at the end of the day i think ,how good or bad your kit is or how meny you have got do not matter…as most if not all wars in the past have proved, the biggest weopan is morale and detemination.
thankfully we will never know for sure, who would win or lose. if the WP invaded the west, NATO would be fighting for there homelands and a battle of Britain senario would have set in, and we all know the outcome of that. if NATO invaded WP then the same. whatever side started to think they was losing then nuclear weopons would have been used…then it would have been goodbye sweet mary…..in other words i do not think we would be here today posting on this forum if it happend….. 🙂

i cannot belive that…the USAF with no starlifters. they have always been my favorite US transporter…will eny be offered to cival operators i wonder… 🙁

i think there is three types of things the RAF [in the last 30 years], seems to like to name there combat aircraft after. as we said birds of prey, storms and big cats… [harrier, hawk, tornado, typhoon, jaguar, lynx, merlin, puma, lightning]… the RAF seemed to stop naming combat aircraft [bombers] after citys with the Lincoln and the Canberra, city names being relegated of sorts to transport types. so i dont think the TSR-2 would have been named after a city, my vote would go for EAGLE, TORNADO !!, LEOPARD… 🙂

the good old mig-28.. you have got to admit the soviets done a fantastic job on copying the F-5E tiger…they must have used them as night fighters being black i mean. what was the kifirs [sorry migs] called in iron eagle, mig-26s or something…lol… 😀

comon people we are talking about TV…..the same place we watched tom cruise shooting down black F-5Es [sorry i mean mig-33s] in his tomcat, not so long ago. :rolleyes:

i have never seen a picture of a nimrod dropping or launching weapons…..
why did the RAF equip there nimrods with harpoons was the sea eagle to large to fit in the bomb bay ????.

“may the force be with you”

that is a good question…i have often thought the same thing….
at the time the RAF liked to name there aircraft after birds of prey..kestral, harrier, hawk…you never no the TSR-2 may have been named after one…buzzard, eagle, merlin, goshawk….but i suppose we will never know.