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My favorite part about that story is how the US built a fighter that could actually do everything needed to counter what we thought the Soviet plane could do. It was a massive flex that happened by accident.
I learned about this from this amazing video: https://youtu.be/RmlWmDokzGg?si=uL9QX9eICFPd3C0z
Mustard is a treasure.
Is this some form of Beetlejuicing?
As a kid I couldn’t decide whether the F-14 or F-15 was the most fucking awesome thing in existence. I mean, just look at them! Those planes are what sexy feels like before you’re old enough to know what sexy even means.
I mean, if you ignore the f4, the f14/15 are the sexiest aircraft ever. But, c’mon, the f4? That’s jizzing pants territory.
It was the X29 for me. That thing was sick.
If experimental planes are valid, my eyes will never betray the V-173 Flying Pancake
Kinky!
It’s the F14. Its wings fucking move to change the shape of the aircraft!
I guess this refers to MiG-24 vs. F-15. Wikipedia writes:
The appearance of the MiG-25 sparked serious concern in the West and prompted dramatic increases in performance requirements for the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, then under development in the late 1960s. The capabilities of the MiG-25 were better understood by the West in 1976 when Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected in a MiG-25 to the United States via Japan. It turned out that the aircraft’s weight necessitated its large wings.
The MiG-25 will never not be cool though.
From the title I assumed it was going to be about the F-104 Starfighter AKA Widowmaker AKA Lawn Dart AKA Aluminium Death Tube.
the starfighter looks so sexy though
Mood music from Robert Calvert’s concept album about the Starfighter.
Didn’t the opposite happen with Novichok
You know or that was all a tactic of the military-industrial complex to justify its projects.
How terrible. I sure hope that never, ever happens again.
