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What are Your top early cold war planes?


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What sort of time frame are you proposing as the limits?

The only Cold War warrior I have an affinity to is the first combat aircraft I flew - the FGR.2 (F-4).

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5 minutes ago, garyscott said:

What sort of time frame are you proposing as the limits?

The only Cold War warrior I have an affinity to is the first combat aircraft I flew - the FGR.2 (F-4).

How about 1953? So late World War II and Korea. While it falls out of this section the F-4 Phantom II is clearly up on my list- as many versions as possible. As you may have guess from my current profile pic though a Phantom I would be cool


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1 hour ago, upyr1 said:

How about 1953? So late World War II and Korea. While it falls out of this section the F-4 Phantom II is clearly up on my list- as many versions as possible. As you may have guess from my current profile pic though a Phantom I would be cool

 


I would have to say F-80C, elegant looking aircraft (Korean conflict). 
 

(And I’m with you regards F-4, only flew it for just under 3 years before going to Tornado, but Phantom was a proper aircraft!)


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This is actually really difficult, I could go for it by era but I don't think I could give it as one definitive aircraft.

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8 hours ago, Grimleo said:

F-105 Thunderchief over a Vietnam map.

I think you mean F-84 over a Korean Map. I don't consider the Thud to be early cold war. The thud would be great though. I love the republic planes but I was trying to focus on Korean and late World war II designs.  Sadly I think we'll have to do them as community mods if we want more than just AI models


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If we go by the 1950s, early jets...I'd say the de Havilland Vampire, the F-84F Thunderstreak, the RF-84F Thunderflash, and the F9F Panther (although two of those barely missed Korea because the engines were crap). 

 

For later jets, obviously the entire Century series, that goes without saying.


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1 minute ago, rkk01 said:

Foxbat 😉

 

Nope just early cold war I added the tag Korean war since people kept bringing up planes which entered service after the Korean war era. The mid cold war is a different topic

2 hours ago, SharkWizard said:

I'd say

F-102A

F-106A

 

Fast, nimble and interesting™ missiles 

 

 

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that's good one for this thread 

 

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10 minutes ago, TLTeo said:

If your "cutoff age" is 1955 then a bunch of aircraft mentioned here belong in the other thread 😛 Not to say that I don't like the suggestions, just being nitpicky.

 

My main focus for this thread would be the Korean War and 1954 being a hard cut off


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13 hours ago, Xilon_x said:

you forgot the Fiat G-91 in italy they trained with the flight between the alps and at low altitude with the g-91 during the cold war.

 

First flew in ‘56, just past the cutoff.

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