Why do air combats according to Hollywood never get past the WWII?
Whenever there is a portrayal of some futuristic or sci-fi aerial combat, you will see most likely either smaller "fighters" shooting "guns" at each other or at larger "bombers", which is 100% guaranteed to be bristling with "gimbaled gun turrets". Anyone with so much as a dabbling familiarity with aviation history can call from a mile this is a WWII European theater aerial combat between the Allied and Axis fighters and the Axis fighters against Allied strategic bombers in fancier dressings. The "fighters" are nothing more than a poorly reimagined P-51 or Fw 190, and the "bombers" B-17 or B-29. (Case in point Star Wars) You would think air-to-air homing missiles or smart glide bombs would be so much interesting, but the strange thing is you almost never see sci-fi long-range precision-guided weapons in blockbusters. In fact, even sci-fi "nukes" (nukes are 100% WWII invention) are pretty rare. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War seem to writers as though never happened, and the WWII reigned their imagination forever. Why this is so?
P.S. In addition, there seem to be absolutely no portrayal of "radars" or any kind of detection and warning device in sci-fi blockbusters, and "combats" happened either as an encounter or an ambush, which is exactly like WWII.
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Whenever there is a portrayal of some futuristic or sci-fi aerial combat, you will see most likely either smaller "fighters" shooting "guns" at each other or at larger "bombers", which is 100% guaranteed to be bristling with "gimbaled gun turrets". Anyone with so much as a dabbling familiarity with aviation history can call from a mile this is a WWII European theater aerial combat between the Allied and Axis fighters and the Axis fighters against Allied strategic bombers in fancier dressings. The "fighters" are nothing more than a poorly reimagined P-51 or Fw 190, and the "bombers" B-17 or B-29. (Case in point Star Wars) You would think air-to-air homing missiles or smart glide bombs would be so much interesting, but the strange thing is you almost never see sci-fi long-range precision-guided weapons in blockbusters. In fact, even sci-fi "nukes" (nukes are 100% WWII invention) are pretty rare. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War seem to writers as though never happened, and the WWII reigned their imagination forever. Why this is so?
P.S. In addition, there seem to be absolutely no portrayal of "radars" or any kind of detection and warning device in sci-fi blockbusters, and "combats" happened either as an encounter or an ambush, which is exactly like WWII.
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Whenever there is a portrayal of some futuristic or sci-fi aerial combat, you will see most likely either smaller "fighters" shooting "guns" at each other or at larger "bombers", which is 100% guaranteed to be bristling with "gimbaled gun turrets". Anyone with so much as a dabbling familiarity with aviation history can call from a mile this is a WWII European theater aerial combat between the Allied and Axis fighters and the Axis fighters against Allied strategic bombers in fancier dressings. The "fighters" are nothing more than a poorly reimagined P-51 or Fw 190, and the "bombers" B-17 or B-29. (Case in point Star Wars) You would think air-to-air homing missiles or smart glide bombs would be so much interesting, but the strange thing is you almost never see sci-fi long-range precision-guided weapons in blockbusters. In fact, even sci-fi "nukes" (nukes are 100% WWII invention) are pretty rare. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War seem to writers as though never happened, and the WWII reigned their imagination forever. Why this is so?
P.S. In addition, there seem to be absolutely no portrayal of "radars" or any kind of detection and warning device in sci-fi blockbusters, and "combats" happened either as an encounter or an ambush, which is exactly like WWII.
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Whenever there is a portrayal of some futuristic or sci-fi aerial combat, you will see most likely either smaller "fighters" shooting "guns" at each other or at larger "bombers", which is 100% guaranteed to be bristling with "gimbaled gun turrets". Anyone with so much as a dabbling familiarity with aviation history can call from a mile this is a WWII European theater aerial combat between the Allied and Axis fighters and the Axis fighters against Allied strategic bombers in fancier dressings. The "fighters" are nothing more than a poorly reimagined P-51 or Fw 190, and the "bombers" B-17 or B-29. (Case in point Star Wars) You would think air-to-air homing missiles or smart glide bombs would be so much interesting, but the strange thing is you almost never see sci-fi long-range precision-guided weapons in blockbusters. In fact, even sci-fi "nukes" (nukes are 100% WWII invention) are pretty rare. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War seem to writers as though never happened, and the WWII reigned their imagination forever. Why this is so?
P.S. In addition, there seem to be absolutely no portrayal of "radars" or any kind of detection and warning device in sci-fi blockbusters, and "combats" happened either as an encounter or an ambush, which is exactly like WWII.
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