F-22 Total Air War Aircraft

Ac notesA-10-C Thunderbolt II

Ac notesPremiere US helicopter gunship.

Ac notesLike many flight sim fans, my love affair with the Wobbly Goblin began in 1988 with F-19 Stealth Fighter on my Atari ST.

Ac notesAbout 1/3 larger than the F/A-18, the Superhornet brings increased range and payload to the series. The aircraft received wide exposure in the 2023 movie " Top Gun Maverick".

Ac notesFirst brought to the collective attention of the west in the 1972 defection of Lt. Victor Belenko to Hakodate, Japan and subsequently immortalised as the basis for the wildly successful novel and movie "Firefox", the MiG-25 was an integral part of Eastern Bloc air defence during the Cold War. With it’s Mach 2 plus and edge-of-space capabilities it was specifically designed to counter the reconnaissance threats posed by the U-2 and later the SR-71 Blackbird, a role it fulfilled for several decades..

Ac notesThe "Soviet Super Fighter" is what we called it in the 1980's.

Ac notesFrom the 1980’s the Panavia Tornado was a staple of the UK, German and Italian airforces and along with the F-111 and B-1B dominated the low-level high speed interdiction bombing role for decades. There were also air defense variants. At the time it boasted the most sophisticated bomber / navigator station in service, the seat being dominated by 3 large cathode ray tubes. The flight plans were loaded via cassette tape and the Terrain Following Radar (TFR) enabled it to fly super-sonic at night and at altitudes down to 50 feet, a performance metric which is hard to match even in the 2020’s.

Ac notesTR-1A: Tactical recon variant of the US Lockheed U-2 - Wikipedia

Ac notesHigh altitude interceptor designed to counter the U-2.

Ac notesRQ-3 DarkStar is an unmanned aerial vehicle. Its first flight was on March 29, 1996. The Department of Defense terminated DarkStar in January 1999, after determining the UAV was not aerodynamically stable and was not meeting cost and performance objectives. Wikipedia

Ac notesNorthrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

Ac notesLargest helicopter to have gone into serial production. Wikipedia