Posted on 02/28/2013 12:59:19 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
I’d love it if Boeing won this one!
Thank you for an intelligent post. They are rare in the hyped up world of drones uber alles.
At 300+ knots a few seconds can feel like minutes. Imagine closing your eyes for two seconds while driving down the highway at 70 MPH (don’t try this, disclaimer. A lot can happen in those two seconds.
Those seconds can mean a lot to a drone if a missile is headed its way. A pilot sees in real time.
One problem - they are high maintenance jets and about a third of them are going to be deadlines for repairs or maintenance at any time.
Further, there is currently an unresolved issue with the oxygen systems on board the craft, so pilots are at risk and many won’t fly until that is fixed.
Next, many will have to be kept in reserve as replacements for ones that crash or are damaged - as no more will be made.
And the way the government is leaning, there won’t *be* any 35s to fill in.
Some of our allies wanted to buy F22s but we did not want the technology in their hands. The Japanese wanted them but when we said no they just developed their own.
It would have kept the manufacturing lines open for a lil bit and driven down the costs.
The F35 may end up like the 787. Too long to deliver and then plagued with serious design flaws.
Don't know where you're getting minutes unless you're including some kind of intensive modeling or other heavy-duty calculation in the communication lag. Heck, the signal could go to the moon and back in a few seconds.
T34 Calliope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T34_Calliope was not a Stalin anything.
F35 was always an international COOP thing rather than a valid asset.
It’s a scam.
Yep. Remote has to mean autonomous, or it’s meaningless. But when that becomes reality, look out...
I hope you are familiar with that term ~ in the last week I've discovered several young people who had no idea what the term referred to ~
There’’s a great deal of WWII armaments and terminology that’s more or less completely unknown today.
This one, for example, I knew well as a kid:
http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt09/railway-track-destroyer.html
It figured in a six-volume work on WWII which is now long out of print.
Wow, you learn something new everyday. I’m a big WW2 buff and never heard of this.
I think it came in the midst of something on bombing where the Allies actually tried to find these things and stop them. Remember, we didn't want ALL the rail ripped up ~ just the part that was useful to the Germans.
There's a pretty decent writeup in Wiki about the Stalin Organ but it scoots around the fact Americans were providing tank tracked chassis and transmissions ~ and even engines for the Russian rolling stock that served as armored mounts for those early mass rocket launchers ~ that rather identifies the article as Russian written and probably a fair rendition of what they were thinking back in the early 1940s ~ a real 'find' for Wiki. The writer at the time might have had no idea where the stuff came from. Spam was different ~ he'd have known Spam came from America.
Heh. The low-info voters don’t want history with facts. They want obamafones and marvel comics with black homosexual heroes ;).
I hope you are familiar with that term ~ in the last week I've discovered several young people who had no idea what the term referred to ~ The Katyushka was often called "Stalin's Organ"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher
F-35 V.S other fighters.
REMEMER A LONE AMATEUR built the ARK.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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