Which aircraft looks most like a warplane?
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HH, the Nimrod was an OMG shape when it was first revealed and your list almost makes the AEW 3 handsome. 
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Showing a bunch of enthusiasts and their ladies around Tornado several decades ago I was struck by the words of one very well spoken woman who said when we walked into HAS 55 which had been prepared for some Air Power display 'It looks so brutally pugilistic like it's hunched up ready to throw a punch', a phrase which has stayed with me ever since.
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B-58 'Hustler' for me. 'The Doomsday Jet', the huge pod underneath containing the nuke indicative of its sole purpose. The aircraft was not designed to deliver conventional weapons.
Footage of Hustlers was used to represent the 'Vindicator' bombers in the apocalyptic movie 'Fail Safe'.
Trivia alert: the singer John Denver's father commanded a Hustler squadron, mentioned in a description of a typical training mission: look under war stories > typical mission at B-58.com - The B-58 Hustler Page
Reading the article, I found the takeoff and landing speeds eye-watering, and the mission lengths and working environment challenging, to say the least.
Edited to add that John's dad must have been better at fuel management than his son.
Footage of Hustlers was used to represent the 'Vindicator' bombers in the apocalyptic movie 'Fail Safe'.
Trivia alert: the singer John Denver's father commanded a Hustler squadron, mentioned in a description of a typical training mission: look under war stories > typical mission at B-58.com - The B-58 Hustler Page
Reading the article, I found the takeoff and landing speeds eye-watering, and the mission lengths and working environment challenging, to say the least.
Edited to add that John's dad must have been better at fuel management than his son.
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A rough, and I mean battered Lancaster with those lead and soot trails.
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What of the Shacklebomber with two wicked 20mm in the nose? Better than a sting in the tail.
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The opinion seems to be that a "real" warplane has to be ugly - what happened to the old dictum that if it looks right it flies right?
Spitfire, Mosquito, Hunter, Sabre, F-16.
In the high and fast arena I'll also vote for the SR-71 Habu - beautiful, black and scary as a Cobra.
Spitfire, Mosquito, Hunter, Sabre, F-16.
In the high and fast arena I'll also vote for the SR-71 Habu - beautiful, black and scary as a Cobra.