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08-22-2016, 07:28 PM | #1 |
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what a sec....
on that F-16XL....where are the horizontal stabs? the Euro Fighter doesn't have them, but use the canards in lieu of them... the F-16XL must have a double secret probation badass flight management system.
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08-22-2016, 07:35 PM | #3 |
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your fun fact of the day regarding NATO designations of aircraft from the cold war (and probably still the case to a degree).
NATO names given to FSU aircraft to help easily and quickly identify and refer to them. so, names like, Mig-21 Fishbed, Su-25 (i think?)Frogfoot, Tu-90 Bear, Tu-160 Blackjack, Mig 19 ( I think?)Farmer, MiG-29 Fulcrum etc. 2 syllables = jet 1 = prop F - Fighter B- Bomber there's lots of other designators/names, but those are the most commonly talked about.
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The weapon this guy is wielding is not a sword, it is a knife:
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See back in high middle ages Germany, the peasants couldn't walk around in public with a sword* but you could with a knife because a knife is a tool. For protection, the knives got longer as a longer blade protects you better. Eventually, they became the size of sword but were still constructed like a knife even usually blunt on one side. Eventually, the nobility picked them up as the messer and kriegsmesser actually brought new features to sword form like the knuckle and hand guards. Basically, the sword sized knife became so popular as a form of protection that the nobility couldn't ban it rather they rules lawyered it away as a knife and adopted it for their own use because of the features introduced to it. *Unlike the east, peasants in middle ages Europe were expected and required to have arms as they would be called up in the local militia or as a peasant levy. They were not allowed to go armed in public normally though. |
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08-22-2016, 07:37 PM | #7 |
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Rooskie pilots supposedly owned the Fulcrum moniker once they learned of it.
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Jesus...just saw those other two pictures.
wow.
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Valkyrie was also done in by the mid air collision between it and a F-104 during a LM photo op
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yeah, when I first saw the Fulcrum and Flankers, I thought they were some of the baddest looking fighters I'd seen. (This was back in around '97 for me) especially the 27/35s.
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it's like Link from Zelda, metamorphasized into a middle aged, mid-management, suburban husband with a proclivity towards 'knives'.
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Those crazy Russians.
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Pretty sure you just won the thread, Notorious
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Ground effect is magical, y'all
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