Navy Fleet Flyby

The Fleet performs a flyby at the 2006 NAS Oceana airshow.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• fleet
• f14
• f18
• super
• horner
• tomcat
• formation
• air
• show
• airshow
• nas
• oceana

[observadordellutub]

Oh my good!

[raybarnes1]

awesome

[BloodThirsty1986]

only F14 !

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f if the F-18 was better than the tomcat i would have embraced it, it is natural for the progression of technology to replace previous systems with more capable ones, but from first hand experience, it is not even close as capable, it makes no sense to replace one weapons system with one that is far less capable, so maybe you should talk to F-15 pilots, and those navy pilots that have flown both the tomcat and the hornet before you spew things that are not true.

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f not to mention the other ships that deploy with an aircraft carrier that if it is damaged or god forbid sunk, would be defensless with it not being able to put planes up to defend them.

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f but my point is that it is a horrible idea to shove a single airframe, especially one that is not capable of defending the fleet down the navy's throats like was done by politicians, an aircraft carrier cost's almost 5 billion dollars, there is 6,500+ men and women on board and an airwing that is worth about another 2 billion dollars, defended by hornets now, that is one big target, and a lot easier to reach without tomcat.

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f finally you said something that is correct, the F-14 is matched by the F-15c, you are absolutley right on this statement, and i dont like the F-18 because it makes our pilots more vulnerable in combat, it is not as capable as you make it out to be, not only have i flown against it in ACM excercises, i have flown it against the F-14 in ACM excercises as well, and as hard as i could fly it it was difficult to beat the tomcat, but in tomcat, hornet was easy to defeat.

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f the F-14 and F-15 are virtually identical and equal in acm excercises, in other words, they are just as capable as each other, my record when flying against the F-15 is right at 50% now compare that with my record of flying against the hornet which was right at 87%, and of course the F-22 can beat the F-14, it also handily beats the F-15, but it is again LAND based and the program has been terminated, we only have 153 of them, and the SU-33 would have to be able to beat the F-15 too

[1bearcatf8f]

@TheScrumpty You said the F-14 is unmatched.Im telling what PLANES! can kick its ass.The F-15,the SU-33,really any modern russian plane,the F-22 and the future USN plane.

[1bearcatf8f]

@TheScrumpty Lol your mistaken pal.The F-14 would get it's assed kicked by the Sukhoi SU-33,its far more agile and is better suited for dogfighting,Maybe 2 on 1 would kill the SU-33 but 1 on 1 would be a different story.And the F-14 is matched by the USAF's F-15C.Its has a top speed of mach 2.85,its more agile and never lost in air-to-air combat.

The YF-17 and F/A-18 are still as capabile.You dont like the F-18 because you were a tomcat pilot,make's PERFECT sence.

[TheScrumpty]

@1bearcatf8f wow you really dont have a clue as to what you are talking about do you, the F-15 is a LAND based plane, as in not able to do carrier duty, yes the YF-17 was an outstanding design for another LAND based plane, but it lost 85% of its abilities when modified to carrier ability, better than the F-14? it will be a very long time before the F-14 will be able to be matched, let alone surpassed, i am now done with you, you dont know what you are talking about and i have no more time for u.

[1bearcatf8f]

@TheScrumpty The Navy need's somthing BETTER than the F-14.Perhap's if the F-15N Sea Eagle went into Naval service the navy would have the best Fleet defence fighter.But either way the F-14 is what they ended up with.The navy at the time needed to replace the F-4,The only real good design was the YF-17 Cobra then they tweaked it alot and thus the F-18.