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An F-15 with Phoenix missiles?
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Sep 2, 2018 05:40
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well that'll never work, it's upside down!
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Radar cross section trainer. Huh, I didn't know that was how they did that.
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...because I was inverted
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ded posted:An F-15 with Phoenix missiles? The brown/white missile up front is an AIM-4 Falcon...I never knew they were mounted on F-15s. The dark-bodied missile is the AIM-7 Sparrow. I don't know what the white w/dark nose is, I'm guessing some kind of ECM pod but I can't see enough of it to figure it out. That's a weird setup...it looks like an F-15A with conformal compartments?
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Sep 2, 2018 16:48
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Godholio posted:The brown/white missile up front is an AIM-4 Falcon...I never knew they were mounted on F-15s. The dark-bodied missile is the AIM-7 Sparrow. I don't know what the white w/dark nose is, I'm guessing some kind of ECM pod but I can't see enough of it to figure it out. I don’t know what they are, but I’m pretty sure those outboard missiles are NOT Falcons. Falcons have a detached trailing fin and much smaller forefins than that. They’re twigging my memory hard, but I can’t find a cross reference.
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Sep 2, 2018 17:16
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Here's another angle, if it'll help anyone:
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Sep 2, 2018 17:38
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Found it. GBU-15
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Sep 2, 2018 17:44
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I wonder why they're not presenting the turbine fan blades in the engine nacelles? I thought those were a pretty important part of RCS?
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Sep 2, 2018 19:59
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Force de Fappe posted:I wonder why they're not presenting the turbine fan blades in the engine nacelles? I thought those were a pretty important part of RCS? I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion.
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MrYenko posted:I don’t know what they are, but I’m pretty sure those outboard missiles are NOT Falcons. Falcons have a detached trailing fin and much smaller forefins than that. They’re twigging my memory hard, but I can’t find a cross reference. I think you're right, not a Falcon. It does look familiar though. MrYenko posted:Found it. Yarp. Good find. mlmp08 posted:I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion. They have many facilities. That one is probably used for the weird angles that are tough to replicate elsewhere. Godholio fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 2, 2018 |
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Sep 2, 2018 20:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyY2Q37sYQ
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literally slavic top gun
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Sep 3, 2018 01:57
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Slavic?
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EBB posted:slavic 
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Swedoslovakia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY War Aesthetics did an F-14 video. I am a huge sucker for the F-14. Please show me other F-14 videos.
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mlmp08 posted:I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion. As mlmp08 alluded to the thing about the fan blades that causes them to have a “high RCS” is not their geometry really, it’s their Doppler returns. The fact that it is moving at a rate characteristic of its engine and it is ducted back toward the source makes it such an important reflector. Really the RCS head on of a fighter with a straight tail is probably smaller than the side profile, but the Doppler shift will give it away. While I’m sure they do engine on measurements, I would guess that they’re done in flight test or from limited angles versus a static mock up. You will know the gain from your Doppler shift versus frequency based on intrinsic properties of a radar system. Stimson’s intro to airborne radar is a good text for this.
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Elendil004 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY You've already seen this, but it's the best: https://youtu.be/QCmEFrWDAUY
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Elendil004 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY https://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E
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We would occasionally see fighter jets take off/land when I was working air-medical in El Paso. Dudes were always inverted.......
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EBB posted:literally slavic top gun That ain't no slavs, son. I wonder how much of an increased risk of a bird strike there is when you skim the treetops like that.
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Sep 3, 2018 17:33
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If you go fast enough, they don't spook until after you're past.
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Sep 3, 2018 17:34
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Sexual Lorax posted:You've already seen this, but it's the best: Every time I hear Baba O'Reilly I think of this. Elendil004 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY This guys whole channel owns.
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Sep 24, 2018 19:00
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Pperfectly normal reaction to being woken up by the #1 cannonerr pylling the lanyard and not everyone yelling Fire Mission! at the start of a mission.
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Steezo posted:Pperfectly normal reaction to being woken up by the #1 cannonerr pylling the lanyard and not everyone yelling Fire Mission! at the start of a mission. Aaand that's 10% Disability... hope he had earpro in...
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That's awesome, backstory?
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The addition of triangular sonar reflective plating to submarines during the Cold War was a major advantageous development for the fleet, in some uses making them completely invisible to enemy detection. Interestingly enough, the same research into acute-angle reflectation would be later used to spur the designs of many of the stealth fighter jets in production today.
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DoktorLoken posted:That's awesome, backstory? It really is quite something
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Blind Rasputin posted:the same research into acute-angle reflectation would be later used to spur the designs of many of the stealth fighter jets in production today. Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth
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CarForumPoster posted:Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth I think it was a joke
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CarForumPoster posted:Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth loving lol
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Awwww, I was hoping for an Akula.
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