The Turks have 247 f-16 block 50 upgraded and 47 f-4 2020.

Yeah, my bad. We had an F-15C detachment based in Turkey but we pulled them out about a month ago.

Here’s one of my T-bird shots from years ago:

True. Russian soldiers on exercises have often ended up in Ukraine by mistake.

Nice, instead of “blue balls”, it looks like it has “blue dick” and “flaming balls”.

Russia denies claims of plane being in airspace, meanwhile Turkish forces have video of the alleged Russian pilot pulling a fast banking right hander.

Those flew over my house today! First one I was kind of like “okay, guess they’re running some of the El Toro stuff pretty far afield,” and then the rest came over one by one. Stepped outside to see what was up and saw the last one go by probably a couple thousand feet overhead. Easy to make out the paint scheme and…

This is a pretty cool visualization of it:

Yes.

Well done. You get a Clapping Riker!

One non operational jet insulting another?

Dear Navy,

Chris Christie clearing his colon?

Japan has been producing much more capable fighters for decades, such as the Mitsubishi F2 and license produced F-15s. While the military balance of power has certainly shifted in the region and things are tense in the South China Sea, do you think China or Japan, whose economies are inextricabily linked, really want…

Thrust Vectoring will be great for 1 v 1, but when the skies are filled with multiple bogeys, you don’t want to lose the energy and become really slow. Slower you are, easier target you will be for someone else.

Junkers JU87 Stuka agrees with this post