Your Nation's Air Force [MKI]

[Pharthan]

Yes. Shark Faces increase a Fighters effectiveness dramaticly. Likewise nose art of scantily clad attractive women increases bomber accuracy by a similar margin.

/me adds s shark eating a scantly clad woman....or possibly a scantily glad shark...

Where is your God now?

I would assume a "scantily glad shark," is the same thing as a Shark Face, only a little less scary, since he's glad, but only a little.
I would assume a series of women riding the shark would likely be far more effective.
Perhaps put a laser on it's head. A freaking laser.

Now, does the standard car-with-racing-stripes-and-flames-and-neon-underglow coefficient also apply in this fashion? If it does, I think we may have invented the world's first perpetual-motion-instakill-FTL-fighter. With lasers.

I believe many religions will default to that shark being their God.

[The Corparation]

Yes. Shark Faces increase a Fighters effectiveness dramaticly. Likewise nose art of scantily clad attractive women increases bomber accuracy by a similar margin.

/me adds s shark eating a scantly clad woman....or possibly a scantily glad shark...

Where is your God now?

A Scantily Glad Shark......that would make for some interesting nose art. A cartoonissh Shark that smiles on occasion but visually tough as nails serious about getting the bombs to the target.


EDIT: Also new Steam Name

[Transnapastain]

/me adds s shark eating a scantly clad woman....or possibly a scantily glad shark...

Where is your God now?

A Scantily Glad Shark......that would make for some interesting nose art. A cartoonissh Shark that smiles on occasion but visually tough as nails serious about getting the bombs to the target.


EDIT: Also new Steam Name

Uh...yes!

Thats exactly what I was going for! Carry on.

[The Akasha Colony]

I'd ask if this were the point where we'd start nominating the next OP, but this thread moves slowly enough that there might not be a need. Of course, conversely, because this thread moves so slowly, we may need more time to let everyone trickle in to vote.

[Transnapastain]

I'd ask if this were the point where we'd start nominating the next OP, but this thread moves slowly enough that there might not be a need. Of course, conversely, because this thread moves so slowly, we may need more time to let everyone trickle in to vote.

This thread causes no problems, and Amerikians asked that Corp do the honors. I have no argument with this.

[The Akasha Colony]

I'd ask if this were the point where we'd start nominating the next OP, but this thread moves slowly enough that there might not be a need. Of course, conversely, because this thread moves so slowly, we may need more time to let everyone trickle in to vote.

This thread causes problems, and Amerikians asked that Corp do the honors. I have no argument with this.

Fine with me.

[Ea90]

you can't supercharge a ramjet...
can you?

It means that it's an ejector ramjet (i.e. uses lots of small rockets to pump the ramjet, so to speak, allowing it to function from low speeds at low altitudes all the way up to ridiculous speeds) with a gas-powered turbine added to give more thrust at low speeds/altitudes.
At least, that's my understanding of it.

[Stahn]

I nominate myself and so do all my puppets.

[New Vihenia]

hmm Nose art and shark art.

As for me... my planes will have MECHA MUSUME representative, Thus allow commercialization through comic books, animated movie, light novels, cosplays.. Benefitting our mostly female pilots from its profit and to attract more cadets.

[Anemos Major]

Tippercommon made me a wonderful vector redrawing of the M.Cs 82 for Christmas, so I decide to put my rusty skills to use and make it an ad of sorts ^_^

[Triplebaconation]

this is what motion blur was invented for

[Anemos Major]

:(

this is what motion blur was invented for

What's up? :S

[San-Silvacian]

Tippercommon made me a wonderful vector redrawing of the M.Cs 82 for Christmas, so I decide to put my rusty skills to use and make it an ad of sorts ^_^

(Image)

woooosh

[Oaledonia]

Tippercommon made me a wonderful vector redrawing of the M.Cs 82 for Christmas, so I decide to put my rusty skills to use and make it an ad of sorts ^_^

(Image)

woooosh

Ez too fast, I'm scared it'll asplode into the future.

[San-Silvacian]

speaking of glorious delta wings, could the Mirage 4000 be a competent fighter bomber?

[The Ashkenazi]

speaking of glorious delta wings, could the Mirage 4000 be a competent fighter bomber?

I don't see why not. IIRC, Dassault canceled the program because there were no interested export customers, not because of any particular flaw with the aircraft.

[San-Silvacian]

speaking of glorious delta wings, could the Mirage 4000 be a competent fighter bomber?

I don't see why not. IIRC, Dassault canceled the program because there were no interested export customers, not because of any particular flaw with the aircraft.

Since my new nation is going to be some kind of French empire, but NS'd, I was thinking I'd need more than the Mirage 2000 and Rafale for my air force.

[Triplebaconation]

:(

this is what motion blur was invented for

What's up? :S

There is no sense of motion.

[Rich and Corporations]

What's up? :S

There is no sense of motion.

yeah, it should be blurred towards a direction.

[Lolomz]

big

[Sucrati]

Hmm... Just One Moment:

Sucrati Military Factbook (Note: Numbers may be out of date).

[Virana]

This is why we love Tippercommon.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Is it true that adding 2scary4u shark faces to planes makes an air force 500x more edgy and 2x as effective?

1. Letting the air/groundcrews personalize the planes allows them to become emotionally invested in the condition of their birds, and makes keeping track of them that much easier.

2. Tallying the number of sorties an airframe has done ON THE AIRFRAME ITSELF cuts-down in the requisite paperwork between overhauls, especially when by looking at the markings alone, you can guess their flight-time to within 15 minutes.

3. It makes the pilots feel scrarier and more aggressive

4. It frightens anyone who gets close enough to see the nose-art.

Add:
In an interesting twist, techies tend to put artwork and other markings on the catapult-machinery of aircraft-carriers to keep track of how much abuse those things have taken.
-ALL forms of mechnical abuse, including below-decks noodle-incidents.

On some planes, the nose-art reflected the specific mannerisms and behaviors of that particular plane (flying box-car, or F-4 Phantom 'Gunslinger' icon to quickly tell people the thing was meant to lug a gunpod at all times, or that the pilot really liked rocket pods).
-In others, they were stylized warning-borders (red around the air-intake)

[Graznovia]

How does this look?

Role: 5^th Generation Multirole Fighter
Place of Origin: Graznovian Federation

In Service: 2010-Present
Used By: Graznovian Federation

• Graznovian Air Force
• Graznovian Navy (Naval Aviation)

Manufacturer: Sukhoi JSC
Designed: 1998-2010
First Flight: 23 February 2004
Introduction: 9 May 2010
Number Built: ~2,500
Flyaway Cost: ~100,000,000 NSD
Variants: Su-51UB, Su-51K, Su-51KUB

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Crew: 1
Length: 19.8 Meters
Wingspan: 14.0 Meters
Height: 6.05 Meters
Wing Area: 78.8 Square Meters

Empty Weight: 18,500 Kilograms
Loaded Weight¹: 28,800 Kilograms
Combat Load: 8,200 Kilograms
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 37,000 Kilograms

Propulsion: 2x AL-41F Variable-Cycle Turbofan w/ 3D Thrust Vectoring Nozzles

• Dry Thrust: 117 kN
• Thrust w/ Afterburner: 180 kN

Maximum Thrust: 360 kN
Fuel Capacity: 10,300 Kilograms (Internal), 14,000 Kilograms (w/ 2x Conformal Fuel Tank)

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Maximum Speed:

• At Altitude: Mach 2.45
• Supercruise: Mach 1.69
• Cruise: Mach 0.80

Range: 3,000 Kilometers (4,000 Kilometers w/ 2x Conformal Fuel Tank)
Combat Radius²: 1,000 Kilometers (1,333 Kilometers w/ 2x Conformal Fuel Tank)
Ferry Range: 5,500 Kilometers
Service Ceiling: 20,000 Meters
Rate of Climb: 350 Meters/Second
Wing Loading: 365.48 Kilograms/Square Meter
Thrust/Weight:

• Full Fuel: 1.27
• 50% Fuel: 1.52

Maximum g-Load: 9.0 g

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Guns: 2x 30mm GSh-301 Cannon w/ 150 Rounds ea.
Hardpoints: 10x Internal Hardpoints, 6x External Hardpoints

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Avionics:

• Sh-121 Radar Complex (4x AESA X-Band Radar; Front, Port, Starboard, Rear, 2x L-Band Radar; Leading Edges)
• OLS-50M Distributed Aperture Infrared Search and Track System
• 101KS Electro-Optical Targeting System

Countermeasures: Defensive Aids Suite (ECM, Flare, Chaff)
Stealth (RCS, X-Band): 0.001 Square Meters (Front), 0.01 Square Meters (Side, Rear)

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*All performance figures assume aircraft at loaded weight¹ unless stated otherwise.
¹Assumes aircraft with full load of internal fuel, no ordnance.
²Assumes a lo-lo-lo ground attack mission.

[Imperializt Russia]

Is it true that adding 2scary4u shark faces to planes makes an air force 500x more edgy and 2x as effective?

1. Letting the air/groundcrews personalize the planes allows them to become emotionally invested in the condition of their birds, and makes keeping track of them that much easier.

2. Tallying the number of sorties an airframe has done ON THE AIRFRAME ITSELF cuts-down in the requisite paperwork between overhauls, especially when by looking at the markings alone, you can guess their flight-time to within 15 minutes.

3. It makes the pilots feel scrarier and more aggressive

4. It frightens anyone who gets close enough to see the nose-art.

Add:
In an interesting twist, techies tend to put artwork and other markings on the catapult-machinery of aircraft-carriers to keep track of how much abuse those things have taken.
-ALL forms of mechnical abuse, including below-decks noodle-incidents.

On some planes, the nose-art reflected the specific mannerisms and behaviors of that particular plane (flying box-car, or F-4 Phantom 'Gunslinger' icon to quickly tell people the thing was meant to lug a gunpod at all times, or that the pilot really liked rocket pods).
-In others, they were stylized warning-borders (red around the air-intake)

Interesting insight, consider it noted.