Delete the political name calling babble and only allow posts dealing with how Russia is working with Syria in this conflict.

The childish ignorant insults born of obtuse opinion should not be tolerated.

ABE LINCOLN: Vampire Hunter

Much, much better than I expected .

But it was a long time ago – half a century in fact, during the Vietnam war. Most US kills against North Vietnamese MiGs were with missiles in any case, and almost all air-to-air kills since then around the world have been with missiles – gun kills are almost the rare exception today.

Most failures to kill were also with missiles which sailed off to nowhere land.

:applause:

Because a couple of our American friends rise to the bait every time.

If our pointless blandishments went unanswered the thread would wither and die.

Moggy

You sir, are an ishy person.:p

The reason I posted this was to see the reaction the story brought; I did not post it to show the need for armed self-defense. Other employees at other business of similar nature, have defended themselves and then been fired for defending themselves and those around them.

I put that here because of the reaction of the criminals parents.
It would seem illogical and rather moronic but as my sister lives in an area with persons who have similar illogical views of society, and the father of her first three children went to prison for armed robbery, I wanted to see how some in the U.K. would respond to such an attitude. ( He told me once those rich people do not need all that money and my sisters attitude back then in reality was really not all that different)

The responses I got were pretty much as expected.

Chin intakes do look good on a few aircraft but most of these are ugly with what amounts to a swollen belly-button.

I was checking over at the Six site and found this bit about some mods to the aircraft done by one tech. while he was working on them.
Thought I would put them here just for the heck of it.

Lorin – you would have been amazed at just how well the MA-1 performed at the end of the program!

First – the IR was all revamped for the 3rd time when we installed TEC – Thermo Electric Cooldown. that eliminated the compressor, the nitro lines, the evaporators, the dehydrators and we never ever serviced any nitrogen again!

Then we had AHRG. This eliminated the stable table and most all of the SCRG units. One main gyro with a lot of computer help. You could almost do a “waypoint” navigation to anywhere you wanted to go!

Optical sight was pretty much gone and the HUD was installed on all the “A” models fitted with the gun.

The Single generator feature was fantastic with the addition of PUP – the Power Upgrade. No longer needed the big ECU-10 or M-32 for ground power. All that was needed on ground was basically a 28VDC power. All power was derived from internal circuitry. We had a “589” unit in the 05 hole and a 926 unit in the RADAR rack to provide all power to our system. ALL those nasty old vacuum tube filters and voltage regulators were gone! MGUAMPS were never seen again!

The AFCS was a great addition back in 1972-73. The old AFCS units in the 05 hole were removed and I personally kicked one across the hangar floor at speedliine at Hamilton!

The bubble canopy and gun mod was added and when we picked up the HUD – Heads up Display- along with a totally new 149 unit the package really nested very well with our system. The only real hindrance was that only “A” model – Vertical taped birds would be used for the gun. NO “B” model was ever modded. The gun was in a pod mount and totally replaced the MB-1 rack in the weapons bay. Check with Ralph Robledo at Castle Air museum for close up pictures. He has the only gun pod – with gun – that I know of!

UHF was modded and improved at least 3 times. The last radio I saw was an ARC-169. The TACAN was pretty much left alone though internal upgrades were accomplished.

I’m sure there are a few other mods I missed – like the “Gold Plate” project that replaced ALL the coax connectors in the aircraft and the box and rack plugs with gold plated pins and connectors. That really made the system click!

For the airframe – one big mod I do remember was a re-skinning of the aircraft wings. The upper skins were cracking at the rivit seams and the repairs were beginning to leak more than ever. The A.F. decided to re-skin the wings – thus giving many more flying hours to the airframes. In the end – the program was winding down so the numbers of airframes being modded were also reduced. The final tally on reskinning and gun mods along with the new RADAR receiver were reduced to about 85 total airframes.
Oh – the new RADAR receiver was an all solid state model taken from the F-18! The paramp was replaced with a solid state device and really improved the reception and lockon range. Though the lockon – max range was left the same. I was there for some of the receiver testing on the HUGHE”S -WOOD NOSE” test mockup! YES – the frame of that mockup was actually made of wood – PLYWOOD to be exact! I had heard of it all my early career and finally got to see- and touch it!

The only real competition the T-50 has is the F-106.
The Chinese J/f-8 is an attractive aircraft.

The F14 looked like a pregnant whale.

Looked like something from the 60’s.

LOL, well the Rafale looks like a bulimic Mirage.