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Best Damn Airplanes on the Earthness
The F-15 Eagle's been fuckin shit up for decades. It is a bundle of love!
It loves to blow shit up! It's not the top fighter anymore, being outclassed by the F/A-22 and F-35, but who gives a shit.
It lost a fucking wing and still landed
F/A-22 Raptor because fuck you
Only two kinds of people hate her. The people she's shooting at and mechanics
F-35 will fuck you up and down
It's close. So fucking close and its sweet. This son of a bitch has caught a lot of heat but she's an ass kicker
Mother fucking Typhoon Eurofighter
She's quick, she's nimble, she puts weapons on target. What more do you want?
F-16 Fighting Falcon is a bundle of hatred that's been bottled and directed in a single direction
It'll blow you up... And then waaaay down. An awesome little plane that can turn with almost anything
This fighter wants to fucking kill everything
F/A-18 Super Hornet.... That whisper in the night that sends shivers up your spine?
Those footsteps following you down a creepy fucking alley?
It's the freaking F/A-18 Super Hornet! It's just awesome
The MK II Viper. The British really knocked it out of the park with this one. Suborbital death machine with laser defense system to burn out radar/heat seeking missiles. Savage
Saab gripen. You get what you pay for
Looks like the god damned Vikings spent juuuust the right amount
A-10 YOU ALREADY KNOW!
Titanium fucking run around the pilot, fly by wire computer controlled hydronic avionics with redundant backup old school pulley system, she's built AROUND a big ass Vulcan machine gun that's built to kill tanks, and she's built to be rugged beyond reason. She doesn't want much. She just wants to show you what she can do.
Mig 29 Fulcrum The AK-47 of the airplane world. She's not the best at anything. She's not that expensive
And there's a shit load of them. I hate love this plane.
SU-35 Fuck you Russia. Fuck you right in the ass.
She's fast. She has range. She has ordinance. And BOY can she turn and climb. Fuck you
Tornado
What do the Europeans send in when they absolutely DEFINITELY need something to blow up?
They call in a force of nature known as the Tornado
AV-8B Harrier. She ain't fast but that's alright. She'll fill her enemies with lots of fright
The marines love this plane like the air force loves its a-10s. The thing just fucking works!
Ending off with the best god damned plane ever made again
F-15.... I love you
You're my homedog and I hope you get to blow shit up for many years to come!
High 5 buddy
Airplanes
scatteredneurons
+1 for an actual educated assessment of all fighters. People tend to overlook the F-35's battlefield data and communications capabilities.
CheekyHorseBoy
If we Europeans need something to blow up, then we send the Germans!
youseemlikeadecentfellow
But does it go BRRRRTRRTTTTT?
TheBurmecianGuy
I always loved the F-16 in all its shapes and variants. Practically grew up with the sound of that plane wooshing over my head.
Groetgaffel
You missed Saab 37 Viggen. Gripen's predecessor, and the first fighter that used canards, several decades before the Eurofighter.
Turdf3rguson223
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrtt brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
TheWulfrunian
*Aeroplane. Bloody colonials.
NOINITIATIVE
when you invent it first, you can name it
LetumComplexo
theyinventedthelanguage /s
Bumcivilian
No SR-71?!
Skulties1
Scrolled all the way down to comments to mention battlestar galctica. But I forgot why
Mcknizzle
I guess we'll never know
aviator4788
you get a upvote, but you have two different F-15's. one is the normal f-15 and the other is a F-15E
Mcknizzle
I'm not partial. All variants of the f-15 are winners in my book!
asstittiesandcatsman
I hate working ok the E model.
PhineasorFerb
Pretty much all the models suck as a Sheetmetal troop. Plus, it's the only plane that can make NDI actually job.
asstittiesandcatsman
Haha. I like the 16 tho.
WhynotVenger
One of these is a Cylon.
v3rmilion
WHERE'S MY FOXBAT
Mcknizzle
That hunk of junk?
blaak0magik
I spy with my little eye a BRRRRRRRRRRTTT
HungryWampa
But are their wings sharp like katana?
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Zokalwe
No Rafale? Come on, you could even have made a joke about how great the french are at going on strikes.
Mcknizzle
The rafale can suck an egg! But yeah that's been a great joke. I'll make another airplane post in a month and add it
Cheomesh
The Swiss don't fly Super Hornets. In fact, none of those pictures are Super Hornets. Super Hornets have square intakes.
Mcknizzle
i made a oopsie
divingin
All Charlie models, I think. The one with the painted canopy on the underside (to confuse the enemy in a furball) is Canadian.
thundercactus
It's an antiquated F-18A (CF-18). We're abandoning the F35 project and (fingers crossed) buying some brand new F18E super hornets.
Cheomesh
I know one or two things about that.
TheCrimsonFukr
As a former Viper loader, I really wish they put some more thought into the gun system. Same gun as the F-15, but forgot to plan ahead.
sum1ne1
+1 for the MK II Viper and sheer enthusiasm
dbba
No Cobra Mk III? It's the choice of the elite
Mcknizzle
Viper for the win!
Synapt
FAS to rule them all.
DavidBrooker
#15 is not a Superhornet. It's a Canadian legacy Hornet; their aircraft were built A/B and subsequently upgraded to roughly C/D standard.
Mcknizzle
Agreed I fudged the pickle on that one but all hornets are super imo so it comes out a wash maybe?
Cheomesh
Swiss don't fly Supers, either.
thundercactus
The F18E/F are Super Hornets, 15% larger with a plethora of modern improvements. It's almost a different plane, thus the "Super".
Mcknizzle
Yes that's true BUT I love it so why not call them all super now that I've set the precedent
Goddamnitoldman
Nice to see my F-15 on top of the list with a record of 102-0 kills.
TheSwallowSavvyGuard
Fun fact: Many Russian fighters, particularly the Mig-29, are capable of landing violently with no landing gears extended.
TheSwallowSavvyGuard
In the words of Zapp Brannigan; "she's built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro"
Mcknizzle
I suppose any aircraft has the ability to land violently though
NotSoSubtleCallidusAssasin
SU-35 you cute little bundle of death, you can not love it <3
hsimah
Uh isn't that a photo from Battlestar Galactica? The Viper.
sauvemonkey
Omg did you not read the description? It's from the RAF. God.
ProfessorMatt
#OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers
Squossifrage
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perseco
Wait... that wasn't from Star Wars?
ThatOnePolarBearOnTheLeft
http://assets2.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/25298/original/449px-The_Office__USA_-Dwight_Schrute.jpg?1291737714
hsimah
No, definitely Battlestar. I looked it up and everything.
HappyJello
But no nighthawk or rafale :(
Mcknizzle
F-117 has been decommissioned and the rafale can go suck an egg
TwitchySphincter
No F-14 Tomcat? But, Top Gun
Squossifrage
Retired 10 years ago now, except for a few that the US sold to Iran before the revolution.
Kabibble
There should have been a Tomcat tax.
TEDwisdom
That goddamn beautiful swing-wing. Closest thing we've got to a real-life transformer yet. (Unless you count the Osprey; also beautiful)
BubbleGutandtheHotSnakes
I love that airplane. I mean look at it![]()
ninjato229
This was my thought as well. I'm even wearing the "Because I was Inverted" shirt right now.
Sentwy23
This should make it up a bit.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M74yB9duRc
Provel
Super took over its mission
MechaNinja
AIM-54 Phoenix - when you absolutely must kill every motherfucker on the other side of the date line - accept no substitutes.
TheLastPunslinger
Next post is @op favorite missiles. Patience, man, patience
Oojoomi
Too bad it only does that on paper. It's operational history was just Ok
MechaNinja
I feel like AIM-54 was one of those "designed for the last war" things - never got used for what it was designed for 'cause it never came up
questionableanswers
It was designed against big soviet bombers, did still okay against fastmovers. It was pretty amazing.
questionableanswers
And even if it missed you still had time to prep every other missle in your arsenal.
Mcknizzle
If only she was still flying :(
otismeister
RIP
themercwithamouthdeadpool
I thought the harrier was retired
Mcknizzle
Nope
ninjato229
Decommissioned in 2006, I think. Damn shame, too. One majestic beast, even if it did belong to the Navy.
Mcknizzle
I heard it was supposed to be fitted with the F-15s engines but ended up with less powerful ones. I wonder what it would have been...
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
Other countries still fly F-14s, don't they?
AndyYouGoonie
Predominately only Iran, sadly. Was such a monster of a plane.
SkypeOfCthulhu
The F-14 has only been exported to one single country. Iran. And they've been having a bit of trouble getting spare parts for a few decades.
Oojoomi
Just Iran i believe
Synapt
Most of this list (at least the American variants) won't be flying within the next 5-10 years. Most of them barely fly as it is now.
Mcknizzle
All of the planes pictured here operate quite a bit and will be in operation for many years to come. The a-10 is the only one on near term
Mcknizzle
2. chopping block.
Synapt
Source your knowledge. I'm looking at F-15/18 raw data (I've got nothing on the 16) from a government logistician POV. they're all dying.
Mcknizzle
They make up, along with the f16, the VAST majority of our fighter force. I assure you, they'll still be flying into the 2020s.
Mcknizzle
Hell, last I heard we're still buying knew f18s