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To: sukhoi-30mki
IRST, the Super Hornet’s Future ‘EO Radar’ Cleared for Development

This reminds me of the first (to my knowledge) U.S. application of the "let's-put-a-humongous-radar-on-a-fighter" concept, which was the WWII Northrop P-61 Black Widow Nightfighter.


4 posted on 07/22/2011 12:06:32 AM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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I like that - that’s pretty.

But I’ve been partial to black painted aircraft. I liked the F-117, and I really loved the SR-71 and the idea of the YF-12.


9 posted on 07/22/2011 12:12:21 PM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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