News The red star will stay

[SiberianTiger]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_RED_STARS?SITE=OKTUL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Dec 5, 8:21 AM EST
Red stars on Russian combat planes turn multicolor

MOSCOW (AP) -- After more than 90 years, the Russian stars will no longer be all red. They'll be red, white and blue.

The Kremlin-controlled lower house of parliament voted 389-2 Friday to replace Soviet-era red stars on military aircraft with ones bearing the three colors of the Russian national flag. The five-pointed red stars have adorned the planes since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Like this:

As to me, this sucks incredibly. :thumbsdown:

 

[Urwumpe]

As to me, this sucks incredibly. :thumbsdown:

A bit more colors, some plush around the cockpit... and you have a real nice girls combat aircraft.

Honestly - even the German army did not dare replacing the Iron cross by a tricolore. And we have lost more wars with it.

 

[C3PO]

As to me, this sucks incredibly. :thumbsdown:

Could be worse. At least it isn't a rainbow.

 

[razgriz31m]

oh now the soviet "looks" is gone

 

[Eagle]

What's the low visibility version look like? Just a hollow star? That' wouldn't be so bad.

 

[SiberianTiger]

What's the low visibility version look like? Just a hollow star? That' wouldn't be so bad.

AFAIK, we've got no low visibility insignia on aircrafts.

 

[JamesG]

That is pretty ghey.

 

[RisingFury]

Pink would have looked much better!:lol:

 

[eveningsky339]

398-2? Who were the 2?

 

[willy88]

 

[Andy44]

LOL Capt. America. I like his WWII-era old school leather holster for his M1911A1 pistol. Isn't he the only superhero to remain on active duty in the US Army? The US Army used to paint its tanks and jeeps olive drab green with a big white star on it.

A bit more colors, some plush around the cockpit... and you have a real nice girls combat aircraft.

Ouch!! Low blow, LOL!

I think Germany's iron cross remains the symbol voted "most feared by enemy tank crews" for over 60 years.

 

[MajorTom]

I think Germany's iron cross remains the symbol voted "most feared by enemy tank crews" for over 60 years.

Especially if you're driving a Sherman...

 

[Cairan]

I too find the old "all red" version of the star was much better looking.

"Keep it simple & stupid" is THE guiding principle for logos... But this 3-color star is just plain stupid and bad looking.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I too find the old "all red" version of the star was much better looking.

"Keep it simple & stupid" is THE guiding principle for logos... But this 3-color star is just plain stupid and bad looking.

Also, it had no big white parts, hence there was no need in a special low contrast version: red melds nicely with usual camouflage backgrounds in twilight. And in the contrary, any version of a roundel which can be made out the Russian tricolor would be a very contrasting target bulls-eye (or already picked by someone).

 

[SiberianTiger]

Now get used to the new look:

 

[Suzy]

That does suck... but at least it's still a star... Wonder whose idea it was to change it?

 

[SiberianTiger]

That does suck... but at least it's still a star... Wonder whose idea it was to change it?

Some anonymous brass' in the MOD.

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By the way, it's interesting that the Red star used to symbolize "Liberation of working people from famine, war, poverty and slavery" and was colloquially called "Mars Star" in the time following its inception as the emblem of the Red Army in 1918.

 

[Brad]

Now get used to the new look:

Isn't that an Apache?! Hummmmm Red star on an Apache....yea..that works. :lol:

 

[SiberianTiger]

Isn't that an Apache?! Hummmmm Red star on an Apache....yea..that works. :lol:

No, that's a Havoc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-28

 

[Brad]

It sure strikes me funny how close they both look alike.