MIG-29 OVT - My favourite jet fighter. What's yours?

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The F22 does it for me. Looks so mean and deadly:

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For me it's the F15 Strike Eagle. The quintessential fighter imo.
Some of you mention F14s which are of the same calibre (and I won't deny watching Top Gun as a lad helped form that opinion!).

Su27 and Mig29 also great to watch (saw the Mig at Farnborough this year).
 
MiG29 is my favourite too, but the Eurofighter is awesome aswell. :cool:

And the Lockheed Starfighter is an old favourite:

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Domo said:
For me it's the F15 Strike Eagle. The quintessential fighter imo.
Some of you mention F14s which are of the same calibre (and I won't deny watching Top Gun as a lad helped form that opinion!).

Su27 and Mig29 also great to watch (saw the Mig at Farnborough this year).
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The Strike Eagle was always my favourite until I saw one in the flesh. It just left me a bit cold.... can't really explain why. The F/A-18 Super Hornet, which I was never taken with was actually mightily impressive in the air and is now probably my favourite US fighter.
 
The Panavia Tornado, it's a beast of an aircraft. A very versatile fighter bomber, they could blow the crap out of just about anything.

There's a couple of squadrons based down in Lossiemouth and I'd often see them flying at a very low level out in the countryside.


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Performance
* Maximum speed: Mach 2.27, 2,338 km/h (1,452 mph)
* Range: 1,390 km typical combat, 3,890 km ferry with four external drop tanks (870 mi / 2,420 mi)
* Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)
* Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)
* Thrust/weight: 0.14

Armament

* 1x 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon with 180 rounds
* Three fuselage pylons and four swiveling underwing pylons for a maximum of 9000 kg (19,800 lb) of weapons, fuel, and ECM pods, inner wing pylons have shoulder rails for two AIM-9 Sidewinder or ASRAAM self-defence missiles. A wide variety of air-to-ground weapons can be carried including Wasp ASM, Kormoran anti-ship missiles, BAe Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles, AGM-65 Maverick ASM, BAe ALARM anti-radiation missile, LAU-51A and LR-25 rocket pods, napalm bombs, retarded bombs, BL755 cluster bombs, and Paveway series laser-guided bombs, MW-1 munitions dispenser, JP233 munitions dispenser, Storm Shadow, Brimstone, Taurus missile, can be equipped to carry B61 nuclear bombs.
* RAPTOR Reconnaissance pod, TIALD laser designator
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F14 for me, mainly due to Top Gun and actually seeing one in the flesh a very long time ago at an airshow in Canada. Also the F16 is another fave of mine...never liked those fugly MIG's tbh...fast they are but fugly as hell imho.

EDIT: Forgot to add pics of this lovely machine...totally awesome :cool: :D

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Spawn said:
F14 for me, mainly due to Top Gun and actually seeing one in the flesh a very long time ago at an airshow in Canada. Also the F16 is another fave of mine...never liked those fugly MIG's tbh...fast they are but fugly as hell imho.
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Agreed. But the Mig-31 Foxhound is such an awesome bit of kit, the shear speed of it is amazing.
 
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I just don't find the Tornado to be good looking enough!

The F-16 on the other hand is a beautiful and curvacious beast! :D
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I don't think the Tornado is pretty, but it looks purposeful. We get them flying low over the Beacons here which is always worth seeing.

The F-16 was always a bit.... poofy for me :D
 
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