Called it before 2015. The moment hypersonic anti-ship missiles were confirmed MiG-31 seemed like an ideal launching platform and as a matter of fact I was dumbfounded that an anti-ship K variant for the MiG-31 haven't existed for the last three decades.
ITT: things you predicted in Zig Forums before they existed/were publically announced
Parker Moore
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Jeremiah Brown
Because it's a dumb idea?
Russian naval aviation always focused on saturation and endurance, as such they used modified Tu-95 and Tu-22M as their main anti-ship planes. MiG 31 are an interceptor, that they use as a flying re-usuable booster for the new missiles.
It means a Tu-142 or Il-38 still has to patrol and find the enemy ships.
Charles Wright
Think the obvious one is that the F-35 would be replaced as soon as it entered service. Though I can't take full credit for that one, several of my Chairforce buds were saying the same thing.
Brayden Clark
I haven't predicted anything of my own, but here are my predictions. Feel free to debate and poke holes.
Oliver Morales
if a major naval engagement between USA and Red China happens, it will be 20 to 0 USA over China.
Their shit wont work, ours will work every time a missile is fired. There ships will sink with one hit, none of ours will sink.
There will be cases of a single USN destroyer taking out 6 or more Chinese ships at the same time in completely one sided engagement.
Fighting with long range guided missiles in open ocean ain't like Human-Ant suicide swarm charge.
Later, when passing out medals, it will cum out that shortly before the battle the USN quietly shifted personal and transferred all the fags, women and non-White people to similar posts, but in the Med, MidEast or home port.
John Price
Everything is going to be shit.
Nothing will get better. Only worse.
There's an accurate prediction.
Jeremiah Phillips
That and that the F-15s would get a major "end-life upgrade" instead of retiring them like they said they would.
No-one can claim that one, I heard from a Dassault guy in like 2002 or 2003.
Guy was proper raging, he was trying to sell NATO countries on the Rafale and everyone was saying it's "too expensive" and they all jump in the F-35 wagon at the same time, even if all the industrial experts, not just Dassault, but Airbus, BAe, Saab, etc… were telling them "there is no fucking way Lockheed can make that plane at the figures they're quoting, it's at least 3 times and that's already optimistic", which was IIRC $30M at the time.
Juan Brown
youre not on cuckchan here, gramps
Brayden Ramirez
The next big ground war(s) will be in Africa, mostly by China proxies for resources. And it will be fought by drones, not niggers. Or rather the Drones will be in charge of Niggers.
This will result in zero Niggers going to China, but millions of Niggers to USA, Canada, Europe, Oz and NZ.
Drones will become primary weapon of war. You wont see "technicals" with oversized HMGs mounted in back, you will see trucks loaded with drones. Real armies will use MBT semi-truck "carriers" to haul 60 tons of drones in stacks 20' high to take-off one after another in groups of dozens at a time.
Disposable Drones will be mass produced in fully automated factories on never before seen scale. Drones will be used to police the humans that "feed" the factories.
Anthony Evans
whats your take on competence of Red China in high tech, high intensity, high stakes warfare?
Given they can't clone Soviet era Migs if they go "off the reservation" and don't hire Russians to do the thinking part without the jets being all half-assed and buggy.