The combat aviation thread

[Neutron]

True..

The thing is, most people do not realize what a tremendous advantage technology really is.

Case in point, when I was in Special Projects we had about the best equiped sub in the world. TODAY my old boat might last 5 minutes in combat. I'm talking only 15 years later.

In WW2 by late 1943 US warships were beating Japanese ships that on paper should have destroyed them. The difference was radar was getting so good the US was firing from areas and ranges where the Japanese couldn't see. A good example is the Battle Of Surigao Straight. A japanese battlesfleet was destroyed before they even knew they were being fired on.

In the Med the HMS Penelope destroyed a German Convoy that had no idea the Penelope was in the area. In fact it wasn't until after WW2 the Germans even knew the convoy wasn't lost to a Submarine.

Plains carry so much ECM now they virtually disappear in the sky, and since stand off weaponry is so good now they don't even have to come within range of a targets defenses.

Tron

 

[BigJim]

Shee-it!

 

[BigJim]

Gotta revive this old dog, as I wanted to ask a couple of questions...

Did the USN ever replace the Tomcat when it went out of service, or have they just stuck with the Hornet?

Secondly, rumour has it that F-16's are now used at the FWS. Wtf?!?! That aeroplane has no carrier capability does it, so what use is it to the Navy?

 

[subZer0]

Nice ressurection, Jimbo!

I work on Tornado's in the RAF - can't divulge what though.

I'd say the best bomber would be the Tornado. The best fighter; the Typhoon. The best pilots; RAF ones.

W00tyn355!

 

[red indian]

Good old Tronny, one of the few Septics who takes a broader view on this type of subject, and does not take the default position that we expect from septics generally, which is, that they are the greatist and bestist on the whole wide world, and always have been, and always will be.


It makes a nice change.

 

[BigJim]

Aye, I remember old Darth saying he loved a certain action sequence in a film, before describing what sounded like the Death Star attack in Star Wars. Then he revealed he was talking about The Dambusters.


Somebody slap me, for fuck's sake...

 

[BigJim]

Nice ressurection, Jimbo!

I work on Tornado's in the RAF - can't divulge what though.

Lovely planes. Without the paint from their nose cones, a lot of us would have very un-shiny boots. 😀