Military aviation thread

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God I miss the age of the interceptor. The MiG-31 is one of the only dedicated interceptors still flying

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>>1644197

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Those hefty Soloviev D30-F6 engines heaving this beast to Mach 2.83

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>>1644218
damn was about to post this one

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I got lots of work to do tonight, which means I'm not doing any of it.

Anyone want to learn about a specific aircraft or have aviation questions in general? I eat, sleep, and breathe aviation, and fly myself, although not for the military. Help me procrastinate, /wsg/

Have a gorgeous JASDF RF-4E Phantom getting toasty on a foggy Japanese morning. I'm sure glad they are still operating these machines, I was pretty sad to see the Luftwaffe retire these several years ago. They're from a different age, for sure.

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>>1644248
Whats the difference between the F-16 and the block 50/52 variants? The Hellenic Air Force bought a few a while back and I got curious.

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>>1644262
Block 50's have a General Electric F110-GE-129 and the Block 52's have Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229, both rated at 29,000 lbs. Both have the same electronic suite, so in reality its just a difference of engine preference.

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>>1644248
What do you know about the PAK-DA?

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>>1644280
I'm afraid there isn't a whole lot of information on it, not public information anyways. In my eyes it appears to be a bit of a scramble to match or one-up the United States' B-2 Spirit, but I have my doubts. I think economics will become a roadblock with respect to the project's rather ambitious projections for it's integration. The problem is that they have no stealth bombers currently in service, and they are competing with a bomber that has been in active service for 19 years.

In my humble and irrelevent opinion, I think they'll stick to their Tu-22M3's and Tu-95MS' for the foreseeable future

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>>1644321
The B2 was fucking retardedly expensive
Russia doesn't have money to fully arm their infantry let alone drop billions on a stealth bomber.

Russia doesn't really know what they are doing Stealth wise anyways.
other countries are calling everything "stealth" just to be part of the club.

>>1644348

IMO the biggest problem for Russia has always been them not being able to afford making their new designs in any real numbers. They just straight up can't afford it.

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>>1644348
Electronic warfare is the way of the future as far as air combat is concerned. The issue is that stealth technology is incredibly costly to research and manufacture, so it becomes prohibitively expensive for most to invest in.

Now, there are cheaper ways to compete in the modern stealth age. The F-22, F-35, and B-2 are all equipped with passive and active stealth technology, meaning that they are (to some degree) invisible to conventional radar technology, and contain jamming equipment too.

I have heard of MiG-21s being outfitted with proper radar jamming equipment and countermeasures, and just by doing that they climb out of the pages of mid-60's warfare history and become a viable competitor again. They do not have the expensive coatings and specialized passive stealth design features, but they certainly can hide behind jamming equipment.

>>1644238
Russian police don't fuck around with their speed enforcement.

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Love these old A-4s

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Two thirsty J-79 afterburning turbojets doing what they do best

>>1644220
>KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM
>AH CAAANT
>KILLLL HIIIM
>AAAAAAH
I think I'll stick to flying Cessnas.

>>1644154
a-10 webm without sound, absolutely disgusting

what does /wsg/ think about pak fa?
can it compete with F-22s and F-35s?

>>1644262
whats happening in the webm exactly?

>>1644220
That looks so fucking fun.

>>1644244
really nice

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>>1644280
sauce on song?

>>1644204
Sauce on the song?

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>>1647321
just testing a longer version

>>1644364
There's now way they're bringing the MiG-21 to the 21st century. It's cool as shit (as demonstrated in that Webm) but the fact is it's an ancient airframe. Not to mention it kills half the people who try and fly it.

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>>1647333
The MiG-21 isn't necessarily the point. The idea is that you can take old aircraft and essentially boost it up a generation simply by overhauling the electronic suite and weapon systems to make it competitive again.

>it kills half the people who try and fly it
That's just because they put low-time pilots with no experience in these rockets. If they could afford the training and enforce higher standards it wouldn't be nearly as deadly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEa-R37PeU (4:36)

Pic kind of related; a Syrian pilot absolutely cooking his barrels with a lengthy strafing run.

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>>1647732
You can definitely make an older airframe more effective by upgrading the systems, in fact, that's pretty much what the MiG-21 was designed for.

However, I'd argue that at this stage the MiG is simply too old to compete with modern aircraft, regardless of the electronics package.

>>1644885
What song is this?

>>1648192
FATE - I Can't Stand Losing You

Friendly reminder that "stealth" is a meme of the 80s. Any radar made in this century can spot a fuckin bb from 100 milles away.

Also, bvr doesnt happen, ever. Unless its a muslim shit who is willing to down a civilian airliner.

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>>1648396
K. KEEP ME POSTED

>>1648396
I'm not sure if this is tasty bait or if you just don't know what you're talking about.

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>>1648493
I'd say a solid 3 parts bait 5 parts ignorance

>>1644248
I don't care for airplanes they're just flying machines if you ask me but I'm glad you have a passion for something.

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>>1648860
If one does not have passion in life i'd imagine it would be very dull and meaningless.

I love the physics behind how they fly, the aerodynamic forces at play that we cannot see. I love the systems that work in harmony with each other, each with their own crafty design and purpose, under the command of a human. I love the slow speeds and relaxed pace of a low performance glider, I love the face-melting speeds of fighters. Some are designed to skim the surface of the ocean and take advantage of ground effect, some are designed to skim the very edge of the atmosphere in the coffin corner where the pressure would kill you almost instantly.

Every one of them was designed with purpose, designed to fly a little differently from the others. Pretty ones, ugly ones, successful planes and failures.

I study the various aspects of aviation for school and flight training, but when I go home in the evening I find that I return to the subject just to learn more. I love teaching about aviation and sharing my passion with others so the next time they take a flight or look into the sky they see more than a bus with wings or just another contrail.

>>1648978
how does a lardass like that remain in the service

>>1649102
Because its a good aircraft and relatively cheap to operate and upgrade? I don't get your point.

>>1644248
I love this plane. And the paint scheme is great too. Sad when they completely retired them back in December.

>>1649102
The 16 is tiny man, what are you talking about? We got fighters flying around that are bigger than freight trains, bud. F-16 is small.

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Need more aviation music videos

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>>1651827
The sound of the engines are music to my ears

>>1644364
>Electronic warfare is the way of the future as far as air combat is concerned.
is that why electronic warfare aircraft are all getting discontinued?

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>>1651876
They aren't? The EA-18G is brand new.

At any rate, electronic warfare isn't disappearing, the technology is changing. We now incorporate electronic warfare elements into fighters as opposed to relying on an E-2 or E-3 nearby. Instead of an E-3 being the central hub to which all information is relayed and distributed, fighters can now receive air/land target information directly from satellites, AWACS, and other fighters through a data link. AWACS isn't going away either; they are airborne coordinators as well as information centers.

Couldn't find any good video of the E-2 systems in use cause most of it is classified, so have an E-2C recovery on the Charles de Gaulle

>>1646054
funny thing, he survived with minor injuries.

>>1652009
http://www.sickchirpse.com/man-sucked-into-jet-plane-engine/

It doesn't always end up that way. The photos are not fake, by the way.

>>1648978
Thanks man, I've asked you a few questions and your responses have been brilliant. I've saved every webm you've posted too.

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>>1652053
Anytime my dude, its my pleasure. Have a Saab 37 Viggen departing from a Swedish Countryside "runway"

>>1647230
Don't know the specific one, but it's 'vaporwave'. Maybe it's "Together"?

>>1646035
good post

>>1644907
In the mid 70s all the way to the late 90s there were instances where Turkish and Greek fighters would "dogfight" in the skies above the Aegean. Mainly because both sides have ancient rivalries and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_dispute

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>>1646054
>BACK, TO THE FUTURE

>>1648978
good luck and thanks for you time

i always wanted to be pilot, but there is no aviation academies here due to my country being a 3rd world shibboleth and the amount of money i need to pay to study abroad makes it impossible .

>>1653632
Never let anyone tell you that flying has to be a rich man's hobby.

In my humble opinion, gliding is one of the best and purest forms of flying out there. You learn the fine art of stick and rudder skills and practiced one of the most overlooked practices in aviation: energy management. Gliders are relatively cheap to own, there is no fuel cost, no engine inspections/maintenance to worry about, and you have one of the highest ATC handling priorities, right behind a balloon or blimp. With the proper skills, knowledge, experience, and equipment, you can stay up almost indefinitely, soar up into the flight levels (>18,000 ft MSL), and go further than 800km.

Hang on, I'll make a webm..

>>1653744
oh thanks but i didn't give up i am just waiting for the opportunity that is all

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>>1653632
Ok, so here is a video I took personally, soaring over Arizona. We are in a Schwizer SGS 233, a twin-seat low-performance trainer. If you have the skills and knowledge of where to find thermals, you can get pretty high up there (that flight maxed out at 15,400 ft MSL). Here we are performing a deep stall.

Initially we are flying straight and level. To start, we pitch down to trade altitude for airspeed. Once we reach a sufficient airspeed, we pull back on the stick and bring the nose up (we probably reach a ~50° nose up attitude). We trade the airspeed for altitude, and once our airspeed reaches ~0 kts, the wings aren't producing lift and we're all out of kinetic energy. Because we stalled at a very steep pitch up attitude, the nose falls to almost a vertical pitch down attitude. The airspeed builds rapidly, and we pitch up to avoid excessive altitude loss and overspeed condition. Notice how quiet it gets during the stall...

The annoying beeping tone is the variometer, or a sensitive vertical speed indicator. The faster it beeps the faster the instantaneous climb rate, and a flat tone indicates a descent. The piece of string on the metal tube in front of the canopy is an extremely handy tool to tell a pilot how coordinated he is flying. If the rudder input is proper the string will be parallel to the longitudinal axis (straight back).

>>1653769
thanks a lot, but isn't stalling like that dangerous?

>>1653782
Nope. The center of gravity is forward of the center of lift, so when the aircraft loses lift the nose pitches down and airspeed is recovered. The Schwizer 2-33 is such a stable aircraft it will literally recover itself in a stall. It has a massive 51' straight high camber wing so it'll fly at a very low airspeed.

The only time this would be dangerous is near the ground, say during an approach.

>>1653769
I hear that beeper all the time in gliding videos.

Does anyone ever get rid of it for a more pleasant flight or is it mandatory?

>>1644807

not saying bluefor can't do stuff like this, but how come it's only the russians who seem to bother with it?

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>>1653889
With a normal plane you have an engine, which provides thrust to propel the aircraft forward. Forward motion (airspeed) is necessary for a wing to generate lift. To establish a climb, power is added and the pitch attitude is increased, and the aircraft ascends.

With a glider, you have no engine. They rely on gravity and a high glide ratio to generate airspeed. They rely on thermals, or rising air columns, to climb. The variometer tells them if they are climbing or descending, so it is used to locate and use the thermals in order to stay aloft. You can turn it off if you are descending, but if you want to stay in the air, you'll keep it on.

tldr: the variometer (beepy thingy) tells the aircraft if its climbing. No climb means descent for a glider, and for a plane with no engine, you won't stay in the air.

Pic sorta related: A winch tow. Basically a dude at the other end of the airfield with a Chevy small block V8 connected to a reel of spring steel connected on the other end to the airplane. Put it in gear, foot goes down, and plane starts moving. The "55" and "75" are speed callouts; too fast and the dude comes off the gas a bit.

>>1647732

the core of russian aviation is ease of use, no need for the lengthy training you might expect from other nations.

it's more likely they're dying because ragheads have modern AA.

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>>1653910
Because, generally speaking, its not very useful.

If you pull a Cobra or some other maneuver in which the aircraft departs*, you've now lost all your airspeed, and must trade altitude to recover. In a dogfight, they start at altitude and terminate at low altitudes, generally in a big spiral. If you place the aircraft in a situation where the airspeed is low and the wings are stalled, you've burned yourself and lost the altitude advantage, because your opponent will not have to lose altitude and recover too. By the time your aircraft recovers your opponent is now several hundred (perhaps thousand) feet above you, and that's a good way to lose a fight. The only place it comes in handy is if your aircraft is maxed out on AoA but you need to turn just a bit tighter to place the gunsight on him, you can. But, if you miss, now you're fresh out of potential energy and you gotta recover before he turns in on you.

Also, in this day and age, fighters with helmet-mounted targeting systems don't have to screw around with keeping the nose on the opponent, they simply have to keep eyes on you and the missile will do all the hard work.

*technically thrust vectoring aircraft enter a controlled departure, so it isn't a true departure; they still have control but only through vectored thrust, not control surfaces.

>>1653918
What I'm asking is do any experienced pilots turn the beeper off?

>>1653949
Yes, if they don't intend to climb, like in a straight-line cruise or descent.

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>>1653921
>no need for lengthy training
You see, that's the attitude that kills pilots. If this dude knew the consequence of an accelerated stall at low altitude, he wouldn't have put his MiG-21 into a Lybia suburb and killed a kid.

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>>1643058
I love the odd shapes of the modern helmets.

They're starting to look almost sci-fi.

>>1646051
wat

>>1646051
>>1654170

Strategic bomber mating season

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full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6kyNx7kG8

>>1652026
damn

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>>1653946

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>>1653910
Bluefor simply can't because they don't have thrust vectoring planes.

>>1653946
Cobra is a meme and only a manoeuvrability demonstrator, there are many other pure thrust vectoring tricks. Modern jets have insanely high TWR and bleeding speed is not a big problem. If planes are going for the close combat then thrust vectoring is an obvious plus, because it comes for free and lets your plane turn instantly in any direction to fire close range missile. If situation requires conserving speed then simply don't use it.

>>1653910
Because Russians prefer memes to planes that actually work.

>>1654592

poor horsies

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>>1654657
>planes that actually work
>builds f35
Hmmm.

>>1644200
RIP you beautiful bastards.

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>>1654635
You don't need thrust vectoring to fire missiles in close. The missile itself can pull a hell of a lot more Gs than a human can.

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>>1654665
>F-35 doesn't work and is bad
When will this meme die already. Get off the bandwagon

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>>1654917
No one on earth knows if 5 gen meme design decisions are even worth it. Or how future jet combat will even look like. And it's an f-35 that is jumping headlong into that bandwagon of unproven concepts, discarding all previous combat proven principles.

>>1654635
What you are saying isn't true. Energy management always has and always will be an integral part of air to air combat no matter how good the engines become. You can't perform a cobra without loosing all your airspeed, at which point you are an extremely vulnerable target; if a situation requires you to pull a cobra to engage, you really shouldn't be using it.

>>1653949
Very good glider pilots chose to ignore the vario from time to time because they are good enough at feeling the air that their own senses are better than a vario which has a lag of at least a second. You tend not to turn it off unless you are landing or taking off.

>>1644154
how the fuck did you not upload this with sound. the A-10 has the most glorious sound. fuck you :(

>>1644380
absolutely fucking perfect.

info on song: Kristine - The Deepest Blue (Dance with the Dead remix)

>>1644878
Anything can compete with the F-35.

>>1655040
All you need to do nowdays is to turn in general direction of an enemy and do this >>1654905
You don't need to conserve energy and get on someones six ww2 style, they train that only for gun kills. Planes are basically becoming less important than the missiles they carry.

>>1644223

Name of the music please?

>>1653959
>Lybia

the country's called Libya

come on

>>1643058
>>1643065
nice vids, except for the gay music

>>1655141
Damn, I always goofed the spelling of Libya...

Anyways, that's beside the point of the post.

>>1649169
>>1649226
I'm pretty sure he meant the portly guy in the blue shirt.

>>1645884
rock + roll - EDEN

1:13

>>1654659
Those horses knew the risks when they chose to join the Nazis, they would show us no mercy so we must not show them mercy

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>>1644200
Too perfect for this world...

>>1644200
what are those ramps for at 0:07 and 0:16?

i'd guess they shield whatever is behind but do they do something other than that?

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>>1658167
Jet blast deflectors, that's all

>>1646039
was that a horse?

>>1658197
A Nazi horse. See >>1655291

>>1654598
>tfw you'll never play red rover with kamikaze pilots

>>1644907
As the other guy explained, it's a Greek mirage jet chasing a Turkish F-16

The Turkish F-16 just can't get the Mirage of its tail, it's trying to do that, but it can't. Greek Mirage probably told him to gtfo of here or I'll shoot you down.

>>1651871
How the fuck does that thing land.safely.

>>1658622
before it stops it falls to it's side and the low hanging wing keeps it upright.

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>>1658622
Very carefully.
On top of the rickety landing gear pilots have crap visibility as they go in for a landing, so the plane gets chased by a car the driver of which lets the pilot know exactly how far off the ground his wheels are.
The plane then comes to a halt and those helper wheel struts get reattached for the trip to the hangar.

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vroom :DDDD

>>1649102
Bet that mother fucker can just barely make his PT scores but since the USAF needs maintainers they're letting it slide..

>>1644380
I want you to know that I have been looking for this webm for months and I really appreciate you posting it in this thread

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A CF-18 with lots of gas announcing its departure from Castlegar, BC

>>1644248
Hey, if you're still around, do you have any resources on how interactions between military aircraft and military ATCs work and their terminology/phraseology?

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>>1659645
I'm always around

Military comms are much the same as civilian, with a few exceptions. Military aircraft transmit on UHF radio while civilian aircraft transmit on VHF. This is why, save for heavies and larger planes such as C-17s, C-130s, KC-135s (they transmit in UHF and VHF) you can hear tower's instructions but no response on ATC. They'll have open channels to talk in between aircraft, and hand signals for communication in formation (right turn, left turn, switch to X frequency). Also instead of their tail number or company callsign (N123AB or Cactus123) they'll have a flight specific callsign. If it is a flight of 3 aircraft then the base callsign will remain the same (Hammer 22, Hammer 23, etc), and when they call up, the lead aircraft will state "XXXX tower, Hammer flight"

Apart from that its pretty close to civilian comms.

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>>1659645
Oh and as far as a specific source, I looked around a bit and can't find anything solid and comprehensive. The stuff above is what I've picked up along my training and experience.

>>1652026
>http://www.sickchirpse.com/man-sucked-into-jet-plane-engine/
So that's where I got those pics from. Neat.

>>1658197
No, it was a Tiger Tank. Are you blind?

>>1659674
>>1659684
Thank you. The reason I asked was because I'm doing some milsim with a unit on ArmA 3 and in my off time (when not flying strike missions) I am the ATC. Since there's really no definitive guide, per se, I've been rolling with civilian ATC conventions with stuff we don't use removed. Your posts helped further, so thanks again.

>>1655096
Ten Years After - I'd love to change the World

>>1644220
> dcs /vg/ server.webm

>>1653961

>The beat drives a wave of sound
>The moon is out and I can't hide
>I feel like I'm racing now
>And I can't slow down

There's something magical about those flares, it's like fairy dust.

>>1658842
WHAT???


WAHT??????????

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>control plus f
>autism
>zero results

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>>1662586
The U-2 is the hardest aircraft in the world to land. The plane is brought and held in ground effect until the speed bleeds off and the wing experiences a full stall. This is when the airflow exceeds the critical angle of attack and can no longer remain attached to the upper surface of the wing, causing the aircraft to fall from 1-2 ft above the runway. The wing does not stop producing a force until the aircraft is completely stopped on the runway, so they use ailerons and spoilers to keep the aircraft level and upright, rolling on the bicycle landing gear. The wings also act like a pole to a tightrope walker, adding to the lateral balance. Because of the incredible wingspan and the extremely narrow wheelbase, the U-2 is quite sensitive when it comes to crosswind component.

Once the speed is so low the wings cannot generate the force required to remain upright, the wing drops onto a skid plate on each wingtip, at which point a ground crew physically levels the wings and replaces the pogos (temporary/removable landing gear) so they can taxi off the runway.

>>1644200

HE'S TOO CLOSE FOR MISSILES I'M SWITCHING TO GUNS

>>1659075
>months
you just made me realize i made that webm almost 2 years ago.

>>1646035
LOL nice.

>>1649102
The USAF has a large number of civilian maintenance personnel, so that when people get out after their 4 years they don't lose all experience and knowledge.

>>1644210
song name?

>>1662795
Bullshit it's just like landing a glider.

>>1653910
Thurst Vectoring, when used by an unskilled pilot, can give your enemy an edge in combat. IAF SU30MKIs had a hard time at Red Flag because their pilots would constantly rely on their thrust vectoring which would cause the aircraft to start falling and give their opponent a chance to go vertical and get them.

F-15s have taken out green F-22 pilots when they make the same mistake.

>>1646067
Apparently the A-4 crew survived that bomb collision.

>>1663175
Except the pilot isn't in a spacesuit, the visibility isn't as restricted, the speeds are lower, the weight is lower, and the fact that the U-2 is notorious for ground looping. A glider also does not have a jet engine which still produces thrust at flight idle, so the float, touchdown, and rollout are all much longer as the energy isn't as quick to bleed off.

>>1644240
Source on music? I've been grooving way too much to the webm

Question : how useful is it to have the theoretical ATPL licence

>>1654610
Is this a game of some sort, and if so what's the name?

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I love the F-16. Nimble and light, very capable, and plenty of power.

>>1658197
Yes it WAS...

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Camerawork is not the best but the afterburner and audio are pretty good. What a fantastic plane

>>1665093
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vu-aAH66u8

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>>1644364
U-2s have been outfitted with all kinds of techno warfare shit too apparently.

>>1644200
Sauce on that amazing song?

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This one might loop better

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A Tornado GR4 whipping through Rainbow Canyon (also known as the Star Wars Canyon) on the Jedi Transition. The Jedi Transition is part of the unpublished Sidewinder MTR (military training route) in the Panamint MOA located in the R-2508 Complex, 118 nm due east of Las Vegas.

If this isn't podracing I don't know what the hell is.

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>>1666308
The equipment on the U-2 varies from mission to mission, but typically it will be an array of very high resolution cameras capable of imaging in the visible and infrared spectral ranges. Sometimes they will outfit them with very narrow-band detectors for picking up specific types of radiation, and equipment for tapping into communication sources (radio or satellite comms). Often times they will have a high resolution LIDAR on board for ground mapping and other applications. Real-time information is relayed to different sources via an onboard datalink using satellites.

Here is a NASA ER-2 high altitude research aircraft (the non-military variant of the U-2) circling over the Sonoran Desert (140 miles southwest of Phoenix) performing calibration and validation tests for the GOES-16 satellite.

>>1666357
*120 nm due west of Las Vegas, not east

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A show of force during the 2016 Turkey coup attempt

>>1663139
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ApY1nY6IYg

>>1643065

what music is this?

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Don't fucking jerk off about how tactically inaccurate this is and just enjoy a fucking movie scene.

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Will any airforce produced film ever again be patrician enough to use Vangelis as a soundtrack?

>>1645489
We need more RAF in this thread.

>>1667077
>Prop plane does a cobra

fucking dropped

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>>1667700
Sadly I don't have too many RAF webms in my collection. I do need to make more of the GR4 though

>>1665475
Pretty sure it's DCS.

>>1654665

IIRC they are testing the new catapults and the thing launching is buoyant and recovered each time. Much better to test with a weight than a multi-million dollar plane. (Correct me if I'm wrong).

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my favorite vid of f18 ops

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here's a cool vid of some F-14's scoring two kills against Mig 23s. Not much to look at, but you can see the second one burn. The combat scene sounds intense from the pilot's perspective.

>>1644205
scare crows

>>1667457
For those intersted in the whole thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz3ECzpu6CQ

>>1647321
is that discovery wings ?

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>>1668347
Scarecrows are cheaper than engine replacements. Jet engines don't like birds, its a tight squeeze in the compressor.

>>1663322
So why is the plane worth it? What exactly makes it useful enough to excuse the rigor of landing the damn thing?

>>1668803
Extremely high resolution imagery, the capability to gather intelligence whenever you need it, a communications relay between operations and ground forces, communications espionage, communication/electronic warfare disruption, and more. If you need a detailed 3D map/imagery of a location for a special forces operation and you need it today, the U-2 can do that.

There is a reason they just went through an upgrade program. Current projections claim the U-2 will be in service through 2023, and Lockheed says the airframes are good through 2050. Its also about $4000 cheaper per flight hour than the RQ-4 Global Hawk, so economically its still the best option.

>>1644497
I love the roar of passing planes.

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>>1668955
Its music to the ears

>>1668291
The build up to this engagement is almost as good as the actual combat.

>>1667432

>tactically inaccurate
I suppose it is that, too.

>>1644226
Resuply in bf2

I'm going to join my countries air force and try to become a pilot, anything I need to know that they didn't tell me on the website?

>Fitness test you need to pass
>Baseline school results I've already got

>>1671798
Being a good pilot is actually hard work and not just a fuck-around.

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bump

>>1654170
air refuel

>>1647933
Pakis have upgraded their MiG-21s with brand new avionics as it is cheaper than buying and building new aircraft.

>>1666357
Mach Loop

>>1654602
Wasn't that from a Ralfi video?

>>1668348
watched the whole thing, pretty cool

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>>1657629
cool

>>1654590
>the plane is so big that even its shadow has a shadow

>>1653769
Very cool anon, thank you for posting

>>1676567
Nigga the Mach Loop is in Wales

>>1644154
>born in country with the best air force
>we dont fly A-10s

;_;

>>1677315
Kek

>>1668360
Tight? Can barely fit a fart between the compressor blades.

>>1677597
but anon the US does fly A-10s

>>1656131
I live right next door to Lakenheath the fug

>>1677909
fuckin trees amirite

>>1677909
'i told you so'

>>1654599
what song is this?

>>1666319
Praetor-Moxx

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:^)

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HORNET BOYS
>SEXY BLANE
HORNET BOYS
>SEXY BLANE
HORNET BOYS
>SEXY BLANE
HORNET BOYS
>SEXY BLANE
HORNET BOYS
>SEXY BLANE

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>>1644262
Yo ! do you a source for this one?

have some dank ruskie blanes in exchange

>>1644248
>>1649226
It's certainly one heck of a sexy beast. Nice lines et all.

>>1676587
Yes

>>1655075
It's a tad-wee more complicated than that, but yeah. Guided weapons have changed things a whole lot.
This said, they keep putting guns on airframes for a good reason. People who know their shit and are very well paid think it's still necessary. I'll go with them.

>>1668108
You are correct

>>1646061
nice shot

>>1658811
The cancellation of the RH-66 program pains me to this day.

>>1654635
>Cobra is a meme and only a manoeuvrability demonstrator, there are many other pure thrust vectoring tricks. Modern jets have insanely high TWR and bleeding speed is not a big problem.

ahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahha
no.

>>1658842
>bicycle landing gear

what the actual fuck

>>1677769
>usa is the best air force

biggest =/= best my man

>>1667726

That was just a seep yo-yo, seemed to me. He might've dropped flaps for that.

>>1679069
Gear assemblies are heavy, and weight is everything for that plane.

so much excellent footage soiled by shitty taste in music

>>1654969
Jesus christ the sheer amount of technology / programming that has to go into all those highspeed realtime calculations is just nuts. It seems almost impossible and some sci-fi shit.

>>1679070
US air force is so superior that takes up both the top 2 spots in the world

>>1677205
that's an oxcart you fucking troglodyte

>>1679063
>t. delusional ivan thinks the cobra would have any positive effect in a current day A/A engagement

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>>1679312
No that would be an SR-71B, the trainer model, you stick-waving neanderthal

>>1646086
this is gold

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>>1680013

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>>1680015

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>>1680016

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>>1680018

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>>1680034

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>>1680036

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>>1680040

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>>1680043

>>1644343
Anon you posted an invisible brick

>>1646035
wow

>>1677315
>lols

>>1678109
the group is hed pe. the album is broke but cant remember the name of the song. was some good jams back in the day

>>1677508
He asks if that isn't podracing he doesnt know what is. I say Mach Loop is.

>>1647230
found it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlsh5dIDksA

There's an A-10 webm someone posted in one of these threads awhile ago. It's taken with some people standing on some sort of balcony, and you can hear someone say like "here it comes" or something like that just before it fires.

Anyone know which one I'm talking about/anyone have it and can post it? Would greatly appreciate it.

>>1658197
Tactical horseundbuggiee

>Code name klippitykloppenheimerstahd

>>1644343
>>1644348
imagine the boner Hitler would get if he saw one of these

>>1677205
Music sauce?

>>1643058
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTyl9hhJi68

>>1644197
Yeah, the MiG 31 is amazing. Its basically two of the biggest engine they could make with wings attached to it.

>>1690728
he did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXr5w3M4mc
We took the design from German engineers, as well as the fact that the Ho-229 had a (unintentional) radar defeating design he basically saw a B-2..

>>1677909
Huh that happened at Campbell

Waiting for F-15 STOL/MTD, are there any of those out there? preferably without music.

>>1666430
Really interesting how you got that info. It's been my jet for 5 years now, and I love it more than my wife. Sad day when I had to scoop one off a mountain with a shovel in Sept with my name on the side of it.

>>1658811
>shark absorbing components
oh shit

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I wish this thread wasn't limited to military aviation, there is so much more to flight than fighters and bombs.

Anyways, have a T-45 Goshawk practicing air to ground maneuvers with inert rounds. The munitions they are employing do not have an integral guidance system (such as GPS or laser guidance), and are thus called "unguided", "gravity", or "dumb" bombs. They aren't inaccurate, though.

These munitions are aimed manually by the pilot using a method called CCIP, or Constantly Computed Impact Point. This method takes various aircraft flight parameters such as gravity, airspeed, altitude, bank angle, attitude, etc. and feeds this information into a computer. Utilizing a predictable ballistic trajectory, the computer calculates and displays the information to the pilot in the form of a line drawn from the flight director to a set of crosshairs, indicating where the bomb will impact the ground. The crosshairs move accordingly to changing parameters, so all the pilot has to do is place the crosshairs on the target and release, and the bomb should be pretty darn close.

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>>1691932
I consider every plane unique and special in their own right, but the U-2/ER-2 is my favorite aircraft of all time. I'd do just about anything to fly one of those, I'm super jealous. Sorry to hear about your jet man, I bet that whole situation was rough.

Anyways, blue skies my dude (although there isn't much blue above that plane..). Happy flying

>>1691965
This is neat. That concept is familiar to me since I play autistic amounts of DCS world :^)

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>>1691975
Me too!

>>1678109
System Of A Down - Feel Good

can someone webm this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfdsMwg-XmQ

>>1644226
nie wyszło mu

>>1667457
I guess it's naval procedure to give jets an escort even when their your bff's.

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Top Gun, circa 2077

>>1644218
The music is annoying at first but jumps to perfection in a matter of seconds. Can I get the sauce please?

>>1678444
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hLsWKrEAhM
Footage starts at 0:44

Here is similar footage if you like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkIXc8-GPNU&t=102s

>>1693836
Story was shit but damn the visuals in this movie were top notch

>>1690734

Nujabes Wannabes - Every Other Nigger Sounding Shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_KMtm0Gn0

>>1693854
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imCm6CrNZ8
here you go anon, it's from the hotline miami 2 soundtrack

>>1644154
<<The 8492nd Squadron doesn't exist!>>

>>1694732
Music as well.

Well I tried making a new thread >>1697820 but its already turned to shit. I tried.

>>1694291
dat blue note