Lots of runways at Hickam AFB ... so hard to say. Hills in the background look like HI.Trying to figure out where it is, but it doesn't look like any place where the F-22 is based.
Lots of runways at Hickam AFB ... so hard to say. Hills in the background look like HI.Trying to figure out where it is, but it doesn't look like any place where the F-22 is based.
Lots of runways at Hickam AFB ... so hard to say. Hills in the background look like HI.
Did you look at the Google map link I posted (in satellite view) ? Look at what other airport is adjacent to Hickam AFB.Certainly for the ground scenes. However, once they start taxiing, there are absolutely no hills nor any large bodies of water. That is definitely not any part of Honolulu near the airport. There are a couple of shots of them flying over an airport with a creek in the background and farmland and this vegetation all around. Besides the fact that it's not Hickam/HNL, there is no way that they would have ever gotten permission to fly over a major passenger airport anyways.
Did you look at the Google map link I posted (in satellite view) ? Look at what other airport is adjacent to Hickam AFB.
There is water everywhere to the south - the Pacific ocean. The international airport is right next to Hickam. They need to coordinate with the commercial airport constantly.
Obviously, the part of the movie after they take off is not Hawaii.
Burt Rutan has your cheaper and better Tank Buster named ARES or Agile Responsive Effective Supports...
ARES Agile Responsive Effective Supports
a Russian pilot in Syria flying a Su-25 got hit by shoulder fired AA and had to kill himself with a grenade to avoid capture. the chechens shot down many of them too.It will if air superiority in achieved and SAM systems are suppressed and driven back. Granted, it is not the first strike aircraft sent in, but if well supported it will more than survive. The SU-25 is already has been used in contested airspace and is effective, but yes they take losses...
If you arm F35 like A10, and make it loiter above the theater for close air support like A10 can, you should be the next chairmen of JCS.a Russian pilot in Syria flying a Su-25 got hit by shoulder fired AA and had to kill himself with a grenade to avoid capture. the chechens shot down many of them too.
these things were designed as glorified suicide planes and are useless against a real army. the a10c does absolutely nothing the f-35 can’t. hopefully we’ll see it pulled from service in the near future
a Russian pilot in Syria flying a Su-25 got hit by shoulder fired AA and had to kill himself with a grenade to avoid capture. the chechens shot down many of them too.
these things were designed as glorified suicide planes and are useless against a real army. the a10c does absolutely nothing the f-35 can’t. hopefully we’ll see it pulled from service in the near future
C130's delivering food to Sarajevo during siege 92-95 were getting regularly shot at with small arms weapons. They regularly took lead in and pilots were sitting on their bulletproof vests so they do not take hit in the ass. That is when they started to do so-called Sarajevo approach, steep dive in, and landing.I was in a discussion with someone about the F-35 vs the A-10. I know they're very different, but the most laughable comment I read was a claim that a soldier with a rifle could just put it on full auto and pump an F-35 full of lead while an A-10 would probably survive. Of course the odds of hitting an F-35 with an AK is pretty low and it's not going to be able to reach an aircraft a mile up in the air. And even if it was hit at close range I'm not sure it would do that much damage other than putting a dent or a small hole that doesn't do much.
I do remember a scene from the late 80s TV show Supercarrier that showed a Master Chief trying to evacuate civilians while a jet (from a rogue military faction) flies low above him and he starts shooting at it with his M1911. However, I've heard of a parachuting pilot getting a lucky hit on an aircraft with an M1911.
C130's delivering food to Sarajevo during siege 92-95 were getting regularly shot at with small arms weapons. They regularly took lead in and pilots were sitting on their bulletproof vests so they do not take hit in the ass. That is when they started to do so-called Sarajevo approach, steep dive in, and landing.
F35 will not take a hit from AK-47, but in close air support might take from GS23. The amount of 23mm ZS cannons in Africa and the Middle East is ridiculous. Every village has few.
The Navy was issuing the .38 special (The S&W Chief's special with a 2" barrel) up through the late 90s. It wasn't until 2002 that they issued flight crews the M-11 (Sig Sauer P229). Many of us carried our own sidearms in combat, a practice that wouldn't be allowed these days.In high school I read book on Vietnam War equipment. It mentioned helicopter pilots wearing fiberglass underwear to “protect their privates”. So I guess the assumption would be that they’d be shot at with small arms fire and might survive it if the pilots were protected. It also showed naval aviators were equipped with a .38 Special revolver as a sidearm. Exactly what good would that be other than for committing suicide or as a noisemaker?
Hey, there are just so many great USAF movies, I mean, who can forget “Iron Eagle”? Flown exclusively with F-16 models on a wire...
Then there’s, um, “Firefox”, right, I mean, it was kind of USAF...or, how about “Dr. Strangelove”? I mean, James Earl Jones and Slim Pickens? Who didn’t want to be a B-52 guy after that one, right?
^^^ She has the right Hawaii NG 199th squadron patch on the right shoulder at time 0:27, but flying scene near the end isn't Hawaii.
199th Fighter Squadron - Wikipedia
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this is what “close air support” will look like in the near future. precision guided munitions are king
^^^ Yeah, take off scene looked like Hickam (I've been there), but not farmland fly over.