Who had the best aircraft during the cold war?
Depends on the decade desu. Cold war lasted 50 years or so
the good guys
Canadian Canadair Tebuan.
America all the way. From the F-86 all the way to the F-15, America reigns supreme in the skies.
North Korea, because they are still stuck on cold war era.
America and it's not really close.
NATO, mostly American but exceptions stand for some others like the English Electric Lightning.
*ahem*
Also I nominate the poms, aesthetics wise its hard to beat the Sea Vixen and Vulcan.
THE NEED FOR SOVIET SPEED
SEE YA LATER CAPITALISTI
*nukes you*
Imagine being that useless rear gunner.
best view for the mushroom cloud though
This
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US, but they never actually finished the best stuff. XF-108 Rapier had all chances to be the F-22 of it's time, completely overpowering anything that Soviets could field in decades. Interceptor variant of the A-12 too could be OP as fuck.
Nice seeing Jabog 34 Allgäu flying again
>useless
B-52 tail gunners shot down some MiGs in Vietnam if that counts for something
>rear gunner.
It's radar guided.
yanks for overall design, way ahead of anyone else, with the exception of a few decent fighters/systems from us bongs the swedes, and the soviets.
if i had to order it, it would be
America
United Kingdom
Sweden
Russia
Yugoslavia (only produced like 2-3 home brew jets but the idea of a neutral essentially ex communist state producing its own fighter, trainer and bomber/interceptor is pretty cool to me.
anyone else is generally not really that important, and suffice to say that in certain areas these nations overlap each other, Mig 29-with the helmet guided AA missiles for example, Americans based the aim X off that concept if i remember rightly.
its a plane of extremes
>United Kingdom
What did they make?
>Sweden
What did they make except interceptors?
a very good one at that.
Always playing catch-up.
Twin boom aesthetic. The bongs did have style.
>United Kingdom
Tornado
Lightning
Vulcan
Sea vixen
Victor
Venom
Harrier
the list goes on but my point is that they were not reliant on US industry like we are now, British aerospace after WW2 was arguably the top of the mountain for us.
>Sweden
Viggen
Draken
numerous other non noteworthy planes, although i don't respect Sweden as a county I respect their air force, i like that they keep it national and generally decent for a singular non major European power.
one other contender i forgot to mention was france, although generally forgotten in the limelight of the cold war they did have some rather bloody marvelous planes, and although i don't know many by names the mirage line is a good example.
cant beat a Vamp or Venom, easily my most favorite looking air frames of that period.
Canada
criminally under rated aesthetics rite here
>Tornado
>UK
Actually, the Harrier was the last British design.
The Tornado and Eurofighter were based on German designs.
incorrect, EAP was the basis.
you got my point, if we were to go into the whole jaguar typhoon and tornado argument we would be here forever.
The UK wasn't competive in advanced aerodynmics anymore. Their concept for the Eurofighter was a F-18 copy.
>incorrect, EAP was the basis.
No.
Germany was pretty much the leading nation in aerodynamics in Europe.
elaborate your point, the whole reason i say it was a British concept is because the Italians and Germans didn't put money towards the EAP, they couldn't afford to/didnt want to.
TKF 90 was a concept nothing more ACA which lead to EAP has more in common with p.110.
>cant even hover
I dislike the Russkies as much as the next guy, but how necessary is hovering really?
I would honestly rather see one of those Hinds coming after me than this thing. That's a lot of rockets.
I bet he that one guy who always claim that the Typhoon is some British design.
why does it have the purina logo?
the arrow was obsolete from day one. the phantom beat it in every way.
well the other fella hasn't done anything to prove to the contrary whereas i have, anything you want to add?
Can't be helped. Bongs are always delusional.
the A12 was a flying wing stealth naval attack program. An interceptor version? How would that work?
French Super Étendard
Did quite well during the Iran-Iraq war and the Falklands. Iraqis only lost 1 of them over 5 years which is impressive considering the Iranians had F-14s
>What did they make except interceptors?
None of SAAB's designs have only existed as pure interceptors.
I'd call Tunnan a fighter-bomber. Lansen and Viggen both had ground attack variants in service before the fighter/interceptor variant showed up, they both also had a few aircraft converted into EW variants. All of these and Draken had their recon variants (two different ones for Viggen). And if we're looking at Swedish built rather than Swedish used, the Danes bought an attack variant of Draken.
I have never been more erect.
About as important as the atf (not useful/important at all)
everything else about this plane looks fine, but what in gods name is that cockpit?
Well if you're trying to do long range shooting with a TADS or equivalent it's nice to be able to sit in one place without losing cam picture or the sight drifting off target.
i would have loved this plane to death if it had a standard side by side cockpit
Nobody asked you tripfag noguns.
>Krauts genuinely believe this.
Sadbois
