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Perhaps not yet, but how about these?
Posted on 09/14/2021 12:54:33 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
This thing would make a nice bomb. Just sayin’.
More importantly, can that drone bring beer and scotch back from a nearby port.
All joking aside, the next level of this capability is supply runs for needed parts and the ferrying of imdividual persons.
The civilian application is ferrying business persons to offsite locations where short/small aircraft runways are near.
Why? What's the point in that?
Doesn’t look real, does it? (Not saying it isn’t. Just doesn’t “feel” real. A kind of “uncanny valley” effect.) The drone has few shadows while fighter has many. The drone looks pristine and the fighter has weathering. The second picture in another post further down doesn’t feel so “uncanny.”
LOL, that looks like one of those old D-704s on the drone...:)
Sure. I have had the feeling this country is in 1936 again. A few more years, we will have it down to where we were before 1941 rolled around.
Of course, it is a race between us being in 1926 to 1929 too.
Will our enemies get to us first, or will we get to ourselves first?
Gutting the military is the first step either way.
All current V-22 versions can land or take off from land. I don’t understand your mention about a carrier.
A tanker version of a V-22 would likely not be practical because of the weight of the fuel. The aircraft would be very heavy and that would reduce forward air speed a lot.
Now, that’s making me feel old.
When I was on carrier (catapults), our CODs were WF aircraft (Willy Fudds), without the large radomes.
The idea came from how the British, during the Falklands war, augmented their limited carrier capabilities by basing Harriet jets and helicopters on cargo ships.
The dynamic moments in flight would argue against trying to fasten heavy objects to their shackle points in mid-air, at least until electro-magnetics come into play. However, would you really want a power glitch to start unfastening your payload?
Internal stores will be especially problematic, I think.
You mean the C-1 Trader?
That was replaced by the C-2 Greyhound.
Which is now in the process of being replaced by the V-22 Osprey (a mistake, I think.)
MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Ill, otherwise known as Scott AFB.
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