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The Five Worst Fighter Aircraft of All Time
National Interest - Commentary ^
| 1-11-2013
| Robert Farley
Posted on 01/11/2014 8:25:52 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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Number 2 sure looks ugly.
To: Sir Napsalot
Sorry, the date of the article should have been 1-11-2014!
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:27:08 AM PST
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Sir Napsalot
To: Sir Napsalot
The article was way to long and not well enough written to keep me reading. I didn’t even see a one though five listing.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:32:12 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Sir Napsalot
The MiG-23 was supposed to be the Soviet answer to the F-14 Tomcat,Wrong! The author can't even copy-paste material from a reliable source.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:32:47 AM PST
by
fso301
To: Sir Napsalot
Bumping this for later and more detailed response. The guy is full of sh!t on multiple levels in both facts and analysis.
To: Sir Napsalot
The MiG-23 proved to be a disaster in air combat--it was woefully inadequate against the technologically superior F-15's and F-16's flown by the Israeli Air Force. Small wonder why the Soviets had to develop the MiG-29 and Su-27 FAST.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:33:32 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Sir Napsalot
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter earned the unofficial name of “post hole digger” I think in Germany....the story goes the pilots sometimes would auger straight into the ground. IIRC, the problem actually was an on-board oxygen supply system depot level where the oxygen generation systems for supply tanks were located near the exhaust of some other combustion source. Tainted oxygen causing the pilots to black out.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:37:22 AM PST
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Gaffer
To: Gaffer
Also, one of the first fighters I can recall that had a thrust-to-weight ratio of greater than 1. Could climb like a bullet....
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:39:11 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Gaffer
Not really a fighter but the RA-5 Vigilante rates at the top of someone’s “worst” list.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:39:35 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Sir Napsalot; zot
Thanks for the post. Although I think most of the century series were to combat Russian bombers more than to engage in fighter-on-fighter combat
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:44:47 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Sir Napsalot
Good subject Sir......The military needs shaking up every few years or they petrify in their thinking. Early in WWII Claire Chennault proved how to fight a superior force and nobody listened but kept going head to head with Zeros althougtht knowing they weren't as fast.
However I would list the Zero as the first which became the worst. The lack of armor, self sealing tanks and some with out radios made them into flying bombs that needed only a few hits to make them explode.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:50:40 AM PST
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virgil283
(When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
To: Sir Napsalot
Didn’t George W. Bush fly one of the Century series fighters during his term of service with the Air National Guard?
Either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Sometimes impossible to distinguish between the two, so maybe the same thing.
A flying stovepipe with wings. And that series was not even particularly automated.
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:56:33 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
01/11/2014 8:59:49 AM PST
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: GreyFriar
Although I think most of the century series were to combat Russian bombers more than to engage in fighter-on-fighter combat
That's pretty much correct. None of them were dogfighters. The F-104 was designed and built for straight line speed and climb.
The Buffalo. Actually not a bad aircraft at all, until you added armor, guns and military radios. It was a good performer without the added weight.
To: Sir Napsalot
The F-105 “Thud” performed fairly well in Viet Nam and was the workhorse of the USAF. Col. Daniel James flew a F-101 “Voodoo” effectively in Viet Nam. The F-104 was just scary but for going from point A to point B had no other competitor except for the SR-71. I knew of two mercy missions that a pilot flew in a F-104 in record time.
To: alloysteel
He flew the F102, and it’s doubtful he did so out of choice. It was the plane the USAF assigned to the Texas ANG to fulfill the role of intercepting Soviet bombers based in Cuba. Anything less than a skilled (and lucky) pilot flying a super sonic stiletto with stubby delta wings would not last long, much less for 500 plus flying hours.
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posted on
01/11/2014 9:13:56 AM PST
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: Sir Napsalot
I once heard a Phantom jockey declare that that aircraft was “living proof that with a big enough engine, you can make a piano fly.”
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posted on
01/11/2014 9:15:33 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: vetvetdoug
The F111 was a good plane after the bugs were worked out. The Aussies just retired the last of theirs last year.
The F4 as a Dishonorable mention? This guy had rocks in his head. It was a great plane and did a lot of countries well.
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01/11/2014 9:19:37 AM PST
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Yorlik803
( Church/Caboose in 2016)
To: Sir Napsalot
Dishonorable Mention: General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Messerschmidt Bf 110, Bolton-Paul Defiant, Fairey Fulmar, Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter. Really? Phantom in dishonorable mention?
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posted on
01/11/2014 9:20:53 AM PST
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hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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