southwestforests Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Between this and the SDASM it must be "Outsource your plane identification to the lowest third-world bidder" week. "... America's B-25G Bomber: The Jet That Used A Tank Cannon ..." A B-25G jet? No kiddin, eh? B-52G is a jet; B-25G is not. Spelling counts. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/meet-americas-b-25g-bomber-jet-used-tank-cannon-destroy-enemy-warships-111316 Some of the comments where this article is posted on Yahoo News are entertaining. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonwinn Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Turboprop? Maybe they mistook the radials for turboprops? Germans did have a jet with a tank cannon, Me-262 but don't recall any U. S. jets making it in time for WWII. jon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 That's a click-bait site that will take submissions from virtually anyone. I mean the first thing in their link bar is literally "Submissions". The only requirement is a salacious headline. Forty years ago National Interest would have been a tabloid on the rack in the checkout lane of your local grocery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonwinn Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Probably a "supermarket rag" but not like the old Weekly World News! Where else could you read of a 90 year old grandmother pregnant by aliens or a French astronmer discovering a steam locomotive orbiting the Earth? These just don't make it in the "main stream" media today! LOL jon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Whiskey Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 They also don't produce their own articles. If you read closely everything one their site is a reproduction article from another source and most of the time it's several months after the original was published. It'll state "this article was first published on xxxxxx website on xxxxxx date" somewhere on their version of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alternative 4 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 The national interest also had a headline the other day "6th generation fighters will change anything". That's kinda the point. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
f5guy Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 1/7/2020 at 7:54 AM, jonwinn said: Probably a "supermarket rag" but not like the old Weekly World News! Where else could you read of a 90 year old grandmother pregnant by aliens or a French astronmer discovering a steam locomotive orbiting the Earth? These just don't make it in the "main stream" media today! LOL jon Heh heh..... my favorite was when Satan won a bake off in Iowa with his "Diablo Pie"! Of course these days the media is probably worse 🙄 Fred K. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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