Underrated and aesthetically pleasing hardware

>>35125806
Shame about the name.

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thins thing

>>35125806
What's with the stupid balloons all over it??

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>>35127336

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Alpha male coming though

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>>35125806

>>35128206
Slow ugly and outdated even when it came out.

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Ki-46-III, the recon version of the Ki-46 fighter.
I'm not sure if you can call it underrated, although it is very obscure; i personally think it's gorgeous

>>35128206
>Aesthetically pleasing
>'Short little ugly fucker'

I like how it looks, but it's not conventionally attractive

>>35128225
If the one on the right didn't have that central vertical stabiliser, it would be perfect aesthetically

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>>35128575
That's not an A-10.

>>35128575
Lies. It literally kicked ass and performed well. Then France bought a bunch and it performed well there too. Fuck off beta male. You can't handle masculine planes.

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Always found the F-5 aesthetic as fuck. No idea if underrated

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>>35128605
it's a qt
>>35128225
the 1950's/1960's were an astoundingly aesthetic time

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Evarts class, and DEs in general. Not exactly glory duty doing convoy escorts, but they damn well had their own compact charm.

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>>35129718
T-38 is even better imo.

>>35125964
Yeah, it sucks being named after a city on some shit island.

>>35126441
>all that wasted space in the front

Surely they could've put another gun or something on it?

>>35128650
Why wasn't this funded?

Does anyone have a picture of that boat from the 1920s that was retro fitted and is still an active river patrol boat?

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Nobody seems to give the Shooting Star any love.

>>35127336

those are the deflector shield generators.

>>35130056
but it has a LAZAR

>>35130056
>Yeah, it sucks being named after a city on some shit island.


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waifu claimed

>>35130345
>British in charge of not aggressively bludgeoning anything resembling a joke to death

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>>35125806
USS long beach guided missile nuclear cruiser / just fuck up stabilisation in any sea state
>>35126441
Aaaaahhhhhh the Jean D'arc is one of my favourite warships of all time and helicopter carrier cruisers are usually aesthetically pleasing such as the Vitori vennito , Moskva and Kiev class

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This thread is full of pretty things. Allow me to contribute to this decidedly not-shit thread:

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>>35130866

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>>35130876
>dat ass tho

>>35130876
nuhnuhnuhnuh duh nuhnuhnuhnuh

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>>35130888

>>35130923
nuhnuhnuh nuhnuhnuhnuhnuh nuhnuh nuhhhhh

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>>35130973
Speaking of asses that'll blow your mind...

>>35125806
>a wild toilet floods the heads
>air conditioner shits it self and shuts off
>one steam turbine decides to go on strike

Nah

>>35130345
It's named after a town that was named after Ponce de Leon.

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>>35130866
>>35130888
Double dubs confirmed good taste

>>35130888
The funny part about the T28 is that it's still completely functional in spite of being exposed to the elements for the better half of a century.

>>35126441
That's one legendary ship.

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M60 Starship was pretty.

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I think a lot of logistical and mobility vehicles were very underrated.

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Don't see the big Russian movers getting much love either despite how iconic they were.

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A few WW2 picks:

>>35134802
M8 that's more likely to be overrated than underrated

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>>35130208
I wish the Boeing Skyfox was a thing

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>>35134889

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>>35134889
>>35134893

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Le Monge

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The Noddy car

>>35130793
All hail the Sea/k/ube!

>>35130793

>when you skip leg day

>>35127336
They're meant to give it flotation, if they pop the ship sinks. Newer ships have them internally so they don't pop when subjected to enemy fire.

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i always liked Canberra's and their long list of descendants. the wings got longer and longer with each iteration to the point that they are like big metal albatrosses soaring through the sky.

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>>35134849
>one of the few tanks fighting from the very start to the very end of the war
>reliable
>upgraded heavily, stayed competitive until the end
>was actually used a lot
>not overrated like the Panther or Tiger
I disagree.

>>35130150
Exposed driver, shit armour, shitty offroad capabilities, it was overall a shitty clown car.

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underappreciated workhorses of the Navy.

>>35130208
this looks german as fuck

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>>35135302
Maybe it reminds you of pic related...

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>>35134948
Imo the original AML was more aesthetic.

>>35135247
I wouldn't say it was underrated either though
>>35134794
Same for the 109.

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Virtually unknown to most people yet was likely the best fighter of WW2

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>>35135538
because literally all inline engined spaghetti fighter look the same. also did any of them have radio?

And for best fighter, i sort of want to say the Tempest

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>>35135538
>the best fighter of WW2

meanwhile in the pacific

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>>35135538
Fiat fighters make my peepee feel funny
>>35135288
T H I C C
>>35135226
This reminds me of the ARC-170 from Star Wars
>>35134780
Not the best, but very aesthetic
>>35134723
Kinda weird how similar that palm tree emblem is to the Afrika Korps emblem

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>>35135575
oh god yes

>50 hour endurance

>>35130876
But is it even underrated?

>>35134770
Really just looks like the British wanted their own panzers.

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literally the most aesthetic ever

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>>35135698

>>35135557
They all had radios retard. The early radios on planes like the G.50 had tendency to freeze though.

>>35126441
Superior Helicopter Carrier here.
>>35130261

>>35134723
Still better than the Growler.

>>35135705
they had, but they were shit. Wiki page for the Mc.202 mentions bad radios three times

and dont give me the "hurr thats not a 202" shit, because they all look exactly the same

>>35135751
>different airframe
>different engine
>not even the same manufacturer or designer
But I guess looking similar means they perform the same.

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>>35125806

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>>35135853
they
all
look
the
same

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>>35130866
sick pic

I wish this got to see some service

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>>35135716
I give you that aesthetics are for the most part subjective, though I myself find it as ugly as mortal sin, especially that variant with pelican nose, that is second only to Yak-38U. But underrated? When was the last time you saw someone not praising F-4 for its performance?

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>>35135961
You forgot MiG-1.

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>>35125806

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Shit was rad as fuck back when it was relevant. Not to mention the looks of a chthonic beast sent into the skies to finish all who oppose you.

>>35136016
but thats russian. Thise five were all italian planes.

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>>35136054
>Tfw your cunt still uses them

Fuck us. At least they will soon be replaced by Patriots/ASTER-30s.

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>>35136043
Good post.

>>35136061
I didn't follow the discussion, thought the point of the pic was that they all look the same, sorry.

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>>35136070
Indeed. Have some OC taken by me a year ago

>>35136065
Poland? Also Aster 30 isn't really an S-200 replacement

>>35130345

>Modern education

>>35135504
I dunno lad, there's something about just being able to kill everything short of a main battle tank while driving in what is essentially an armoured car

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>>35136065
Dude what? Aster-30 and Patriots are in the same niche as S-125, Buk-M3 and other mid range SAM systems. S-200 has 300 fucking km range, it's a genuine strategic air defence system. Of course it's less than satisfactory nowadays, but first, upgrades exist, and second, the only alternatives to this role are S-300 family, THAAD and SM-2/6. Besides, didn't Ukraine de-facto decommissioned them like 5 years ago or whatever? You should have at least some amount of S-300 systems that haven't turned into piles of rust remaining anyway.

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>>35136086
Did you post it here? Because I remember a thread and I refuse to believe a year has passed.

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>>35136090
Dude, he posted a reference pic.

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>>35136170
Yep, I have posted it here once or twice since last june.

Here is another one

>>35130876
REVVIN' UP YOUR ENGINE
LISTEN TO HER HOWLIN' ROAR

>>35136158
I don't think S-200 has any BMD capability like those other systems.

Course I don't think Aster has been tested against BM test targets either

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The LVPT-5, a fridge with tracks.

>>35134794
Fucking skeleton pilots

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>>35136349
*LVTP-5, can't fucking type today

>>35136349
uhm... having weird thoughts about tracked boxes is bad, right?

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>>35136275
>By 1966, the S-200 was officially accepted into service in order to replace the failed anti-ballistic missile RZ-25/5V11 "Dal".
Except for that, its missiles are Mach 7+. The only issue I see here is obsolete avionics, but then again it's a thing that is relatively easy to upgrade. Then there's also the fact that Ukraine is unlikely to find itself in the middle of a global or regional military conflict between major countries that operate something beyond the level of R-17 capabilities.
S-200 capabilities and upgrade potential are stupidly impressive, imo.

>>35126441
o7 F

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>>35134762
I prefer Tatra trucks. Very cool nonetheless.

>>35134944
I've seen it up close, it's a very impressive ship; there is cool sea footage of it during storms on youtube.

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>>35135751
>and dont give me the "hurr thats not a 202" shit, because they all look exactly the same
>G.55
>built by Fiat
>not even the same company as the C.202
>built several years after the C.202
>"they look similar so they are the exact same aircraft"
I take it these are the same aircraft too?

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>>35134762
Likely because barely anyone perceive them separately from payload.

>>35136477
i didnt say anything about company or age, I say the look the same. Which they do, regardless of age or manufacturer

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>>35136454
>tatra

yes

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>>35136200
I could bear with health effects of getting older, but the accelerating perception of time is just ridiculous.

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intel planes without those fuckugly disks on their backs are the prettiest things

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>>35136495
>>35136477
>>35135961
>>35135853
>all this talk of Fiats and Macchis
>no one posting the most AESTHETIC Italian aircraft
>Caproni-Campini master race

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look at how utterly fucked this plane is

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why would you make it so fucking tall

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she's fucking huge

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OBESE

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>nuclear equipped jet boatplane
fuck missiles for taking nukes from the air force
I know ICBM's are better choices economically and militarily but I love my fucking nukeplanes

>>35128683
You are mistaking it with the F-8

>>35136510

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqG8r2bvBD0

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>>35136349
>those curves
it's like something out of popular mechanics

The USA's pegasus craft were really something
tiny, tiny little things that went almost 50 knots
magical

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you will be missed ;~;7

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>>35136788
Don't know why, but Swedich sounds absolutely c&a in this particular case.

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>>35135716
my nigga

>>35134948
Israel has an update program for the AML 90 and Eland. It's pretty good looking.

>>35136807
what was the use of those things?
its not like ussr could reach us coast?

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The San Antonio class looks cool and the USS New York is badass.

>>35137600
They were used in the caribbean for drug patrols and stuff
I guess if the ussr invaded they could have been sent over to help the european coast but that never happened
coastal patrol ships aren't really for invasion defense nowadays anyway

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The Omaha class are pretty cute
they were shit since they were from just after the great war, but they were cute

>>35136807
Are those Harpoon launchers? If so, pretty based if something that can guide them is nearby.

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>>35136807
>>35137762
Oh, wait
>Completed: 6
Jesus Christ, why?
Pic related - Completed: 400+

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>>35137762
u kno it
2x quads
>>35137778
>Jesus Christ, why?
us navy procurement a best :DDDDDD

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;~;
that russia is the owner of their ekranoplans is a fucking crime
look at what they do to these proud ladies

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>>35137789
>us navy procurement a best
Sad! I believe missile boats have their standing role.

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>>35137812
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/ekranoplan_returns/
Ahem.
SOON

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>>35137840
Yeah, I mean, great
it's just not the same as the massive fucking Lun belching jet fumes all over the ocean, though
and that little plane is bouncing like mad, goddamn

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>>35137881
And the black and white webm, for posterity's sake

>>35136263
REALIZE YOUR ENGINE ISN'T SUPPOSE TO MAKE THAT NOISE PULL HER BACK BELOW DECK FOR SOME WORK

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I'm so fucking upset we cancelled her. Look how pretty she is!

>>35137881
>Lun
That is the KM

>>35137893
this is Lun

also how are ekranoplans this sexy

>>35137977
thicc

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>>35137881
>it's just not the same as the massive fucking Lun
Lun' was of limited use. Lust like a metric fuckton of Soviet equipment philosophy, it was aimed at global war that was never meant to be. There is no wonder projects like Lun' ekranoplan or Bartini A-57 bomber will never be in serious consideration again. Modern age calls for modern means.

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>>35137977
>>35137995
aj kurwa
the person who posted it that I saved it from had them named both lun and I'm blind

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>>35137977
Looks like inbred M-4/3M/VM-T desu.
>>35137995
>That is the KM
Also this.

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>>35138015
But modern means suck shit
They're all moderate and not absolute overkill
Where's the fun in having a global presence when it's just missiles and not massive planes screaming their presence with sonic booms?

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>>35138028
is ok, you appreciate ekranoplan. Have Lun tail gun position

>>35138050
that seems a little unsafe

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>>35138050
>VM-T
I really really like how precarious everything looks with that plane. It's like it's about to topple over at any second, in a good way.

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>>35138077
nothing unsafe about it comrade
look at how natural the bent tail is, doesn't it fill you with confidence?))))))

>>35135716
dont talk to me or my son again

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>>35138061
>They're all moderate and not absolute overkill
Dude, that's the point. Absolute overkill philosophy is the child of a war that will never be. Nowadays everyone understands that the more current threat comes from bare-footed radicalised towelheads, not from literal clash of civilisations in a global thermonuclear war.
Naturally, my dick still gets hard about stuff like Kirov-class modernisation, because I have balls and basically fuck yeah firepower. I mean I still hope we'll get to see Project 1164 modernised with pic related. I mean imagine the amount of inclined launchers it could have instead of P-1000 missile tubes.

>>35138195
>Kirov

I think Kirov is the sexiest thing since the Battleships went out of fashion

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Convair B-36 Peacekeeper. Largest piston-engined aircraft ever produced, longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever, first purpose-built nuclear bomber. Was also used to carry a nuclear reactor in the aft bomb-bay during during the nuclear jet aircraft testing of the 50's.

>>35138077
>that seems a little unsafe
Which is a bit Ironic, because literally every single bit payload that An-225 was designed to transport was transported by V-MT. As the program was going, I mean. An-225 only got to transport Buran to an air show.
>>35138081
I kinda know what you mean. It looks so "fragile" compared to An-225, yet it was more than capable for the program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRxgQjdAMbo

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>>35138214
Dem lines m8.

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>>35138235
The NB-36H/X-6 program is one of the most gloriously insane projects to come out of the pre-ICBM era.

>>35131596
Hey where is this MBT-70 located? The only surviving examples I knew of was the one in germany, and that rusted to shit one in aberdeen.

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>>35138249
>SMALL Russian plane
does this person not into size
In related news, china's buying one of these
or buying the blueprints I dont fucking know
I don't doubt they'll make it better than the ruskis did

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>>35138098
People smarter than both you and me decided that it was necessary.

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>>35138297
no pic will ever do justice to how shitfuckhueg this thing is. This is a good examply, and this is not even the big one

>>35136748
Still around among other things.

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I'm infatuated with the Sd.Kfz 250. I don't think it gets much love at all. The 251 is quite ugly comparatively.

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>>35138266

Indeed, here in PA we have a small exclusion zone as a result of nuclear jet engine testing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quehanna_Wild_Area#Atoms_for_Peace

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>>35138235
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>>35129828
>ywn live in the timeline where B-36 bombers launch a massive attack on the Soviet Union in the early 1950's
>ywn pilot an F-85 Goblin parasite fighter and be dropped from the belly of your mothership to tangle with MiG-9's

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>>35138327
I feel like every picture of her, even with people right against her, doesn't really show the full scale. Like, it looks so small, barely a man or two tall in the pictures, but I know that it isn't.
Doesn't really make sense to me but I'm not a clever person
This image is pretty imposing for scale I guess

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>>35138297
>SMALL Russian plane
>does this person not into size
The meme is decades old.
>Zubr-class LCAC
>World’s largest military hovercraft
>Officially designated as "Project 12322 small amphibious hovercraft ships"

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>>35138327
Idk, these four give pretty good impression of how gargantuan the thing is, imo.

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>>35138332
por que
she's sitting dissasembled until someone can scrape up the money to put her back together again
I wouldn't really call that still around
As an actual contribootun to the thread, the little beechcraft the RAF have for their ISTAR is cute as all hell

>>35138407
holy jesus

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>>35138372
>even with people right against her
It's like trying to take a picture of a person againt Burj Khalifa and then judge on the size of the latter. It works if you have a crowd of people against Mi-26, but An-225 is just out of categories.

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>>35138476
Man, and to think we're probably gonna have something bigger than her within the century
I can't imagine WHY we'd have something bigger, but hopefully we won't need a reason beyond "its cool" to make a massive fuckoff plane

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>>35138297
Also, speaking about Chinese purchise:
>Leaving hardware to hohols
>Ever
>EVER
>V
>E
>R
Not even fucking once. What they did to these pieces of art awakens primordial rage deep inside of me to this very fucking day.

>>35129913
They put up a hell of a fight in Leyte because Halsey is a fucking faggot of a man.

Nimitz should have suplexed him into the Marianas Trench for his fuckup at Leyte.

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>>35138569
Damn right they did. This man and his ship are a fucking legend.

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>>35128650
Fucking cool

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>>35138512
>we're probably gonna have something bigger than her within the century
Why? Large Russian helicopters were mainly developed for fast and unpredictable deployment of theatre ballistic missiles. Nowadays the demand simply does not exist. V-12 was cancelled specifically because of the colossal success of RSD-10 Pioneer and for the most part due to the evolution of heavy ICBMs that became no longer air transportable with the introduction of 40+ tonne UR-100.

>>35138407

I saw this gigantic fucked in person once. It's an apartment building with wings.

>>35135277

>exposed driver
>sticking his head up out of the hatch which is usually buttoned up in combat

wut

Also Egypt and Indonesia bought a bunch.

>>35136835
Damn right. Losing it is a tragedy. But apparently the RN doesn't have the crew to man both it and 2 carriers unfortunately.

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>>35125806
It's a weapon in the right hands.

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i love these so much and they dont get any love

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>>35137729 any class of cruisers with the superstructure forward

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>>35139693
I'm genuinely jelly.

>>35138407
Operating costs must be a bitch. Imaging having to buy millions of dollars of additional parts for a single unit.

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Soviet missile systems look neat

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>>35140213
It doesn't really fly too much though, IIRC.

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The su-15 is sex on wings

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>>35140291
You know nothing, Jon Snow.

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>>35140321
Yesssss the KRUG !

A missile that looks like its meant to kill star ships not fight jets

>>35140496
Krug is a true chthonic beast born to unleash carnage on the children of the sky, just like S-200.

>>35128689

Low altitude night time flying instrumentation was bad ass. That was such a cool bomber, and the Prowler was dope, too, just jamming all the shit.

>>35127336
They're bouncy balls that deflect or bounce back missiles.

>>35138272
This is a mild steel prototype that is currently located at the Military Museum of Southern New England, Danbury CT. However, the museum just recently closed, and it's collection is being moved to the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage NY.

>>35141665
Oh man I read your comment and just learned it closed. I got to go there once a few years back and was always looking to go again for one of the open hatch days.
That sucks since it was a nice place and close to me. I knew they had a lot of problems though so at least the collections going somewhere else.

>>35141729
It will be well cared for. I have quite a few pictures on my phone, which I'll be dumping in a thread here in the next few days. While I'd say around 99% of their collection is being transferred, the large dumpster beside the building is a bit disheartening to see. I did no go dumpster-diving, per se, but I did happen to come across a couple of technical manuals that had been left out in a cardboard box. Unfortunately it was rather rainy last week, and only one was properly wrapped in it's plastic jacket. More fortunately, however, it was the only one that was for a tank and not some manner of military truck, so now I'm the proud owner of a copy of the Hull/Automotive technical manual for the Tank, Combat, Full-Tracked, 152-MM Gun/Launcher M60A2

>>35138512
>Dat cranked arrow 16XL
DICK STATUS: MUH

Loved that shit since I was a kid. I probably bought a dozen of the matchbox potmetal toys of that thing.

>>35128575
>Slow
600 knots on the deck is more than fast enough for an attacker.
>ugly
Matter of opinion, but okay
>and outdated even when it came out.
It was literally the most advanced daylight attacker in existence at the time, what the fuck are you even talking about?

>>35134948
>title

Make way for Noddy (NODDY!)
He toots his horn to say, beep, beep, beep,
Make way for Noddy (NODDY)
Come on out and Play.

Make way for Noddy (NODDY)
Shout a big Hooray,
Let get ready, and steady (GO) its a happy day,
Noddy's on his way!!

Make way for Noddy (NODDY)
He's driving in his Car, beep, beep, beep,
Make way for Noddy (NODDY)
Toytown can't be far,

Make way for Noddy (NODDY)
Shout a big Hooray,
His bell is ringing and singing
It's a happy day
Noddys here, MAKE WAY!

>>35134802
>arguably one of the best tanks of WW2
>underrated
wat?

>>35136065
We also use theм here in Bulgaria, but only as targets for the s-300

>>35130410
>tfw the swiss air force used them until the 1980s

And they still fly regularly i sometimes see them over my house. Those engines sound fucking awesome

>>35143026
Same here. And they seem to "stand" in the air, being so slow.

>>35130793
there were actually plans to convert it to an aegis cruiser in the 90s which would have been the coolest shit

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/NH-90071-KN_CGN-9_AAW_Refit_for_FY77-78-79_Concept_%28FADE%29.jpg

damn image limit

>>35138326
Fake

>>35137600
uhm...maybe you should check the distance between ussr to usa again... (hint: Bering strait)

>>35134944
>just radar my shit up fampai

>>35130164

>looks at picture

was this captured in Vietnam or something?

>sees Chevy C10

Oh it's an aggressor for Dissimilar Training. What's it supposed to represent though? MiG-17?

>>35136713
I LOVE Constellations

>>35130866
mmm yes I love the b1

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>>35135716
the 70s and 80s was a comfy time for aesthetics