War in Ukraine

Just to continue the conversation the Ruskies were absolute dogs in ww2. They fought more ferociously than anyone because they were jews. Watched a fantastic doc about the russian hurricane fighters the other day. The spit fighter was given all the glory, but the russian hurricane fighters took down almost 2ce as many with an outdated plane because they had a mission and a cause. Today's russia does not back Putin so ferociously. At least half want him out.
 
Just to continue the conversation the Ruskies were absolute dogs in ww2. They fought more ferociously than anyone because they were jews. Watched a fantastic doc about the russian hurricane fighters the other day. The spit fighter was given all the glory, but the russian hurricane fighters took down almost 2ce as many with an outdated plane because they had a mission and a cause. Today's russia does not back Putin so ferociously. At least half want him out.

The Hurricane was a British aircraft.
 
Just to continue the conversation the Ruskies were absolute dogs in ww2. They fought more ferociously than anyone because they were jews. Watched a fantastic doc about the russian hurricane fighters the other day. The spit fighter was given all the glory, but the russian hurricane fighters took down almost 2ce as many with an outdated plane because they had a mission and a cause. Today's russia does not back Putin so ferociously. At least half want him out.
I think you mean Yaks and Migs, as hog pointed out, hurricanes are British
 
Then you know how many problems it's had, and that is still having issues. I do hope they get them squared tho. They are very close.
Yes I’ve got a very good idea about the problems in a couple of sensor areas. And anybody in the business knew it was going to go down exactly as it has gone down due to the new technology scope they bit off on purpose. The F-35 is a transformational aircraft. It will redefine the attack aircraft role for decades to come. Anybody with an experience knew it was going to miss pretty much every milestone along the way. But once we’re done with it, it will be the yardstick every attack aircraft is measured against.
 
I think you mean Yaks and Migs, as hog pointed out, hurricanes are British
We gave them a bunch of P-39’s and earlier versions of the P-40. The P-39 was a dog and really only useful in ground attack. The later P-40’s mated with a better engine were decent fighters. I don’t think we gave them any though.
 
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well, I personally know of, and have seen one better. But, you could be right about that (I hope you are). My personal favorite are the ospreys, and the same happened with that. I can tell you, I have seen what we have. I took notice like everyone else when they launch. It's unmistakable.

where the **** are my quotes lol.
 
We gave them a bunch of P-39’s and earlier versions of the P-40. The P-39 was a dog and really only useful in ground attack. The later P-40’s mated with a better engine were decent fighters. I don’t think we gave them any though.
IIRC, we also gave them P-63s ( a heavily upgraded P-39) and P-47s.
 
I always liked that movie The Final Countdown...One Nimitz against the entire Imperial Jap Navy.
 
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Here’s a picture of a bunch of P63’s for those interested:

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The amount of weapons produced globally was just astounding. I always liked the Hellcat....in blue livery and beefy
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Something interesting people may not know...the F-102 had difficulty breaking sound barrier....Looks sleek enough but they did not know about area ruling and only figured it out with the F-106

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Just to continue the conversation the Ruskies were absolute dogs in ww2. They fought more ferociously than anyone because they were jews. Watched a fantastic doc about the russian hurricane fighters the other day. The spit fighter was given all the glory, but the russian hurricane fighters took down almost 2ce as many with an outdated plane because they had a mission and a cause. Today's russia does not back Putin so ferociously. At least half want him out.

Most of them wanted Stalin out at that time period but once they found out the Nazis basically wanted to exterminate them all, they rallied against the Nazis behind Stalin. As bad as Stalin was, he was still preferable over a crazy madman that wanted to kill them all.

Regarding the air war, although Russia was very courageous in the air, the British took on the Luftwaffe at its height with its best pilots and won. Luftwaffe got split between defending Germany from the Allies in Strategic Bombings and supporting the Russian offense. They had total air superiority over Russia in 1941 and 1942 but it turned on them quickly in 1943.
 
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