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Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

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Close-up view of Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft cockpit, December 23, 1942.

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Enjoyed many roles as a fighter, night-fighter, light  bomber, escort or reconnaissance aircraft. First flew in 1939

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1944 06 Tactical Support- Richard Taylor

When it came to hammering German ground forces in the days after D-Day, Lockhead’s outstanding P-38 Lighting gained an awesome reputation.With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAF's 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape shortly after the D-Day landings, June 1944.Richard Taylor’s evocative painting recreates the scene as these aircraft thunder inland in support of the advancing allied armies. Below, signs of the recent action are still plainly visible as trucks and their exhausted drivers hasten back to the beach-head to collect reinforcements.

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I remember reading about him in Martin Caidin's book Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38; it provides a Very Interesting Look at the history of the Lockheed P-38 "Lightning", from initial concept - short-range high-speed interceptor - to its final iteration, which was a true multirole combat aircraft capable of serving as interceptor, escort fighter, light bomber, and even close air support!

Also, the P-38 was the aircraft chosen to spearhead Operation: VENGEANCE, which was organized to intercept and destroy the transport aircraft carrying Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto... the man responsible for the Pearl Harbor attack.

U.S. Ace of Aces Major Richard Bong. P-38 Lightning Pilot. Medal of Honor, DSC, Silver Star with 1 OLC (Oak Leaf Cluster), Distinguished Flying Cross (British) DFC with 6 OLCs, Air Medal with 14 OLCs. VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/0DUd-sNBcWY

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Lockheed P-38 Lightnings by Willard Womack Via Flickr: Lockheed P-38 Plant Burbank California, 1941. The weather was such that some of the finishing work was done outside. The caption showed this as being a night shot. The sky does not look like night but, I do see the lights are on, and some movement is blurred.

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Lockheed P-38 Lightings.

P-38 Lightning escorting fighters over New Guinea. At the time of the photograph, the "Lightning's are escorting the 43rd Bombardment Group (43rd Bombardment Group). 1942 - 1943

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• Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (隼, "Peregrine Falcon" was a single-engine land based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II.

The Ki-43 was designed by Hideo Itokawa, who would later become famous as a pioneer of Japanese rocketry. The Ki-43 prototype was produced in response to a December 1937 specification for a successor to the popular fixed-gear Nakajima Ki-27 Nate. The specification called for a top speed of 500 km/h (311 mph), a climb rate of 5,000 m (16,400 ft) in five minutes and a range of 800 km (500 mi). Maneuverability was to be at least as good as that of the Ki-27. When first flown in early January 1939, the Ki-43 prototype was a disappointment. Japanese test pilots complained that it was less maneuverable than the Ki-27 Nate and not much faster. In order to solve these problems, Nakajima produced a series of progressively modified prototypes through 1939 and 1940. These changes involved a major weight saving program, a slimmer fuselage with the tail surfaces moved further aft and a new canopy.

Crucially, the 11th prototype introduced the unique differential "butterfly" maneuvering Fowler flaps, which dramatically improved performance in tight turns. The 13th prototype combined all these changes, and tests of this aircraft resulted in an instruction for Nakajima to place the Ki-43 into production, the Ki-27 jigs being transferred to the Mansyu factory at Harbin in Japanese occupied Manchukuo. The Ki-43 (Oscar) was initially produced in November 1939, given the designation Ki-43-I. Deliveries from Nakajima's Ota factory commenced in February 1941. In addition to outstanding maneuverability, the Ki-43-I had an impressive rate of climb due to its light weight. Power was provided by the Nakajima Ha-25 engine turning a two-bladed, two-position variable-pitch metal propeller. The Ki-43 was equipped with two synchronized cowling machine guns in various configurations, with either two 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 89 machine guns, one 12.7 mm (.50 in) Ho-103 machine gun and one 7.7 mm (.303 in) gun, or two 12.7 mm (.50 in) Ho-103 guns; the aircraft was given various sub-designations to reflect these differences.

Prototypes for the Ki-43-II flew in February 1942. The Ha-25 engine was upgraded with the 2-stage supercharger, thus becoming the more powerful Nakajima Ha-115 engine, which was installed in a longer-chord cowling. The new engine turned a three-bladed propeller. The wing structure, which had suffered failures in the Ki-43-I, was strengthened and equipped with racks for drop tanks or bombs. The Ki-43-II was also fitted with a 13 mm armor plate for the pilot's head and back, and the aircraft's fuel tanks were coated in rubber to form a crude self-sealing tank. This was later replaced by a 3-layer rubber bladder, 8mm core construction; with 2mm oil-proof lamination. The pilot also enjoyed a slightly taller canopy and a reflector gunsight in place of the earlier telescopic gunsight. Nakajima commenced production of the Ki-43-II at its Ota factory in November 1942.

The Ki-43 was the most widely used Army fighter, and equipped 30 sentai FR,(flight regiment) and 12 chutais IS,(independent squadrons). The first unit equipped with the Ki 43-I was the 59th FR at Hankow Airfield, during June–August 1941 and began operational sorties over Hengyang on October 29th, 1941. The second unit to re-equip with the new Aircraft was the 64th FR, from August to November 1941. The first version, Ki-43-I, entered service in 1941, the Ki-43-II in December 1942, the Ki-43-II-Kai in June 1943, and the Ki-43-IIIa in summer 1944. The aircraft fought in China, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, New Guinea, the Philippines, South Pacific islands and the Japanese home islands. Like the Zero, the Ki-43 initially enjoyed air superiority in the skies of Malaya, Netherlands East Indies, Burma and New Guinea. This was partly due to the better performance of the Oscar and partly due to the relatively small numbers of combat-ready Allied fighters, mostly the Curtiss P-36 Hawk, Curtiss P-40, Brewster Buffalo, Hawker Hurricane and Curtiss-Wright CW-21 in Asia and the Pacific during the first months of the war.

As the war progressed, however, the fighter suffered from the same weaknesses as the slower, fixed-gear Ki-27 "Nate" predecessor to the Oscar, and the more advanced naval A6M Zero; light armor and less-than-effective self-sealing fuel tanks, which caused high casualties in combat. Its armament of two machine guns also proved inadequate against the more heavily armored Allied aircraft. As newer Allied aircraft were introduced, such as the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, North American P-51 Mustang. The Japanese were forced into a defensive war and most aircraft were flown by inexperienced pilots. However, even near the end, the Oscar's excellent maneuverability could still gain advantage over rash Allied pilots. Like most Japanese combat types, many Hayabusas were at the end expended in kamikaze strikes.

The Ki-43 also served in an air defense role over Formosa, Okinawa and the Japanese home islands. Some examples were supplied to the pro-Japanese regimes of Thailand, Manchukuo and Wang Jingwei Government as well. The Thai units sometimes fought against the USAAF in southern China. Hayabusas were well liked in the JAAF because of the pleasant flight characteristics and excellent maneuverability, and almost all JAAF fighter aces claimed victories with Hayabusa in some part of their career. At the end of the war, most Hayabusa units received Ki-84 Hayate "Frank" fighters, but some units flew the Hayabusa to the end of the war. The top-scoring Hayabusa pilot was Sergeant Satoshi Anabuki with 39 confirmed victories, almost all scored with the Ki-43.

After the war, some captured examples served in limited numbers in the French Air Force in Indochina against Viet Minh rebels. Ki-43s abandoned in the Netherlands East Indies were taken over by the newly declared Indonesian government and put into service during the fight against Dutch forces. Over the course of the war 5,819 Ki-43-I, Ki-43-II and Ki-43-IIIa builds were produced. Several surviving examples are a Ki-43-I on display at Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Washington, a Ki-43-II displayed unrestored at the Australian War Museum in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Ki-43 originally under restoration/rebuild at Texas Airplane Factory, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas, and a Ki-43 awaiting restoration at The Fighter Collection in Duxford, United Kingdom.

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These had all the Nazi stamps, including the 'SVW' code stamp, only with the addition of a French 'Rounded Star' stamp. The French assembled Mauser P-38's up until sometime in 1946. The P-38 was dropped from service after the war ended in 1945. Home Owner - Recognized Making Video Kishore, Sriranjani.Manufactured only by Lockheed, the P-38 was built in significantly smaller numbers than the P-47 or P-51 just over 9,900 Lightnings of all models were produced.

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning. American heavy twin-engine fighter. The P-38 is designed in accordance with the concept of a heavy high-altitude fighter put forward by the US Army Air Corps in 1937. It was used as a long-range escort fighter, attack aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft.

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The 5000th Lockheed P-38 Lighting built, finished in 1944 and temporarily painted like this to commemorate the occasion.

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MD P38 1200mm Wingspan EPO RC Airplane Lockheed P-38 Lighting Zoom Aircraft PNP Fixed Wing   The P-38 aircraft is maded by EPO, a zoom airplane of Lockheed P-38 Lighting aircraft. Its wings and ...

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In which a nice person makes a terrible mistake

So  @colonial-operations​ here asked me to weigh in on this ongoing discussion of the A-10, and since Tumblr is an atrocity in motion the only way to reply is to post on my own blog and just alert him (because tumblr won’t let me alert all the participants, because fuck you and everything you ever loved,) and I guess he can reblog it or whatever. Fuck this site. 

Anyway, I just want to say - I see where y’all are coming from, I get it, but if I have to listen to one more motherfucker spewing shit about how the F-35 is the biggest shitpile ever or how we should totes buy the Super Toucan I’m going to slap Pierre Sprey’s jizz out of your goddamn mouths. 

I get, guys. I really do. When they first announced the F-35 I took them at their word - it’s a ~joint strike fighter~ i.e. the next-gen web 2.0 to the cloooud 100$ airlandinnawoods battle acronym for “multi-role fighter.” In air-to-ground roles that makes it a strike fighter; (the F-15E Strike Eagle being an example of a purpose-built one,) a plane that gets in fast, blows up important shit, and gets out again. It’s the successor and replacement of dedicated slow bombers like the A-6 and A-7; completing a trend started with droop-snoot P-38s and dive-bombing modified F4U Corsairs in WWII; capable against strategic targets (bridges, power stations) and point/tactical targets (swatting individual tanks), and it’s fast and fighter-y so it can zoom around in contested airspace with enemy fighters and SAMs plugging away at it. Cool shit, very nice, etc. But I was upset when they said it’d replace the A-10, because the point of CAS aircraft’s existence is to keep the fancy, expensive planes like the F-35 out of the murderous shooting gallery of the low-altitude SHORAD envelope. 

Check it - the IL-2 was the most produced aircraft in history because so goddamn many of them got shot down. The A-10 itself was expected to be wiped out entirely within the first few weeks of WWIII in Western Europe - they called the pilots “speed bumps.” That’s because down low, every motherfucker with a rifle is shooting at you - even after building a flying tank, you’re guaranteed to take horrible losses. That’s why CAS aircraft - like the A-10 and attack helicopters - are cheap. They must be, to be cost-effective. And they’re kept around because you have to send something into that low-alt shooting gallery because a lot of things you just can’t spot from altitude. I thought the F-35 was the ChairFarce just abandoning the low-alt weedbeating job to the Army, because they had the Apaches and they were better suited for it anyway than a fixed-wing A-10 (which was designed specifically for Cold War Western Europe.) “We’ll still bomb shit with our strike fighters, but we ain’t doing that bird-dog shit no more.”

I was wrong. They meant it when they said they’d keep the mission role, and since flying expensive speedy planes down low is insane, that means they had to do the heretofore impossible, and find the targets from high altitude. So they designed and built a terrifying witch-eye that can see through fucking clouds and hunt down one poor motherfucker from 30,000 feet through overcast skies. Who did this? Lockheed fuckin Martin. Same people that built the F-35.

It’s hard to overstate that this shit works. It can, in fact, actually find shit from high altitude. And then, since it’s an electro-optical targeting system, it can pass that targeting data - electronically - directly to weapons to engage. This isn’t some A-10 shit where the pilot has to twiddle his wee thumbstick to put the crosshairs of the IR Maverick on the tank before he pushes butan - it’s just “camera finds tonk, plane kills tonk.” Technology has fucking evolved since the 90s. The ChairFarce spent about a hojillion fucking dollars to solve this problem, for a reason. And best of all, Lockmart’s next trick was to cram the terrifying, all-seeing witch-eye into the F-35 so it can provide air support anywhere it fucking wants to. The F-15E? it can load the witch-eye, but it can’t do that. Look at Operation Allied Force, and how the fucking road-mobile SA-6s evaded destruction constantly until they finally got lucky and shot down an F-16 - with a 30+ year old obsolete SAM system. You can either play that game, and watch your airstrikes vanish as your JTAC weeps because airspace too dangerous zomg or you can send in the F-15E with proper defenses, which include other Strike Eagles ripple-firing HARMs to suppress the SAMs (at a million bucks a pop), Compass Call jamming aircraft, fighters with missiles to protect all of them from possible enemy air intercept, an AWACS to spot said fighters, fighters to protect the AWACs, and a partridge in a pear tree, and after all that, you have to go home after one or two strikes because you can only suppress the SAM sites for so long. Unless you kill them, in which case do the above three fucking times first, and then do the CAS mission, if the grunts are still alive by then. 

OR YOU COULD JUST SEND A FUCKING F-35. 

So yes, bills-bastards, the anime icon’d fuck was right. The F-35 does do what its supposed to, and the A-10 can’t hack it anymore. Silverfaggot was right-on when he said the fucking things are worn the fuck out and the production line doesn’t exist anymore - hell, we can’t even upgrade them because the pilot-armor bathtub has a single hole in it for cabling, and we’re running so much new cabling through it that it’s causing EM interference. If we want to keep the A-10, we’ll need a next-gen replacement. 

And that’d work! The F-35 will be able to do CAS but that doesn’t mean low/slow weedbeaters are obsolete - you don’t see the Army ditching their Apaches, do you? Fixed-wing CAS can’t hide behind hills, but it can move faster, carry a lot more boom and survive more damage. Plus a new plane could carry the GAU-8, and the gun is awesome. Guns are still awesome. Even with all these ultra-badass smart bombs that can fly loop-de-loops before plowing up some goatherders ass, guns are still more flexible, weight/payload efficient (more strikes in the same weight/volume,) and reliable. Look at the new Harvest Hawk gunships - despite being PGM bombtrucks, they still slapped a 30mm cannon on there for a reason. Or watch some guncam footage of Apaches hunting down Hajis one at at time with their 30mms. Guns rule.

And the GAU-8 rules even more. It doesn’t need to fucking kill tanks - even when it was brand-new, it could only kill some tanks, and from some angles (mainly the rear.) It still kicks ass, because it still kills anything below a tank that’d shrug off most low-velocity 30mm rounds - APCs, IFVs, etc. And in CAS, the high-velocity AP rounds of a GAU-8 fuck their way right through hard cover on point targets, like light bunkers and shit. It also gives the gun impressive (1km+) standoff distance, and an A-10 successor would be built to survive high-threat environments so it could bring that gunfire in close where other gunships don’t dare (like the ACU-130, which is so vulnerable we only fly it at night even against fucking goatherders.)

And you know what? The Air Force sees the wisdom of this - they’re investigating an A-10 replacement after all, because the A-10 has worked so damn well in counter-insurgency roles that they’re like, god damn, if it’s THIS good at the job, imagine a plane like this that ISN’T FIFTY FUCKING YEARS OLD AND DESIGNED FOR A WAR THAT PREDATES THE LAST TWO GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM SHIFTS. We have the technology. 

So good on y’alls, keep fighting the good fight and keep on pushing for the THUNDERBOLT III “RAZORBACK” - SON OF JUGG, because what a beautiful beast it’d be. But for the love of fuck, for the love of all that is sweet and holy, STOP spewin the fuckin “eff-thirtay-foive is shee-it it uses dem new-fangled computarz n’ sheeit dun trust’em” before getting indignant over someone calling you out out for being a fucking knuckle-dragging rocking-chair dwelling fudd telling the new platforms to get offer yer lawn. AND STOP DEMANDING WE BUY SOME GLORIFIED FUCKING CESSNA WITH SHITTY PAYLOAD THAT DOES *NOTHING* OUR *VAST FLEET OF ARMED FUCKING DRONES* DOESN’T DO BETTER, FASTER, FOR LONGER, MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY, WITH NO RISK TO A HUMAN CREW. 

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil  by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot"  by the Japanese. The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers and evacuation missions and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.

The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations as the aircraft of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories), Thomas McGuire (38 victories) and Charles H. MacDonald (36 victories). In the South West Pacific theater, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs, toward the end of the war.

The P-38 was unusually quiet for a fighter, the exhaust muffled by the turbo-superchargers. It was extremely forgiving and could be mishandled in many ways but the rate of roll in the early versions was too slow for it to excel as a dogfighter. The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to Victory over Japan Day. At the end of the war, orders for 1,887 more were cancelled.