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I thought exactly the same thing. Australia should buy some simply cause of how good they look. The Tiger looks so gangly, cheaply made and unwieldly by comparison.
Funny thing with Russian wares. Their armored vehicles, warships and the rest or generally very utilitarian and quite ugly but they sure build their birds pretty.
Funny thing with Russian wares. Their armored vehicles, warships and the rest or generally very utilitarian and quite ugly but they sure build their birds pretty.
Not so! At least, not in my opinion.
Soviet warships have almost always had a grace and style all their own. The Kirov-class being the epitome of that.
And while I wholeheartedly agree that their aircraft are, on the whole, extremely easy on the eyes (Blackjack and Backfire especially), there's always a clunker or two: Mi-28 Havoc. Talk about a 3-bagger :(
(Also the Helix and Hormone, compact but butt-ugly!)
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
See i would consider the Kirov to be the exception to the rule. It is a gorgeous warship. But look at the Sovromenny, the Moskva (vomits), the older Kara and Kresta class cruisers. All hideous looking warships.
the apachee looks way meaner then the russian,the russian helo looks like a civilian beechcraft or cesna with stubs and rotors,to plain.
True it does, but it is uglier then this. It very sexy and smooth. I bet if it had the same weapons and other equipments like the apachee it would be better. There are few weapons that look good and this KA-52 is one of them.
yeah, and painted Khokhloma all the way from nose tip to the tail :))
Actually, both of them failed their statements, since most of Antonov's airplanes are pretty ugly(though most of them damn impressive) but mighty freighters and Tupolev's graceful birds (Tu22M1-2-3 falls off as gracefull) were always short on engine power. A grin of fortune...
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