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You can run, but you can’t hide (Navy’s IRST system successfully completes first flight)
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| Feb 18, 2014
Posted on 02/18/2014 9:08:08 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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The crew of the F/A-18 Super Hornet carrying the Navys Infrared Search and Track (IRST), a long-wave infrared sensor system that searches for and detects heat sources within its field of regard, inspects the aircraft Feb. 11 before the maiden flight with the pod at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)
To: sukhoi-30mki
>> field of regard
What does that mean?
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posted on
02/18/2014 9:10:08 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
How long before Obama gives this technology to the Chinese, just to keep the field even?
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posted on
02/18/2014 9:12:34 PM PST
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doc1019
To: doc1019
The Chinese have been using Russian IRST systems for about 20 years now. Those are inferior to the new ones on the Super Hornet, but its not alien technology to them.
To: Gene Eric
proprietrary, you’d need an NDA to find out.
To: Gene Eric
From "allexperts" website.
- Field of regard: the area covered for the detector of the system when pointing to all mechanically posible positions.
It's field of view, and then some.
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posted on
02/18/2014 9:31:01 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: Gene Eric
Field of view is how much the sensor can see at one time without moving. Field of regard is when you combine the mechanical movement of the sensor with the field of view.
For example, the current generation of night vision goggle has a forty degree field of view, how much you see without moving your head. The field of regard is how much you can see limited by the field of you, plus how far you can move your head.
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posted on
02/18/2014 9:43:12 PM PST
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USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: USNBandit; Seaplaner
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posted on
02/18/2014 9:50:47 PM PST
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Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: doc1019
They already have it (the new IRST). My $$.
To: Gene Eric
You’re paying for it. I don’t mind explaining the unclassified portions of it.
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posted on
02/18/2014 10:29:21 PM PST
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USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: USNBandit
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posted on
02/18/2014 10:40:39 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: andyk
A “nice to have” weapon ONLY if odumbo will allow its use. Reminds me of our troops that can’t shoot real bullets, have weapons but no ammo and lastly, cannot fire unless fired upon. Such order definitely tie the hands of our brave and noble fighters.
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posted on
02/19/2014 4:33:30 AM PST
by
DaveA37
To: doc1019
How long before Obama gives this technology to the Chinese In today's America, we can't be sure we didn't get the technology from China.
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posted on
02/19/2014 5:31:21 AM PST
by
MosesKnows
(Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I wonder how well it can “see” the F-22?
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posted on
02/19/2014 5:35:58 AM PST
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
The F-14A+ and the F-14D had operational IRST systems installed years ago. And it was much smaller than the pod in that photo.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:02:49 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(If a libtards lips are moving...)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:23:30 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: sukhoi-30mki
So that’s why there’s a whole gaggle of ‘em parked on the ramp here...pretty cool stuff.
I imagine that this will get refined to a smaller package, ‘cause man, that thing is huge.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:26:16 AM PST
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: CPOSharky; SZonian
This is essentially an ad-hoc solution to existing Super Hornets with the IRST mounted on the centreline fuel tank.
The newer advanced super hornet variants are being offered with an integrated solution
To: sukhoi-30mki
Man, that’d be one expensive centerline tank to punch during a bad cat shot.
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posted on
02/19/2014 7:30:45 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: PapaBear3625
When the F-22 is supercruising at mach 1+ with its leading edges heated up, and at 65,000+ feet against a cold background sky, IR can see the F-22 very well indeed.
Good thing that Russian fighters don't carry IRST pods, and even if they do it's a good thing it's on the underside of the aircraft were it can't look up. Oh wait...
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posted on
02/19/2014 7:38:25 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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