Is this the best fighter ever made?

F-22*

F-22 > SU-27. F-15 > F-16, F/A-18 > MIG-29

Obviously performance wise no... But is this the jet thats been used to stabilize the world the most? Like how the fal was seen for rifles? What other western flying weapons platform had bigger impact on the world in the past half century?

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Fw-190s slapped the shit out of the Spitfire until the Mk IX restored parity

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The Flanker is what happens when an aircraft is built for sexuals.

*wins your war* nothin personnel, kid

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sorry chumps

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Just a reminder
youtube.com/watch?v=PkrtxDdaWuM

For the price and time period, yes.

Why the flying fuck would you want the bigger heavy missiles on your wingtips and your small lightweight missiles inboard? Why would putting more load on your wings and increasing roll inertia be good?

Less drag.

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>Why would putting more load on your wings
When the plane is in flight it isn't the body that holds things up and the wings that hang off of it, it's the wings hold up everythign else. So it can get a bit unintuitive how the load is distributed (say with wingtip fuel tanks, which some liked back in the day) and this probably isn't much of an issue here. That said, I also wonder why the F-16 tends to do this while pretty much everyone else always puts the small short ranged missiles on the tips.

So there's something about the F-16/AMRAAM/Sidewinder combination specifically that means less drag this way? Because as said, it seems basically no other aircraft does it this way.

Do not sexual the Flanker.

F15C is a better fighter. Look at the single tailfin on the f16. Sickening

What if it is ?

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>single tailfin is bad
silence yourself, apostate.

*laughs in jewish*

F15, and f18 are best

>hey moshe how do we get around this one?
>Just go around it Ezekiel

Laughs in f22

If the tucano could take AAMRAMs it would be the greatest fighter ever made.

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>Gets BTFO by eurofighter

>Eurofighter gets BTFO by F15 in war games
Wat games don’t matter

F35 is the new f16

>t. hue

wrong, its the new F-4.

>f4
No gun

IIRC, it caused a wierd vibration when the Sidewinders were on the wingtips and the AMRAAMs were inboard. So, they put AIM-120s on the wingtips and Sidewinders inboard, and the vibration sorted itself out. I've also seen asymmetrical loadouts with 3 AIM-120s and 1 AIM-9.

AGM-88 HARM already knows your location

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This. Russians and their whole Stronk ground based air defense meme is comical

the thing is all of those curbstomps vs IADS didn't actually have a significant modern airforce to back the IADS up.

were the wild weasels successful because sams are a meme, or were they successful because the IAF fighters couldn't sortie to intercept ?

Almost a legitimate point. Why couldn't IAF fighters sortie? Because air fields were destroyed? How were airfields destroyed? Because IADS is ineffective.

>why couldn't the IAF fighters sortie
they did at first, they tried to intercept F15Es in shitty old mirages and I think you can guess how that turned out
>because the airfields were destroyed
the airfields were destroyed because the Iraqi IADS, while well arrayed, was not built with the notion of fighting the US Air Force, and the IAF squandered the MOST IMPORTANT PART of an IADS (the interceptor) leaving the supporting components vulnerable. the IAF let down the IADS, not the other way around.

herein lies the rub: the missile component of an IADS is just that, one component. an IADS is more than just missiles and targeting radar it is also search and tracking radar arrays, C2 facilities, and most importantly, quality interceptor craft. missile based IADS is not meant to make you "safe" from air attack any more than an infantry anti-tank system is expected to hold off an armored division, it's to be a force equalizer because your enemy has 500 F35s, you have 300 MiG-29s, and with your X billion dollars slated for military expansion this year you can afford another 50 or so MiGs or 10,000 SAM systems.

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much like the F-35, it didnt need one.

There's also the fact that the F-16CJ isn't the F-4G. It's a fairly modern capable fighter capable of defending itself fairly effectively (in conjunction with a dedicated fighter escort, obviously.)

no......that's why new stuff comes out. ever notice that, pussy?

nice little r/c plane. why is it posted here?

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Which base is this? Hill AFB?

i believe so.

F-15

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no , nesher is
the global ace of aces with 17 air kills flew a nesher

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All the TEL in one little space.
One CBU could wreck them.

>nesher
You mean MIRAGE then

The F16 is a lawn dart

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Stupid sexy succhoi.

No. 103:0 kill loss beats everything ever.

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Cheongju Airbase in South Korea

Best post-WWII at least.

How is it better than an F-15?

the design was stolen from the ANG, who intended for it to be a high maneuverability fighter that would guide its missiles through ground radar. the USAF stole it, put a big ass radar on it, and increased its payload so it can fly without fuel tanks that reduce its drag even further.

the F-16 is a joke.

no its not , it was initially a joint french-israeli project but the backstabbing froggers pulled out

this
>101 air kills during a 20 day war
>undefeated in air combat (a few lost to SAMs)
>all the best jet aces flew them
>multiple neshers with 10+ air kills

Unless you're firing those wing mounted missiles first, the weight would be better balanced keeping any differences near the body of the jet. However, the largest missiles on there are in the best spot to reduce impact to the overall agility as well.

Fuck off Pierre