but drink deeply of it and you might end up a little wiser for it.

>>34739255
Yeah. There's only so many times the Air Force can use a tragic boating accident as an excuse.

>>34745643
>>34745629
Is it being displayed or did one crash in that lot

>>34745969
China introduced a plane that's comparable to the F-22 a year after the F-35A was introduced.

>>34746136
Can't wait for the chines to try to attack us with their 30 or so fifth gen fighters.

File: 1491053128902.png (1MB, 972x767px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 972x767px

>>34738769
what's the mod list on your B-1B fampai?

>>34747181
Its Russia, so, probably both.

>>34738878
>hunk of aluminum and wiring.

Is it really that unprofitable to melt it down to make soda cans and more copper wiring out of it?

>>34745576
I wonder how many men died just then in that video?

>>34738739

actually that's a damn shame those metals are worth enough that someone would make a nice bit of money

also military electronics of any kind are something shitbois on ebay will die for. Not to mention avionics. Everybody wants flight instruments.

File: 1489547987877.jpg (262KB, 1280x1280px) Image search: [Google]

262KB, 1280x1280px

https://youtu.be/4wKPTWXD2Z0?t=11s

>>34745821
>B-2s
>Ohio

lol

>>34745576
Source?
Is that the fucking crew standing on top of it when it goes off?

File: go to gulag.jpg (78KB, 550x700px) Image search: [Google]

78KB, 550x700px

>>34745016

>Pointing out obvious flaws

>"hurr durr it's shit"

File: 1501725909374.png (558KB, 640x430px) Image search: [Google]

558KB, 640x430px

>>34738739
Figures. It's Australia.
http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/12/raaf-f-111-bombers-buried-swanbank-landfill-australia/

>>34738769
With a few simple mods, I presume?

File: 1464379533239.webm (3MB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 320x240px

this seems relevant

>>34741373
>>34741357
they had longest range air to air missile at the time
might even still hold true, though i doubt it

>>34747422
Bigger payload

>>34746011
>>34745969
ive always wondered if every country just teaches their own kids that theyre the strongest country on the planet. im in usa, and thats what i was taught. i knew a greek kid in school, he insisted greek military was best on planet. im hearing chinese guy right now. pretty sure i heard some russians claiming they were best. i mean fuck, is every person on the planet taught that their country is best??

>>34747970
Fine Missouri, or wherever the whiteman is at

File: __original_drawn_by_daito__56678abaea6d2be24d824f5a5ec997d6.jpg (719KB, 750x1000px) Image search: [Google]

719KB, 750x1000px

>>34748844
I HOPE THOSE MEN BURN IN HELL FOR THAT

>>34749252
Airframes have a max number of flight hours before shit that can't be replaced has structurally reached their limit.

>>34740611
>this kills the plane

>>34747344
F22 is superior to f35

>>34745053
i doubt iraqi even had so many tanks desu

>>34740778
this

>>34740876
Why not save them? Why would putin do this?

>>34748713
Putting power to the only place power should be.

File: terminator2.jpg (37KB, 400x275px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 400x275px

>>34748844
>get ripped apart
>put into a big ass pile
>stuffed onto a dump truck
>dumped off at a refinery
>re-forged into more military equipment so your machine spirit can continue making war

File: 3151pu0.jpg (26KB, 639x530px) Image search: [Google]

26KB, 639x530px

Rest in peace rick

Daryl, if your out there, sorry for your loss. you were a great pilot Had it not been for the fire you probably would have made it.

Rest in peace Kee Bird, Im going to miss the fucking shit out of you, you never deserved die this way

>>34750742
even space shuttle doesn't fly for 6 years already, there is no need in that program nowadays

>>34740772
t. Ivan ivanov ivanovsky

>>34740876
It belongs in a museum

>>34740465
>>34746303

They did twice in GW1.

EF-111 flew nap of the earth so well the pilot intentionally took it and it's persuing MIG into a Canyon area and caused the MIG to crash. The sparkvark was awarded the kill.

It's other kill was when one killed a hovering Iraqi helicopter with a laser guided bomb.

>>34748329
HMS Barham,
The Ship was torpedoed with 4 torps by U Boat.
Crew evacuating as she capsized when the 4" magazine detonated, with it being an open evacuation the explosion propagated to the 15" magazines.

>>34747835
862 in the course of her sinking

>>34746303
What if I told you that it actually did?

https://tacairnet.com/2013/09/10/unarmed-kill/

>>34750988
How do we know it was a magazine explosion and not a boiler explosion?

If you pay attention, you'll see the blast occurs right as the funnels enter the water. Cold ocean water rushing in and hitting the hot, pressurized boilers could easily rupture them.

>>34745576
I often wonder. Who had it worse? The men in the water or the men on the hull?

>>34750750
the front wheels?

>>34751159
The men in the water. Water carries an explosion much further than air. Their organs would all be jelly.

>>34746389
5 meters, that's a big apartment for chang.

>>34750945
Nearly positive that last one was an F-15.

>>34750826
i remember that documentary, super sad, all that fucking time, poor mechanics.

>>34751137
but the boilers would explode out of the stacks first again, not from rear under the main battery.

>>34751137
An admiralty inquiry at the time, the explosion is aft of the boiler rooms
There was supposedly a fire sighted at the 4" magazines but the order to abandon ship was seen as the priority.

>>34751137
A boiler explosion would not have been enough to breach the belt armor, a boiler explosion has an open funnel as an existing exit for the blast

>>34745595
>when your SSBNs are so silent nobody can hear you coming
>not even your allies' own SSBN right in front of you

>>34751415
also this, even with the 24 train boilers it had,
they wouldn't split it at the belt like a banana.

File: 1486331291615.jpg (60KB, 600x368px) Image search: [Google]

60KB, 600x368px

>>34745666
>I was once a proud member of an elite group
>Flying high above the soil which gave me refuge and time to recoup
>I was loved by those who fought alongside me
>That was then
>Now I sit idly
>In farm fields and deserts I wait for the day when I once again find glory in the sky
>I wait for that day
>I wait

>>34745727
kek

>>34750788
except for any fiberglass or carbon fiber parts

>>34747725
yeah

>>34740630
F

>>34738785
Metal that could be recovered would be high quality, but it takes lot of work to remove wiring and shieet.

>>34740788
>wait whats so shit/hated about this jet again?
Probably the fact DoD wanted multi-role fighter for both Navy and Air Force, Air Force got medium strategic bomber and Navy got dumpster fire that was too big and heavy to be deployed on carriers and had maneuveribility of dead llama.

>>34740611
Most of the time I look at these type of pictures as gub'ment waste. This is one of the few times where I get feels. Fuck the Ukies and their Obama puppet leader.

>>34745621
What a weird and wonderful thing that was, right?

>>34747725
To do it themselves yeah. They probably don't trust to have sell to a third party

>>34738781
Planting the seeds of the Great Tree of Planes which would bear fruit the Plane To Rule Them All.

>>34738739
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5N94oomkU

>>34750945
>>34751233

Yep, the last one was a 2000-pound Paveway from a F-15E

>>34740919
>>34740859
sad, it was actually a better shuttle design than ours.

I want my soda cans made out of Al-Be alloys whilst working as a tig welder breathing Al-Be alloy fumes cause some dumbass recycler didnt know the difference.
That way the Alzheimer's will let me forget I'm dying of berylliosis.

>>34739315
Russians seem to have butthurt ingrained in their psyche

Look at all youtube comments about various military hardware, most westerners will talk rationally about the plane, tank, or whatever no matter where it came from. But all Russians do is talk about how shitty western tech is and how Russian is superior and they pump out retarded mega autistic fantasy videos like this all the time.

What the fuck is wrong with them?

File: Republic_F-105D-30-RE_(SN_62-4234)_in_flight_with_full_bomb_load_060901-F-1234S-013.jpg (288KB, 1800x1189px) Image search: [Google]

288KB, 1800x1189px

>>34750945

It was Iraqi Mirage F1 and there wasn't canyon, just hilly terrain.

>>34751233
>>34753965

F-105 has air to air kill with unguided bomb, Thud got intercepted by Vietnamese MiG, ditched entire payload, MiG had mid air collision with bomb.

>>34753965
Jesus fuck, talk about overkill

>>34750112
I'm aware I was just using that to give a general time frame. The claim that the j-20 is an f-22 rival seems to be a bit of a stretch anyways.

>>34748982
Still, B-2s struck Afghanistan from CONUS.

>>34751418
It was an SSN that struck an underwater mountain range.

>>34753748
The US government routinely sells equipment like this to companies who specialize in reclaiming military equipment. govliquidations.com is one of the ways they do and people bid for the scrap metal and understand the process and legality of how the scrap has to be handled (on site, under supervision, requirements on how big the pieces of metal can be etc)