I love the MIG-25/31 just for how huge and boxy they are. It really doesn't look like it should be as fast as it is.
Speaking of intakes, I kind of like the F-4X design with the huge intakes. Shame it never went anywhere, because Mach-3 capable Phantoms would have been great.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tRrGeVP.jpg[/t]
[t]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FluyrLGrI7A/UAbUHRiR4vI/AAAAAAAAA68/2caat8hwe2k/s1600/RF-4X_3.jpg[/t]
Actually i have nothing against boxy design (especially considering that aesthetics is hardly the most important thing in any military hardware, planes included). It's just i don't like the mig-25 intakes for their very sharp-edged shape and the fact that they look too big compared to the size of the hull. Those of the f4-x, on contrary, look really cool with their complicated and rounded shape, and, more importantly, they fit the overall design of the plane.
[QUOTE=antianan;50519449]Those rectangular air intakes are just ugly imo.[/QUOTE]
you shut your incorrect mouth
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[t]http://www.thebombaybugle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/939813784_dLku6-L.jpg[/t]
LOOK AT IT
[QUOTE=antianan;50519571]Actually i have nothing against boxy design (especially considering that aesthetics is hardly the most important thing in any military hardware, planes included). It's just i don't like the mig-25 intakes for their very sharp-edged shape and the fact that they look too big compared to the size of the hull. Those of the f4-x, on contrary, look really cool with their complicated and rounded shape, and, more importantly, they fit the overall design of the plane.[/QUOTE]
Well, the MiG-25 is basically a pair of crazy powerful engines strapped to a cockpit so you can fly it, going [I]almost as fast as the fuckin' SR-72[/I], while still being combat-capable too. Fuckin' plane is insane.
can't maneuver for shit though
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;50520820]can't maneuver for shit though[/QUOTE]
It's an interceptor, it doesn't need to maneuver.
[QUOTE=Araknid;50519373]
[t]http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/reditt-com-mig-25-foxbat.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Form follows function in plane form.
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It's basically two big-ass engines lassoed together with a chair and some surfaces attached so it can move a little bit.
[QUOTE=antianan;50519449]Those rectangular air intakes are just ugly imo.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.boxartden.com/gallery/var/resizes/Profiles/Aerofax/Aerofax/Mikoyan-MiG-25-Foxbat-series/Mikoyan%20MiG-25%20Foxbat%20series_Page_81-960.jpg[/img]
You're objectively wrong, stop it.
[img]http://www.boxartden.com/gallery/var/resizes/Profiles/Aerofax/Aerofax/Mikoyan-MiG-25-Foxbat-series/Mikoyan%20MiG-25%20Foxbat%20series_Page_75-960.jpg?m=1416844946[/img]
[QUOTE=antianan;50519449]Those rectangular air intakes are just ugly imo.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Araknid;50519373]
[t]http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/reditt-com-mig-25-foxbat.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
"Heard you were talking shit."
Oh, stop it, guys, my tastes are very singular
Doesn't make you any less of a traitor to your glorious aviation engineering!
:v:
What do you prefer over the box intakes?
[QUOTE=FloaterTWO;50519518]I love the MIG-25/31 just for how huge and boxy they are. It really doesn't look like it should be as fast as it is.
Speaking of intakes, I kind of like the F-4X design with the huge intakes. Shame it never went anywhere, because Mach-3 capable Phantoms would have been great.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tRrGeVP.jpg[/t]
[t]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FluyrLGrI7A/UAbUHRiR4vI/AAAAAAAAA68/2caat8hwe2k/s1600/RF-4X_3.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Mach 3 phantom....
So basically a brick traveling at Mach 3
Pictures and words cannot describe the awkward angles that plane has.
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The mig-25 is a classic example of American paranoia though. It was the plane that was supposedly super advanced and would shoot down everything and even had mind-reading controls...wait that was the Clint Eastwood movie.... but in any case they overestimated that plane's capabilities
[QUOTE=Sableye;50522482]Mach 3 phantom....
So basically a brick traveling at Mach 3
Pictures and words cannot describe the awkward angles that plane has.
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The mig-25 is a classic example of American paranoia though. It was the plane that was supposedly super advanced and would shoot down everything and even had mind-reading controls...wait that was the Clint Eastwood movie.... but in any case they overestimated that plane's capabilities[/QUOTE]
Ya iirc a soviet defector flew a MIG over to Japan and all the American scientists and engineers jizzed themselves because they wanted to know why the wings were so large then they just found out it weighed a lot and needed big wings lol
[QUOTE=Araknid;50519373]MIG-25 and MIG-31 will always be the coolest interceptors ever made
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-31_inflight_Pichugin.jpg[/t][t]https://images2.alphacoders.com/462/462724.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.migflug.com/jetflights/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/reditt-com-mig-25-foxbat.jpg[/t][t]http://www.thebombaybugle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/demostrar.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Eh, wasn't this one of the heaviest and most ungainly interceptors ever made because they had to use steel everywhere in its construction because they couldn't afford titanium?
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I'm pretty sure when the West got their hands on an example they were shocked to find so much steel in it.
[QUOTE=download;50522993]Eh, wasn't this one of the heaviest and most ungainly interceptors ever made because they had to use steel everywhere in its construction because they couldn't afford titanium?
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I'm pretty sure when the West got their hands on an example they were shocked to find so much steel in it.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://67.media.tumblr.com/da76055116e44cb2059f9b37e19c6af9/tumblr_mxzi4a2VrI1s9d2ieo1_540.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://67.media.tumblr.com/6b8f9d88b59e8e31ab9e5836097ee054/tumblr_mxzi4a2VrI1s9d2ieo2_540.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://66.media.tumblr.com/267a8464696ee56c6921f2fa44a63bb7/tumblr_mxzi4a2VrI1s9d2ieo3_540.png[/IMG]
Relevant Flight Highschool
[QUOTE=StrykerE;50523235][t]http://67.media.tumblr.com/6b8f9d88b59e8e31ab9e5836097ee054/tumblr_mxzi4a2VrI1s9d2ieo2_540.png[/t]
Relevant Flight Highschool[/QUOTE]that's hilarious but why does this exist
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also link pls
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;50523295]that's hilarious but why does this exist
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also link pls[/QUOTE]
[url]http://flight-highschool.tumblr.com/post/70610211887/flight-school-15-44-science-lab-for-kids[/url]
[url]http://jalopnik.com/a-requiem-for-the-original-soviet-rat-rod-1534150327[/url]
maybe not the best source for things, but the author has one hell of a sense of humor
[quote]Theoretically, the MiG-25 could top Mach 3.2, but the throttles were redlined at Mach 2.8 in what seems like a desperate act of self-preservation by the plane. Above speeds of 2,000 miles per hour, the Tumansky engines began to transform. The sheer power of air rushing into the intakes at such speeds totally overwhelmed the fuel pumps. No longer capable of limiting their own flow, fuel would just be dumped into the combustion chamber at an uncontrollable rate. Air would begin to speed past the turbine compressors, turning the engines into ramjets. [/quote]
i'm not sure how well its to be believed that the soviets [I]accidentally[/I] created a turbo-ramjet engine but it sure makes for a good story
[QUOTE=Sableye;50523678][url]http://jalopnik.com/a-requiem-for-the-original-soviet-rat-rod-1534150327[/url]
maybe not the best source for things, but the author has one hell of a sense of humor
i'm not sure how well its to be believed that the soviets [I]accidentally[/I] created a turbo-ramjet engine but it sure makes for a good story[/QUOTE]
I want to believe
How 'bout some new hauls from the land down under?
[t]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7373040-3x2-940x627.jpg[/t]
Also to lighten up the mood, remember the case in Australia where they found 3D Printed gun parts at a crime scene, as well as some murder scenes? [url=https://3dprint.com/136277/3d-printer-gun-bikies/]The finally caught one of the guys involved in it![/url] Good job, boys in blue. Hopefully you guys can keep up this streak of gun bust this year. They have been busting quiet a few gun-runners recently, including one of the guys who was building some fairly high quality machine pistols and assault rifles.
For mostly being pretty reprehensible, home-made weaponry sure is fascinating
Nose intake best intake
[t]https://hushkit.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/rs11518_xp693-9102796.jpg[/t]
[t]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/warthunder/images/2/2c/MiG-15-Fagot-great-planes-22258883-1200-801.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140617022844[/t]
And on a somewhat related note, I have experimental flight reports from XL.629, the Lighting that is currently on a static display at MOD Boscombe Down!
[t]http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivors/xl629-boscombe-000701.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/mQaR1Ur.jpg[/t]
Wasn't the lightning the only plane to have intercepted a U2?
[QUOTE=cherry gmod;50525578]Wasn't the lightning the only plane to have intercepted a U2?[/QUOTE]
A Su-9 attempted to intercept a U2 in the 1960s U2 Gary Powers incident
[quote] Another Soviet aircraft, a newly manufactured Su-9 in transit flight, also attempted to intercept Powers' U-2. The unarmed Su-9 was directed to ram the U-2 but missed because of the large differences in speed (the Su-9 flew above Mach 1.1, while the U-2 flew at approximately Mach 0.6).[/quote]
The story goes a Lightning intercepted a Harrier that kept flying after the pilot bailed out but I've never seen any evidence of it.
[QUOTE=RainBD7;50525163]Nose intake best intake
[t]https://hushkit.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/rs11518_xp693-9102796.jpg[/t]
[t]http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/warthunder/images/2/2c/MiG-15-Fagot-great-planes-22258883-1200-801.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140617022844[/t][/QUOTE]
Not even posting the best nose intake:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pw1KqqD.jpg[/img]
Forgot to mention the huge ass telephone pole missiles on MIG-25/MIG-31
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/R-40.jpg[/t]
R-40
Weighs 461kg, is 6.22m long and is 31cm in diameter.
Just to compare, AIM-120 AMRAAM is 152kg, 3.7m long, and 18cm in diameter.
[QUOTE=Araknid;50527175]Forgot to mention the huge ass telephone pole missiles on MIG-25/MIG-31
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/R-40.jpg[/t]
R-40
Weighs 461kg, is 6.22m long and is 31cm in diameter.
Just to compare, AIM-120 AMRAAM is 152kg, 3.7m long, and 18cm in diameter.[/QUOTE]
Ya but our bomber interceptors had nuclear tipped missiles so they didn't need to be a telephone pole
Well the Canadian interceptors anyway
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/AIR-2A_Genie_2.jpg[/t]
[t]http://memim.com/timages/aim-26-falcon-01.jpg[/t]
pictured, the US mach 3.3 interceptor and its nuclear tipped guided missile, both were completely bonkers yet much more practical than the mig-25
speaking of crazy fighter aircraft...
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Northrop_F-89H_with_AIM-4_Falcon_missiles.jpg/440px-Northrop_F-89H_with_AIM-4_Falcon_missiles.jpg[/t]
the f-89, the most useless jet ever. it couldn't even shoot down a hellcat with 200 high explosive rockets.
[t]http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/AN/AN85-7/15-4.jpg[/t]
[t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nZjNdExASVA/VpVRtJhBO1I/AAAAAAAAU3E/hWO0m99x_LE/s1600/F89%2B10.jpg[/t]
they just sort of...stuck rockets to it...and famously successfully fought a battle against southern California
-merge failure-
[QUOTE=RainBD7;50525163]Nose intake best intake
And on a somewhat related note, I have experimental flight reports from XL.629, the Lighting that is currently on a static display at MOD Boscombe Down!
[/QUOTE]
There are a few Lightnings at Bruntingthorpe proving grounds, they do a fast taxi a couple times a year. Pity they don't take off.
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