Now, add the NASA ACTIVE engine system for thrust vectoring and you have the perfect 2nd war week air superiority fighter with the F-22 as the 1st war week system.
1 posted on
03/17/2009 1:43:19 PM PDT by
Freeport
To: Freeport
Isn’t 0bama cutting out the F-22?
2 posted on
03/17/2009 1:44:55 PM PDT by
unkus
To: Freeport
Ya
But Obama wants to pay illegals to build bridges to no where.
Obama does not want to spend money on military aircraft manufacturing.
3 posted on
03/17/2009 1:45:37 PM PDT by
Kansas58
To: Freeport
” with fifth-generation features”
Including an iPod dock!
To: Freeport
A picture of the NASA ACTIVE thrust vectoring system no thrust ground test:
5 posted on
03/17/2009 1:48:35 PM PDT by
Freeport
(The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
To: Freeport
After all these years the F-15 is still a thing of beauty IMHO
Have to admit though, this thing is not so bad looking itself...
7 posted on
03/17/2009 1:52:05 PM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Freeport
Weird, seeing an F-15 with angled vertical stabilizers. Helps with stealth, I imagine.
8 posted on
03/17/2009 1:52:13 PM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Freeport
"...plus featuring a distinctive V-tail...."
Been there, done that.
9 posted on
03/17/2009 1:53:36 PM PDT by
NCC-1701
(DRILL NOW. DRILL OFTEN. DRILL 24/7/365. PAY LESS. SUCK THE GROUND DRY.)
To: Freeport
Maybe they can teach an "Old Dog" new tricks?
12 posted on
03/17/2009 1:55:22 PM PDT by
Eye of Unk
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
To: Freeport
Ex-AF hubby will slobber over this.
Thanks for posting it!
14 posted on
03/17/2009 1:55:34 PM PDT by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
To: Freeport
Pretty... They made it look like a stretch limo version of an F/A-18.
17 posted on
03/17/2009 1:57:56 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
To: Freeport
Even if it really “Fifth geberation”
What would it require in RDT&E $$?
Is it ready for production, or is it a one-off prototype?
How much has it been tested in realistic operational conditions?
TC
To: Freeport
Since ZERO is bent on wasting the investment to date in the F-22
and since our pilots are flying F-15s that have been used harder and longer than intended
and since our pilots sometimes worry more about the integrity of their aircraft than the enemy
forget export and let’s build them for US.
Oh, I forgot...no money for things we really need...just for glory roads, bailouts of millionaires, trinkets for the natives and PORK for POLITICIANS...AND CUTTING MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR TROOPS INJURED IN BATTLE!!!!
34 posted on
03/17/2009 2:17:07 PM PDT by
Sequoyah101
(Get the bats and light the hay)
To: Freeport
If this is a modified Mud Hen, then it is basically a bomber.
44 posted on
03/17/2009 3:15:00 PM PDT by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Aeronaut
Pinging you to something sweet.
49 posted on
03/17/2009 3:49:45 PM PDT by
Miss Behave
(When seconds count, the cops take minutes.)
To: Freeport
General Moseley should have started looking at the F-15SE option a few years ago when it became apparent the F-22 was just too expensive. But, he had myopia for one weapons system only (the F-22) and proposed cutting 40,000 Air Force Airmen to "pay" for it.
It really was a stupid decision, and when the nuke report came out, it was all over except for the headlines.
65 posted on
04/18/2009 4:25:42 AM PDT by
SkyPilot
To: Freeport
71 posted on
04/18/2009 6:29:51 AM PDT by
genetic homophobe
("I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles..." defend that)
To: Freeport
F-15 is still a freeping beast and a beauty.
78 posted on
04/18/2009 11:01:58 AM PDT by
Frantzie
(Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
To: Jet Jaguar; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
82 posted on
04/18/2009 6:32:18 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Freeport
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83 posted on
04/19/2009 2:39:43 AM PDT by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
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