NOTAR apparently manoeuvers like a pig too. That aside, yeah 2 rotors is heavier, but they save weight with fixed blades. The greatly simplified rotors these days weigh far less than they do in the current generation of choppers.

The Raider isn’t a competitor with the V-280, it’s gonna go nuts in the civillian market & hopefully fund a big brother - which WILL compete head on with the V-280.

Since the BUFFs are gonna be there anyway, why not send one of them on the next bear intercept? Show em what a real bomber looks like.

NEVER!

Atlantis

Gorgeous.

Illegal base? Hmmm... Who can they complain to if we capture them once they’re nearly finished? What? We stole your illegal bases? The ones which don’t exist?

So is this thing gonna effect my iPhone warranty?

You HAD to bring up canning the Nimrod, you bastard! These are NOT tears, I have something in my eye!

Damn I’m gonna miss the EA-6. I’ve loved that thing since I was a kid & even made a model of it as a teenager. I’ve also loved AEA mission too for some reason. It’s always struck me as just as core a mission as CAP & strike. It’s another battlefield everyone plays on, so why don’t more people see think they should try…

Lol? “USSR doubled down on dogfighting & the US went for long range radar shots.”

I accept you’re not trying to troll, but your post is inaccurate from the start. When it gets to this line it becomes too much. The Russians have better BVR missiles than us too. More types, longer ranges, more seeker head variety. Like…

My old man owned a 635CSI for a couple of years. Sure do miss it.

Best Choices:
Austere base: RAAF Curtin. Single paved runway, ~2 miles long. Could be expanded easily. A few tin hangars, probably not designed for heavy bombers but I don’t know how big they are. Housing & administration buildings not far from runway, no idea the state they are in but it’s a base so they’d at least be…

Amen brother.

Don’t forget, there are 2 austere bases in the north west which are long, paved runways but with no permanent facilities. They’d also be an excellent choice, with some negatives being: 1. It’ll cost a lot to get them up & running & keep them that way. 2. It drags overflight over Borneo, which has a few big cities with…

America, FUCK YEAH!

No, they ship in boulders to build storm walls.

Very interesting reaction from the locals! They reacted like someone had set off fireworks, not as if a precious weapons cache just went up in smoke thanks to the enemy. Even down to the piss taking god is great! Bizarre!

I think it’s great. Government won’t upgrade your plane with damn useful technology? Fine, do it yourself for $2-300. We’re laughing at him ‘cause of the doginess, he’s laughing at us for the likely $250k we spent putting the same basic functionality on an F-15E. This is just another guy, trying to do his job, without…

Seriously, its almost criminal to lose a brand new Viper to ground fire. She was probably coming in low & slow to hit some POS mud hut or hilux with an iron bomb. If they spent money on proper weapons to drop from their SOTA aircraft, they wouldn’t have one burning in the desert with a corpse - a female corpse at that…