It’s real and you are right - it’s an early war Med theater paint scheme; the latter ones have replaced the green parts with beige and brown. And this one is actually quite a famous Ju-87, flown by guy called Hubert Polz in 1941-42; I don’t know anything about him, but here are some photos:

It happened last summer, not now, and the Bears were grounded. This was actually the second fire-related incident with Bears in the recent years:

Aviationist states that two out of five crew were killed. It also explains why we haven’t seen a lot Bears recently - they’ve been grounded because of this incident.

Maybe apart from Iran, Russians and Chinese have nothing to do in the Gulf; although, that would cause GCC states to buy more arms.

I didn’t mean anything against the Stuka, I meant that Russian propaganda. I love it too; I only posted Dauntless because I’ve remembered that particular photo with a bomb. And who cares where its bombs fell, it was awesome as an aircraft!

Let’s turn this thread into something better:

As a way to end the war, yes. But I still think that he has to be punished for his crimes. Along with all others who have committed them during that war.

Oh come on, don’t start with that pathetic bullshit again! Dropping unguided munitions from anything higher than 3k feet will severely degrade the accuracy of the bombing. WIND!!!!! How the hell do you think an unguided bomb can compensate for the various wind speeds and directions between the aircraft and the ground?

Why is it that people consider A-10 to be an ugly aircraft? Since I was a kid, I’ve considered it to be one of the best looking aircraft out there.

Have you people seen the recently published video of the explosion of a Tu-95? I’m asking because I’m surprised I didn’t see it covered here. Since we are talking about Russian bombers.

Russians now have the working high-bypass turbofans (which is what they seriously lacked during the 70s and the 80s) and their military tech is pretty great; their problem is that they cannot afford to buy it for their own armed forces.

F-20 was never meant for domestic service, but instead, for export. The reason why it failed was that Reagan had removed export restrictions on F-16 so that non-NATO allies like Venezuela could buy them.

Not that we didn’t like it....it’s great thread and we should do this more often! But perhaps with slightly less photos.

Thanks; that’s the reason why I visit this website - to have civilized discussions about serious topics.

Dammit man, are you trying to break the Kinja!? Be moderate! I love the shot of the camouflaged tarmac on that Thai airbase. And how slow was that Hurricane flying to require Typhoon to pull such a sick AoA?

I can somehow understand the USAF’s lack of will to invest a lot into modernizing their 16s, given the amount of money poured into the F-35, as well as the numbers they intend to buy. However, the lack of serious modernization efforts with the Rhino and F-15C fleet are mindboggling, given the the fact that those two…

Exactly. The complaints about the angled seat and the sidestick are quite common among the pilots who flew something else before the F-16. I’ve even heard some stories about people having neck injuries after the prolonged high-g maneuvering in F-16.

There is Norway that they could Finnish the race with that kind of Russian through that corner

Where is the oioioioi guy when you need him:

I did actually ask why do they need to quadruple the size of their Air Force.