I’m enjoying a lovely Syrian vacation this holiday season. Would recommend to anyone who enjoys shitty weather, abject poverty, and constant indirect fire.
Light fighter fans would tell you everything about turn-rate, speed, and agility and how heavy fighters are nothing more than failures and death traps. But if you really think about it, heavy fighters are simply advanced machines too ahead of their time, failed by the technological limitations of their era. Being twin-engine do-everything multirole fighters they are literally the precursor to what modern fighters like the F-15 and Su-27 would become! I love heavy fighters, I love heavy fighters, I love heavy fighters, I want a P-38 to [My lawyer has advised me not to finish this paragraph]