"Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
02/24/2015 at 10:34 • Filed to: Planeopnik
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"Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
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Bonus video of 801st TTS Airbats, including one of the few Japanese anime opening themes I can sing from memory:
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Kat Callahan
02/24/2015 at 10:48 |
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I'm not sure whether to be impressed or horrified that it took Japan until the 80s to replace T-33 trainers with those, let alone their own T-1 which wikipedia says finally got the final boot in 2006. 48 years is a hell of a run for a low-stress frame like a strategic bomber, let alone something that gets flogged like a trainer.
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
02/24/2015 at 12:08 |
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That unconditional surrender and our peace treaty/military support agreement with Japan probably had a lot to do with them not being too concerned with getting new hardware. Anytime Japan gets new military capabilities, Korea and China raise hell about it, too.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
02/24/2015 at 12:14 |
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Somewhat true, but trainers are small potatoes. Given that far more advanced things were in arsenal and ROK was ROKing F5s as early as '65, holding out T-33s in use until '81 is still... odd. They had Starfighters and Phantoms by well before that point. Of course, they apparently also clung to their F-86s until '82, so who knows.
BigBSinPA
> Kat Callahan
03/28/2015 at 23:30 |
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Anime reuses aircraft from all over, and I like it. One example is Stratos 4. They use the BAC TSR2 as a high altitude interceptor.
