Military Plane discussion thread - Let’s talk Fighter/Attacker planes.

[Doctor Placebo]

The Royal Air Force had great camouflages. I swear paint jobs are like half the work of making a great air force. Like the Red Baron in World War sporting the full all red look. These camoflauges need to make a comeback as the current RAF is fully cucked and just another division of the USAF these days rather than creating their own jets. What happened to British aviation that they don't make their own planes no more?

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Now that you mention it, green camo in the sky doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Wouldn't it be much better to have some sort of white and light blue camo scheme? Something that resembles sky and clouds? How come nobody ever does that?

 

[TiggerNits]

Now that you mention it, green camo in the sky doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Wouldn't it be much better to have some sort of white and light blue camo scheme? Something that resembles sky and clouds? How come nobody ever does that?

It's for when they're parked. On the ground. Where they're the most vulnerable

 

[MrJokerRager]

Now that you mention it, green camo in the sky doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Wouldn't it be much better to have some sort of white and light blue camo scheme? Something that resembles sky and clouds? How come nobody ever does that?

The Russians use that camouflage.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

The Russians use that camouflage.

I think I'm a fan.

 

[TiggerNits]

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I think I'm a fan.

It really doesn't blend as well as you'd think when it's moving. There's a reason that most aircraft deployed in to combat zones are the same dull gray color. It works in every environment, though some are much better than others (Over water, in hazy locales, over urban places and any time where there's significant loss of light like nighttime, dawn, dusk, cloudy/foggy) and it's very easy to maintain on planes, because paint comes off of planes performing at speeds above 400kts and pulling multiple Gs without much trouble

 

[TiggerNits]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yw8g1Soigk

Fun youtube on an ejection seat alternative we used in the 60s

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

I know the thread is mostly fixed wing stuff, but I found this recent episode of the Fighter Pilot Podcast pretty interesting:

It's an aircraft that doesn't get much hype or publicity.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

 

[millais]

Some years ago, I was doing some freelance work for an unifinished RTS game that featured the X-85 as a smaller air unit which deployed from a bigger air unit.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Found this footage of what it was like bombing Nazis and Japs.

A squad of F-16s taking off.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

 

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The XB-70 gets moved outside briefly while exhibits are rearranged.

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[Mister Qwerty]

 

[TiggerNits]

 

[MrJokerRager]

I watched this movie recently and upon a closer look, the BF109s were apparently repainted P-40 fighters. And the Spits were probably the versions 2 and beyond. I guess the Mosquito and Beaufighter came way later down the road.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Dat XB-70....It's a real shame it never went into production. One thing I recently noticed.....take away the long front tube with the canards and the plane is really a flying wing design, like the B2! They are totally different aircraft, of course. The B2 was designed for stealth over speed, and certainly didn't have all those monster engines blazing away like little suns and pushing it to mach 3 speed. The Valkyrie was about as un-stealthy as you can get.

But it's interesting, lifting body/flying wing tech is older in US bombers then most people think, especially since all the preliminary work on the concept was done in Nazi Germany.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Fighters went downhill when they stopped naming them cool things like Spitfire & putting things like Jericho horns on them

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Gotta say I really like the design philosophies that went into some Russian/Soviet era fighters. The MIG-29 with the active air intake shutter and beefy landing gear for those rough and unpaved runways is just great design. I believe the Gripen was also designed with that feature or as an option.

 

[TiggerNits]

Gotta say I really like the design philosophies that went into some Russian/Soviet era fighters. The MIG-29 with the active air intake shutter and beefy landing gear for those rough and unpaved runways is just great design. I believe the Gripen was also designed with that feature or as an option.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0K3Go1L8hLQ

I'm saying this as a former harrier guy, but planning to suck so bad you lose your runways is a bad starting place for designing a fucking airplane