Recent content by Rambo_UK

And again The Loki arc is now complete and up here. Thanks Neo.

Yeah... But it's more like one day they work, three days they don't :(

Speaking of the Aces... http://atheist.8k.com/mstwca.html - check this out. It's funny, but you'll end up wanting to hit someone.

What's happened to the Aces' Boards??

Range Early Soviet fighters were pretty poor range wise - eg, the MiG-21 but the Flanker has a very respectable range - it can carry "overload" fuel for take off. It's an extremely good a/c all round. I would expect the same sort of quality to be in the MiG-35.

Frog Fighters Actually the French fighter is the Rafale, basically the ultimate evolution of the Mirage series, comparable to the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen. The Eurofighter is more agile, having the canards further forward, amongst other things. Head on, it is nearly as stealthy as an F-22...

And really the Su-37, which has thrust vectoring, excellent performance and greater all-round agility really would be a threat. Where the Russians used to be let-down was in the BVR shots with primitive radars (ie, the German MiG-29s were only getting a 50-50 kill ratio against the Tornado F3...

$30-40 million a pop? not for the F-22. More like $100-120 million each. And as with all such aircraft, that will only go up with the later block-number productions, I expect.

F-15E The Mud Hen is a dedicated strike A/C, not an air superiority fighter at all, even if it is the bastard offspring of an fighter plane. That huge wing on the flying tennis court makes for one damned bumpy ride, low level and trans sonic. F-15Cs aren't capable of ground attack and the...

Stealth Features The angles of the surfaces of the YF-23 are all the same, a design for pure stealth. The intakes are better hidden. The vertical surfaces of the tail are at a shallower angle, better for stealth. The curved surfaces, like the shapes of the B-2, are all designed primarilly for...

F-22 agility Assuming the figures published in the EF2000/F-22 TAW guides for turn rates are correct, the F-22 isn't actually all that good without the thrust vectoring. Not that you should be looking for a knife fight in a phone booth if you can kill the guy from 30 miles away with a BVR...

F-22 v F-23 Actually the YF-23 was almost certainly more stealthy, but that came at the price of agility. Size, weight and cost were also probably factors in the decision. Northrop also has a habit of losing out on these contracts...

Die Hard Arrow Fan Even a die hard arrow fan like me knows the value of torpedoes. You can tackle capships with an Arrow, but it's a headache.

"Stitch that, motherf*cker" "Get down, Shep!" "Splat."

I loved the Arrow The only missions in WC3 I didn't tackle with the Arrow were the ones where you needed torpedoes, and the ones where we had the Excal available. I hated that damn Hellcat, it was a worthless piece of junk. And it was ugly. Ugly fighters are bad fighters.