Tomcat Lives Forever

[u/Intelligent_League_1]

[u/squirt2311]

It'll be back one day, when we need it most. 

Source: AC5 and my own delusions 

[u/unfunnysexface → u/squirt2311]

There was video of Iran landing one a couple months ago. They live.

[u/CityExcellent8121 → u/squirt2311]

AC8 Tomcats are actually pretty good if you want to get back into the series.

[u/squirt2311 → u/CityExcellent8121]

I started with 7 lol.

I just have gone, very, very deep down the rabbit hole.

Preordered 8 and committed several blood sacrifices during the whole rituals thing

Captain Matias Torres was a hero

[u/CIS-E_4ME]

I'll inform the tomcat maintainers.

They should be ready for discharge from the mental asylum.

[u/tomcatfucker1979]

🤤

[u/Petergriffin201818 → u/tomcatfucker1979]

Username check's out

[u/tomcatfucker1979 → u/Petergriffin201818]

God damn right

[u/Raedwald-Bretwalda → u/tomcatfucker1979]

Slo-mo missile launch footage. 🫦

[u/Sakul_the_one → u/tomcatfucker1979]

💦

[u/Hot-Minute-8263]

Inb4 the tomcat haters come in to shit on the parade

[u/Intelligent_League_1 → u/Hot-Minute-8263]

Most annoying people ever btw

[u/EntertainmentReady48 → u/Hot-Minute-8263]

Dick Cheney’s dead he can’t hurt us anymore.

[u/masteroffdesaster]

one of the things I love the most about the Tomcat is that the B and D variants could take off from the carrier with a full payload and didn't need afterburner because, in the words of a Tomcat flight crew, it had excess power on the catapult. sounds ridiculous

[u/StarlightLifter]

<3 tomkitty

[u/Sorry_Community235]

I named my cat shaman in Shadowrun after that plane 😸

[u/masteroffdesaster]

awesome video, but why the Hornet music in a Tomcat video?

[u/Intelligent_League_1 → u/masteroffdesaster]

I never seen an F-18 edit to Dark Beach?

[u/icZAstuff → u/masteroffdesaster]

Wrong music!

[u/HKMP7A2]

I didn't expect Pastel Ghost - Dark Beach to be the background music. I fucking love that song so much.

It's a song that's rare to pull-off in military edits though if using the original version.

[u/Teyanis]

I love the way it hunches down before the catapult fires it off the carrier. Like a cat about to pounce.

[u/abloblololo]

Watch Speed and Angels, a great docu about the last cohort of pilots trained on the F-14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcC1tNrhDk

[u/thesunexpress]

Sexy sexy sexy sexy sexpots, rawr.

[u/creativemind11]

https://youtu.be/jGGfZMHEK8A?is=Vptny6ymZlBUT8e7

[u/wagwan553 → u/creativemind11]

Absolutely class video

[u/bigred1978]

Wish it had not been retired when it was and instead kept flying for years.

Beautiful plane.

[u/Janissaire7]

i am a simple person. i see tomcats, i join sub.

[u/slickweasel333]

Beautiful plane whose time has passed. Still my favorite plane, but the US no longer needed such an older costly airframe to keep flying, and the Hornet family traded some range and performance for much lower sustainment cost and higher readiness.

For perspective, the maintenance on the Tomcats was about 3x that of Hornets.

[u/Woodland_Abrams]

Should've been a nightcore song playing

[u/DisgruntledCascadian]

Just let it go already.  It's been over 15 years.  Jesus.  No other Vietnam vintage jet gets this much internet fanboy wankery.

Well, maybe the A-10.  Which has one thing in common with the Tomcat.  They'd both be slaughtered in a modern fight.

[u/Hot-Minute-8263 → u/DisgruntledCascadian]

Its a cool jet stfu

[u/masteroffdesaster → u/DisgruntledCascadian]

a modern Tomcat version would be about as useful as an F-15E. and the A-10 would actually have had a role in Ukraine at the start of the war, given the Bayraktar videos we've seen

[u/KingKasby → u/masteroffdesaster]

40 mile long stalled convoy is an A10 pilots wet dream

[u/ShockerMain → u/KingKasby]

Somewhere in eastern Europe, they say you can still hear the pilot weeping late at night because they didn't let him sortie