I know what that is, it's a tractor that ploughs fields and shoots seeds backwards, right?
LOL, no
It has to do with one kind of fields but it doesn't plow.
Correct.
Still under 25 posts for me though...
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First guess, Tu-22M.
And now for something entirely different...
Well, I knew at first glance this is a bombard.
After that I did a web search for surviving specimens of bombards and I think I have a winner:
The Pumhart von Steyr.
Correct. I need to start using +rep more...gimme a while to get your rep.
Gloster Javelin FAW 8/9? Couldn't nail it down as this looks like it might be decommissioned, can't ID those markings (also couldn't determine if any were still flying or in private hands).
p.s. On examination I can't even tell if this is a photo, photoshopped, or a cgi rendering.
Last edited by Spear Dog; October 19, 2017 at 03:48 AM.
Correct.
Link for the quotation.A single Javelin continued to fly with the RAE until 1976, when it was delivered to the Imperial War Museum's care at Duxford airfield, where it remains to this day. Lacking in any real popularity with the public, the large production run has sadly not been reflected in numbers of preserved examples, and a mere 10 complete Javelins now remain in various states of preservation, none of which will ever fly again.
(Funny, I thought I read somewhere that one flight worthy specimen remained in a historic RAF squadron - must have confused that with another aircraft type.)
Expect the promised reward within 48 hours.
rep received, thanks mate. next:
clue: this is from WW2
.... well, yes - who else - still need to identify it.
Well wikipedia article on SAMs mentions early German efforts.
Of the articles linked to the names mentioned the Enzian looks more similar to the photo you posted.
Correct. The Enzian was one of several surface-to-air missiles being developed by the German's to compensate for their failure to develop an aircraft to effectively intercept the Allies high altitude bombers. The SAM projects were a direct off-shoot of jet and rocket plane research and used engines and other tech developed during the aircraft research. The Enzian (note how it resembles Messerschmitt's earlier rocket plane the Me 163) carried a 500lb war head and was a radio controlled proximity detonation weapon. One of two surviving Enzian missiles is in the possession of the Australian War Museum - no idea how we ended up with it. I won't go into the other Nazi missiles atm as I may post a couple of them here at some future date (Interesting stuff, including one that looks like it got an extra set of stabiliser fins every time it was reviewed).
Last edited by Spear Dog; October 23, 2017 at 05:38 AM.