Yeah, it’s pretty nuts in retrospect. The bone is already a behemoth, and it cost so much that cold war era USA canceled a military superweapon project when Carter axed the B1A in 77. Then the Soviet Union saw all that and decided “we will make that, but with every info card specification 20% larger”
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This really drives home just how massive fighter jets are.
Massive, you say? (Left out the name of the platform because I’m sure somebody will have fun either guessing it or figuring it out)
This has to be the B-one, I can’t think of anything else with four afterburners and a swept wing.
It is the bone, but it is not the only thing with four afterburners and a swept wing. Round 2?
That’s the colossal Russian bomber, tupolev tu-160.
Also, that thing is bigger than Concorde in most specs, including payload. What a beast.
Yeah, it’s pretty nuts in retrospect. The bone is already a behemoth, and it cost so much that cold war era USA canceled a military superweapon project when Carter axed the B1A in 77. Then the Soviet Union saw all that and decided “we will make that, but with every info card specification 20% larger”