This place has been kinda dead for a while. No Skeeterman stories, no jokes, nothin’! No old guys posting, no good threads, just boring!
Busybee, Flug, A4s, Cat, Chief, HJ, Derf, Pugs, Zip, to name a few… WELL?![]()
Steve
Howzabout this morsel: saw in Jane's Defence Weekly that USN let a contract to install IRST (infrared search & track) gear on all F-18Es & Fs. This will be a real aid to their air-to-air capabilities vs a/c like the Mig29M & SU-35. Remember the Indian AF w/ 29's kicked some USAF F-15 butt a couple of years ago when IF Migs & USAF Eagles held an exercise in India. Apparently, the Russian IRST gear was the big difference maker. I stand ready to be corrected if others are better informed, as obviously I wasn't there.
IRST gear had nothing to do with Flankers kicking Eagle ass....more like AF O-8s snd O-9s hyping up the disparity.
Would you mind PM'ing me your address ... ???I vote we go back to the relative peace and quiet of .... no old guys.....
Would you mind PM'ing me your address ... ???
Not according to AW&ST. You're saying that AF was poor-mouthing the F-15 in order to get more F-22s? If so, it didn't work too well.
I got a great cure for boredom. Throw on everything you own, hike out 3 miles, stare through your AR-15 (M16) sights all day until you have sweated so much you have downed about 5 liters of water and only pissed once, then hike back home. Sleep 4 hours then rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
When you finally think you might get 8 hours of sleep, get excited, then sit in a room for several hours doing nothing until you are giddy like a little kid, only to find out that you are still waiting on the word and only get 3 hours of sleep to show for it.
Boredom cured.