I believe he was tried for not capturing all of the French fleet that he encountered.
They’re in ur base, killin ur doodz. Jihadi rush!
The photo labeled “Two abandoned Syrian Airforce MiG fighters in a shelter” has a third plane right in front of the shelter. It looks much like the others.
Oops. For some reason I thought it was an Iraqi base that was captured. Not sure where I got that silly notion.
All your base are belong to ISIS.
This is correct, I saw a picture of a rack of them and they were specifically mentioned then as being Russian knock-offs.
This isn’t the RAF. The Syrians have lost several bases recently and haven’t managed to even blow an ammo dump on any of those occasions. They run. They don’t bother destroying anything.
There were reports before the base fell, while it was under siege, of two jets being shot down as they were taking off or landing. Small arms fire or maybe something shoulder-launched. Tabqa was being used as the base for air support throughout the fighting. It was Assad’s only remaining territory in Raqqa province. ISIS might have captured as many as eight fighters here, simply because all the Syrians were more interested in running than disabling their equipment.
Of course ISIS probably can’t operate them, and probably don’t want to taste the resources it would take. They will be more interested in seizing yet more artillery, armour, mortars, ammunition, and all the other stuff the Syrians abandoned in their haste to leave. They also got some SA-16 soviet-built manpads, which they posed with for the cameras.
Yes. They’ve done exactly the same thing with supplies, ammo and terrestrial heavy weaponry over the last few months at all the other bases ISIS have wiped out.
Also, reports today that 200 of the defeated Syrians from Tabqa were captured and summarily executed.
I think I read somewhere–maybe one of those Twits, so definitely suspect–that ISIS captured “a test pilot.”
Ok, now I’ve finally gotten around to it:
“Sure, I’ll test that airplane for you. I’ll need a lot of gas though, to test it correctly, Allah Willing.”
the F86 could break the sound barrier in a dive, but in level powered flight it couldn’t quite get there. Vne is listed at 687mph, and the sound barrier is 761 at sea level.
The super saber could, in level flight, get past mach 1 (Mach 1.3 max)
Apparently the camouflage is still working.
It’s a joke referencing a video game.
Apparently they really do have a pilot now, from either a shoot down or crash of some nameless Jordanian jet.
It was in production until 1985. With a handheld GPS they could do a low level run on the presidential palace and take out Assad.
Seriously? I mean, it’s theoretically possible, but highly unlikely considering they have no trained pilots.
It’s an F-16. You can see the one-piece canopy in the pictures (plus the pilot has what looks like a Facebook photo in front of the aircraft further down.)
Admiral Canaris was executed in Flossberg Concentration Camp on April 9, 1945.
From Wiki’s write-up of the F-100 (deathbed):
“the Air Force began phasing out the F-100A in 1958, with the last aircraft leaving active duty in 1961”.
So the F-4 was the first supersonic to be actually usable.
Planes which kill their test pilots don’t often have long, happy lives.
That’s the F-100A. F-100Ds and -Fs served in Vietnam, and weren’t retired from the Air National Guard until 1979.