:absolutely-safe-capsule: :farquaad-point:
Thanks to this China were able to jumpstart their stealth plane program and is now able to produce stealth jets on par with the West. :xi-clap:
Weren't American stealth bombers a huge failure or was it just a specific one that's bad? I remember hearing there was one that cost tax payers huge amounts because it needed to be in a special air-conditioned hanger and couldn't go out in the rain?
Yeah its the B-2, the source of all those triangle Ufo sightings in the late 80s. The stealth coating washes away in rain lmao.
Oh my god lmao, Americans deserve a refund on that one.
Welp, at least it looks cool, that's the only compliment I'll give it.
The one in the article was an F-117, the Tesla Cybertruck of stealth fighter/bombers.
sigh false. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/13/us/b-2-bomber-gets-a-bath-to-prove-that-it-does-not-melt.html
They were good if you were facing an enemy without the specific types of radar that could actually detect you, but against peer adversaries they might only give you a few more seconds of leeway. In the case of this particular one, it was because the missile operator waited for the bomb bay doors to open before turning on his radar, allowing the severely outdated missile to actually lock on before american SEAD could target him.
A temporary restriction.
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-the-F-35-fly-in-high-winds
Y'all gotta be careful, click bait sites live to make shit up.
IIRC, Powers was supposed to commit suicide in this case, but he refused and instead surrendered cyanide pill to Soviet officers.
Meh. The U-2 got shot because the Soviets finally built a missile that could reach it. The F-117 got shot down because 1.) NATO got sloppy and 2.) Dani Zoltan was very competent and thus able to exploit that sloppiness masterfully.
doesn't matter how expensive your military is, if it's being run by people who think all the evil shit America does is good then they obviously can't be expected to make good decisions based on reality.
Venezuelan F-16s also intercepted a gringo U-2 in 1992, they told the U-2 pilots to fuck off but they ignored the warnings, the Venezuelans literally had them on lock-on ready to shoot but the U-2 got away, climbing to altitudes far above what the F-16 can reach and speeding away from their territory. Immediately after the incident the Venezuelan Air Force reported that "they actually knew" about the U-2 flight and that they were "authorized" to fly over their own airspace but couldn't inform it's air units, so it's all probably BS, the US Air Force was flying a secret mission and got caught with their pants down. Moral of the story? The US military is far from invincible and no matter how friendly you are to them, you still get spied on. Remember, back in 1992 the two governments were allies, Venezuela was getting annihilated by neoliberalism... but that isn't enough for the Empire.
The US military is far from invincible
considering how they lose over and over again, they are definitely very vincible lol
There just something so incredibly based about the farmer who gave them the cockpit if they made him a new house for his dog. Imagine being the dog that lived inside a downed American fighter’s cockpit. It’s like a wholesome version of Laika.
