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Is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the New F-4?
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| September 3, 2014
| Michael Peck
Posted on 09/03/2014 6:55:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: mad_as_he$$; traditional1; Las Vegas Dave; Pontiac; Whenifhow; RaceBannon; kristinn; sauropod
The best view of an F4 was in burners, going away from you AFTER it had dropped it’s iron bombs or napalm from BEHIND you, guaranteeing that the bastards in front of you were not resolute as they used to be.
To: ExTxMarine
“Absolutely LOVE the F-4!”
John McCain not so much.
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:36:58 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: DAC21
John McCain not so much. Didn't he fly an F-105 Thud?
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posted on
09/03/2014 9:45:52 AM PDT
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SeeSharp
To: DAC21
John McCain flew the A-4 Skyhawk.
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posted on
09/03/2014 10:15:02 AM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: SeeSharp
McCain flew the A-4 Skyhawk. Mostly he crashed the A-4 Skyhawk.
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posted on
09/03/2014 10:20:42 AM PDT
by
LifePath
To: ExTxMarine
I loved them, too. Never got to work on one after tech school, wound up on the F-111D instead. Did have a favorite t-shirt, now long gone, with a pic of an F-4E and “World’s largest distributor of MIG parts” on it. ;)
The F-111 was truly an abortion, but I remember teething problems with the F-15 & F-16, as well. I personally rewrote “Camptown Race Track” to say “Nellis flight line, three miles long, do dah. -16’s crashing all day long, oh my do dah day!” back in the day. It wasn’t really that bad, but sometimes looked it from my point of view as a photographer there at Nellis, late 70’s to early 80’s.
Old Student.
WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
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09/03/2014 11:04:04 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(Do NOT make me get out the torches and pitchforks...)
To: NorthMountain
To: SampleMan
That said, it would have had a much better record as a fighter, if the AIM-7 Sparrow missile wasnt such a POS during the Vietnam war. The failings of that missile made most encounters a knife fight, where the MiG 17s and 19s were allowed to maximize their strengths. PLS do not omit the idiotic decision to get rid of the internal gun.
Those Sparrows were a POS. The birds we launched were usually without long range A-A capability because the avionics guys could not get the Sparrows and radar to align. Bombs had to be dropped anyway, and we knew the Sidewinders would work.
To: GBA
Decade after decade, design after design, it's the same old, same old.Those Wright Flyers were DEATHTRAPS, I tell ya!
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posted on
09/03/2014 1:54:56 PM PDT
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Rodamala
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/03/2014 3:51:30 PM PDT
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RaceBannon
(Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
To: rdcbn
the A-6 could carry 24 500 lb bombs
32 if you took off the landing gear covers
the B-52 carried 124 I think?
The F-11 carried 74...
MOS 7242 1977-1981
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posted on
09/03/2014 3:54:09 PM PDT
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RaceBannon
(Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
To: Rodamala
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posted on
09/03/2014 5:20:06 PM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
To: RaceBannon
Ah, VMFA-323, The Death Rattlers. My last fixed wing squadron before I transferred to a rotary wing group.
That bird is far too clean and pretty to be one of the beasts I humped ordnance onto in RVN. Looks like a different version too without the white radome.
To: RaceBannon
Never had one of our F-4s configured that way, but apparently they could be set up with a MER outboard and TER inboard on each wing, with another MER on the centerline for a total of 24. Our planes always flew with wingtanks outboard, just heard about the mondo bomber setup.
The power to get it into the air was certainly there.
To: tanknetter
The F-35 is really more of a stealthy A-7 than F-4. actually
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posted on
09/05/2014 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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