Attendance of 5 military aircraft models looks bad but effective

Not all the high-performance and sleek high-performance aircraft, like the F-117 Nighthawk or F-22 Raptor. Even heavy aircraft like the C-17 Globemaster or KC-135 look great when they soar to the sky.

The following 5 military aircraft may look ugly under the eyes of the eyes, but they are indispensable components of American wars.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

Although not a US military aircraft, Super Guppy has faithfully served NASA for more than 50 years as a rocket carrier and other components in the space rocket system. Its first flight was in August 1965.

Super Guppy can transport up to 24 tons of cargo at a speed of 483km / h. This aircraft has a rather funny name as above because of the similarities with a pregnant guppy, with a bulging belly and small fins (wings of an airplane).

A total of five Super Guppies were built and put into use. One is currently serving NASA and sometimes at El Paso International Airport. The remaining four are on display: one at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona and the remaining three overseas including Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

Super Guppy plays an extremely important role in transporting various missile launchers to key space launch bases such as Cape Canaveral in Florida or Vandenberg AFB in California.

Super Guppy Turbine F-BPPA at Paris-Le Bourget airport in 1981.

Parts that are extremely important to bring many types of military satellites into space to control fighters are often too large to be transported on conventional transport systems and therefore need to be Special transportation vehicles.

Beluga Airbus - A300-600ST (Super transport aircraft)

Beluga F-GSTA of Airbus is flying at Airexpo 2014.

It would be flawed if we praised Super Guppy but forgot to mention its younger and newer cousin. Airbus Beluga looks like a big whale flying. After the first flight in September 1994 and was put into service a year later, flying whales continued to perform what the Super Guppy left.

It has twice the capacity of Super Guppy (47 tons) and is equipped with a 2 GE jet engine. Airbus Beluga continues to carry important aviation parts such as the fuselage as well as cargo related to other space rocket launches. Beluga is expected to fly until 2025.

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye

USNAVY E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.

Advanced Hawkeye is a masterpiece for commanding and controlling as well as an early warning airlift for the US Navy.

Highlighted by four large disk and turbine engines above, combined with four vertical fins on the tail, Advanced Hawkeye is the hegemony of the sky. It is also serving some other allied countries, including Egypt, France, Israel, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.

An E-2C Hawkeye was allocated to VAW-120 flying over Jacksonville, Florida.

Advanced Hawkeye has a crew of 5 people: besides the captain and vice-captain, there are also radar officers, combat information center officers and aircraft control officers. From the command center on the plane can simultaneously track up to 2,000 targets while simultaneously identifying the number of goals 10 times that number.

It took part in the Desperate Campaign and Desert Storm Campaign, which contributed to the two F / A-18s shooting down two Iraqi MiG-21s. Its magic eyes are what determines everything!

A-7 Corsair II

A pair of A-7 Corsair II.

A-7 Corsair II plays an important role in US air-to-air attacks in Vietnam. With more than 1,500 units produced and served between 1967 and 1993, the platform was not very popular with pilots. Because the engine vent is mounted under the cockpit, it makes it look like heavy model airplanes that we used to play at a young age, including heavy plastic tips to avoid damage.

A-7 Corsair II.

Corsair II is designed to transport long-range and heavier bombs, with significant improvements in radar, communication and mission efficiency compared to A-4. Despite these advantages, the Corsair's sluggish appearance and speed have earned it the nickname "SLUF": "Slow Little Ugly F ** er!" (Small and ugly idiot)

Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar"

A US Air Force Fairchild C-119B-10-FA Flying Boxcar of the 314th Air Force Team in 1995.

C-119 Flying Boxcar served the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps from 1949 to 1995 with more than 1,100 built. Features of the Flying Boxcar are a thick fuselage body, strangling at the tail, and everything pair design (double engine, twin shaft and double tail).

Of course, even though it is heavy, it can still transport a huge amount of other goods. With a capacity of about 12 tons, this jet was used to transport equipment and troops during the Korean War. The success of C-119 for aviation military transport has led to a new design based on the Flying Boxcar: "Shadow" AC-119G.

Shadow is an extremely dangerous type of gunboat equipped with four machine guns, armor armor and infrared night vision equipment, which were later succeeded by AC-130.