They used the F-104 as an interceptor, the role for which it was designed and in which it excelled.

The F-104 excelled at hi-altitude hi-speed engagements, thats it, a very narrow band of capability when you consider low level intruders that the F-104 would be completely incapable of matching turn rate with at low altitude

The Super Tiger is an unknown quantity since it never entered service while the Mirage probably would have been a better striker but a worse interceptor and the F-8 would not have had the upgrade potential of the others.

I would not call the capability of the Super Tiger unknown, when the J79 was fitted it put the Super Tiger into an entirely new class and was the first jet to go Mach 2, so in a sense it went into the unknown before everything else. The airframe would have had to be completely redesigned as it was not strong enough to bear the weight of the J79 in operational service. Both the Germans and Japanese were considering the Super Tiger, bribery of officials can be the only logical explanation for why Super Tiger lost to the F-104 as it out excelled the F-104 in every way.

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People that claim cannabis oil cures cancer, or any number of other illnesses. They go so far as to claim there is proof of this, yet the proof either turns out to be sensationalist news reporting or endless Youtube videos of new age quackery. Even worse, this sort of belief tends to go off the deep end into the conspiracy realm whereby one is an idiot if you didn’t realise that cannabis cures every disease

The effect that marijuana has that is beneficial to diseases like cancer is that it induces the desire to eat a lot. This effect is referred to as the “munchies”. Ive experienced this first hand because I grew up in southern California in the 70s and 80s where smoking pot was as common as drinking beer. Nowadays my generation is raising teenagers and we can legally force our children to get ripped on legal drugs such as Xanax and Adderall.

I don’t see why a forum as small and as niche as this one requires anything above minimal moderation. Was this forum much busier in the past? Seems like there is fewer than twenty unique users on here on any given day. :confused:

OH WOW, now there’s a question. Yes this forum used to be quite hopping with hundreds of people embroiled in daily drama. I dont know when this place died out, but it was at its peak around 2006 or 2007 (Ive been on AFM since 2000 under the names Brad and mixtec). The only names I recognize from those old times are DazDaMan, frankvw and Moggy C. I recall back then that the keymags staff got sick of breaking up fights here so they held elections for users to vote for moderators from among the users. The users here ended up with two guys, frankvw and Flood. Flood was literally the worst troll here, the perfect example of the lunatic running the asylum. And then there was this guy named snapper….oh, I should let others describe him.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?20114-Best-Worst-of-The-Three-Stooges-you-chose!&highlight=snapper+figure

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oh oh, someone broke some windows

The problem is that you also have to make from scratch the machinery and tooling used in the production line. Only that more than triples the cost per aircraft.

Best regards,

somehow I doubt all the countries whove built aircraft under license have paid triple the cost

anyhow what is particularly in it for France, Dassault or SNECMA?

money?