Those guys at DARPA get all the cool toys.
1 posted on
06/25/2006 1:45:44 PM PDT by
Gideon7
To: Gideon7
To: Gideon7
DARPA is one part of the federal budget that I don't begrudge. Paying a bunch of geniuses to sit around and think smart stuff. DARPANET ROCKS!
/johnny
3 posted on
06/25/2006 1:51:52 PM PDT by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mmit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: Gideon7
Like this:
4 posted on
06/25/2006 1:53:06 PM PDT by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: Gideon7
Wonder how they are coming on "Loki"?
Loki, a manned, underwater craft analogous to a modern fighter aircraft.They say it has a "Vortex generator"?? The budget is quite impressive too. Should be well along the timeline by now.
5 posted on
06/25/2006 1:54:47 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Gideon7
Compliments of
Luftwaffe '46
ME P.1109: This project number is not entirely certain, as the original document is damaged and barely readable. This was a further development of Dr. Vogt's work on the BV P.202 dated July 15, 1944, and was similar in that the sweep of the wings could be varied to improve low-speed flight characteristics. There were two variable-sweep wings, one above and one below the fuselage. Two He S 011 turbojets were mounted in nacelles and were located on each side of the fuselage. Apparently, this design was the subject of some further development after the war, according to some sketches discovered in France, but it is not known whether this was done by Messerschmitt or some other firm.
And this is not the only one from the Nazi's aviation braintrust that features variable wings...
6 posted on
06/25/2006 2:03:10 PM PDT by
Bender2
(Gad! The inmates have control... And I'm trying to quit smoking!)
To: Gideon7
They should just mount a big spring on the back of the wing where it attaches to the body of the plane with a hinge. As the plane speeds up, the wing folds back. Jeesh. Simple.
7 posted on
06/25/2006 2:07:24 PM PDT by
DC Bound
To: Gideon7
Actually, it looks like this:
To: Gideon7
12 posted on
06/25/2006 2:20:30 PM PDT by
Bratch
To: Gideon7
This stuff is so high tech and cool you'd think someday we may even be able to put the kabosh on 5th century ragheads putting bombs in cars.
Geesh.
13 posted on
06/25/2006 2:24:04 PM PDT by
zarf
(It's not a question.....)
To: Gideon7
switch blade or swing blade, ummm hmmmm?.
you got any napalm on them 'taters ?
17 posted on
06/25/2006 3:02:12 PM PDT by
llevrok
(The next "greatest generation" is now.)
To: Gideon7
Nothing will replace ground troops...see,
that's why we are still in Iraq. We took out saddam and baghdad with smart bombs years ago...
our ground troops are still there. Use all the technology anyone wants to use for winning any war...
and you still need groundtroops.Unless some nutcase unleashes nuclear weapons, which I highly doubt will happen since I believe "nukular weapons" are still a scare tactic used by the powers that be, groundtroops have always won the battles.
JMHO
FMCDH(BITS)
18 posted on
06/25/2006 3:10:57 PM PDT by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Gideon7
Pentagon developing supersonic shape-shifting assassin
Mystique?
30 posted on
06/25/2006 4:49:59 PM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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