MrYenko posted:

Also, I’d like to take this opportunity to restate my dislike of the post-cold-war habit of using GRAU numbers to refer to Russian hardware, instead of NATO reporting names.

Dante80 posted:

Given the specifics, nothing regarding a India-Pakistan nuclear war would be "limited". They've got enough ordnance and delivery vehicles between them to gently caress SE Asia for a millennium.

a noob, unrelated question. What is that "zimmerit" like looking coating on top of the Mk41 cell covers?



I don't see this in other applications, like the Chinese UVLS for example.

Shooting Blanks posted:

Just to give some perspective on what a major war between Pakistan and India would look like, consider North Korea. One major reason China keeps propping them up (besides being a useful foil to the US and providing China with more regional authority) is that China is utterly terrified of how to deal with the NK population if it turns into a refugee crisis, and that's only 25 million. India and Pakistan would be many orders of magnitude worse and more difficult to deal with, for any number of reasons.

mlmp08 posted:

The Strategic Hamlet program kinda sounds like a good idea if pitched well, but in execution, ohhh nooooooo

Memento posted:

https://twitter.com/qretaxyeta/status/1229040535731568640

Bear in the woods

JcDent posted:

OK, what is it carrying?

FuturePastNow posted:

Do they still keep the tailgunner on those?

priznat posted:

Welp I can’t see much else topping this, daymn

Tias posted:

Kinda serious question: Why haven't militaries either gone back to the UH-1 or at least used it as the platform for a new helicopter? I can only find two incidents of accidents with it, compared to the 20+ blackhawks and 50+ Mi-s that have gone boom

Madurai posted:

The Kuznetzov also has volume that would be hangar taken up by the antiship missile tubes.

Gnoman posted:

The ASM tubes were a treaty dodge. The Montreux Convention allows Turkey to ban naval vessels over a certain size from transiting out of the Black Sea. The treaty exempts capital ships, but aircraft carriers are not capital ships under the convention. So the Soviets fitted the heavy anti-ship battery to make their carriers into capital ships and have free transit.


China and India don't need to go into the Black Sea, so they have no use for the dodge.

large hands posted:

Do French planes use those (British) ejection seats that do the tie thing?

Cessna posted:

Has anyone built a new plane with swing-wings since the 70s?

Stravag posted:

Man you guys, the an72 is goofy as gently caress and i love it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72

bewbies posted:

I think the closest thing historically to that is the Renown class? I'm eager to be wrong on this though.

Platystemon posted:

Nebakenezzer posted:

There is some prototype Soviet turboprop [ground attack? Torpedo?] aircraft that I feel top's Bewbies' aircraft as it looks horrified at its own existence but I'm blanking on the name right now.

Warbadger posted:

I am still waiting for something equivalent to the old Janes ATF series and such with the somewhat realistically modelled aircraft and weapons combined with simple flight controls. Most options either go full-sperg realism or full-anime arcade.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I'm Canadian and I still don't get it.



Thread-related: What's one of the more underrated or less-talked about aircraft during the Vietnam War era, but not necessarily from that conflict, and why?

CBJamo posted:

Are the F-16 and F-22 the only fighters with frameless canopies?

JcDent posted:

And a completely left field question: can you repurpose an obsolete AShM or AA missile into a Yemeni cruise missile, and why not? Is it the range (the Krug can do Mach 4... for 55 kilometers), the missiles not being designed for maneuvers, or the difficulty of developing and producing the guidance kit would mean that you'd be better off with a clean-sheet design?

MrYenko posted:

Early models of the RD-33 were... A bit thirsty.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I obviously can't be sure but I think this is the lav on a Tu-160 that often gets showcased as the lav on an Su-34./url]

Raenir Salazar posted:

I don't get the distinction between Nimitz and Kusnetsov.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

It kinda started with the B-36, which omitted any defensive weaponry other than an a rear autocannon turret.

Saint Celestine posted:

Can we modify the B-29 to carry PGMs or an ALCM in its bomb bay? Has this hypothetical argument gone completely off the rails yet?

Nebakenezzer posted:

PS> John Wilkes Booth assassinating President Lincoln is like if Tom Cruise assassinated a president, dude was known as a top-level actor

Discussion Quorum posted:

Random trivia question that just bubbled into my brain: has the US ever shot down a hostile warplane with a SAM? Have ground/sea-based US anti-air defenses engaged or poo poo down any manned hostile aircraft since Korea?

Madurai posted:

I'm going to assume that Iraq was the one doing the Tomcat shooting, since Iran would be the one with the Tomcats.

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

It uh, didn't, technically. The -23 and the -27 are bureaucraticly different aircraft types.

zoux posted:

What's that huge deck in the middle for

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Hey folks, I could use some recommendations for relatively modern (very vaguely defined as post-1980 or so) weird aircraft. The context is that my game is a very silly naval combat game, and consequently I've been throwing in a bunch of really weird-looking airplanes. My current list of implemented or planned planes (about half of these are actually in the game right now)

david_a posted:

Yes, shown below in its natural state