Favourite Cold War era military aircraft? And why?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I always like the F-8U Crusader.

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I can’t think of the F-8 Crusader without thinking of…

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The highly stealth F-172!

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The joke at the time, concerning the B-2’s airspace penetration abilities, was ‘Why spend $2 billion for an airplane, when a German boy can do the same thing in a $17,000 Cessna?’

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I have a pretty worthless book somewhere called “Aircraft of the Cold War”.

And the Israeli Airforce was flying Spitfires and Mustangs at the time so I guess they would count?

I wasted a lot of time today looking at aircraft from the 50’s through 70’s due to this thread and I still keep coming back to the Sabre. Probably then the Mirage.

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^ What he said. :smiley:

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You stole my USSR suggestion. The “Bear” is another long lasting aircraft design (operational in 1956) still being flown by Russia today.

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Sure you don’t work for Northrup-Grumman? That sounds like bragging.

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I know. I’m just explaining why it may not be at the forefront of people’s minds and not been mentioned. (Plus all the issues it had.)

Oh, duh, how could I forget the U-2. That was a neat aircraft that I was quite fond of as well.

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