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PugJesus @kbin.social

1y ago

In honor of the F-16 entering Ukrainian skies in the near-future, I present a classic of NCD

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Don't forget the F-22. It's killed more Chinese spy balloon, middle school hobbyist pico balloons, and other UFOs than any other sixth generation fighter.
- Don't forget the F-22. It's killed more ... UFOs than any other sixth generation fighter.
  WELCOME TO ERF!
  
  Chris Rock is an alien?
God nothing's more beautiful than the Tomcat
- F-14 is also unfortunately maintenance nightmare
  this also means that iranian air force is basically ornamental
  
  Nothing wrong with a few relics in your airforce for display purposes. It's just that modern countries pick planes like the B-52, which in a decade and a half will bomb the insurgents on mars.
  
  Hehe sure. But nothing's cooler than them sweeping wings
  
  Isn't anything with variable geometry wings?
@PugJesus so do you mean MiGs actually get taken down multiple times before they're able to hit something? Fuck!
Also that MiG-25.
I know this leans hard on the meme scale - but now I'm really interested in the data behind it.
The losses on left are fairly close to kills on the right. Math checks out.
But it's 279 kills on left to 111 losses on the right - so... what were all those MiGs shooting down?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthAmericanF-100SuperSabre
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepublicF-105Thunderchief

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