I just love MiG's. Why? Because the ruskies just rawdogged everything. They saw the F16 with all that fancy fly by wire stuff and made a nimble MiG without any real computer assisted flying with the fulcrum. You have the fastest plane with the SR-71? Well fuck that, here , we've put an after burner on that MiG-31 so big it more or less matches the SR-71 speed. It just burns through the engine in one flight and the airframe also takes a big hit when you use it but who cares about costs, we're commies.

Soviet aerospace engineers man. You just have to love them. They really used that hammer logic (hit it harder!) on everything.

Or the approach which led to the hind heli. What? You need a gunship and you need a troop transport? What do you say, the Americans have pinpoint precision on that superCobra and that shiny Apache thingy?

Here, i've made it big so it can fit a lot of troops. I've added some large wings so you can fill her up with all kinds of low tech Rockets so you don't need pinpoint precision. Just point and click in the general direction and everything over there is annihilated. Yeah, that goes for that tank and that family of twelve 100m further down the street where you didn't aim at as well.

But, they aren't us anyway so.... And next to that the fucker is really fast for such a big helo..

The design principles are so fantasticly wack. Matching (try to) western computertech with low tech solutions.

Did your paper include the ground speed check story?

What if it's the Gripen?

Could I....um see it please

At the very least the f15 strike eagle (the most successful combat airframe of all time if you look at missions to frame losses or mission success).

The SR-71 is really fast and sleek, sure, but how can it be your favourite when it doesn't even have a massive gun that goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!...?

Perhaps they have the plane autism that's about the business side of things.

Right and the facts aren’t even that great. I lowkey call bullshit on this.

And boring marketing material at it.

I remember as a kid, a good friend gave me the marketing material for (at the time) Aérospaciale helicopters. That stuff was premium with beautiful, detailed drawings of a Super Puma on very fancy paper. I loved that shit.

You too?

F-15? That's a funny way of writing F-111

As a novice to birding, Imma need those references!

I may be a 41 year old, never married, single man, but the A-10 is the best plane ever built.

I will die on this lonely hill.

Screw you, and your non F-14 opinion!