Thread of my aviation threads:

@russianforces Sure, maybe it will not really change the strategic calculus. But if a war with North Korea or Iran happens anyway and nukes start flying, it is certainly better to be under almost perfect missile defense than to be completely exposed.

@PolymarketIntel Why does the Qaher-313 drone have a canopy? Are the Iranian pilots cat-sized? What is this stuff?

@Hush_Kit Caravelle, Trident, Coronado

@Jack_Watling @shashj Is he right though? What about the cluster munitions for example. Surely, the battle of Bakhmut would look somewhat different if the Ukrainians had access to them at the point.

@Hush_Kit Bernard HV-42 Mirage III Latecoere 631

RT @AeroPaleo: One of the reasons for the rapid roll was the ease with which the pilot could apply the stick force. This was helped by an i…

@the_engi_nerd Why doesn't Jimmy Carter get a Ford-class aircraft carrier named after him like the other recent presidents? Is it because he has the submarine and you don't get two ships?

@Dr_PlagueDoctor @ZelenskyyUa He is upset about the gas transit and wants to talk to Zelensky in Slovakia. The letter also contains a lot of meaningless sauce on top.

@Hush_Kit I am not claiming to know much about tankbusting, but weren't all of them kinda bad? If that famous bazooka-equipped Grasshopper achieved third the victories, it is credited with, then it probably has the best planes/victories ratio.

@tempest_books Oh, that is an easy question

@Hush_Kit Gripen

@Hush_Kit Multiple serious non-conventional airliner projects get launched.

RT @AeroPaleo: One of the most instantly recognisable features of the spectacular, possibly Jules Verne-inspired HP Victor, was the exotic…

RT @AviationMarlene: How the Turbo-Ramjet engine works in one of France's finest follies, the Nord 1500 ‘Griffon II’. It was a prototype fi…

RT @AviationMarlene: Work in progress

@the_engi_nerd If the MIC companies were so self-serving, why would they make all the programmes so damn difficult and as a consequence delayed and criticized?

I will never not regret a bit, that I wasn't born in the mid-1930s US, just in time to hallucinate things like this.

@michaeldweiss Why do we assume that his plane had a transponder on? If I was a fleeing brutal dictator, I would definitely not switch my transponder on tbh.

@DrChrisCombs How is it so difficult to understand that R&D is not inherently profitable and that companies do profitable things?

@shashj Of course, they have valuable points for the future. I am merely fascinated by the fact that so many of the questions in this article have been already answered on the ground within one day. It was a light-hearted remark.