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The Great Growler Gallery

whitesoxnation said:
I thought this was the shocker

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It is
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eddie said:
Wait so is it gonna be Shocker, like the Viper is a Fighting Falcon?
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The manufacturer names the plane, but that doesn't mean it's adopted by the fleet. Therefore you'll see aircraft with two names (or if you're the F-22 you'll go through Lightning II, Superstar, Rapier, and then finally Raptor).

What I find interesting is how different companies wanted to keep a common theme to a series of aircraft.
Lockheed: "star," such as Shooting Star, TriStar, Starfighter, StarLifter, JetStar, etc.
Grumman: "cats" such as Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Panther, Cougar, Jaguar, Tiger, Tomcat
 
kmac said:
The manufacturer names the plane, but that doesn't mean it's adopted by the fleet. Therefore you'll see aircraft with two names (or if you're the F-22 you'll go through Lightning II, Superstar, Rapier, and then finally Raptor).

What I find interesting is how different companies wanted to keep a common theme to a series of aircraft.
Lockheed: "star," such as Shooting Star, TriStar, Starfighter, StarLifter, JetStar, etc.
Grumman: "cats" such as Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Panther, Cougar, Jaguar, Tiger, Tomcat
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Helicopters stick with "Sea" mostly... Sea Stallion, Sea Sprite, Sea Knight, Sea Hawk...
 
I just noticed, there are no hard points. So... the 18G is unarmed??? I thought it would carry at least a few A/A pieces..
 
The G will carry AMRAAM for self-defense. Also it wouldn't be much use jamming without any pods, now would it? :icon_tong Looks like a first flight, maybe an initial acceptance functional check flight.

You can find a lot of open source Boeing stuff about potential loadouts, but imagine the ability to carry the same amount of pods as a Prowler + 2 HARM and 2 AMRAAM. And a HUD. And an air-to-air radar.
 
I'll admit that "Lightening II" for the F-35 lacks any originality. But what was the Admiral smoking when he came up with "Growler"?
Put down the crack pipe!
 
...and you know they've heard about what "growler" means by now, and they still haven't changed it! If they wanted a double entendre, they should have gone with the "Shocker!"
 
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