ITS FRICKING HAPPENING
https://twitter.com/faytuks/status/1665843780958683136?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ
NOT A FRICKING DRILL
AUSTRALIA MAY SEND ITS 41 FA/18s TO UKRAINE INSTEAD OF SCRAPPING THEM
FA/18s FOR UKRAINE
ITS FRICKING HAPPENING
https://twitter.com/faytuks/status/1665843780958683136?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ
NOT A FRICKING DRILL
AUSTRALIA MAY SEND ITS 41 FA/18s TO UKRAINE INSTEAD OF SCRAPPING THEM
I thought they already gave them to Cuckdeau
We had about 70, we gave about two dozen to Canada.
>instead of sending them to the scrapyard as planned
You frickers should not waste a SINGLE god damn thing anywhere. Everything should be going to Ukraine, then Taiwan. Throw in Tunisia as well as that's a poor little democracy everyone has forgotten about.
>You frickers should not waste a SINGLE god damn thing anywhere
Romania finally retired its Mig-21 fleet last month. The airframes are completely shagged out and unfit for purpose so I wish they'd been converted into giant kamikaze drone bombs.
>giant kamikaze drone bombs.
ie a missile.
Is that actually worth it with cost vs just buying a functional missile? I imagine a MiG-21 isn't going to be much of a stealth missile and will just announce itself on radar. So would it be effective? Is it worth it just to waste Rusisan air defenses?
MiG-21 can do a Supersonic dash through air defenses though, and carry a lot of payload, like 1000kg warhead easy.
Also the large size gives it a very long range compared to small missiles.
MiG-21 ferry range with drop tanks is 1800km.
At low altitude it might be more around 1000 km, but that's still stupidly far compared to other weapons Ukraine might have.
Here's an idea, why not give MiG-21 drone a Dumbo payload, like 2000kg, and have a saturation attack of 20 or so attack the Kerch bridge.
As they get close to the target they could switch to visual guidance onto the bridge pillars.
turning them into drones is easier said than done. the US has been working on drone F-16's for more than a decade.
There's a world of difference between turning them into reusable, highly refined, unmanned strike aircraft and turning them into slapdash cruise missiles.
I suspect they would just get shot down. As laughable as Russian AD is, they should have no trouble shooting down a Mig-21.
Ukrainians allegedly converted a couple of fairly rare Soviet unmanned recon aircraft into cruise missiles. MiG-21s on their way to the junkyard would be perfect for that.
>fairly rare.
They had hundreds of them and one of them flew and crash landed in the capital of a NATO country. With others having no impact.
Converting old junk into drones is a fricking moronic idea.
>in the capital of a NATO country. With others having no impact.
Oh yeah i remember, i almost went into my girlfriend's dorm lmao
Pic i took the day after
Those are already drones. The one that crashed in Croatia was likely being used as intended, launched by Russia to do recon over Ukraine, then continued flying in a straight line over Romania, Hungary, and Croatia until it crashed. They aren't exactly advanced. The ones that the Ukrainians converted into missiles successfully damaged or destroyed multiple Russian strategic bombers and fighter aircraft.
The Croatia one apparently had explosives or something inside it.
Although our dumbass government isn't confirming or denying it did actually carry any since our dipshit president has beef with our defence minister.
The official investigation report claims that there were fragments of an OFAB-100-120 100kg bomb found, but no traces of explosives. The Secretary General of NATO claimed that it was unarmed. Everything else seems to be using deliberately vague language. Another of the drones had crashed in Ukraine a few days prior. It seems likely to me that the Russians were using them for their intended role, but they very well could've been using them to supplement their missile strikes considering they were using S-300s in ground attack mode. Maybe that's what gave the Ukrainians the idea to do the same, the timeline would line up.
To me it is probably one of these scenarios:
1)drone is Ukrainian, but sent by accident
2)drone is russkie, also sent by accident
3)drone is Ukrainian, sent as false flag(whatare the chances of it crashing in the middle.of a fricking NATO capital)
4)drone is sent by Russia to test NATO response(the capital thing again)
Also, one of the pieces landed on Jarun lake, and Ukraine has a place called Yarun so it's possible some vodka addled uke/Russian. Google mapped the wrong place and inputted the wrong coords
1) is unlikely, because the damn things can't turn for shit - it would literally have required the Ukies to launch it in the wrong fricking direction.
2) is consistent with observed Russian competence
3) is ridiculously unlikely, especially early in the war when Ukraine needed to be on its best behavior to get any sort of Western aid
4) is unlikely because of the extreme risk of direct NATO involvement
this was during the beginning of the war when Russia was still full-tilt into false flag propaganda for justification in an attempt to stifle Western support for Ukraine before they got bogged down, so i'd add this possibility:
5) the Russians used a system they kept in stock but only Ukraine officially uses to violate NATO airspace - crucially, this was before they'd lost any chance at reaching Odessa, so they may have intended to dampen Western support directly to Odessa by violating the airspace of the countries that said aid would likely go through if they managed to cripple Ukraine's internal transport infrastructure
of course there's also the wildcard:
6) it was Trans-sisteria
I still think the most likely explanation is that Russia was using it to take pictures of something in Ukraine and then they just let it keep going because nobody gets paid enough to care.
Hang on are those retractable landing skids?
No, it's a mount.
The thing is fired at a target, flies on a preprogrammed route taking pictures and then deploys a chute.
>allegedly
Yes, according to Russian sources that got cited uncritically by western media.
Here's a different one, because I'm not sure which of these two aircraft they used.
Azerbaijan bought bought drone tech from China which converted old Soviet AN-2 biplanes into decoys so TB-2s can target Armenian anti-air assets.
Worked pretty good.
Ukraine converted old Soviet era drones into missiles so it would be neat to see the same done for MiGs as a decoy or an entire weapon.
Sounds like another fruit vendor needs to set himself on fire and incidentally cause another Arab spring.
>giant kamikaze drone bombs
They should be converted into target drones for live-munition training or as decoys for actual operations.
>Tunisia
uh, anon.. they threw away that democracy back in 21 or so
Thank you freedom fighter.
>tfw the lost M113's from Italy
rip
They belong in front of VFWs!
>Throw in Tunisia
Giving free weapons to the sandnigs never ends well for anyone involved
Tunisia is Phoenician, French, German, Italian, with little Arab. They enslaved Nogs and are proud of it which makes them white. If they re-establish democracy they should be embraced fully and ensured that they're stable.
>This time's different trust ~~*us*~~
If you're thinking of morons like Afghanistan, or Iraq, those were failed colonial experiments and those states would never last. Tunisia is like Ukraine in that they threw off shackles and embraced democracy but then their economic weakness led to it to slide back. I really think Tunisia has some real chance.
The difference is that nations have to embrace change themselves and WANT IT. Afghans literally don't understand anything, and are perfectly fine being savages in little villages.
Aren't Tunisian Berbers?
And provoke Russia into starting nuclear war? If you want weapons making them yourself.
TOP GUN x EASTERN EURO, I’d frick with it
duuuuude. imagine if Tom Cruise went over to Ukraine to do a documentary:
Top Gun:Ukraine.
and its like real footage of him in the back seat while ukrainian pilot in front is bombing sevastopol with storm shadows
no cap
Once again the US is at the forefront of crossing red lines.
No my little russian friend. This is just how the west is able to bypass Russian red lines. The UK purchases F-16s, and now the US can send whatever it likes because the Russians didn't do shit when the UK announced shipping F-16s
>Russia's FINAL WARNING
Plus tell me your a chink
>your country's last warning is made fun of endlessly by russia
>Now putin is the one desperately talking about noooks and the red lines
It's been the UK since the start. Even Perun says this.
>muh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS
Ass status?
Balls deep
the sphincter is rupturing
In the Ass.
Some call them red lines.
Moderates call them goals.
Based moderate.
Total Zigger death is the moderate position. Sooo sick of Russia at this point.
the fricking prada boots
>red lines
goalposts. which keep getting moved
Maybe if Russia followed through on even one threat I'd give a shit.
I'm all for political realism as a philosophy but the implication of that school of thought is that either a) Russia is a great power that can enforce a sphere of influence, or b) it isn't and it can't- so it shouldn't try.
There's no option c where everyone is supposed to pretend that they're a power that should be respected, especially if it's come to the clown world scenario that donating obsolete RAAF stock is the new red line that is going to irreparably damage Russias strategic position (and I say this as an Australian patriot).
The really obvious implication of political realism is that if an enemy gives you an opportunity to take away their sphere of influence, you should do so.
Thus begins the classic cycle
>This is a major provocation! The red line is drawn here, and if the West crosses it there will be hell to pay!
Equipment/system in question actually gets delivered
>The new equipment from the West is worse than useless and we have already destroyed 14 gorillion of them. Stupid hohols.
Every time
Why'd you draw it if you didn't want it crossed?
They will be destroyed like the leopards today.
Your efforts are futile when will you understand it
the west can maintain futile efforts longer than russia
Why does Russia choose to prolong the war?
>"xaxa stupid holhol we didn't need the Crimean Bridge anyway"
>They will be destroyed like the leopards today.
1) Russia says giving PzH2k will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) Germany delivers PzH2k.
3) Russia says the PzH2k isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) Russia says it has destroyed PzH2k.
1) Russia says giving HIMARS will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) USA delivers HIMARS.
3) Russia says HIMARS isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) Russia says it has destroyed HIMARS.
1) Russia says giving MBT will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) UK delivers MBT.
3) Russia says MBT isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) Russia says it has destroyed MBT.
1) Russia says giving Storm Shadow will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) UK delivers Storm Shadow.
3) Russia says Storm Shadow isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) Russia says it has destroyed Storm Shadow.
1) Russia says giving F-16 will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) Denmark delivers F-16.
3) Russia says F-16 isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) TBD
1) Russia starting a counter offensive will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) Ukraine starts counter offensive.
3) Russia says counter offensice isn't that effective in combat after all.
4) Russia says it has destroyed the counter offensive.
1) Russia says giving F/A-18 will be seen as a direct attack on the proud nuclear nation of Russia!
2) Australia delivers F/A-18.
3) TBD
4) TBD
kek, based effortposter
They laughed at him because he told the truth.
>F/A 18s
Huh... F-16 was chosen on the basis of availability, but if someone is ready to donate whole 40 frames of f/a 18 it's actually an even better option
and the engines have commonality with the Gripen <wink wink>
i think f-16s were chosen simply because a single messaging was needed for the public
I mean, yeah, "only" f-16 was hyped because they wanted a single multirole frame, not a zoo. But before that they had to decide which model to hype up specifically, they were choosing more or less between the f-15, f-16 and f/a-18, where they chose f-16 because it was the cheapest and there was more people who could give it to them, but I heard ukies who claimed that their personal favorite choice would be a f/a-18 otherwise.
I'm glad we're not giving them F-15s. I don't want to risk it losing its perfect record.
F-15s were actually good
The only fighter to ever score an air-to-vacuum kill against a spaceship.
Canada and Finland have them too and will be getting F-35s soon. Might as well send them off on one last hurrah.
the canuck ones are clapped out and don't even have a replacement lined up yet
binland f-35 deliveries aren't until 2026
That is the whole point of sending them. If they're clapped out, they're spare parts at worst and likely better than the clapped out SU-29's Ukraine has anyway. What the frick is our air force doing the USA couldn't cover anyway?
>and don't even have a replacement lined up yet
Lol wut? Keep up with your F-35 procurement newsletters my dude.
>the canuck ones are clapped out and don't even have a replacement lined up yet
Have you been living under a rock? You bought F-35.
>Finland have them too and will be getting F-35s soon. Might as well send them off on one last hurrah.
Not happening. Giving Ukraine our F-16s was just a PR-stunt our former (thank god) prime minister did a couple of weeks before our elections. Basically, the adults in the room (president, defense minister, military brass) told her to stfu.
>ywn go clubbing and do coke with Sanna Marin
why live
You forgot
>at Club Swagga
Why do you lie, Veikkoseni?
Marin only talked about the possibility of sending the F-18s to Ukraine after the F-35 Lightnings are in use in FAF. It turned into a PR -stunt because the Finnish press invented headlines about Sanna promising and already sending the planes this year. And then it snowballed with the usual normie brainfarts about the situation.
Personally, I'd love to send our Hornets to Ukraine, if there only was the logistics to operate them in there.
Will they come along with swastikas?
If only! But we can dream.
No, because Finland removed the swastikas years ago.
>years ago
It was discontinued as aircraft identification in 1945 and as a symbol in unit badges/pins in 2017. It's still used in unit flags and military awards, however. The unit pins were a bit of a problem when working with mutts and krauts (pic related).
by 'problematic' you mean 'based'?
No, the Ukrainians will have to add them themselves.
Where is the donation link for paint
Are Finnish F-18 really rusting this badly? Not fit for winter conditions? I wonder what will happen to the F-35 they will be receiving as part of their NATO deal... More funds for maintenance is needed.
I've yet to see a rusty Hornet in Finland. Not in Pirkkala lennosto, anyway. They are right next to my town.
Camera artifact. The wingtip missile, pylon and engine nozzles all have the same "rust" look.
I'm pretty sure that's just a weird exposure on the shadows, it looks like it was taken with a film camera
>goes to a war torn country for a PR-stunt and oversteps her boundaries by alluding to giving Ukraine fighter jets and that there has already been discussion about this in Finland
>"Noooo, it's the media misrepresenting me, I swear!"
She just wanted those sweet, sweet, political points just before elections. Instead people took her words seriously and adults in the Finnish government had to explain to US and Ukraine that nobody in here knows wtf she is even talking about.
>Instead people took her words seriously and adults in the Finnish government had to explain to US and Ukraine that nobody in here knows wtf she is even talking about.
So you agree, people didn't listen to what she was saying: Finland could discuss that option.
And then people started making shit up about what she had "promised" etc. A proper shit show.
>people didn't listen to what she was saying
Did you read the screen cap? Ukraine started a formal process and US got roped into this shit because that stupid b***h didn't understand in what context she was giving those kind of irresponsible statements (giving out jets to Ukraine). She was either downright dumb or just giving out that kind of statement on purpose to gain favor just before the elections. Probably both scenarios are true, tbh, but sure, "Sanna dindu nuffin", again, if that floats your boat.
Because he's a subhuman trying to sow discord. For some reason Marin keeps making the spasm and froth at the mouth.
i would so suck on her pink butthole
>this, O men of Athens, is the truth and the whole truth; I have concealed nothing, I have dissembled nothing. And yet I know that this plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth? - this is the occasion and reason of their slander of me, as you will find out either in this or in any future inquiry.
-- Socrates, 399 BC, final Defense before being put to death
>Giving Ukraine our F-16s
>"Finnish" poster
>our F-16s
>Finnish F-16s
Frick off Ivan.
Haista sinä huora vittu.
Don't you dare speak ill of prime minister cat mommy gf.
Is that what a woman looks like when she's not on the burger diet?
But where's the ass?
Yes our F-16s from olkiluoto oblast.da da pjotr
Sauli Niinistö cucked out already from this.
No finn is pro vatnik anti nafo like me but this is just beyond belief. They could have easily send 10. But they just cucked out.
That doesn't make any sense. The F/A-18 was always a niche fighter, unlike the F-16, and the hardware ecosystem is pretty much dead at this point. The Marines had to source spare parts from the Yorktown museum... The F-16 is still in production, is constantly upgraded and has many NATO users near Ukraine. And how many flight hours do the AUS Hornets have left?
>Niche fighter
>Nearly 800 built
I know the US doesn't them any more in favor of the Super Hornet (I think the Marines retired their Hornets?) but I'd hardly call the primary American carrier fighter for 2 decades a niche aircraft.
It's a niche fighter because of its role as a naval fighter and in terms of production numbers and number of users, compared to the F-16.
>The F/A-18 was always a niche fighter, unlike the F-16
Not really, a fair number of countries use them from land bases, it just has a bit of extra weight due to carrier modifications. It's very capable, definitely more so than F-16 Block 50/52.
>And how many flight hours do the AUS Hornets have left?
We bought/built -A models and then upgraded them to basically ersatz -C model status part way through their service. When we did that, part of the "HUG" (Hornet UpGrade) program was building new centre-barrels which were the most time-expired part of the aircraft - some of them are fricked out and only good for cannabilising but lots of them have a lot of airframe hours left. Some pundits have suggested that like Finland has planned to operate Hornets from highway bases and rough fields, the Ukies could do similar with the Hornet because of its carrier origins and tough landing gear.
It has superior performance to the F-16 in the conditions Ukraine is expecting to face, so it's absolutely better to send them off then something that is at best on-par with the Russian's workhorse craft and potentially outmatched by their white elephants.
Perhaps the F-18s could even screen the F-16s in operations.
>squadrons of FA-18s
>screening squadrons of F-16s
My boner just esploded. God dammit!
regardless of which aircraft they end up getting, the key to the arrangement actually working, in my opinion, is allowing western contractors to maintain them in Ukraine. Maybe even western governments making the arrangements themselves. Reasonable turnabout when in the past actual Soviet pilots and radar/SAM operators killed Americans in proxy conflicts
Say it with me: Built, bred, and buttered for...
Raping shotas
>Sanna talked first about giving Finland's Hornets to Ukraine when the F35's have arrived
Aussies beat us to it, Finnbros! This can't be happening!
god I would so much
SO
MUCH
Get in line, pal
There’s like half of Pajeetistan waiting ahead of you
the see-thru yoga pants with her underwear showing was 10/10 material
I have to admit, for this one time the turd worlders are right on the money when it comes to their taste in women
If her pussy juice was sold in stores I’d buy that shit by the barrel
Sana is an ugly prostitute who cheats does crack and kisses other women
>that filename
butthurt vatBlack person/brownskin detected
Cry harder homosexual at least shitskins keep women in their place
lmao called it, turd worlders can't help but seethe and moan
>seethe
at what a fricking crack prostitute?
No at indoor plumbing
????????????
>waaaaaagh why won't this roastie show me her bob n vagene bastard bich bloody hore
kek poogays seething always gets a chuckle out of me
you will never have a white woman
you will never have indoor plumbing
you will always be pakistan, china and britians b***h
ghandi was a pussy and pedo
meds Black person
>get called out for living in a shithole country comprised mostly of feces
>m-meds n-now reeeeeee
>anybody who criticizes any euroshit PM is brown
>as if France and Germany aren't filled with arabs and turks
whatever you say bloody bastard bich
>crys about ghandi being a pedo
>posts pic of show made by a guy who was on epstein's island
name one (1) celebrity that wasn't on pedo island
Noticing a lack of a toilet in your glass house
I'm sorry is there supposed to be something wrong with this picture?
He’s low caste. Meaning he doesn’t understand the concept concubines. Maybe in the next reincarnation
>being a cuck is low caste
Kek
Exactly. Cuckdom as you call it is a high caste thing. Why wouldnt you want your genetic superiors to breed your women? that is the only way to ensure that your children get the best possible genes and maintain being at the top of the pyramid
Are you really okay with your wife kissing other women because thats what sanas was doing?
Of course, FFM is objectively the best tyoe of threesome
>threesome
IT was not a threesome it was cucking also are you a fricking muzzie?
Marin took her airhead influencer friends to party in the official summer residence of the prime minister. This is basically the same if Trump or Biden took some tit-streamers from twitch to flash their breasts at the White House press room. It is un-fricking-believable what you can you do in this country and get away with it if you're a 35-year-old frickable woman.
What's wrong about that? Women aren't allowed to have fun now?
They are, but I'd rather not have my prime minister act like a total prostitute, attend drug fueled parties and associate with people who film every second of their life to the internet. Shows kind of bad judgement on her part.
>Shows kind of bad judgement on her part.
It's hot is what it fricking is.
She is a prostitute tho. There's a public video of her cheating on her husband. Finland's decision to joint NATO notwithstanding.
mhmm uhuhh
total zigger death
Hey at least she doesn't kiss other women
>oh no
>girls kissing girls
>not on my orthodox imageboard
Hey! Stop lying!
It wasnt crack, it was regular powder cocaine.
You're saying she's single now?
Single and looking for a man who can satisfy her needs. Pls be patient, she has autism.
I can fix her
I watched some stuff on her personal life, she's a vapid prostitute from a broken family you don't want her she will at most ruin your children.
STAHP
I can only get so erect
They'll be ready for the 2025 counter offensive.
When is the F22 getting taken out of service for NGAD?
Russia is really fricked if they let this drag on that long.
Its not, the F-22 will serve into 2060 with the 3.2b upgrades, the NGAD will serve right alongside it.
>there are no Tomcats to give to Ukraine
>there will be no videos of F-14s bombing Russian to the song Reckless by Judas Priest
It's over.
F/A-18 always seemed like the third option in discussions that didn't get much screen time. Alongside F-16 and Grippen it has:
>comparable performance to Grippen
>Maintenance requirements of F-16
>Availability somewhere in the middle
Being a carrier fighter it should be able to operate on less than ideal runways (i,e, highways) with a good payload, good range but this was built witht the backing of the USN in mind so maintenance is more intensive than grippen which needs one officer and a squad of conscripts. Many countries operate it and want to replace it with F-35 but not as many nations as F-16 reducing available sources. Overall the thing that might prevent it could ultimately be its cost prohibitive but clearly not. Can't wait to see Hornets buzzing and stinging vatBlack folk
I feel like the demilitarization of Ukraine isn't going as well as Putin expected.
Sh-sh! Shush, now! Don't let monke hear you or you'll give it away.
Can we give sme to NZ while we're at it ?
Aside from the airframes being beaten to shit F-18 seems like a better option than F-16. More agressive-with-giving countries (Finland, Canada, Australia) still able to dip into US parts stocks ("parts" might include whole airframes behind the scenes), in Finland presumably they can find trainers who speak Russian, and crucially they can operate from/land on very short and improvised strips including arrested unlike the F-16.
I think the airstrip issue will be fatal for the Ukrainian f16s unless they get staged out of poland or some shit
Russia has shown no ability to stop Ukrainian air ops by attacking runways as of now, why would they magically get better at it when F-16s arrive?
Has F-18 gone up against F-16 in wargames? How'd that play out?
Also just to annoy the vatniks, the F-18 probably can delete SU-57s as well.
>Captcha: G0YAJA
What paint scheme would they go for?
Ukrainian flag upside down
So first they were selling them to a private training company in the USA, then they were going to sell them to Canada for parts, now it's Ukraine.
>So first they were selling them to a private training company in the USA, then they were going to sell them to Canada for parts
No, anon. First they sold Canada a small number because they had more airframe hours than the RCAF ones did. Then out of the remainder, a deal was struck with a Red Air provider which seems to have paused and gone nowhere. Now there's the prospect of them going to Ukraine.
No. Australia already sold a number of FA/18s to Canada. Then the deal with the private company never materialised and now Australia has mothballed FA/18s
I want this
I would nut in my pants
I want one for B2 (soon to be retired) and f35 just for the lols
>B2
vatnik copes would be in fricking overdrive lmao
I dont think they would be coping, they would be running for siberia
>we shot down another 50 HATO stealth bombers today
>stupid oikrainians wasting valuable missiles killing 100s of Russian mobiks who's lives are meaningless
I don't think this website could survive the unstoppable force of Vatniks talking shit, and the immovable object(ive reality) of finding out.
>F-15 in near-Thundercracker paint job
Please, I can only take so much Transformers memery from this war.
F-15 is the basis for Decepticon flyers as well as Macross's VF's. It's anime becoming real again!
>Macross VFs
That's the Tomcat. But I believe Shoji Kawamori did try to make a variable F-15 but not for Macross (it was literally a F-15 that could transform).
War will be over by the time they have the pilots ready.
>give them more moeny
I hate glowBlack folk and goys who support this
How many threads are you saying glowBlack folk in right now?
I don't get why a glowie hater would support Russia. It has one of the worst glowie infestations of all time.
Why is the FSB agent above seething?
Pick one or more of the following
>Militants still dicking around in Belgorod
>Russians losing ground in Bakhmut
>Counteroffensive ramping up
>Nova Kakhova dam just burst
I'm sure there are more, but that's what I got off the top of my head.
>Nova Kakhova dam just burst
it didnt
It definitely did.
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1665905176140554243?s=20
no, it was exploded from the inside of the generator room after Russia had closed the gates and let the water accumulate for the last month
Kerch Bridge just became a legitimate target for total demolition with western weapons
>Kerch Bridge just became a legitimate target
It was always a legitimate target, it's a strategic route on Ukrainian territory.
So, the real question here is:
For pilots receiving training on F-16s, are FA-18s "close enough" that cross-training is fairly minimal?
I like the idea of there being other FA-18s available along with F-16s. Potentially, there could be 100 or more total airframes available in reasonably short order and the total pool of trained pilots could sit in either frame.
And, also, there are the logistics of supplying parts & maintenance. There should be a large pool of scrapped or ready-to-scrapped frames from both models that can be shipped or make one last flight to be a reserve of parts for the frames that still have significant flight hours remaining.
This could be a hell of a way to leverage the total force available, if all the crossover is, say, 80% or better.
Anyone?
There are a LOT of retired
F-18 pilots in the US/Australia/Canada/Finland. Ukies might hope to recruit foreign volunteers for what is a dead-end platform ultimately (clearly they're going forward with F-16 as their fighter)
FA-18s and 16s are old as frick
They'd seem like fricking luxury vehicles compared to the Mig-29A.
The Mig-29A looks a lot better than the hunk of shit know as F-16s
To be fair the mig-29 is pretty great
Nobody who has flown both Mig-29 and any western plane seems to agree.
Show the avionics.
So am I but your sister still lets me frick her
I don't have a sister wish I did tho (so I could frick her)
Some of the theoretical payloads the f-18 can carry are hilarious. It can be turned into an AMRAAM spam truck with 10x AMRAAMs and 2x aim-9. Or you can take 5x 2000lb JDAMs and still carry 4 air to air missiles for defense.
>AMRAAM spam
SPAMRAAM
Modern aircraft payloads are just ridiculous in general, an F-16 has about the same payload as a B-17.
>Modern aircraft payloads are just ridiculous in general, an F-16 has about the same payload as a B-17.
Meanwhile the poor mig-29 weighs more than a f-16 and can only carry 2x long range r-27r.
I hope we see the Hornets being used for SEAD and DEAD missions eroding Russia's AA capability near the frontline. I'm not entirely sure which weapons are compatible with these airframes as they are because the Aussie F18s were upgraded A models but I don't know if they have the same capabilities as the C
Ukraine has H-O-R-N-E-T-S
Fricking awesome. By all accounts the Australian F/A-18s are a slam dunk for Ukraine, as they are retired and headed for the scrap heap (apparently nobody wants to buy them) and therefore available for donation, yet they still have usable lifespan on them. There's also 41 of them which is a solid number, even if a handful of them are only good for spare parts.
This reminds me of the absence of another slam dunk that I had previously thought about: why wasn't Ukraine given any of the old M198s? They're not as good as the M777s but they're still as good if not better than the old Soviet junk both sides have been fielding, and there should be some of them still kicking around somewhere. I suppose the explanation is that between all the M777s and SPGs they've been given, ammunition rather than barrels is far and away the bottleneck, not unlike the HIMARS situation.
I’m not taking any advice from a guy with a foreskin that short.
>INSTEAD OF SCRAPPING THEM
NATO countries/Ukraine allies are never going to scrap anything. All the surplus (especially cold-war era surplus) is going to be sent to the battlefield, even the less useful things. Every bit of weaponry is going to be tested on Russians, and the results will be observed and recorded. MIC stocks continue to go brrrr
>go brrrr
cringe forced meme, do better in future
Are Hornets good jets?
Why they wanted to scrap them?
These are old A++ models that the RAAF has since replaced with F35s. I think some C models are still in service elsewhere but the Superhornets are vastly superior. The RAAF are using Superhornets for strike roles but the legacy Hornets have been phased out.
It’s weird that super hornets are still called F-18’s when it’s completely different airframe. Especially since the sumo-16 got renamed to the F-2
F-15EXs still being called F-15s is also strange but hey
The Gripen E/F is also completely different from the Gripen C/D, to the point Saab can't do an upgrade - only cannibalize the compatible parts and put them in a new build.
Keeping the same name was a political thing so it would be funded.
>SCRAPPING THEM
most of the time the airframes are to old an will break so yes give them those shit
>most of the time the airframes are to old an will break so yes give them those shit
They've had the centre-barrels replaced - they have lots of hours left
you call this a red line, we call this a difficulty tweak
Ukraine is literally fighting Russia so NATO don't have to and all we do is providing them with the obsolete shit from the 70's... What a fricking shame.
So I've read the Aussie hornets have the AN/APG-73 installed, how do they stack up to the APG-66(V)2's in the F-16A MLU?
Always drives me nuts seeing the west scrap perfectly good equipment. How much could it possible cost to just hide them in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere? They might rust a bit, but it's still easier to restore rusty equipment than build new shit when push comes to shove. Russia is basically surviving off their mothballed tanks right now, even if half the parts were stolen.
AUSSIES PLS SEND THEM F-111S GOD DAMN IT PLS TELL ME YOU HAVE SOME LEFT FOR CHRIST'S SAKE I NEED THIS
F18 is more better than F16 because the number is 2 bigger right?
Well it has 2 engines and knowing slav maintenance standards having a spare engine is probably for the best.
Moar payload
Doesn't need billiard-smooth runways