Air Force Could Test "Flying Aircraft Carriers" as Early as Next Year

NASDAQ via Motley Fool ^ | 1 Jan 2018 | Rich Smithl

[shove_it]

ANCHORS AWAY - USAF BATTLE SHIP???

[shove_it]

errr, make that USAF AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

[Doogle]

......deplore em on the southern border

[gundog]

Aweigh. But what do I know? I was ‘t in the Navy.

[Bobalu]

[jdsteel]

Awesome. Making bad guys go boom with better technology and less loss of American lives.

[Doogle]

Deplore=deploy

[BroJoeK]

Exactly my first thought!

;-)

[Billyv]

Once again “The Herk” to the rescue! MAGA!

[shove_it]

By “AWAY” I meant bye bye USN Aircraft Carriers.

[Cen-Tejas]

I think DARPA is a good thing. But, the Air Force track record on the B2 is on my mind. At around 2 Billion each and only 18 of them still even close to operational (we never really know) I just think this flying aircraft carrier is non sense and the money could be spent better elsewhere.

[Teflonic]

Protoss carriers!

[Yo-Yo]

The Air Force tried flying a Goblin once. Just once.

[Olog-hai]

Sounds like they’re reading too many comic books and manga.

[Chainmail]

Not a bad idea at all but as usual they attach a ridiculous name to the project.

The future of combat will be unmanned and standoff weapons, autonomous and remotely piloted.

I don’t trust DARPA much though: huge budget, scatterbrained scientists with zero military experience, and not a great track record of useful products.

[E.Allen]

I think Gremlins or Goblins was the name for the small fighters that were carried, deployed from, and recovered by US navy dirigibles before WWII. The dirigible was in effect a flying aircraft carrier.

Was an interesting program, very advanced for it’s time.

[camle]

the navy used to launch and retrieve aircraft from derrigibles

[rbg81]

Imagine the crater that thing would make if it lost power.

[camle]

see ‘sky captain and the world or tomorrow” the brits got there first

[Road Warrior ‘04]

AVENGERS, coming to fruition!!!!!