| ▲ | ceejayoz 2 hours ago |
| > It sounds like a clown-show… Well, the President wants to redesign the Navy to look "cool" - battleships, carriers with steam catapults again and center islands. Why not the Air Force too? |
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| ▲ | snypher 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I wish this were the case; if it were for cool points the F-117 would be back! |
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| ▲ | justin66 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Little known fact (but not a secret): the F-117 is still flown today, even though they were "retired" in 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFwOGfhRZ8 I gather they serve mostly as aggressors and test aircraft - certainly one wouldn't fly that plane into combat. They were never ruinously expensive to operate. The SR-71 on the other hand... | |
| ▲ | walrus01 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The F117 is in active use as a stand-in/simulator for opposing force semi-stealthy subsonic cruise missiles for radar range testing. People see them flying all the time. |
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| ▲ | Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If you’re gonna have an Air Farce we’ll have to tariff you guys, eh? |
