@ Nhampton:……….. :rolleyes:

I think he was saying, “We saved your ass in WW2 etc..” A rather
different topic to be frank and I’m sure you agree.

Some people find it hard to think that it was a joint effort during WW2, I wouldn’t give it a second thought too, but hey I like say something & its a fact, if we had lost the Battle Of Britain then our fellow American & Canadian friends wouldn’t have been able to make a stand on British soil, period, thinking back at a lesson we had at school called “History”. So really, we saved YOUR ass too just as everyone else did for eachother that was on our side! Look it up!

I wouldn’t give that type of comment a second thought here, especially, and I’m sure you will agree, from someone like him. 😉

Well I’m still waiting for him to come up with some reliable proof of why he thinks the Typhoon is obsolete that he claimed it to be on a particular thread not so long ago…Kinda has problems finding reasons & claiming such things I’m sure a lot have noticed by now.

So why mention it?

The “probably not” bit was just a poor attempt at humour/sarcasm, (in a harmless fun way of course) because you know, some “countries” can’t do anything wrong…If you know what I mean…

No matter. 😀

I take it you missed the reference? True, it doesn’t have the full effect toned down but it’s still one of my favorite lines from Pulp Fiction. 🙂 (Besides, if I’d said “American, do you speak it?” I’d have caught hell for that as well. 🙂 )

Yeah, I missed that reference, my bad. 🙂 It just made me giggle because it reminded me about last week, a couple of Americans came into the guitar shop I work in, (I’m a guitar technician/sales person there, great job) & asked me about a particular guitar we have and after I explained to them about it, they didn’t really understand what I said because of my Geordie accent, which is quite difficult to understand because we talk quite fast & overall its just strange, even to people from the UK, & one of the Yanks said; “Do you speak English, dude?”. I just said; “I am English, so yeah I guess I do! DUUUUUUUDE!”…they didn’t see the funny side of it. 😀

Why on earth would you try to do a vertical takeoff loaded up like that? STOVL (which is what the F-35 is) means “Short Take Off Vertical Landing”. You’d have to be truly desperate to need to do a vertical takeoff, you certainly would rarely PLAN to do that. Coming back is a more realistic concern because of the whole “bring-back” problem. IIRC one of the big selling points of the Super Hornet was the higher bring back load that the standard Hornet meaning you didn’t have to dump PGMs into the ocean to land. ISTR that’s also the reason the Tomcat rarely flew with six Phoenix missiles- because it couldn’t land on a carrier with six.

Well, why wouldn’t you? The RAF used to practice it with their Harrier GR1/3’s in Germany during the Cold War just in case the Soviets had a bright idea of taking out a particular airfields runway(s), may sound rather mad but it would’ve worked, yes I agree, why on earth would you try to do a vertical take off loaded like that? But it’d be a handy feature to have if the need was there to do so. But I was thinking more of doing a vertical landing with such a load? If it can’t land vertically with such a load then I’d be quite a bit dissapointed, after all, LM seems to think its the best thing since sliced bread so I’d kinda expect it to do such a thing.

Technically UCAVs were debuted in WW2….

I’m sure I seen something about them going as far nack as WW1? A show about UCAVs…

http://mil.news.sohu.com/20090924/n266958588.shtml

13 September 2009:
Reportedly, an USAF F-15 shot down an uncontrolled USAF MQ-9 Reaper, in Afghanistan.

Does that F-15 get a kill mark for this AIM-9 kill? 8D

(To quote the immortal Murphy, “Friendly fire isn’t.”)

Why are they carrying A/A missiles in Afghanistan?…:confused: Yes of course obviously to shoot down a dicky Reaper…But still, could’ve just used his gun, couldn’t he?…

The drop tank is merely the housing for the IRST and does not reflect on the actual quality of the IRST itself which should be an advancment from current systems in use.

Quite. Would have just thought they copuld’ve come up with something more subtle to house the IRST in.

Leave it to the damn Super Hornet to screw it up.

Would you, or anyone else think it would be possible to remove the gun on the F/A-18 & replace it with an IRST? Then that way at least you’ll have an extra hard point to have weapons on then. You’ll be minus a gun, but hey what can you do.

Is there any pictures of RAF Tornado GR4’s in Afghanistan floating about anywhere? Quite anxious to know what weapons and what configuration they’re carried in. Plus, would be very interested to know how well they’re doing compared to the RAF Harrier GR7/9’s.

Just for the record, I really hope someone in the RAF writes a book about the RAF, Tornado GR4, aircrew, groundcrew etc like Commander Adrian Orchard did about the Harrier, Joint Force Harrier”.(Which an incredible read I have to say) Fingers crossed*.

Another impressive one with a short take off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdJJVpI8X8E

Well it has kind of gone down hill a bit, but every forum has its down days, its normal.

As for making new threads, I thought of doing a “VS” thread, but not like say, Typhoon vs F-22, (not a big fan of those kinds, get way out of hand), but of having a thread where you compare the aeroplanes performances on a “one vs one” or “two vs two” etc etc. But this kind of thread has a bit of a twist to it, its a “Guns Only” and “Flight Performance” match up, no A/A missiles, no radars, no SA or none other fancy gadgets. Just good old plain performances and guns only, old school style if you like. And of course, comparing old jet fighters such as the likes of the old Phantom, early Harrier, EE Lightning Mig-19 etc with the modern day fighters such as the likes of SU-XX, Typhoon, F-22/35, Rafale etc anyway you want but like I say, just flight performanes & guns only. I know a lot of members, me included sometimes, frown upon “VS” threads, hence why I didn’t really make one, but I think something like this would be quite interesting. What do you say? worth a go? 🙂