Thread 64501063

cold war stuff appeals to me because it it like looking at cars in the past vs cars now that are copy paste aerodynamic crossovers. not to say the past is better than the present or have rose colored glasses; but cold war stuff has a lot of aesthetic variety and theres lots of photos which lends itself well to image board threads

Flankers look like ass from most angles and I'm tired of pretending otherwise

>>64501069
What is it about the Helix that is so fucking kino?
It's like a flying brick
A sexy flying brick
Like a butterface, but a butterface with big tits who can suck a golf ball through a garden hose
And swallows

>>64501242
interesting and normal post thank you

pic semi rel

>>64501063 (OP)
I söyjacked IRL when I saw this shitbird. I love the flogger and it's flat nosed brother

>>64501133
Why is the Kyiv class retarded? I think the idea seems ok a small aircraft carrier that can launch missiles, but why did it fail?

>>64501524
Because the best thing they had to launch off it was the Forger, a neat plane that was absolute dogshit. I genuinely think it would've been better if it had harriers because otherwise it gives up too much for an objectively terrible airwing. Hell even Ospreys would've been an improvement

>>64501524
>retarded
It's a bigger and much more powerful Invincible-class, not retarded at all
In fact it has a pretty powerful air wing capacity
The real problem with it however is

>>64501533
>Because the best thing they had to launch off it was the Forger
Yeah

The bongs would eat their hearts out to have operated Kievs instead of Invincibles.

>>64501069
why the fuck does South Korea use Ka-27s?

>>64501641
They got a bunch of shit from Russia as a way to pay off debts, their usual method. Same reason Mexico has Russian helos too

>>64501641
Back in the 90s everyone was scooping up Soviet kit because duh, closing down fire sale. Especially developing nations who thought it was bargain prices, but also NATO who wanted to know what they had been/might in future be up against
Only after then, as they began inspecting and using them, did people really start realising how rubbish the stuff was

More like sºyveyviet rapion

Why did the USSR bother with having such a retardedly big military (for its modest oil bound economy) and chimping out on heavy industry? Nukes and a volunteer army would have been big enough since nobody would bother to attack someone with nukes.

>>64501956
Whenever the question of "why did Russians do *insert pretty much anything here*?" pops up, 9 times out of 10 the answer is always going to fundamentally be "because they're fucking stupid"

>>64501956
not an expert but I imagine there was good amount of real economic benefit from innovation and exports

but also making stuff and maintaining it kept their fake economy circulating and gave the illusion of momentum which is a benefit too

>>64501956
Most of the answer to your question can be found in the unique retardation of the Brezhnev era.

>>64501956
They got mindbroken by Operation Barbarossa, which caused their leadership to get a collective brainbug about always having a fuckhuge conventional military to the point of detriment, nukes alone weren't enough to cure that in their mind.

>>64501956
>we are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid dot jpeg

>>64501231
Flankers are sex. Fulcrums are ass. Their proportions are off, midget-like.

>>64502814
Never been a fan of the goose necked faggot.
Always loved the MiG-29.

>>64502873
MiG-29 is sex.

>>64501508
Same. I almost sperged out when I saw a Su-27 on display

>>64503045
Wait, you took your Futa to the museum? Based.

>64501956
>nobody would bother to attack someone with nukes.
That's bait

>captcha vran0

>>64501956
At least part of the explanation is that Soviet leadership was spooked by the prospect of large scale unemployment resulting from retooling away from military industry.

>>64502873
>>64502969
I'll side with you gents. Prefer the 29 over Sukhoi's fighters.
Though for the SU offerings, I'll take the 17 variants or the 24.

>>64503095
>Futa
Uhm..I’m hoping that was autocorrect. But yes I took Cirno there. Here’s her with my favorite fighter, the MiG-21

>>64503401
>Futa
Fuck, that's a fumo. I thought that they were called futas... I just looked up what a futa was and, um, well, I learned something new.
>>>/wsr/6025035
>>>/wsr/6025045

>>64503632
Of course I link to the wrong board...
>>>/wsg/6025035
>>>/wsg/6025045

>>64501533
In their defense, it was an intermediate solution.
they had pretty much 0 experience in STVL aircraft and 0 experience in operating fixed winged aircraft off of carriers. Plus, the top brass of the Soviet navy was hardly thrilled with the idea of carriers.
Sure it was shit, but the USN had a 50 year head start in that area.

>>64502814
you are wrong and gay

>>64504419
I will say I still think the concept of a Kiev is interesting and it's a shame it wasn't really tried with western navies. Like I said, if they had anything better than Forgers than I think they would've been more useful

>>64501502
>>64502663
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>>64503565
Mi-7/18 and T-54/55 look like a drawing of 8 year old that was passed on to the design bureau to make it functional design. I fucking can't take them seriously.

Cold, dark, misty, dreary, powerful. It's Soviet.

>>64501956
chimping out on heavy industry is unironically better than being a gas station

>>64501956
nuclear doctrine wasn't settled until the 80s

>>64503632
Being a futa is the cultural marxist endgame, I wonder what KGB would think, did they even thought how their subversion would result in all sort of japanese cartoon powered /d/eviancy even after all the machines posted here came to naught?

>>64505865
This pic always make me sad, I couldn't give a shit about a million dead mobiks but this, this is the essence of lostech.

>>64506316
Ok but I used to like Nazi futa women

>>64506625
25 or 31?

>>64504483
>T-54/55 look like a drawing of 8 years old that was passed on to the design bureau to make it functional design
Implying that americans were any better in that regard...

>>64506628
Double main wheels, so 31

>>64506536
Well, I feel like this guy >>64506656 but I have to ask: what does the "BBC" on the tail stand for?

(why do I feel I just set myself up?) :^)

>>64506739
You're not gonna believe this, chief...

>>64506739
It translates from Cyrillic to "VVS ROSSII" or Voenno-vozdushnye sily Rossii literally "Military Air Forces of Russia". I know, ha ha black porn joke but that's been done to death at this point

>>64501956
Russians are broken/paranoid at the DNA level by the Mongol invasions and Barbarossa. Plus they needed to defend themselves against NATO AND China.

>>64502873
>goose
MiG-29 SMT is the most goose looking ass aircraft that ever existed.

>>64509185
>we have XB-70 at home

>>64509832
>"Please let this be a normal field trip."
>"In Chechnya? NO WAY!"

>>64511174
Are... are those American trucks?

>>64509185
What is this?

No front landing gear? I want to see this thing land, fr

>>64511226
who else could crank out that many trucks?

>>64511255
I think its tricycle but it looks weird due to perspective

>>64511259
Trycycle. The front is in front of the right main in the pic.
It's at Monino so we can all go and look at it when Putin winds his neck in.

>>64501063 (OP)
There's something about Soviet photography and hardware design language that makes it seem like an actual alien civilization, which is weird since I don't get that feeling from (most) eastern bloc hardware in 3rd World/export use in the same period.