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Top Gun 2
Brayden Garcia
Brandon Cox
Don't forget manlet
Joseph Nguyen
Supposedly the F/A-18.
popularmechanics.com
Nathaniel Morris
Not exactly wrong but given they always approached target from above a Russian pilot should be very drunk to not see it though it would need good reflexes too since its terminal phase speed was in excess of mach 4.
Isaac Sullivan
Can we open a petition to change it to ASF-14?
Thomas Fisher
For you user.
Leo White
F-18s are what currently go through Top Gun, not to mention that's whats pictured in the pic in OP.
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gross
t. navy fag that worked at top gun for 4 years, went through about 15 classes as a maintainer
Jordan Gutierrez
>t. navy fag that worked at top gun for 4 years, went through about 15 classes as a maintainer
One question for the insider. Is part of the official Navy policy to publicly shill for the wrong choices the high command made like shilling in favor of Super Hornet and F-35C over Legacy Hornet and ASF-14/Quickstrike Tomcat?
Logan Harris
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Luke Ward
First, its not all big navy fucking up with decisions, its a lot of backroom deals with politicians and the sort.
Legacy F-18s are affectionately referred to as "legacshits" in the navy. Huge swaths of what remains of them are total hangar queens. This is mainly Cs and Ds. The marine corp still runs As, which are very noticeably sturdier, at least the airframe. Long story short, the only thing legacys have over supers is the ability to go supersonic under their own power.
Now the F-35C, and all variants really, is another matter entirely. That is just pure kikeheeb martin jewry. The JSF project was designed from the ground up to be a gigantic money sink that just so happened to eventually produce a jet. I have a few stories from friends at pax river about the woes of the 35s development. Some design oversights were just simply baffling/hilarious/depressing.
As for the 14, I never worked on one, I had only heard nightmare stories about them from maintainers. Miles and miles of wires, having to do splices on the run every event, that sort of thing. Given how much trouble the F-14s were to maintain and how much replacement parts were costing towards the end of their lives compared to 18s, its not at all surprising they chose to do what they did in that context. It is a shame we'll never really know how good the ASF-14 could have been, though.