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09-28-2006, 04:38 PM
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#496 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Good choice and understandable. Deffinatly up there with the best. For me it is the Tomcat and then the F-15.
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09-30-2006, 01:17 PM
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#497 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern California
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Country:  | Well, I still gotta go with the "world heavyweight boxing champ" concept. You can't just out box them but you have to be demonstratable better to unthrone the champ. The F-15 has fought in many wars and ko'ed many a pretender without ever being bloodied. As a weapons system, I do not think that it has met a threat or friend that has shown to be demonstratably better when the missiles are flying. And that is the true test of a fighter. Its era is starting to pass, however. The next generation of fighters will have big boots to fill. | |
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10-04-2006, 01:05 PM
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#498 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I think there are alot of "what ifs" but i love the Avro Arrow, and i think it would have proved itself as an amazing interceptor.
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10-06-2006, 08:04 AM
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#499 | | Member
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| I can't believe this wasn't on the list: Aero Car PAGE
Yeah, I know, it isn't a jet. But it COULD be converted. | |
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01-26-2007, 03:06 AM
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#500 | | Junior Member
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Country:  | Ok. I realise i'm new here. Btw, it's a pretty good forum.
F-15. Specifically, F-15E. Best fighter track record. | |
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01-26-2007, 02:23 PM
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#501 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | she's certainly one of the front runners.........
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01-27-2007, 02:43 PM
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#502 | | Senior Member
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Country: | The F-15E 'Strike Eagle' and is the attack version of the 'Eagle'. For the pure air superiority F-15 it will be the C-model, especially with the AESA radar they are soon to be getting.
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01-28-2007, 06:02 PM
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#503 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | F-16 Fighting Falcon, great manevourability, payload and range for its size. All round good package that could take out Iranian Nuclear Power Plants and could take out North Korean Nuclear Power Plants as well if given the chance... | |
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01-28-2007, 06:29 PM
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#504 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Originally Posted by plan_D  The F-15E 'Strike Eagle' and is the attack version of the 'Eagle'. For the pure air superiority F-15 it will be the C-model, especially with the AESA radar they are soon to be getting. | Soon. Got 'em. Not all C models, but some. Others are scrambling for AESA for not only commo, long range detection, but also cruise missile detection and non-kinetic weapon capability.
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01-28-2007, 06:33 PM
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#505 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Non-kinetic weapons capability? Does that mean it could be armed with something like a laser? | |
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01-28-2007, 07:01 PM
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#506 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Country: | No. The ability to focus significant amounts of energy through a small aperature window allows for potential disruption of non-hardened electronics. AESA provides this potential and the DoD is looking into ability to disrupt aircraft/UAS/ground system electronics. This is similar to what you might have read about non-kinetic weapons such as microwave emitters.
Can you imagine the STOVL version of the F-35 coupling the forward fan transmission to a non-kinetic weapon to allow for cruise missile defense, destruction of UAS flight controls/command signals or as a stealthy "wild weasel"?
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01-28-2007, 08:31 PM
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#507 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Wow, okay, I had the wrong idea of a non-kinetic weapon thinking of lasers. Must be watching too much Star Trek... | |
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01-28-2007, 09:15 PM
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#508 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Country: | C'mon HealzD, you guys need the F-35! 
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01-28-2007, 10:27 PM
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#509 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Okay, ah yes, it has that thing akin to a giant search-light on top. Something about using heatray to warm the surface of skin without actually cooking it in the way that a microwave oven does. There was an article in the Sunday Mail discussing it being trialled in Iraq for future deployment... | |
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01-29-2007, 11:46 AM
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#510 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Originally Posted by HealzDevo Okay, ah yes, it has that thing akin to a giant search-light on top. Something about using heatray to warm the surface of skin without actually cooking it in the way that a microwave oven does. There was an article in the Sunday Mail discussing it being trialled in Iraq for future deployment... | That would be a different animal. 
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