Posted on 06/10/2021 1:47:51 PM PDT by Mariner
The U.S. Air Force's (USAF) bomber program, designed to field a replacement for the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit by the late 2020s, is on track. That's a rarity in the world of military hardware procurement. Still, Congress is calling on the service to accelerate the program; USAF isn't budging.
"Once we get through design and get the first ones delivered, we can adjust production rates and maybe affect them that way, but we have to get through the engineering with solid discipline," Air Force acting acquisition executive Darlene Costello said during a House Armed Services panel on June 8.
One major reason the Air Force doesn't want to speed up the B-21 program is that, while the bombers are almost mechanically complete, the service has not yet solidified the overall design for the larger fleet. The service is concerned that speeding things up could introduce concurrency issues.
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Article says that the B-52H will fly into the 2040’s and maybe into the 2050’s. By then, the BUFF will be as ancient as the today’s DC-3’s that are still flying.
Now there is a term I havent heard before...spread spectrum like GPS, yes...but spread spectrum radar...hmmm... Did you misspeak or are we flying such radar now?
Look what they did with the new tanker, they regressed from the KC-135 to the KC-46. :-)
Are they going to use them to protect our borders?
Autocorrect changed ‘radio’ to ‘radar’ and I didn’t catch it. Though technically Doppler radar is spread spectrum and there are examples of that flying in every US airliner.
What happened to B3 through B20?
We sold them as junk to the UFO aliens.
BB is the term for a battleship
The problem is the enemies are behind the wire.
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Not just behind the wire, they’re occupying positions of power and influence within this country.
Remember..
2 and 2.....
B4
Are they going to use them to protect our borders?
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Maybe the borders of other countries, but not ours.
You can buy over the counter consumer gear today that can lock on to, then give strength and bearing of, a radio signal in the sub-10 millisecond range. It’s called a modern speed enforcement radar detector. Try again.
“What happened to B3 through B20?”
Those are now the names of various craters in the Mojave Desert.
Spread spectrum anything isn’t stealth against modern gear. It’s only stealthy against someone who has narrow band gear. Against a wide spectrum receiver/sensor, it’s clearly visible/detectable that you’re transmitting *something*.
Put it to you this way. There are consumer toys *today* that home on spread spectrum signals for their ‘return home’ or ‘follow me’ functionality.
Yep. Might as well put the red Chinese star on these birds.
“I was wondering if we had stealth radar now? “
LPI (low probability intercept) radar has been around and likely used on the B2 for a few decades.
“strength and bearing “
Not bearing in a 360deg envelope.
That’s bullshit.
All modern AESA radars are considered "Low Probability of Intercept" (LPI) radar.
One of their characteristics to help in avoiding detection is using an ultra-wideband TX-RX and frequency hopping within that wide band, changing frequency every pulse.
In essence a form of Spread Spectrum radar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-probability-of-intercept_radar
The regression was from the KC-135 to the KC-10. ;)
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