Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (1 Viewer)

[cammerjeff]

Cuban MiG 21 in the hangar at Key West before being returned after the Pilot sought Asylum.

Source 1980s drug war: WWII gear used

 

[c1951]

Here little bunny, hold my beer while I out run your missiles!

Did not some of the Bunny aircraft end p in the RAF?

 

[Donivanp]

Did not some of the Bunny aircraft end p in the RAF?

If they did the RAF would still be dealing with F-4, we all know what "Bunnies " do!!!!!

 

[c1951]

If they did the RAF would still be dealing with F-4, we all know what "Bunnies " do!!!!!

The RAF got a batch in 1982 caused by a shortage of aircraft , it was quted in Air International and RAF yearbook that some of them were exUS Marine aircraft including the Black Bunny Someone said they were the aircraft they should have got in the sixties

 

[Sabrejet]

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Looks like a LanceR.

 

[Snowman]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

C-133, because we don't have a C-5!

 

[Donivanp]

And this is just TOO SCARY

 

[GTX]

Zapped by the looks of it

 

[GTX]

And speaking of which:

 

[Donivanp]

They would zap our B-52's every time. It was a joke that they could get past our guards.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Kiwi photoshop?

 

[GTX]

Kiwi photoshop?

Nope - this was done well before the days of photoshop

 

[GTX]

Here's another shot:

 

[Sabrejet]

They would zap our B-52's every time. It was a joke that they could get past our guards.

We used to zap anything we could; even managed to put a Royal Air Force sticker on an Aeroflot An-22 one time Happy days.

 

[MIflyer]

The RAF got a batch in 1982 caused by a shortage of aircraft ,

Falklands War. The RAF found they did not have enough real interceptors to defend the recaptured islands. The F-4K was designed to sooth British feelings when the TSR-2 was cancelled by stuffing as much British equipment in it as possible, including the RR Spey turbofan engine. As a result the UK ended up with the slowest shortest ranged and most expensive F-4's ever built. The new acquisitions were used F-4J's., which the RAF pilots had to be cautioned about, since, unlike the K's those birds can MOVE.

 

[Snowman]

 

[Sabrejet]

Falklands War. The RAF found they did not have enough real interceptors to defend the recaptured islands. The F-4K was designed to sooth British feelings when the TSR-2 was cancelled by stuffing as much British equipment in it as possible, including the RR Spey turbofan engine. As a result the UK ended up with the slowest shortest ranged and most expensive F-4's ever built. The new acquisitions were used F-4J's., which the RAF pilots had to be cautioned about, since, unlike the K's those birds can MOVE.

Also being mentioned at this time was the Spey-engined F-105K; concurrently there was talk of Iran receiving F-105s too. Everything after TSR.2 seemed to be lacklustre.

 

[MIflyer]

Also being mentioned at this time was the Spey-engined F-105K;

They put it in the A-7D as the TF-41. Not a happy time there, although I suspect Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center 'effed up that engine when they tried to overhaul a custom built RR engine as if it was a P&W. USN did not seem to have very many problems with the A-7E. In Oct 1975 they sent me to get the A-7D's at MBAFB back in the air. They had something like 80 airplanes and only around 37 engines. They had warped the bleed air ducts because the field figured out a labor saving method of getting the engines in and out to do the 100 hour inspections that had been imposed.