Birdman
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I have to ask, with only 13 posts how did you already get that much bad rep?
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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike
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I have to ask, with only 13 posts how did you already get that much bad rep?
You should read all 13 of his posts.
MasterBates
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Because he is REALLY good at pissing senior forum members off.
Personally with the Tomcat being the maintenance whore that it was, you'd think they'd have to do some MASSIVE reverse engineering to keep them flying.
Since I know absolutely nothing not readily available on the net, I'm going to say that all the random models of the Flanker are supposed to be outstanding dogfighters.
Since I know absolutely nothing not readily available on the net, I'm going to say that all the random models of the Flanker are supposed to be outstanding dogfighters.
I'm new at this. Could you please explain to me in what ways was the F-18 better than the F-14.
Thanks in advance.
Nose
You'll like this better... SAM sites around the world.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/406094/page/10/fpart/1/vc/1
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/406094/page/10/fpart/1/vc/1
Wow.. seems to me these folks need a life.. I can't even imagine the amount of time invested (and by that I mean wasted) in looking for SAM sites. Aren't the internets mostly for boobies and posting on AW? Have I been mislead all these years? Is there something more here??
there was some link I found once that had images of all the old Nike sites around the US on it. It was kinda weird to find out that there used to be a SAM site down the road from where I grew up.
If you ever pass by San Francisco, there is an old Nike Hercules site in the Marin Headlands that the Park Service has restored. The missile elevators still work, and you can go down into the bunker where they stored them. The radars still turn, and they have the control vans open. On active duty, the site even had a kennel attached for guard dogs.
Hard to believe someone once thought it would be a good idea to schwack massive bomber formations by using nuclear warheads . . .
Hard to believe someone once thought it would be a good idea to schwack massive bomber formations by using nuclear warheads . . .
Technology available at the time...
Yeah, brought to you by the same folks who invented the Davy Crockett . . . :icon_tong
If you ever pass by San Francisco, there is an old Nike Hercules site in the Marin Headlands that the Park Service has restored. The missile elevators still work, and you can go down into the bunker where they stored them. The radars still turn, and they have the control vans open. On active duty, the site even had a kennel attached for guard dogs.
Hard to believe someone once thought it would be a good idea to schwack massive bomber formations by using nuclear warheads . . .
Yeah, I've seen their website. Sadly, I found out about that museum after I left NorCal.
Weapons designers in the 50s didn't seem to be able to get the accuracy they needed, so they made up for it with a big explosion....horseshoes, hand grenades, and nukes.