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01-30-2006, 10:07 PM
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| Vacuum tubes are succeptable to EMP.
What is correct to say is that they not nearly as succeptable as transistors.
On the other hand, it is much easier to shield a tiny transistor as compared to a (relatively) huge vacuum tube.
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01-30-2006, 10:18 PM
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Country:  | I will have to say F-15 for it overall performance and longevity. It has been on top of the mountain or near the top for a long long time. Some fighters are great for 2-5 years and then they are crap, not the F-15 it just keeps going and going. I think longevity has to play a big role in the process of picking the best fighter of all time.
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01-30-2006, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Hunter368 I will have to say F-15 for it overall performance and longevity. It has been on top of the mountain or near the top for a long long time. Some fighters are great for 2-5 years and then they are crap, not the F-15 it just keeps going and going. I think longevity has to play a big role in the process of picking the best fighter of all time. | Agreed it is a great plane, but then again we have never seen it go toe to toe with an SU-37, or a Mig 29 Fulcrum.
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01-30-2006, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Hunter368 I will have to say F-15 for it overall performance and longevity. It has been on top of the mountain or near the top for a long long time. Some fighters are great for 2-5 years and then they are crap, not the F-15 it just keeps going and going. I think longevity has to play a big role in the process of picking the best fighter of all time. | Agreed it is a great plane, but then again we have never seen it go toe to toe with an SU-37, or a Mig 29 Fulcrum. | True but you said all time not right now what is the best fighter.
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01-30-2006, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Lunatic Vacuum tubes are succeptable to EMP.
What is correct to say is that they not nearly as succeptable as transistors.
On the other hand, it is much easier to shield a tiny transistor as compared to a (relatively) huge vacuum tube.
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Lunatic | Tiny transistors are VERY succeptable to EMP and are actually tougher to shield against it from happening.
Big ole vacuum tubes are next to impossible to cause permanent damge or degredation from EMP.
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Originally Posted by Lunatic Vacuum tubes are succeptable to EMP.
What is correct to say is that they not nearly as succeptable as transistors.
On the other hand, it is much easier to shield a tiny transistor as compared to a (relatively) huge vacuum tube.
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Lunatic | Tiny transistors are VERY succeptable to EMP and are actually tougher to shield against it from happening.
Big ole vacuum tubes are next to impossible to cause permanent damge or degredation from EMP. | Agree 100%
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Originally Posted by 102first_hussars Quote: |
Originally Posted by Hunter368 I will have to say F-15 for it overall performance and longevity. It has been on top of the mountain or near the top for a long long time. Some fighters are great for 2-5 years and then they are crap, not the F-15 it just keeps going and going. I think longevity has to play a big role in the process of picking the best fighter of all time. | Agreed it is a great plane, but then again we have never seen it go toe to toe with an SU-37, or a Mig 29 Fulcrum. | True but you said all time not right now what is the best fighter. | Im just looking for an excuse to say the SU-37 in a MILLION times better than the F-15 but the -37 has no combat record so as usual Im babbling about beating a dead horse, 
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01-31-2006, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Dogwalker Vacuum tubes or not, Mig-25 radar was the most powerful airborne radar of it's time. Among soviets there was the joke that, when the pilot forget to switch it off on landing, it kill the rabbits around the airstrip.
An interesting discussion, don't know how much accurate: http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/MiG-25.html
DogW | this a true story a civilian cleaner was walking in front of a cf101 which was testing its radar this guy ignored the warning signs and walked in front of the 101 while carrying a armload of flourescent lights the lights lit up he dropped them and ran and quit his job | |
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| It'easy to believe, but the reaction of the man was probably a bit exagerate. 
Flourescent lights can lit up even near normal telephone antennas like this, 
or in particularly windy nights (due to the static).
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Originally Posted by plan_D He suffocated while his head was stuck up a kangeroos' ass. |  | How pleasant... | Eeeewwwwww. 
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02-01-2006, 11:32 PM
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Country: | Anyway, the results of the show "Greatest Fighters" on discovery had said that the P-51 was in fact the best, I cant argue with its kill record or its sleek sexyness.
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Obviously its the Spitfire. The wondrous purring noise the V12 Merlin engine makes, the elliptical wings and the superb handling-you cant get much better than that | |
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02-18-2006, 09:13 PM
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| The Spitfire's notoriously short range means its relegated to the "also ran" catagory.
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