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Well, the thing is, North Vietnam at that time (70s) had a great, superbly trained and experienced military, while the China had just sent itself back to stone age with their Great leap backwards and the Moronic revolution.

It would do exactly nothing, apart from becoming another resident of the Iron bottom sound.

And then it gets blasted by the Luftwaffe or the Kriegsmarine. And what countermeasures would it have against the submarine’s deck gun?

Poor MSF just can’t catch a break; US bombed them in Afghanistan, Saudis are bombing them in Yemen, Russian are bombing them in Syria.....

Fish the motherfuckers out with a nuclear depth charge and sell them to the Japanese while listening to Megadeth’s “In my darkest hour”!

It’s only a prototype....

Fuck em’, nuke the whales!

Then why did you post such a nonsense comment? You only made yourself look horribly ignorant.

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DoD, do you even frigate?

USS SNAFU.

Without getting too deep into the discussion about that, I’m just going to point out one truly awesome, and yet horrifying thing you forgot:

Haha, you silly fuck! I’d rather drink my own piss than read Daily Mail. And I’ll joke about anything as long as it stays within reasonable limits.

I’m asking because I’ve seen plenty of videos but none of them had a legitimate sound. I like to think that it sounds like a baby of Tu-95 and Concorde.

Superleggera?

Speaking of loud ass planes, do you know if there is a verifiable audio or video recording of the XF-84H Thunderscreech, the loudest plane of all times?

And let’s not forget the US command’s flat out refusal to accept any British idea, from midget subs as markers to the Hobart’s funnies. They were thinking they could apply lessons learned from the Pacific, disregarding the fact that Normandy was an quite a different operation (for example, no massive, multi-day…

While it’s absolutely uncomparable to the 4th generation fighters from aesthetic point of view, it kind of grew on me, except when I see that big ass (literally) engine. I’ve always thought it would look (and perform) better if it were a twin engine design. And I don’t like it’s single-screen cockpit; somehow, it…