Which aircraft looks most like a warplane?
 

I've got my own views on this, unexpectedly.....but I wondered what others think.

For example, a P-8 looks like a 737- and that's not a warplane!

Some aircraft look evil, like the AH-64 for example- but we'll not count helos.

Which is the type that LOOKS most built to fight only?

Hmm. A Skyraider loaded with the 60s equivalent of 'shake n' bake' certainly doesn't hide its intent. Nor does its spiritual successor, the A - 10. And the H.P. Victor looks like something that would appear on any self respecting super villain's wish list, too.

That's my (off the cuff) two penneth.

Lightning, Phantom, Buccaneer and Harrier must be major contenders.

Victor with a Blue Streak strapped underneath looks pretty warlike.

A10/ SU25 are pretty unambiguous in their intent.

I saw a MiG-21 landing recently, and there was little doubt what it had been built for....

Pulse: A Victor with a Blue Streak strapped underneath looks pretty impossible. You mean Blue Steel, of course.

US Air Force C-21A, Learjet 35A, original Learjet 23 based on Swiss P-16. Looks military with wing tip tanks.

F4M with 4xAIM4, 3xAIM7, 2x3x1000lb, SUU23 and strike camera.

Buccanner with 12x1000lb external and more bad news in the bomb bay.

B52 with 24x750 external and another 48x500 internal

I never flew it so I'm not biased but I think a tooled up Tornado GR1 in its Gulf War days looked pretty evil. It's what convinced me of my chosen career path.

A B1-B would give it a run for its money though.

BV

If you mean Blue Steel, certainly gets my vote.:ok:

Best start at the beginning
Vickers FB.5 (Gunbus) Scout Biplane Aircraft (1915)
No mistaking its intent with the gunner at the front

The very first time I saw a Victor , it was a 214 sqn BK1a at Marham taxying toward me in the ATC section Land Rover and we cleared the southern taxyway on the dispersal just to the right approaching the Tower. Even though it was a tanker, it still looked absolutely fabulous.
I had a couple of years of almost nothing but Victors and the impression never diminished.

Blue Steel of course. Well it was along time ago!

The F-4, end of story.

http://c7.alamy.com/comp/AS0ABA/raf-...eat-AS0ABA.jpg
( © Richard Cooke )

-RP

*I know they're only drill rounds in the picture, but you get the idea...

A7, something that odd looking just had to be bad news for the enemy.

a weathered, oilstreaked, tooled up SUKHOI 17,20,22 would get my vote.
if the outer wings are in forward sweep even better.

proper ugly...in a nice way.

FISH.

A rough, and I mean battered Lancaster with those lead and soot trails.

Backfire looks pretty impressive. But an F-4 in fighting trim or a Bucc with a bucket of sunshine says it all.

Me. 262 , clearly a warplane but with elegance to match functionality.

No, not the Valkyrie.

The problem there was it never looked warlike at all, it was just too damn beautiful to exist on this grubby, fallible earth...

The Buff. It has no purpose other than death.

I guess you could split it into those aircraft which are built to fight other aircraft, and those that are built to drop bombs. The former is anything with lots of missiles visible, and the second is anything with lots of bombs visible.

I hate to say it but the only thing that looks mean in both guises to me was the Phantom, but only when in RAF livery of course.....

The JU-87 Stuka has to be a contender. Designed and built with only one purpose in mind, and spreading sweetness and light was not the intention.

Indeed. Designed also to capitalise psychologically with the pant - shattingly shrill 'Jericho Trumpets' (although their effectiveness, given sundry, other battlefield cacophony has been questioned, and they were later removed).

Pure evil...

Yet very effective indeed (G model) as a 'Panzerknacker' in the east.

Big Radial Engine...folding Wings...Tail Wheel....Bombs, Rockets, Guns, Napalm, Nuke Capable, and the Squadron Toilet do in the Enemy with! You cannot beat that combination!



http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva...cbomb-010b.jpg

Can't be that mean SAS, it says "Paper Tiger". Wonder what drag index they used for the toilet when crunching the numbers.

The Ju87 Stuka..
My old man once confided in me that, when under direct attack by those, it had caused him to 'soil his underpants'.
It would therefore seem that the siren was capable of having the desired effect.

How has no one said AC-130? It's got a freakin howitzer bolted to the side!!

Except that it's mainly been used as a deterrent.

The `toom - no question.
Angular, pointy, weapons truck extraordinaire - and the size of a locomotive.

Modern stealth-oriented planes do not look so fierce as the most of the armament is hidden inside. Therefore, IMHO, nobody would supersede B-52
http://www.howitflies.com/files/phot...ay_arms_06.jpg

Chesty, for post-war tonnage of bombs dropped it were a fine deterrent :)

A sign of things to come?
 

For me, the F117 looked pretty mean and business-like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhe...7A_GBU-28.JPEG

Why? "Aircraft" definition includes helicopters, and I'll wager that most of the current crop of attack helicopters will meet the thread title :ok:

Opening with the Hind :cool:

http://www.analisidifesa.it/wp-conte...013/10/url.jpg

You'll be forgetting the vast amount of work the B52 has done as a carrier platform for aerospace research, think X15 onwards.

No purpose but death???

I reckon in its day the Sopwith Camel looked pretty mean & purposeful!

Megan,


Like the Toilet added much drag compared to the airplane even if it were clean (the airplane....much less the Toilet)!

In no particular order

Hind
Stuka
Typhoon (the original!)
Phantom
A-10
MiG-19
Skyraider

for sheer ugliness you have to go for the Hind and the A10 I think