Two spring to mind...

The already mentioned BUFF

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c63b57da3d.jpg

and this vicious looking beastie

http://static5.businessinsider.com/i...sonic-pass.jpg

War is ugly.

We weren't asked for the prettiest plane, or the most graceful, or anything like that, which would rightly yield the names you're talking about. The thread asks for warplane, which to me conjures up the image of a gnarled, grizzly, battered, hairy chested plane. The types for which there is beauty in their ugliness.

Happy to yield to the floor if there's a disagreement, but the comments so far seem to follow the same pattern.

Having experienced an Exercise airfield attack by 2 x Buccaneers, I found the head-on eye-level view from Local rather 'warry'


[inserts 6p coin in the slot]

Phantom
A-10
F-105

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
 

This one made for the Serbian Army, vintage 1915, a plane made for war.
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I think the A10 may have most votes here. Can I just add any Mossie with a faceful of cannons?

Some while ago I found myself wandering around a parked Tornado in a HAS at Marham while scouting locations for a film production. As a cameraman, my reaction was "there is no way to make this thing look like anything other than a bruiser."

Blunt nose, huge tail fin, bulbous fuel tanks, and a general aesthetic of chipped and filthy metal with prominent drip trays underneath. I mean, seriously: soot? On a fighter jet? This thing is supposed to be the zenith of technology, for crying out loud! But it wasn't.

There were the prints of those aircrew boots with the circular patterned soles all over the seats. I didn't want to sit in it, in case it wouldn't wash out, and when I did sit in it, I was reminded immediately of the vintage of the design. Big clunky pushbuttons! Latching toggle switches! CRT displays! It looked like something out of a particularly convincing 1960s sci-fi movie, and it smelled of partially-burned paraffin.

If I hadn't been able to recognise it, I'd have assumed it was something recovered from a hangar in an ex-Soviet client state where it had been sitting since the end of the cold war, and that's without any weapons hanging on it. Pretty it definitely ain't. I assumed the nickname "Tonka" was because it looked like a toy in the Japanese super-deformed style. Which it sort of does. :)

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PS - Gotta love 'em, my formative memories are of the 1991 gulf war.

Ju-88G-6. An efficient night killer.


http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwik...s_Ju_88G-6.jpg

I always thought the Ilyushin IL-102 looked rather purposeful!


Even has a tail turret!


https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...gytg9ktcdf.jpg

Lightning F-6 ZF590 cockpit - movie "Wing Commander"

http://scifijunkies.com/wp-content/u...8/15050124.jpg

I'm admittedly biased on this, but the Scooter gets my vote.http://vmf224cenpac.homestead.com/VM...61-63__27_.jpg


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/pr...ZDE4g5Qmw=s0-d

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...3f22c905c6.jpg

Gotta tell you - with that load on board it would be one hell of a take-off roll....

Take-off roll? Very short using a steam catapult.

Even the small WW2 era Essex class carriers had steam catapults.

Well...

The pic depicts a VMA 214 jet. Old eyes, hard to tell the tail or other markings, if they indicated if it was part of a carrier air group. Otherwise chances are it depicts a shore based Marine aircraft.

Sorry mate, we didn't invent the steam catapult until the earaly 50s and then gave the idea to you Yanks

They were retro fitted with Steam catapults in the 50's

I remember as a boy at Farnborough in the mid 50s a Victor doing a slow fly-past. A grizzled adult next to me said in an awed voice, "My God, that thing's evil".

To be honest.....I have always fancied "Jugs"!



https://usairshow.files.wordpress.co.../07/10oct1.jpg

So many a/c fall into this, but for me: CF-18, A-10, B1-B.

Well..
If the young lady comes as standard equipment with a Jug, I'll go for one of those, thanks.
Is there room for two inside, but?