Of course anything is possible. The IMpossible just takes longer.
Posted on 05/24/2008 5:52:21 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
The EF-111 was still a better airframe for EA. Pity the USAF was stupid enough not to care - I doubt stealth will save us all!
Good to see the Navy is smart enough to do EA - just wish they had an airframe that had better legs. Still, an EF-111 landing on a boat would be frightening to all.
Bttt...
“The Growler gives security to the aviators — the A-6 and the EA-6B are not go-fast airplanes,” he said. “Now you’ve got the added benefit of speed, you’re not over your target as long and have more energy to dodge missiles.”
Webster and MacDowell fail to note that a clean Super Hornet; no tanks and no pods, can't break Mach 1 under 10,000 feet.
I never heard that, and consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about aviation...is that true????
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The aircraft with the worst noise to speed ratio in history.
EW ping
This island must be a world unto itself if the locals are cheering instead of demonstrating in the streets.
This is Washington State, after all. Sigh...
I believe the pods are limited to subsonic flight anyways...
And dumping the pods would cost a pretty penny.
However, an EF-111 would hit at least 1.35M on the deck, and still have acceleration left. Not much gas, but acceleration!
Oh well, I’ll be on terminal leave in a few months, and all the EFs are in the boneyard.
It would be nice if somewhere in the article they could say which state Whidbey Island was part of.
But the airplane looks cool anyway.
Whidbey Island, along with most of Washington State, is conservative.
Seattle, with all the votes you need for statewide office, is about as far left as San Francisco.
For shipboard EW’s this is probably like switching from an AN/WLR-1C to an AN/SLQ-32.
The “Whirly” is very operator intensive which teaches the operator to understand signal analysis and rapid evaluation. The “Slick” is very automated for Anti-Ship Missile Defense.
Fun, fun, fun.
Of course anything is possible. The IMpossible just takes longer.
So what’s the deal with that?
Is it aerodynamics, engines, or both?
The F-111 was actually a joint project that was supposed to result in a Navy fighter. F-111s did launch and recover from CVs in tests.
The Navy bailed on the project and developed the F-14 instead.
No sweat. You hook the C-17 up to BOTH bow catapults, shoot, then the carrier makes a hard turn to starboard in case she can’t get airborne.
CV, singular not plural. The Coral Sea.
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