Enemies of the USAF beware.

I'm guessing they were scrambled to check out what was invading their airspace and HOLY %&$!, A GIANT DRAGON!

This reminds me of the ending to Drakkengard.

there Is a rainbow In the back so I'm guessing the Dragon Is friendly.

YinFox said:
there Is a rainbow In the back so I'm guessing the Dragon Is friendly.

What do you base that logic on? Are rainbows some how cued to telepathic emanations of non-hostility or something?

slops said:
What do you base that logic on? Are rainbows some how cued to telepathic emanations of non-hostility or something?

You think too much.

Any chance of getting one big enough for a 1920x1080 monitor?

hey its the demons of ragriz from ace of combat 5 coming slay a oppossing demon with fighter jets

Role in the A-10s with F-22 Raptor support, Danger Close.

CloudchaserShaconage said:
I'm guessing they were scrambled to check out what was invading their airspace and HOLY %&$!, A GIANT DRAGON!

They wouldn't need to get THAT close in order to decide that cruise missiles ought to do the trick.

Realy BIG DRAGON. I haven't seen biger in my life.

ippiki_ookami said:
Enemies of the USAF beware.

those are United States Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets

KentowskiWolf said:
those are United States Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets

Kämpfer said:
Damn, beat me to it.

He should have known better…

Not every Airman actually gets into the jets-

looking at the type of jet it is, looks like GTA V just got a whole lot more badass!

fghjtvf said:
looking at the type of jet it is, looks like GTA V just got a whole lot more badass!

more like saints row. even GTA keeps some form of plausible deniability.

slops said:
What do you base that logic on? Are rainbows some how cued to telepathic emanations of non-hostility or something?

something about imagery and implications made out of the logical context of the picture. I forget the correct term for it but basically the author uses environmental and metaphorical ques to help tint the mood of the picture a certain way, hinting at the situation in ways that normally mean little, but the fact that we know out of context that it was intentionally placed there gives subtle hints as to the nature of what's going on.

"why put a rainbow there?"

It implies that while the situation might be tense, it's not explicitly violent or possibly not even hostile. What if this was a world where that dragon was on patrol with those jets or was acting as an ambassador between the humans and dragons and those were just escorts guiding him in? What if that dragon is going to broker peace or even an alliance between their two people, despite their differences? What if he's lost in a storm and stumbled into human airspace and those jets are guiding him out?

considering they are said to be navy planes in other comments(F-18 super hornets was it?), it could be a naval scouting or rescue operation. So many worlds could be possible in this one image, and the subtle implication of a rainbow, the "silver lining" common after a storm resulting from light piercing through the murky clouds and refracting into a full spectrum of color in a world previously so gloomy, tends to imply in a metaphorical sense that things are not as bad as they might seem.

PhilosophicalMind said:
They wouldn't need to get THAT close in order to decide that cruise missiles ought to do the trick.

Only for them to be shot down by the cloaked URSC ship above it.

PhilosophicalMind said:
Yeah right, as if. . .

You seem to forget... E621 is a furry site and as you know anything can, will, and HAS happened hehehe.

Huston...

So, anyone else feel like shit for not being able to draw this?

If Saphira were alive today..

Fenrick said:
From an aviator-wannabe's perspective, if they were engaged in combat with the dragon, they'd want to be facing it or moving directly away from it. They're sort-of flying in formation.

Speculation is fun.

One thing is for sure...

They've just entered the Danger Zone!!![/i]

ippiki_ookami said:
Enemies of the USAF beware.

Unless you're the british airforce. British airforce has always beaten the U.S.A in simulated dogfights.

Cynosure said:
Unless you're the british airforce. British airforce has always beaten the U.S.A in simulated dogfights.

Now I'm not calling you wrong, but could you post a link to an article about that? It seems like an interesting read.

Daemonette said:
Now I'm not calling you wrong, but could you post a link to an article about that? It seems like an interesting read.

It wasn't so much of an article as a collection of data, it's quite a boring read actually cause it just mentions names and scores from different points in time and details about two accidents that happened.

I will attempt to locate the link, I'll comment here again if I find it. It's probably saved on my old mac, and its hard drive is fucked so Idk.

slops said:
What do you base that logic on? Are rainbows some how cued to telepathic emanations of non-hostility or something?

DO NOT DOUBT THE RAINBOW!

THAT WOULD NEVER FLY!

CosmicLife said:
THAT WOULD NEVER FLY!

Anything can fly if it has wings and can generate lift.

Cold_Bat said:
Anything can fly if it has wings and can generate lift.

the larger an object becomes the amount of surface area and strength of the material needed increases exponentially. when you double2x the size of something the area it takes up is 8x times as much, triple it it's now 16x times as much and so forth.

so yes anything can fly if it has wings and can generate lift but then the wings on something like this would need to be literally 10 miles long and each flap would generate enough power to destroy mountains, but that would not happen anyway because that much energy would rip the creature apart or make it combust out of the energy it outputting. unless dragons are made of some sort of substance like areogel. wouldn't that be cool?

but I mean its just fantasy suspension of disbelief and all that.