Menzo
1913
Yeah, hard to imagine Dems in congress taking up a bill to require women to register for the draft, and Republicans would 100% filibuster it anyway.
The Court’s logic for refusing to hear the case seems reasonable in this instance. It’s an issue with no immediate urgency, as the chance of an actual draft is pretty small, and also an issue that Congress has yet to weigh in on in any definitive fashion. One could argue I suppose that the Court’s deference to precedent and tradition–not dealing with national security issues in general, for instance–is not particularly justified or welcome, but this case does not seem to be the one for that battle.
To this day I can’t see the profile of any of the modern fighter/bombers without Kenny Loggins starting up in my head.
That movie did more for the USAF than any other propaganda effort in history.
Derp, USN, urrite. Sorry, I was deep in the Danger Zone and not thinking clearly.
holy shit i had no idea they made this, this is THE BEST
https://youtu.be/t3ZEyN-6zkc?t=61
This one is even better, but a tad longer:
Yes that’s a game. It supports VR. It’s very good.
Oh I just can’t get enough of that shit :D
vyshka
1922
The A-4 is in DCS isn’t it? They could do either the fight against viper or jester.
Yes it is, it’s a free user mod. You can get a free install of DCS, put the A-4 in it and not pay a dime while jestering the fuck out of people flying expensive tomcats ;-)
Now, my knowledge of air-to-air combat doesn’t extend much farther than Maverick’s canopy, but isn’t the Tomcat a long-distance fighter/bomber that really isn’t intended for ATA interception if it can’t win by virtue of being a vastly superior technology platform that destroys targets from extreme range using smart munitions, whereas the A4 is very much an ATA dogfighter?
Yes, it’s primary mission was long range fleet defence. Keep the Russians away from the fleet. It was a big jet carrying a huge radar and a bunch of extremely long range air to air missiles.
But it was also built in the latter days of the Vietnam war. The North Vietnamese had taught the USN and USAF the error of their ways when it came to relying solely on radars and long range missiles. So the tomcat was built for, and their crews trained in old fashioned dogfighting.
And it was fucking good at it. Despite suckass engines and being as big and as heavy as a WW2 strategic bomber, a good pilot can outfly almost anything with it. You are not sneaking up on anybody in an F-14 tho!
The Tomcat was huge, and it was designed as a fleet defender first and foremost. Fly out hundreds of miles and shoot down incoming Soviet bombers from long range.
But she was surprisingly nimble, too.
A-4s were primarily attack aircraft, weren’t they?
wow that hair takes me back
I’m so here for this discussion, I love you guys <3
Imma let you finish with Danger Zone, but Mighty Wings is the greatest Top Gun song of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNC71WQrQN4
And it’s great when this lady sings it too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeTFfQ5CA7w
Indeed, they were built as replacement for the A-1, as light attack aircraft. Being incredibly zippy because of small size, and relatively large wing and powerful engine to lug all those bombs made it an awesome little dogfighter.
It was used by the Top Gun fighter weapons school (the navies’ version of the fighter pilot post graduate programme) to simulate the MiG-17 that had given them such grief over north Vietnam.
In the sim its remarkable for its eye watering roll rate, small size and good turning ability. If it doesn’t want to get gunned by a tomcat, it won’t. But it can’t follow the big guy when he plugs in the burner and decides to go play rocket ship.
To gain a kill on a well flown scooter a turkey flier will have to “use the force” and shoot by instinct because the scooter will out-jink the tomcats’ lead computing gunsight. Either that or blast by it at mach all-of-it, go up up up, then smack it with a long stick. But those are notoriously unreliable.
Oh and “hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by” is bullshit. The scooter has huge dive brakes and analogue, rod and pulley flight controls. It will easily stay sadled if you pull any of that pilot shit. The proper way to deal is boom&zoom tactics or force a one circle. But those look boring in cinema ;)
