Wonders of Destruction 2

[insurgent]

Yup, and with our mighty rifle-equipped conscripted units, in coordination with our sixty F-16 fighter airforce, and our mighty professional Danish division of three mechanized brigades, I would say that we pose a mighty threat against the USN!




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Correction: sixty-nine F-16's in the Danish airforce... That makes a HUGE difference...

 

[Mikoyan]

Hehe

Two more Kirov class Missile Cruisers and a Frigate:

The Admiral Nakhimov

The Pyotr Velikiy

The Frigate "Neustrashimy"

 

[insurgent]

The mighty Soviet Admiral Kuznetsov:

 

[Mikoyan]

The Mitsubishi F-2

 

[Eli]

Sa'ar 5 :cute:

 

[CurtSibling]

Here's an odd image! An Israeli Airforce Me 109!

The weapons of evil being used against evil!

I like it!

 

[Mikoyan]

Dutch F-16, lovely picture...

 

[Eli]

F-16 taking off:

 

[Mikoyan]

IAF F-16 "Viper"

 

[Mikoyan]

RSAF IDS Tornados

 

[Eli]

For some reason, until few months ago I was sure planes are at least 3 times smaller than they are in reality.

I never thought that for example an F-16 is 15 meters is length. I mean... I was sure that it can fit into my living room.

 

[Mikoyan]

Haw, that's what a life-time of picture gazing and scale model building does to your mind!

But now, time to bring forth the "small" arms!! :ak47:

Desert Eagle, my FPS handgun of choice

An AK-47, my FPS Assault Rifle of choice

M-249, my FPS Machine gun of choice

 

[G-Man]

"Here's an odd image! An Israeli Airforce Me 109!

The weapons of evil being used against evil!

I like it!"

It's a Chezc version called S-199. People didn't like it but it was the IAF's first plane and on the day these planes arrived they bombed the Egyptian forces that headed towards Tel Aviv. They didn't hit anything and one of the six planes crashed but the Egyptians were so scared they haulted all actions, thus allowing the Israeli Nahal to take positions between them and Tel Aviv.

Another interesting fact - most symbols in the IAF are humerous. The skull picture on the front of these planes was drawned by an American pilot and is the only evil looking symbol in the IAF.


I think the collest story in the IAF is of this plane:

An Iraqi mig-21, who's pilot flew it to Israel in 1965. In the weeks before the 6 days war this plane was actually stationed on alert with Israeli test pilot Danny Shapira. At the time Arab planes just flew over Israel between Sinai and the West bank, taking pictures of anything they wanted. Israeli planes were too slow, and so the Iraqi plane was stationed. It never intercepted anything though. Later it was named "007" and was sent to the US so they could test it. It was also a part of the USAF unit that used soviet planes to train other USAF pilots. Today it's in the IAF's museum.

 

[Mikoyan]

The "956 Sovremenny" class of Russian Destroyers

 

[insurgent]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
Here's an odd image! An Israeli Airforce Me 109!

The weapons of evil being used against evil!

I like it!

Are they really still used in the reserves? The generation that was trained to use them, isn't it too old to be drafted, even in an extreme emergency?

Also, it wouldn't stand a chance against the enemy fighters, even though their Arab-flown and Soviet-built. It would be suicide, wouldn't it?

 

[IceBlaZe]

israeli phantom.

 

[insurgent]

12 Israeli F-15's parked quite neatly...

 

[insurgent]

Those circular markings on the side, do they symbolise number of kills or something?

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by insurgent
Also, it wouldn't stand a chance against the enemy fighters, even though their Arab-flown and Soviet-built. It would be suicide, wouldn't it?

Not all planes in a war are uptodate fighters and bombers.
Small unarmed sport planes were used in WW2 as recon,
messager, cooperation, artillery spotters etc. Really depends
on whether they enemy thinks your important enough to
target, as opposed to another target.

 

[insurgent]

Originally posted by Ozz
Not all planes in a war are uptodate fighters and bombers.
Small unarmed sport planes were used in WW2 as recon,
messager, cooperation, artillery spotters etc. Really depends
on whether they enemy thinks your important enough to
target, as opposed to another target.

Yeah, I know, and I also know the Israelis are famous for saving old equipment for later use in the reserve, but WWII equipment today?