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I think that's an easier problem to solve than figuring out how to fit two VW Beetles into a space barely large enough for one. A system to allow a degree or two of slewing, paired to a laser/EOIR/radar rangefinder doesn't seem too outrageous. Edit: YEAH!
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FunOne posted:Couldnt you put the ammo drums in tbe nacelles and just have the belt feed into the center dual guns? Everything about the system is fairly huge...I feel like that would introduce more possible points of failure. If we were seriously designing this thing it'd be worth looking at though.  That top one is what comes out of the M61 in every other tactical jet the USAF uses except the F-35. 
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Mar 14, 2020 20:53
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Craptacular posted:The only problem is the A-20 designation is already taken. We can reuse that, it's pre-1962.
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FunOne posted:Not seeing anything in the north east, but vegas is sunny, calm, and at a 4+ hr inbound hold for OTHER/OTHER. Apparently the tower is/was down for some reason. Edit:  Next page!
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hobbesmaster posted:They only had a huge pile of cash because they mortgaged absolutely everything they had just before poo poo hit the fan. They also didn't take any TARP money; they took other loans because the banks weren't offering anything.
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Minto Took posted:Yeah, I've been on enough airline flights where a few times the landing pilot fucks up the flare. On the E-3 there are five seats in the cockpit. If you don't have enough flight crew, one of the mission crew will get Seat 5 for takeoff, landing, and refueling, to have an extra set of eyes/let you have a look outside the airplane for once. One brilliant controller thought she knew what was going on better than the pilot during landing, and felt like the descent was not going well and yelled "FLARE!" That triggered a go-around and she never sat Seat 5 again. Godholio fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Mar 24, 2020 04:14
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Oh yeah. Even in the weapons flight people were like "What the gently caress."
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slidebite posted:Hey, maybe she had a concern? I don't think she got a callsign out of that, but I'm not entire sure at this point.
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Mar 24, 2020 19:03
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(part of) The back fell off. 
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Mar 28, 2020 20:25
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Platystemon posted:The Yankee escape system seems like a great way to gently caress up your back. That's true for ejection in general.
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Mar 29, 2020 17:21
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priznat posted:The trouble is maybe one out of x times it doesn’t come up smoothly and then things get hosed up, schedule wise. And here we are.
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Apr 4, 2020 03:26
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meltie posted:2020: "I have decided to eliminate Boeing from further award consideration." -- NASA's chief of human spaceflight I'm really glad I scrolled down before posting that.
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Potato Salad posted:Can this become a discussion about aerial refueling and reloading of heavy bombers by smaller, short-range carrier aircraft that attach like parasites? Lots of reasons. You're gonna send a bomber and crew over the target, bring them part of the way back, reload them in the air, and send them right back in? First off, that's hosed up and the crews won't appreciate it. Second, that's probably a stupid-long mission duration and you're bumping hard against human endurance. Probably aircraft reliability, too. Basically, you're trying to use a plane to bomb the inside of another plane, but not have the bombs go off the first time. Only the second time. This seems questionable. From a technical standpoint, I'm not sure how plausible it would be anyway. You're going to drop what, a 4-pack of 500 lb bombs into a B-17? So that's 2000 lbs of bombs SLAMMING into place. First off, hot drat that's gonna be a structural challenge to build an airframe to survive the impact. Second, it has to not explode...sure, safeties will probably work most of the time. If they don't, that's at least two planes and crews you just lost. Third, it has to not jam after that. Next point: you're going to have to build a nearly B-17 sized aircraft to carry a B-17's bomb load to reload that B-17. And train a crew. And you're going to need a plane and crew FOR EVERY bomber you've got out there. If you can do that, you're much better off just building more B-17s and sending them downrange on more missions, or in greater numbers per mission to improve the odds of hitting the target. If you're sending 250 bombers downtown, then bringing them 2/3 of the way home, rendezvousing with 250 MORE planes to reload the bombers, then turning back for a second run at the target or to another target, you've drastically increased the complexity of the mission and your logistics. It would be far easier and more practical to just send 500 bombers downtown at once, or 250 now and 250 a few hours later.
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Is this relevant yet?
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bloops posted:real quick what's that book about the US Air Force operating russian aircraft out of Nevada called again? Red Eagles. EFB, but this has reminded me to order a copy. There's one in the F-15 squadron here that I see all the time, but I never have my phone handy to do this.
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Apr 16, 2020 03:52
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Xenoborg posted:Anyone know the background on where these names come from? They sound like random garbage meant to mean nothing, but then they go and use the same words over and over like they do mean something. Like if I hear "Have <blank>", I immediately think, oh thats a USAF black project. It's all of the above, basically. Sometimes they mean things, sometimes they're completely random, sometimes a term is intentionally used because it usually means a thing but in this case it's a misdirection.
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Sagebrush posted:for unlimited bomber range without all those pesky nuclear radiation problems why don't we just use a microwave solar system where a giant satellite beams power to the airplane continuously  Edit: yikes huge
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The current U-2s were all built in the 80s. These aren't your grandpa's U-2s. And yeah they fly regularly. Those pilots have training requirements just like everyone else. They'll do a big loop hitting waypoints, and loitering near ranges like Nellis, Fallon, etc, to get some mission training and/or integration with other platforms, then go home.
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Apr 29, 2020 07:26
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bloops posted:You talking about MARSA (military aircraft assumes responsibility for separate of aircraft)? We called that for A/R ops. There's MARSA and there's also like wartime type responses where the military will just switch that civilian poo poo off. For those not following, MARSA=military assumes responsibility for separation of aircraft. Basically more than one formation is going to be operating in the same area (a refueling track, a MOA, or potentially an undefined area but I've never seen that) and are accepting that ATC won't be monitoring or providing any safety information. It's a standard thing used every day. Edit: That flak video is loving awesome. Godholio fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/gaiptg/an_antitank_missile_launched_from_m2a2_bradley/ This has an AF officer. Close enough. Also a true story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
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Curious to see how the routine changes. They're gaining quite a bit of power, but losing maneuverability. Edit; V 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Looks like Kiel is right between the Minnow MOA over Lake Michigan and the Volk MOA to the west, so it's probably an ideal spot for a tanker track. Are there any Navy/Marine fighter units in the area? Omega is probe & drogue only, so they're not working with Volk Field fighters. Edit: There are several tanker tracks in that area, mostly east-west (and all of them quite long, 50+nm), with a couple of shorter north-south tracks over Michigan proper. Godholio fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 12, 2020 |
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bloops posted:God an unmolested 707 is a gorgeous aircraft. Honestly I would rank it up there with a Spitfire and a Mustang in terms of sheer visual appeal. It's what an airliner is supposed to look like. Edit: This is one of the first two E-3s. 71-1407 and 1408 were the testbeds. Originally equipped with competing radars, this jet carried the winning AN/APY-1. I'm not sure which jet was actually delivered first, I think it might've been 1408 based on some old-timers talking about it. They were modified undelivered airliners, the rest of the E-3 run was purpose-built AWACS jets. 
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bloops posted:I flew both. They were terrific jets. The new build 80s models weren’t amazing. 1407 was my favorite.  0009 was a steaming pile, and the last one off the line for the USAF.
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mlmp08 posted:The military has a lot of medical and logistical capability. It’s not just a uniform block of weapons and shooters. (And a shooter can work a thermometer and carry supplies and do some data entry etc) You know EXACTLY where they're putting that thermometer the instant the boss is out of the room.
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Generation Internet posted:Today I learned that the Tutor doesn't have a zero zero ejection seat, gently caress My guess has been they were trying to get enough altitude to safely punch out, the left wing stalled, pilot managed to finish the roll and get them upright before getting out...just not enough altitude at that point. Edit: MrChips posted:They are zero-altitude, low-speed seats; 90 knots is the minimum speed needed for ground ejection. Well maybe not, I guess.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Well Jerry is still flying. There's only one way Jerry stops flying.
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bloops posted:I’ve had about 3-4 TCAS alerts crossing east over the Knik Arm to Elmendorf AFB. I don't know how many HATRs we had in the desert. I do know that not a single one of them stuck because every C-17 pilot in Afghanistan apparently figured our directions were suggestions and hey fucknuts it's all recorded. Drones had the reputation for getting the barely-competent new pilots, but I'm convinced that in the mid 2000s it was actually C-17. gently caress like 75% of them right in the eye.
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May 21, 2020 21:00
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LibCrusher posted:If I had a dollar every time I saw a hunter or a shadow rapidly filling my windscreen because they were in the wrong loving pie slice and not talking to anyone... That's true, they're amazing at loving up a CAS stack for sure. It's gotta be an entire phase of training.
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May 21, 2020 22:20
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BIG HEADLINE posted:E-6s have been pretty active over these past two days: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae041c They move regularly, and we're heading into a holiday weekend. Lot of bases will probably have reduced manning for maintenance and support for a newly-arriving jet and crew.
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Wait the gear collapsed on the takeoff roll (or after touchdown, same incredulity) and they got it off the ground?
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This poo poo still happens. We had an F-15E fly right into the loving ground practicing strafing about ten years ago. That was one of only two times I've watched JPRC kick off for real (the other was Bergdahl).
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I've never heard that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5Dxizy4ZE
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Ok, weird question: Was a course like that intended to make navigation easier, or was the more efficient curved course (I have no idea what it's called) not yet discovered/recognized?
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Midjack posted:Big strong daddy president likes Russia and doesn’t like China as much so I give the edge to Moscow in getting past CFIUS. A new hotel construction permit in soon-to-be cleared land in Hong Kong could change that.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Hon Solo  I didn't even realize Bugatti was VW-owned, much less that they're built in France. It's Alsace though, so if the Germans really want to take over production they have a couple of historical options.
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Goddamn I love these guys.
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I bought a similar shirt and I wear it.
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Midjack posted:I feel like a lot of Yellow Peril agitprop commits the mistake of extending the piracy trends seen in consumer goods to all aspects of indigenous industry in China. It's not that gross of a mistake, given the almost routine nature of defense hacks over the past 20 years. Yes the "whole cloth" argument is nonsense, but the notion that it should just be ignored or accepted as fine that China does beg/borrow/steal western military technology for the purpose of countering western militaries is probably even dumber. "Everyone else does it" is not a reasonable ending to the conversation.
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