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A Russian Su-34 was reportedly shot down in the Kursk region. Waiting for confirmation. (i.imgur.com)
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[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Now I want a Hatsune Miku jet

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, say what you want, but Russian planes have amazing paintjobs. The SU-57 looks particularly stunning (the fact that they can't use it helps, of course).

NATO "Practical Grey" is also pretty boring

[–] tal 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

NATO "Practical Grey" is also pretty boring

The camouflage isn't very flashy -- though it is practical -- but if you're looking for flashy, are you aware of the annual NATO Tigers event? I think France started it. A number of countries send an aircraft or two, and at some point, they started putting flashy paintjobs on them for the duration of the event, often with a tiger or at least big cat theme. Someone -- Germany, I think -- had at least one year where they had someone in a tiger fursuit, and a tiger-painted support car, to go with multiple tiger-painted aircraft.

https://www.natotigers.org/tiger-gallery

EDIT: Neither the chick from the German airforce in the tiger bodysuit nor the dude in the tiger suit in that gallery is what I remember seeing pictures of, so I expect that there have been a number of occasions.

EDIT2: Some higher-resolution shots than they have on that gallery from various years and various countries:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/476c0247-4aa3-4df5-9150-8d2352568bd1.jpeg

I think that this one is actually a leopard or cheetah:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/c26c109a-87b7-41be-91b7-4620f8680178.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/668cd0c0-8217-45d3-8854-993a7a97af1c.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ac666c7a-8200-421f-9bda-23249ee17ecd.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1ae6a1e4-15f4-454c-b016-0c74d05ccc36.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/349eaf30-a234-456b-887d-f790fb788970.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4b769e38-167a-4c1d-93b9-dc762ceab523.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/91e39339-fd41-4141-8adf-bccb028df846.jpeg

EDIT3: Yeah, it was France:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Tiger_Association

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't heard of this, but it is absolutely amazing. Thank you for telling me about it!

[–] tal 1 points 4 months ago

No problem. I just uploaded a few more images; if you hit Google Images or similar and search for "NATO Tigers", you'll get a lot more.