Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Australian Military Aviation History" channel.

  1. Wow, a Mach 3 Phantom with Mach 2 super cruise and high-altitude performance, like a mini-Blackbird that runs on normal jet fuel. What an awesome thing that would've been.
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  2.  @AsimWajid  And yet, once pilots were trained properly, it managed well enough. And unlike its MiG opponents, it was also multi-role, making it much more useful in any air campaign.
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  3. Eph Phours, phast and phiersome phighters!
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  4. I remember in the late 80s a lot of US aircraft were painted in green camo since war in Europe was what was being prepared for, but when all of the sudden deployments to Desert Shield began, many aircraft were repainted to gray schemes overnight. Since most combat deployments since the early 90s have been to desert environments, gray has kind of stuck around. The intervention in former Yugoslavia in the late 90s was an exception, seeing aircraft used in the European theater after all.
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