Bandit LOAF
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Well... nothing looks less aerodynamic than the brick... err, Avenger -- and we *know* it's atmosphere-capable.
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Well... nothing looks less aerodynamic than the brick... err, Avenger -- and we *know* it's atmosphere-capable.
Originally posted by $tormin
wings are not nessisary for flight. a couple of the X-planes used lifting bodies. they looked stupid but they flew. sorta
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cool. new rank
[Edited by $tormin on 04-28-2001 at 01:14]
Originally posted by OriginalPhoenix
A record broken since. U.S. B-52s broke it during the Gulf War, when several flew from Louisiana to the Gulf and back, launching cruise missiles on the opening night of the war. And supposedly, that record was broken by B-2 Spirits which reportedly flew a similar mission during the Kosovo incident.
Doh! Should have gone with my original instinct and said "The longest bombing mission in history to that time", as the book I was reading on the Flaklands War was a few years old. Thanks, Phoenix.
Best, Raptor
Originally posted by Ghost
What you said is right except, that the missiles was selled in the war, not before.......and of course are laws against it (don´t selling armament to any involucred country in a war),and the info that US gives to GB...well.
Eh? The only time when selling weapons to combatant nations is illegal is when an arms embargo is imposed, usually by the United Nations. That wasn't the case in the Falklands, although countries like France unilaterally embargoed sales to *Argentina* in response to their invasion of the Flaklands.
But i´m no stupid, i know that we lost the war because the GB army was better trained and equiped than ours (you can´t compare a Harrier with a A4 or SE),but our man of the Air Force was the best we had, and aginst greats odds they manage to destroy many frigates and destroyers. (and we had a drunken general as a president)
Well, i'd certainly not argue that flying a Skyhawk into the teeth of Sea Harriers and Seawolf missiles takes a great deal of courage. As a point of fact though, the British only lost two destroyers (HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry) and two frigates (HMS Antelope and one other whose name I can't remember off the top of my head.) Similarly, the British were themselves facing great odds, as they were severely outumbered in total number of aircraft and operating several thousand miles from their home bases.
Best, Raptor
Originally posted by Supdon3
I dont think in an atmosphere fighters of the future will need air lift to fly, it will be some kind of gravity repulsion or other kind of lift that keeps them from flying. It explains why a Scimitar when operational can fly and fight just fine, but once its systems go down, it, as Blair put it "glides like a brick"
Originally posted by $tormin
Originally posted by Supdon3
I dont think in an atmosphere fighters of the future will need air lift to fly, it will be some kind of gravity repulsion or other kind of lift that keeps them from flying. It explains why a Scimitar when operational can fly and fight just fine, but once its systems go down, it, as Blair put it "glides like a brick"
then why cant you use a banshee in a ground attack?
Originally posted by Supdon3
Originally posted by $tormin
Originally posted by Supdon3
I dont think in an atmosphere fighters of the future will need air lift to fly, it will be some kind of gravity repulsion or other kind of lift that keeps them from flying. It explains why a Scimitar when operational can fly and fight just fine, but once its systems go down, it, as Blair put it "glides like a brick"
then why cant you use a banshee in a ground attack?
Yes! Why, Origin, Why?
Maybe atmospheric systems are to extravagant for the Border Worlds to include in most of their fighters. To tell you the truth, those missions were really the only time i ever flew a Vindicator.
Hmm. I always flew the Vind, partly because of the Stormfire, and partly because of the Banshee; couldn't control the damn thing.
Originally posted by Bob McDob
Roberts? A Brit? Wow, that explains everything. Like why the guys in P2 talk with Britihs accents. ^_^
BTW, the Brits usually refer to Sheffield and Coventry as frigates, not destroyers...our cruisers translate into their frigates.
You mean the Ekapshi perhaps mounts specifically atmosphere Lasers and Mesons?Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Depends on the version of lasers & mesons... WC3's Confed versions weren't as effective in atmospheres.