Aesthetic, F A S T and had a long career worldwide
Admit it : the F-104 Starfighter was a success
>inb4 dumb seething kraut arguing about them and being still butthurt for using then as a bomber/fighter
This was the best INTERCEPTOR ever made
Luke White
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Jacob Jones
Its TWR was kind of shit.
Only Kraut subhumans were dumb enough to crash them though.
Jacob Hughes
Dumping some pics found on /hr/
Nolan Hughes
Benjamin Jackson
Parker Reyes
Julian Hall
Ayden Myers
Eli Cooper
Jaxson James
James Bennett
Can't wait to get some in War Thunder so Germany finally has a top tier fighter.
Tyler Ramirez
Noah Walker
Jeremiah Harris
Ayden Lewis
Matthew Cook
>Stars actually fought: 0
Ryan Jackson
Anthony Myers
I don't think you understand the difference between a fighter and an interceptor.
Jaxon Myers
It was alright. The XF-108 was the real tragedy of the XB-70 program's cancellation.
Adrian Campbell
Based and skellypilled
William Watson
Word
Luis Miller
He might be a kraut
Ethan Baker
Joshua Walker
Alexander Butler
Parker Barnes
>Still mad about a bomber that was already obsolete during his time
Oof
Adam Wright
>doesn't need a long runway to take off
>thicc boi coming in at a max weight of 46 tonnes
>literally has twice the range of the 104
>doppler-shift, phased-array radar suite
>bypass ducts to keep the engine nice and cool at high speeds
>actually designed to carry ordnance
>doesn't need a shitty rocket engine to make a near-space altitude zoom climb
>made in a country that doesn't classify pilots that only went to 70km as astronauts.
Jose Torres
Ok sir gay - sorry I mean Seguei, now take this seringe of Krokodil and go back to your filth
Isaiah Russell
I do. They're all fighters in the game tho. Mitsubishi T-2 is essentially an interceptor too. Just means you don't turn fight.
Thomas Gray
Bump
Tyler Mitchell
>planes will never be sexy, polished aluminum ever again
Andrew Fisher
Wasn't this thing's ejector seat terminally fucked? Couple that with a single engine and I can see why this thing isn't very popular.
Leo Ramirez
Same thing for civilian airplanes : all made of glass cockpit, smokeless and almost noise-free engines, made of composite materials...
Aviation today is a huge faggotry mess
Nicholas Bennett
Fuck off Lockmart shill
Daniel Torres
Alexander Fisher
DELETE THIS
Angel Young
F-104
> first flight : 1954
MiG-25
> first flight : 1964
Impressive!
Brody Wilson
Don't blame the krauts, their air force went from the gulags to the highest performance interceptor of the time practically overnight and their zyklon-addled brains just couldn't keep up.
Josiah Gonzalez
Nah man, 106 was tops, sorry.
Connor Johnson
Is the f-104 the most aerodynamic fighter? It holds the low altitude speed record but I have seen others say the f-106 and other tailess deltas have less drag. There's not much info for non US planes when it comes to lift and drag. Newer fighters actually might have regressed, they stopped bothering to area rule them due to powerful engines sending them supersonic with brute force.
Jordan Turner
Plus the fact that, apart from the F-104, the MiG-29 was the best aircraft the post WW2 Luftwaffe ever had
Justin Sanchez
>stopped bothering to area rule them
That's false, they just figured out smarter ways to adhere to the area rule than "where wing big, make fuselage small - plane go fast". The wasp waist was a short-lived feature that came from adding area rule considerations as an afterthought.
Jonathan Russell
>That's false, they just figured out smarter ways to adhere to the area rule than "where wing big, make fuselage small - plane go fast". The wasp waist was a short-lived feature that came from adding area rule considerations as an afterthought.
How are they doing it now? If you look at a f22 there's substantially more area around the middle of the wing. Any idea which jets had the least drag when going supersonic at low level? Apparently the F-15 has less drag than the F-4 but I have seen F-111 pilots claiming they could outrun F-15s at low level, officially a f-104 holds the sealevel speed record but F-111 pilots sometimes claim they went a little faster. I guess the F-111 acts more like a tailess delta with the wings swept.
Jonathan Scott
meh. anyone know why they never weaponized the sr-71? how hard would it be to have just put a nuke in the bay where all the heavy camera shit was
Xavier Cook
>best interceptor
if by interception you mean it was intercepting death itself for the pilot then yes
Xavier Turner
As OP said : you’re still mad Hans?
Don’t blame the airplane, blame your shitty air force
Julian Howard
you do know most of the accidents happened in usa right alfonso?
Charles Jones
Robert Wright
To be fair, the main reason the jet did so poorly for the Germans is because not only were they trying to use an interceptor in a fighter/bomber role, but they also did a lot less actual flying/training compared to the USAF.
For it's time, it was an amazing machine that fulfilled it's very narrow role well. But the airframe is limited simply because of how simple it is. The Italians did a decent job of updating theirs, but the fact still remains that it was only ever designed to travel in a straight line very fast and attack big slow targets.
Lincoln Howard
That looks cool. I love modern reinterpretations of old aircraft and vehicles.
Logan Sullivan
So do I, even if they are really impractical most of the time. Not to shit up the threat too much, but I have a few more.
Adrian Sullivan
Ayden Ward
Yes they mostly are, but I nonetheless love looking at these without regarding the practicality or realism.
Levi Hill
A L M O N D S
Benjamin Gonzalez
Nice activated double dubs bro.
Jaxson Miller
Its thrust to weight ratio was fine for a single engined 1960's plane, it was literally made around the engine. Its wing loading was shit, it could not mantain lift in any turn, and it was not meant to house ordinance what so ever. The F-104 was a plane built purely for show and money, Lockheed was dealing in various illegal activities at the time of its production and it was one of the 'fighters' it tried to sell for export knowing full well it was not a fighter at all.
in the 1960's there were many scandals involving US aviation companies making aircraft for the sole purpose of profit abroad, despite their short comings. look it up
Matthew White
>krauts try to use high speed interceptor as a dive attack CAS aircraft
>krauts surprised to see their pilots can't pull out of steep dives while close to the ground
How did they mess up so bad?
Daniel Martinez
>Only Kraut subhumans were dumb enough to crash them though.
what do Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong both have in common?
Jordan Green
>providing shade and cover from wind for based Bovines
F-104 is truly the Chad aircraft.
Robert King
They’re both from the greatest country on earth
Jonathan Mitchell
...
Connor Parker
That's a MiG-31. Those first flew in 1975.
Jonathan Howard
My favorite Interceptor.
Still sad though one of them crashed into the XB-70...
Ethan Stewart
*ejects into the ground at 400mph*
Jaxson Barnes
and yet they both crashed two different F-104s
maybe Lockheed really does suck! bigthonk.jpg
Jeremiah Ramirez
Stay mad Seattle fag
John Mitchell
You make that yourself?
Chase Harris
OP said "best interceptor EVER MADE"
So, Op is wrong, it´s Mig-31BM.
Grayson Lewis
Jets made by subhumans slavs are irrelevant, so please fuck off Ivan
Austin Price
Ian Cox
they put 17 yearolds in cockpits and were to greasy to buy them even manuals much less train them
Connor Perez
>compressor stall
Isaac Diaz
>Extreme loss rate everywhere but in Spain where it flew very little
>Literally bribed into service in several countries
Germany is just the most well-known case, it was shit
Thomas Ramirez
Sexy camo
Blake Scott
Which jet aircraft holds the most A to A kills than any other jet ever made?
That's right. 262.
Isaac Torres
Brandon Miller
Based Schwalbeposter
Jordan Green
I want to have sex with the Super Sabre
Adrian Rogers
>subhumans
Austin Edwards
>the best INTERCEPTOR ever made
Isaac Green
Nice try Ivan, buy go easy on the Krokodil and read the thread again, I'm not German
Plus, a small reminder
Wyatt Howard
Reminder that the turkish win/loss track record in the F-4 was about the same as these 'inferior subhuman' jets you keep talking about.
Brandon Sullivan
>Only germs can be retarded wehraboos
Nolan Cooper
>best interceptor
>has no legs
Point-defense interceptors have never been good.