Since the Cobra maneuver appeared for the first time in Paris Lebourget 1989

The YF-17 was doing it long before then.

:rolleyes: , a proven tactics by the US since Gulf war to bomb everything with cruise missiles and then send their 100million$ air superiority fighters to secure the area. So far, so good for them.

The first shots of Desert Storm were fired by Apaches, taking out several ground based air defense radar sites.

Amigos, sory to bust your “US-way-of-thinking” buble but not all future air engagements are going to look like Desert storm … … with no radar cover, no operational AA “umbrella” and so on.

Open a history book sometime. When Desert Storm began, Iraq had one of the most comprehensive, modern integrated air defenses in the world. The only place in the world more heavily defended from air attack than Baghdad might have been Moscow. Overnight, the entire system was utterly and completely destroyed.

Please, try not to be so subjective in your opinion

…said the Pot to the Kettle.

Hands down, the baddest thing in the air.

And its true, the Eagles look almost factory fresh at probably around 25 years 🙂

That’s one of the things proper funding for maintenance will give you.

Great photo, Flex.

I’ll bet if one were to measure them, even most of the angles would be identical between the two.

the KUB airbrake differs, with a distinctive bulge – perhaps even incorporating an intake.

Oh, yeah. In the second picture of yours, that really does look like an intake. 2 intakes, actually.

Therefore, in places like Texas where the Confederate Flag is ubiquitous, those hating their skin would be more aggressive in this behavior than those Chinese from the coasts.

Based on this statement alone, I’d bet money you’ve never been here (Texas). The Confederate flag isn’t at all ubiquitous. The Texas flag, however, is absolutely everywhere. I’ve visited about half the states in the country, and I’ve never seen any that fly their state flag in more places than we do here.

And Texas is not a racist state; at least, there are no more racist people here than anywhere else. For the most part, we’re Texans first — any other heritage is secondary. And, most people in America find Texas to have some of the friendliest people anywhere.

You can badmouth the US all you want, but when you run down Texas…well, it’s a bit more personal! 😀

And this is about as off-topic as it gets; my apologies.