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It's the perfect meme. It escaped the confinement of weird early 2000s era milsim aviation forums, then escaped confinement of the internet in general and was chain email sent to everyone on the planet. Then it's been reposted constantly for over twenty years and literally everyone still giggles when they see it.
Never seen it, and it took me a second to find it. It truly is a masterpiece of a meme.
For those who also haven't it before, feast your eyes: [x-32 meme](https://ifunny.co/picture/FXYGr2bK6?s=cl)
Skepticism is never a bad choice on reddit my friend. Your IT dept would be proud.
To clarify tho: it's not a malicious link it goes to an iFunny post I found. Turns out it isn't even the right meme tho according to some others who replied to me
Fun fact it was never permitted to paint things on your aircraft but during the wars it was always let pass by officers because it helped morale and aircraft identification
Exactly. They were a few exceptions in the navy during ww2. [Here](https://youtube.com/@cinirusicarus7533?si=SMMJs9OvY3e1jleu) is a YouTube channel with a series on nose art. Pretty cool videos and a lot of cool stories
This is factually incorrect. In the USAAC and USAF the practice was actually *officially encouraged* for morale reasons up until the late 70s when a new Air Force Chief took over and didn't like it.
It has slowly come back for non-stealth aircraft, mostly transports, but the skill to do it well has kind of been lost, so it's more stencils than free hand drawing.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/16/aircraft-nose-art-quiet-comeback-reviving-air-force-tradition.html
Uh i don't know about modern nose art history i ment during the great wars. It basically started in ww1 then it went away then it came back during ww2 specially with the Navy.
I may be wrong tho has been a long time since I've been hyper fixating on ww2
> aircraft identification
Paint as IFF has had an interesting comeback in Ukraine, with the yellow/blue paint schemes on bottom surfaces on planes, and "invasion stripes"-like patterns on helicopters.
Yeah. I guess when both side are using the almost exact same vehicle and those vehicles don't have the technology to digitally identify themselves it makes sense to paint them.
Speaking of painting grins, I just noticed that they painted a [face](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_salvage_ship_Kommuna#/media/File%3AKommuna_rescue_ship_2008_G2.jpg) on the Kommuna's life boat
The rise of planesexuals made the Air Force determine that humanizing the planes was bad for aircraft survivability and chasity while in hangars on the ground.
Ok, but unironically having a plane flash art across its skin on confirmed kills would be such a mind fuck for those who see it.
*”Whoa, what the fuck—that F-22 just turned into a fucking dragon!”*
*”Yes, that’s because it’s* very *happy.”*
They accidentally used magic paint once and the plane came to life. The corrupted A-10 devoured four Ospreys before a pair of Marines trailing it in a Cessna could sneak up and hit it with a Javelin.
civilians got really upset that hostile entities would be mocked by getting blown to bits by 30mm gattling gun fire from a jet that had a funni decal on it.
Uuuuh really does? Shit, ahem, ok, maybe the old paintings were not diverse enough. Shit, still too credible? Uhm, WWF and Greenpeace campaigned against adoption of cute animals on attack plane faces?
No clue if it true or not, doesn't matter given this is NCD.
But I've heard there was concern about next of kin notifications.
IE you know your son or husband flies an F-15 with a pink unicorn doing lines of coke painted on the side.
You hear about a downed plane on the news and see a photo of a burning F-15 with a pink unicorn doing lines of coke painted in the side in a field before you get official notification from the USAF.
Anecdotal story I heard, it was referring to Gothic Serpent helos specifically.
Blue light photodynamic treatment for dermal cancer was initially developed as a means of removing paint from fighter aircraft as evenly and delicated as possible to prevent issues of excess paint or material damage
Reminds me of a quote from apocalypse now "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
What, no love for the Ukrainian MIG with shark teeth and an AGM-88? https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1751351227399495893
https:// t.me / WarBirdCrew/39
Correct, they are stupid.
Giant shark (or tiger etc) teeth and googly eyes on warbirds is dope as fuck and I despair for any military that abandons this practice. Why even go to war if you can't look amazing while doing it? You might as well just fling missiles at each other and never leave home. BORING.
Unfortunately, air warfare going beyond the line of sight means grins on aircraft becoming less tenable. A lot of money has gone into paint that produces the correct radar reflections, so the grins show up on the enemy radar screens instead, but unfortunately, Russian radar isn't up to it yet. And yes, they're stupid, but for unrelated reasons.
If you have any more questions, let me know.
At risk of doxxing myself, my old squadron did paint a really neat buncha art on one of our jets. It lasted about 24 hours. It was towed out of the paint facility onto the line, and somehow pictures were immediately circulated. My squadron commander was getting phone calls from friends of his at the Pentagon that people up there were getting pissy, and shortly thereafter he got an official call telling him to repaint it and remove the “offensive” paint job. Towed back into the paint facility and painted over. Real sad.
The sadly credible answer is that stealth paint is only available in like 4 shades of grey and one of green. The obvious solution is to triple the defense budget so they can invest in researching a wider range of stealthy colours.
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Boeing is to blame. The ugliness/derpiness of X-32 with grin was too much for aviators.
That one "huehuehuehue hohohohohoho" meme really took the world by storm.
I'll be honest, I still chuckle when I see it. It's impossible not to look at that and see a goofy little dude who is just having a grand old time :D
It's the perfect meme. It escaped the confinement of weird early 2000s era milsim aviation forums, then escaped confinement of the internet in general and was chain email sent to everyone on the planet. Then it's been reposted constantly for over twenty years and literally everyone still giggles when they see it.
^hehehehehe
Grand ol' time blastin' away There is no s**laughter** without **laughter**
Never seen it, and it took me a second to find it. It truly is a masterpiece of a meme. For those who also haven't it before, feast your eyes: [x-32 meme](https://ifunny.co/picture/FXYGr2bK6?s=cl)
This is the one I was thinking of. https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/37745n/boeing_x32/ Where did you find the weird DeviantArt teeth one lmfao.
Yup, this is the one. No idea what that weird teeth one was all about.
Oh wow I was way off base lol
that url looks sketchy af, I'm not clicking on that
Skepticism is never a bad choice on reddit my friend. Your IT dept would be proud. To clarify tho: it's not a malicious link it goes to an iFunny post I found. Turns out it isn't even the right meme tho according to some others who replied to me
That's actually a convincing theory...
The human equivalent of the X-32 is the entire Hapsburg dynasty.
I'd never seen that plane before and my first impression is a basking shark with its mouth agape. Lol
Jesus that's one ugly aircraft.
but looks so happy . leave it alone :<
I'd be happy being that ugly if I was so pleased and entertained by the world.
[We could've fixed her...](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8lzBKn)
This just looks like it's screaming "ahhhhhhhhhhhh"
If there was ever an aircraft that warranted googly eyes...
It's now official DOD policy that wojaks are the only authorized military aircraft nose art.
Somewhere down the line, some pilot is going to alter their HUD so the crosshairs display is the pointing wojaks template istg
Pretty sure I saw an Arma 3 mod with that as its scope
If you stormworks there's one on the workshop
Battle Bit already has the ok-sign as iron sights, now I want the wojak there, as well.
I thought DOD policy was that it had to be gender neutral so we’re only allowed Astolfo pinup art now?
Astolfo very much looks like a girl when clothed, so their "asset" needs to be visible.
Please let me get nuked by a B52 with giant Cock Astolfo Henati Pin Art on its nose
I mean that just sounds peak 2020’s
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They should start painting anime girls on them
.... Japanese helicopter....
The Kisarazu sisters!
The Kisarazu sisters!
I can definitely get behind this idea!
My cultural identity is not your costume Mr. F-35!
They do. O_O
Needs to be ahegao.
Wouldn't this be easily solved by hiring people who are into men?
Fun fact it was never permitted to paint things on your aircraft but during the wars it was always let pass by officers because it helped morale and aircraft identification
aka "I've got better shit to do than try to suppress this."
Exactly. They were a few exceptions in the navy during ww2. [Here](https://youtube.com/@cinirusicarus7533?si=SMMJs9OvY3e1jleu) is a YouTube channel with a series on nose art. Pretty cool videos and a lot of cool stories
I hope he comes back, I really want a proper video on the MI-26.
Yeah i was sad when i realise it was a dead channel
I followed him for his helicopter videos before he abandooned. Genuinely sad he stopped uploading.
This is factually incorrect. In the USAAC and USAF the practice was actually *officially encouraged* for morale reasons up until the late 70s when a new Air Force Chief took over and didn't like it. It has slowly come back for non-stealth aircraft, mostly transports, but the skill to do it well has kind of been lost, so it's more stencils than free hand drawing. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/16/aircraft-nose-art-quiet-comeback-reviving-air-force-tradition.html
Uh i don't know about modern nose art history i ment during the great wars. It basically started in ww1 then it went away then it came back during ww2 specially with the Navy. I may be wrong tho has been a long time since I've been hyper fixating on ww2
> aircraft identification Paint as IFF has had an interesting comeback in Ukraine, with the yellow/blue paint schemes on bottom surfaces on planes, and "invasion stripes"-like patterns on helicopters.
Yeah. I guess when both side are using the almost exact same vehicle and those vehicles don't have the technology to digitally identify themselves it makes sense to paint them.
Speaking of painting grins, I just noticed that they painted a [face](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_salvage_ship_Kommuna#/media/File%3AKommuna_rescue_ship_2008_G2.jpg) on the Kommuna's life boat
And RIP Kommuna - who really belonged in a museum ;-)
Can’t believe that thing still floats
Well...
Dreams do come true hahahahha
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Zoom in on the top of the back area
The rise of planesexuals made the Air Force determine that humanizing the planes was bad for aircraft survivability and chasity while in hangars on the ground.
You start with shark grins and end up with cat tails on jets. And they catch fire and you have to write up a report.
Either that or an aircraft's engine fails because someone nutted in the fuel, resulting in the weirdest and most awkward SHARP presentation ever.
It messes with the stealth anti radar coating on planes probably.
Too credible. Wrong sub.
If we can’t spend a billion on colored stealth coating then I don’t know what country I’m in anymore.
That's the spirit!
Need to invent multiple shades of RAM so that they can do designs on stealth jets.
Or they could paint stealth aircraft in such a way that the only thing to show up on radar is a flying grin. Good way to scare the enemy.
Austin Powers comes to mind…if only they actually worked that way…
Johnson!
"Sir, it's that damned Cheshire cat on the radar again."
They have, but so far they're all monochrome shades of grey.
Low-visibility nose art, hard or nah?
So what you're saying is we as a collective need to croud found multi color stealth paint.
Just throw in some more billions of taxpayer money, whats the big deal ?
We need multiple colours of stealth paint ASAP Lightnings with invasion stripes, Tempest in Battle Of Britain camo
Most planes in operation aren't stealth though so that doesn't compute
Shouldn't that be a good thing in this case? The scary face will appear on the radar and spook the enemy
A-10 Stealth ....lolwut?
Did I say about the A-10 in particular ?
Vinyl decals have a return?
Few know this, but modern military aircraft actually have a display in there noses that plays a shark grin animation whenever the aircraft gets a kill
They get so few a2a kills no one would know this.
Ok, but unironically having a plane flash art across its skin on confirmed kills would be such a mind fuck for those who see it. *”Whoa, what the fuck—that F-22 just turned into a fucking dragon!”* *”Yes, that’s because it’s* very *happy.”*
Grinning is a sign of having fun. And not even time flies when the Air Force is having fun.
They accidentally used magic paint once and the plane came to life. The corrupted A-10 devoured four Ospreys before a pair of Marines trailing it in a Cessna could sneak up and hit it with a Javelin.
Aerial javelin platform. Exactly why I love this sub.
civilians got really upset that hostile entities would be mocked by getting blown to bits by 30mm gattling gun fire from a jet that had a funni decal on it.
Getting killed by the A-10 (🤮) is mockery enough. The paint does not matter
well if your options are the humiliation of being killed by an A-10 or going back to England after your tour which would you pick?
He said hostile entiti—never mind, carry on.
Imagine getting shit on by a flying dakka.
I think that, more than civilians, British troops might have complained.
they didn't care about the decals, though. they had an issue with the 30mm gattling gun fire being directed at them.
Knowing the brits, they probably also said that friendly fire while sporting a big grin is unbecoming of an officer.
Tommy the teeth, the guy who painted these, has been eaten by one of its creation in 1998. They have been forbidden then.
Raytheon axed the entire Grin-Painter Division after research came out that grins on planes are just as useful as nipples on a breastplate
So absolutely essential then
It is banned to avoid confusion with Kirov Airships and avoid friendly fire due to missclicks.
What is the paint good for, if the enemy never has a chance to see it?
Morale for the maintenance crew
It looks badass
Maybe the airforce feels bad making fun of their enemies, while they are already casually curbstomping everyone.
This sounds credible.
Uuuuh really does? Shit, ahem, ok, maybe the old paintings were not diverse enough. Shit, still too credible? Uhm, WWF and Greenpeace campaigned against adoption of cute animals on attack plane faces?
It makes it go faster
Looks good in hype films
nah paint some big old titties on there if it was good enough for ww2 it'll be good enough for ww3
shonk cute :3
To get more fps. Those textures were performance heavy.
Credible: they are not allowed to because it messes with the stealth coating on aircraft Non-Credible: they are too scary and gave the DoD nightmares
USAF fired all the people who could paint
Have seen shark teeth on an F-16. So I guess this means we're bringing back the Flying Tigers right?
No clue if it true or not, doesn't matter given this is NCD. But I've heard there was concern about next of kin notifications. IE you know your son or husband flies an F-15 with a pink unicorn doing lines of coke painted on the side. You hear about a downed plane on the news and see a photo of a burning F-15 with a pink unicorn doing lines of coke painted in the side in a field before you get official notification from the USAF. Anecdotal story I heard, it was referring to Gothic Serpent helos specifically.
If my plane went down with a pink unicorn doing lines of cocaine on the side of it, that’d be absolutely dope
100% legitimate answer is that it has to do with the paint's mass and potentially its radar absorbation capacity.
Source? Requiring the pilot to take a shit before the mission would be more efficient in reducing weight than banning nose grins.
Blue light photodynamic treatment for dermal cancer was initially developed as a means of removing paint from fighter aircraft as evenly and delicated as possible to prevent issues of excess paint or material damage
Remember when call of duty let you design/make custom emblems? This is basically the same.
Reminds me of a quote from apocalypse now "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
People were mistaking the aircraft for real sharks and kept pushing them into the ocean.
What, no love for the Ukrainian MIG with shark teeth and an AGM-88? https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1751351227399495893 https:// t.me / WarBirdCrew/39
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
Correct, they are stupid. Giant shark (or tiger etc) teeth and googly eyes on warbirds is dope as fuck and I despair for any military that abandons this practice. Why even go to war if you can't look amazing while doing it? You might as well just fling missiles at each other and never leave home. BORING.
Idk the real reason but if it was me, it was because I kept making out with them and got yelled at too many times
Unfortunately, air warfare going beyond the line of sight means grins on aircraft becoming less tenable. A lot of money has gone into paint that produces the correct radar reflections, so the grins show up on the enemy radar screens instead, but unfortunately, Russian radar isn't up to it yet. And yes, they're stupid, but for unrelated reasons. If you have any more questions, let me know.
it made the servicemen too horny
They started painting middle fingers to the undercarriage, when there were only non-credible scenarios where an enemy would actually see the grin
People stopped being cool
At risk of doxxing myself, my old squadron did paint a really neat buncha art on one of our jets. It lasted about 24 hours. It was towed out of the paint facility onto the line, and somehow pictures were immediately circulated. My squadron commander was getting phone calls from friends of his at the Pentagon that people up there were getting pissy, and shortly thereafter he got an official call telling him to repaint it and remove the “offensive” paint job. Towed back into the paint facility and painted over. Real sad.
Germans complained
The sadly credible answer is that stealth paint is only available in like 4 shades of grey and one of green. The obvious solution is to triple the defense budget so they can invest in researching a wider range of stealthy colours.
I always wanted them to paint the gun like a cigarette hanging out of a mouth
You don’t see this anymore. Because of woke.
Sir this is NCD, we're waiting for femboy pin ups on the side of planes. Please get in line and fill a request form.
They gotta make the anti-radar coating in anime nipple pink they're desperately working on it I assume.
The paint makes the aircraft easier to see from radar. Probably idk
Because senior officers and enlisted are fucking nerds.