Combat airplane ID

[accousticguitar]

I've been looking at the airplanes on the Combat box, and I am wondering what they are. I think the jets flying in formation are T-38 trainers, but I haven't figured out what the single jet is. Does anyone know? And what about the tanks?

[Prodos8]

The single jet looks to be a F-104 Starfighter. The tanks look like a Tiger, some M60s and some Super Shermans.

[+TwentySixHundred]

Thats what i was thinking they look to me like F-104's “Starfighters” while the other old ww1 looking fighter on the left looks like a Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus. The Tank looks to me like a Sherman M4A4 but not enough detail in the drawing to determine

[accousticguitar]

Ah, the widow maker. I didn't recognize it from the head-on viewpoint.

[Seob]

The first plane in the top left, is a German Fokker Dr.I. The red color indicates that it is flown by German WW I ace Manfred von Richthofen. The other WW I planes are Sopwith Camels i guess.

The single fighter is a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The planes flying in formation are Northrop F-5 fighters.

The German Tank is a Panzer III, The tanks in formation are Sovjet T-55 tanks.

The tanks on the bottom right are Shermans.

[Skylark68]

The first plane in the top left, is a German Fokker Dr.I. The red color indicates that it is flown by German WW I ace Manfred von Richthofen. The other WW I planes are Sopwith Camels i guess.

The single fighter is a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The planes flying in formation are Northrop F-5 fighters.

The German Tank is a Panzer III, The tanks in formation are Sovjet T-55 tanks.

The tanks on the bottom right are Shermans.

 

 

Definitely T-38's, not F-5's. The rest of your ID's seem correct though.

 

The battleship is an Iowa class battleship.

 

I'm not sure what a salvo from those 16" guns would have done to a few WW1 era biplanes (and triplane).

[accousticguitar]

That's quite the eclectic group! Thanks guys for the info.

[Seob]

It's a close call between the Northrop T-38 talon and the Northrop NF-5B. These 2 look so similar that it's very difficult to see.

The air intake on the side is the most notable difference.

The NF-5B is based on the T-38 talon, so that's why they look so similar.

Reason i think it's a NF-5B, it's a fighter, the T-38 is a jet trainer. Why picture a jet trainer on a cover of a combat game, makes no sense? Al tough the color scheme is the same as the T-38 and it hasn't got ordnance.

Guess the planes on the bottom.

Edited September 26, 2011 by Seob

[31336haxx0r]

The T-38 was derived from the F-5 (or was it vice versa?), so they practically look the same. Those planes pictured there appear to be single seaters, so they would be F-5s painted in the T-38 scheme.

The Starfighter looks like the USN version, which was the F-104A IIRC?

[SoulBlazer]

Didn't know there were so many military buffs here, from all over the place.

[accousticguitar]

 

 

I'm thinking the artist probably just grabbed a book of military aircraft and painted the ones he liked. 

Edited September 26, 2011 by accousticguitar

[Seob]

The T-38 was derived from the F-5 (or was it vice versa?), so they practically look the same. Those planes pictured there appear to be single seaters, so they would be F-5s painted in the T-38 scheme. The Starfighter looks like the USN version, which was the F-104A IIRC?

No twin seaters. Look at the canopy. A single seater has only 2 windows, so one supporting beam. A twin seater has 3 windows and 2 support beams like in the combat cover.

[Skylark68]

 

Paint scheme is virtually identical on the Combat box to this photo of a T38...

 

Maybe the artist envisioned the Combat game as a "trainer" for would be fighter pilots. ha

[Seob]

Paint scheme is virtually identical on the Combat box to this photo of a T38... Maybe the artist envisioned the Combat game as a "trainer" for would be fighter pilots. ha

This is spot on. So it's not logical, but the fighters in formation on the box of combat are indeed t-38's.

[Buyatari]

I wonder if you search T38 photos if it will turn up. It is always fun to see the original photo image used for box cover reference.

 

[accousticguitar]

I saw an F-104 Starfighter up close the other day. It's a fairly large airplane and the wing seems too small for it.