Kilrathi ship design theory, compared to Terran design theory.

Originally posted by Valor NR
The WCM ships such as the rapier seemed like they were stolen from a WW2 book who wants to see one of the oldie ships eh. Frankly i thought they could do a little better with the Kats ships too.
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I think Hellcats and Thunderbolts were names of WWII fighters, too. Roberts just kinda likes that era in history, he compared the WC movie to the American/Japanese conflict and that the movie's opening was to reflect Pearl Harbor.
 
I've got more detailed stuff on that right now, but I don't have the time to list it...

Grummand F6F Hellcat and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Naval and land, respectivly. Both served in the Pacific. T-bolt was popularly known as the "Jug" (not the Thud, as the Viet Nam-era F-105(?) Thunder-something was called (the name escapes me at the moment). They mostly flew "Wild Weasel" missions, disrupting enemy intelligence gathering methods.
 
Originally posted by Valor NR
The WCM ships such as the rapier seemed like they were stolen from a WW2 book who wants to see one of the oldie ships eh. Frankly i thought they could do a little better with the Kats ships too.
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AFAIK the Rapier was maded with WW2 airplanes !
 
Originally posted by Ghost


AFAIK the Rapier was maded with WW2 airplanes !
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At least the terran fighters in the movie looked to me like fighters from WW2 modified to "fly" in space...I was very disappointed that they did not try to preserve the design of WC1 as good as possible...
 
Originally posted by Bob McDob
Grummand F6F Hellcat and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Naval and land, respectivly. Both served in the Pacific.
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While the P-47 did indeed serve in the Pacific, it's greater number, and greatest fame, came from the European theater, where it was initially one of the few fighters with sufficient range to escort bombers for most missions. Later, it became the primary US fighter-bomber. It was able to carry a pair of bombs and rockets, in addition to its eight (8) .50 cal machine guns, and could endure a great deal of battle damage. Think of it as analogous to the WCI Raptor, while the P-51 Mustang was the Rapier. ;)


T-bolt was popularly known as the "Jug" (not the Thud, as the Viet Nam-era F-105(?) Thunder-something was called (the name escapes me at the moment). They mostly flew "Wild Weasel" missions, disrupting enemy intelligence gathering methods.
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The name you're looking for is Thunderchief.

And for the record, Wild Weasel missions are not about disrupting intelligence; Wild Weasel missions are about suppressing enemy anti-aircraft batteries. Today, that role is filled primarily by Air Force's F-16 and the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet, though several other craft are capable of carrying the weapon of choice, the AGM-88 HARM missile.
 
Lightnings -- post war jets...

Using Spitfires would have gotten them in a lot of trouble -- surviving WW2 aircraft are precious historical artifacts. :)
 
I believe there are replica (fully operational apart from the weapons!) Spitfire kits out there, if you know where to look, so bodies wouldn't be too hard to find.

Real Spitfires are pretty rare though nowadays.

Mind you, Lightnings aren't too faar behind them.
 
Simple concept here, folks.

The Rapiers in the WCM were constructed from the forward fuselages of post-war Lightnings (early 1950's, built by BAC/British Electric), as LOAF and I have been stating.. When the WCM was being made, there were several stories and pics online of their development.

The Spitfire "kits" are really nothing more than fiberglass replica bodies slung over an engine and cockpit. They neither fly like a real Spit does, nor truly look like a real Spitfire -- which indeed are extremely rare.
 
There is also a Russian jest that looks just like the rapier just without the two enigens and without that nose gun
 
Originally posted by OriginalPhoenix
The name you're looking for is Thunderchief.

And for the record, Wild Weasel missions are not about disrupting intelligence; Wild Weasel missions are about suppressing enemy anti-aircraft batteries. Today, that role is filled primarily by Air Force's F-16 and the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet, though several other craft are capable of carrying the weapon of choice, the AGM-88 HARM missile.
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DOH!

I knew that..shoud've just put "running interference and disruption".

As planes go, spits are indeed rare, yet they're second in warbird ubiquioty only to the famous Mustang.

And as for the Rapier, don't forget the MiG 17, which was basically an upgraded version, and the -19, where the Ruskkies tore down the MiG and more or less rebuilt it from the gear up :)
 
Errr, to "not forget the MiG 17", I'd have to travel back in time to 1998 when we were discussing such things <G>
 
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