Airpower Youre Doing it Right!

[GDS_Starfury]

F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 35th and 80th Fighter Squadrons of the 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea; the 4th Fighter Squadron of the 388th Expeditionary Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah; and the 38th Fighter Group of the ROK Air Force demonstrate an 'Elephant Walk' as they taxi down the flightline at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Dec. 14, 2012. The Elephant Walk was a demonstration of U.S. and ROK air force capabilities and strength. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Fowler/Released)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Some Su-25 pilot and his cluster bombs just ejaculated in their pants.  Talk about the perfect target.

[Keunert]

F-14, F-15, F-16 and F-18 were just beautiful planes. compared to them the F-35 is just butt ugly.
Concerning the beauty contest i think the russian planes have the edge over the US ones. but that's
maybe not the biggest concern.

[Longdan]

They tried doing a flyby but it was too foggy.
So they did a mass drive by.  Not quite the same thing.

[Centurion40]

It's still goddam impressive!

Scenes like that cause me to remember working the Shearwater International Airshow in the first week of September 2001.  I was walking along a line of static display US aircraft looking for fuel leaks- the turn-out of US aircraft (USN & USAF) always dwarfed other nations.  One could not help but be impressed at the massive size of the US arsenal, and I remember thinking to myself "you'd have to be f^&*ing crazy to pick a fight with these a-holes, they have more trainers than the total size of our entire air force!"

Then the next week a pack of f^&*ing crazy mofos went ahead and picked that fight.  Stupid goddam f^&*ers.

[Longdan]

Back around 1990 or so there was a huge exercise held
in the NWT and many USAF and Air Guard acft were parked
on the ramp at Yellowknife along with a good chunk of the
RCAF.  On the weekend the USAF guys let us sit us sit in their
planes.  RCAF guys weren't allowed to.  Weenies.
Payback came late Saturday night when various visiting warriors
ran into some trouble downtown and more than a few people
were on hand to help them out.  They had been disarmed by the
65 year old lady who was the security guard at the airport.
Anyway they were a great bunch of guys.

[TheCommandTent]

Awesome picture!

[LongBlade]

Awesome picture!

+1

Thanks for posting that, Star.

[Achilles]

Thanks for my new desktop background!  That's awesome!