Northrop F-23 Black Widow II
Posted on 04/16/2018 8:57:33 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Looks like a swing wing.
If Japan had not had their Constitution re-written to be pacifist by us after WW II do you think they would have been “China” during the 80’s and early 90’s at the height of their financial might?
Would they have filled the Asian power vacuum and perhaps gone expansionist like the Chinese are going to do eventually?
Extrapolated copy of the F23... which I always thought should be a replacement for the F111 and better for bombing than the F35
In the future, instead of trying to track a plane with radar, we shall have to track the condensed air trail or the air pressure envelope.
Hate to say it, but that is a mean looking plane. I hope we are never on the business end of it.
If the shtf, I wonder how much fuel reserves the Chinese have?
Looks like a swing wing...without the hinges.
Looks like a low-poly cgi render, complete with artist’s signature in the upper right.
They’ve got to be in there somewhere otherwise it won’t be able to fly supersonic?
A stealth bomber is of little importance unless used against an adversary of great anti aircraft ability with most very sophisticated radar.
One must note that in the attack on Syria we also used the B1 bomber along with seaborne cruise missiles. Syria does have a very good air defense system from the Russians. The B1 which is not stealth launched their missiles far out of range of this very good air defense system. They hit their targets and went home and had a beer.
In a real nuclear exchange it will be missiles and most will get to target, theirs and ours. Hell, the B52 bomb truck would launch cruise missiles over the arctic in a a nuclear exchange with Russia. The vast majority of those cruise missiles would reach target. The B52 has a radar signature like a barn door. It would launch its cruise missiles far away and its radar signature would be of no importance.
That has always been my problem with this technology. Don’t you just develop different sensors and then the plane shows up like a big radar blip again?
Stealthy? Lol.
Wings not swept enough for efficient supercruise. With enough thrust it would go fast, but not that fast. It would be a fuel burner.
Exactly.
We have a 3 year old Boxer that’s Deaf and has been using almost the very same to know when the refrigerator door is opened but in reverse order, Pressure Wave 1st and Flavor Trail 2nd. She can do it from any room in the house.🐾🐶
No.
Unless you read Popular mechaniz..
Northrop F-23 Black Widow II
I wonder how devastating loss of a single dam would be to their country.
Perhaps we could convince"Little Fat Boy" to reselect his intended target towards China. Would be a lot more territory than a flood or two.
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