Are you talking about something fresh off the factory floor and not painted yet?

I’ve run out of testing vials for all the urine drug testing I’d want to do on this thread…

Ahhh the nostalgia of the 1980s and the Virginia-class strike cruiser (CGSN):

If I remember correctly the intent was to convert the USS Long Beach as an interim type strike cruiser to test the concepts/equipment operationally while the actual Virginia CGSN class would have had 8-12 hulls purpose built as strike cruisers.

Why would Finnish Air Force Buffaloes, Hurricanes, and Fokker fighters fit in with the theme of this thread?

Hence the Phantom’s nickname “The Great Smoking Thuderhog”!!

Thanks for the heads up on this one.

The IDF/AF was greatly impressed when they got their first USAF F-4’s. They had been using the Navy model but, after they lost so many aircraft during the War of Yom Kippur, the USAF shipped from Germany new F-4’s to help replace the aircraft lost.

I thought the IDF only used the F-4E model? What US Navy models of the Phantom were they using?

Hi guys
Just asking because like to know do we have the technology to send humen to moon and keep him alive ?
and I seen on a program that apollo mission in 1969 was fake!!

To link it to Modern Military Aviation section would be nice to have some info about when we gonna see a militery base on moon surface? My gues is about 40 years.

Kids, I’ll say it again. Just say NO. Now I know that a lot has transpired since the 1980s and whole “this is your brain on drugs” thing, but the answer is always NO to drugs.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

eventhough the Su-32FN is supersonic, the ASW must be carried out less than Mach 1, to hunt the sub-30 knot submarines.

It reminds me of the observation a comedian once made as to why a bass boat had to go 65mph- “I never seen bass that could swim that fast!”

The only value I can see is getting to the patrol areas faster.