The crew of the F/A-18 Super Hornet carrying the Navy’s 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?
2 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?
3 posted on
02/18/2014 9:12:34 PM PST by
doc1019
To: sukhoi-30mki
I wonder how well it can “see” the F-22?
14 posted on
02/19/2014 5:35:58 AM PST by
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.
15 posted on
02/19/2014 6:02:49 AM PST by
CPOSharky
(If a libtards lips are moving...)
To: sukhoi-30mki
16 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.
17 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: sukhoi-30mki
Man, that’d be one expensive centerline tank to punch during a bad cat shot.
19 posted on
02/19/2014 7:30:45 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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