To any Military Personnel
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Avesther
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I use a different skin, I can't see ByblosHex's posts at all, I have to highlight them. Then I get grey on blue background. ahhh, easy on the eyes. wow, this is way off topic. Turn this bus around people.
Talon
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[b said:Quote[/b] (l33tben @ Oct. 12 2004,3:40)]THIS YEAR THE F-22 WILL BE RELEASED AND OPERATIONAL....sad thing is, it is replacing our glorious F-15'syou will be missed F-15's
bah, no the 15s cant go. What plane will carry the GBU-28s now, far as i know only the strike eagles can.
Talon
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The f-22 is faster but i dont think it can carry bigger munitions in the internal bays, maybe on the external pylons. The GBU-28 is a 5,500 lb bunker buster, the f-15 is the only plane i know off that can carry it. Its the bomb we dropped on sadam huseins bunker in the gulf war.
Talon
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F-22 raptor, F-14 tomcat (thats the plane i wanted to fly)
Corpfox
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What about the F-4 Phantom? Now thats a sweet plane!
So the A-10 "Tank Killer", couldn't use that either?
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So the A-10 "Tank Killer", couldn't use that either?
Talon
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[b said:Quote[/b] (Corpfox @ Oct. 15 2004,10:45)]What about the F-4 Phantom? Now thats a sweet plane!
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So the A-10 "Tank Killer", couldn't use that either?
any of our bombers can also carry that 5500 bunker buster..
As far as i know the f-4 phantom is not used anymore, replaced with f-14 which is being replaced by the f-18. The a-10 warthogs were phased out with the f-16.
Now i dont know what fighter can carry the GBU-28, i'm sure the av-8b prowler can and a-4 intruder, f-111 weasle, and any bomber can, but as fighters go (supersonic) dont know what one that can carry the huge GBU-28 paveway 3. So as far as a sergical strike, might not happen anymore
Talon
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sure. GBU stands for guided bomb unit.
Dark Virtue
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The Basic Aircraft MDS (or "Mission-Design-Series") Designation is as follows:
* A - Ground Attack [1962-today]
* B - Bomber [1962-today]
* C - Transport [1962-today]
* E - Special Electronic Mission [1962-today]
* F - Fighter [1962-today] (see note 1)
* K - Tanker [1962-1977/85] (see note 2)
* L - Laser-Equipped [1997-today] (see note 3)
* O - Observation [1962-today]
* P - Maritime Patrol [1962-today]
* R - Reconnaissance [1962-today] (see note 4)
* S - Antisubmarine Warfare [1962-today]
* T - Trainer [1962-today]
* U - Utility [1962-today]
* X - Special Research [1962-today] (see note 5)
1 "F" not only covers air-to-air fighters, but also explicitly includes ground-attack aircraft with only a secondary air-to-air capability. I.e., a combat aircraft with limited air-to-air capability is to be designated as F-for-Fighter even if it is primarily designed for air-to-ground missions. Therefore the recent change of F-22A to F/A-22A not only created an invalid designation (slashes are not allowed), but was also completely superfluous.
2 No designations were ever assigned in the K-series (all tankers were derivatives of other aircraft), which is presumably the reason why the "K" basic mission symbol was dropped.
3 The "L" basic mission symbol is inconsistent with the rest of the system, because it designates a type of equipment instead of a mission or role. It was only introduced to get a "special" designation for the YAL-1A "Airborne Laser" aircraft (see also article on Non-Standard DOD Aircraft Designations).
4 No regular designations were assigned so far in the R-series. For a discussion of the non-conforming TR-1A and SR-71A designators, see article on Non-Standard DOD Aircraft Designations.
5 Almost all recent designations in the X-series were allocated to unmanned aircraft, which was not the originally intended purpose of the designation system.
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* A - Ground Attack [1962-today]
* B - Bomber [1962-today]
* C - Transport [1962-today]
* E - Special Electronic Mission [1962-today]
* F - Fighter [1962-today] (see note 1)
* K - Tanker [1962-1977/85] (see note 2)
* L - Laser-Equipped [1997-today] (see note 3)
* O - Observation [1962-today]
* P - Maritime Patrol [1962-today]
* R - Reconnaissance [1962-today] (see note 4)
* S - Antisubmarine Warfare [1962-today]
* T - Trainer [1962-today]
* U - Utility [1962-today]
* X - Special Research [1962-today] (see note 5)
1 "F" not only covers air-to-air fighters, but also explicitly includes ground-attack aircraft with only a secondary air-to-air capability. I.e., a combat aircraft with limited air-to-air capability is to be designated as F-for-Fighter even if it is primarily designed for air-to-ground missions. Therefore the recent change of F-22A to F/A-22A not only created an invalid designation (slashes are not allowed), but was also completely superfluous.
2 No designations were ever assigned in the K-series (all tankers were derivatives of other aircraft), which is presumably the reason why the "K" basic mission symbol was dropped.
3 The "L" basic mission symbol is inconsistent with the rest of the system, because it designates a type of equipment instead of a mission or role. It was only introduced to get a "special" designation for the YAL-1A "Airborne Laser" aircraft (see also article on Non-Standard DOD Aircraft Designations).
4 No regular designations were assigned so far in the R-series. For a discussion of the non-conforming TR-1A and SR-71A designators, see article on Non-Standard DOD Aircraft Designations.
5 Almost all recent designations in the X-series were allocated to unmanned aircraft, which was not the originally intended purpose of the designation system.
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Rithkil
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Cool. I never knew they had that many divisions.
That is awesome.
Talon
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Some examples, i cant think of example for all of them off the top of my head, but most.[b said:
A-10 warthog
B-2 spirit
C-17 Globemaster 3
E-2 Hawkeye (aircraft carrier aircraft)
F-14 Tomcat
KC-135 refueler
L, cant think of one
OH-58 kiowa warrior (Army recon chopper)
P-3 (anti sub)
SR-71 blackbird
S-3 viking (anti sub aircraft carrier based airplane)
T-38 Talon (considered the worlds most agile fighter besides the Mig series (mig 29 to be specific))
U, cant think of one
X-29, backward sweep experimental.
Corpfox
Active Member
Those are nice 'Mission-Design-Series', but what about the, Mig-29 and Mirage 2000? What series are they?
Dark Virtue
New Member
Nope, the Mig is Russian and the Mirage is British.