How do you hear someone say that and not get stuck rolling eyes and making jerk-off motion for fifteen minutes?
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The three-day special military operation is now losing BTR-50s, first made in 1952 and not manufactured after 1970.
BTR-50 was replaced in service by BMP-1s.
BMP-1s was replaced by BMP-2s.
BMP-2 was supposed to be replaced by BMP-3s.
Fun fact: according to Perun, in February-April 2022, BMP-1s made up only 12% of Russian BMP-1/2/3 losses. In May-August 2023, BMP-1 share of losses went to 44%.
So with BMP-3 share being mostly stable, this shows that BMP-2s are becoming extinct, with more and more troops getting showed into BMP-1s.
And now they're down to BTR-50s that BMP-1s replaced!
Mr. Hamilton himself created some of the most annoying songs ever put in a Disney movie.
That is, a budget plane the US wouldn't afraid to export.
It was initially a privately funded Northrop-Grumman project, too!
A much-improved version called F-20 Tiger Shark was floated in 1970s, by which time it had to compete with the F-16 - and it couldn't!
But it wasn't for sexy reasons like F-16 being that much more capable. No, USAF had gone balls-deep into the F-16 buy and everyone saw that it was the plane - about as capable if more expensive - that would have support for years to come.