Pics of F/A-37 Talon (Beautiful carrier based stealth)

globalsecurity.org ^ | 7/26/04

[Diogenesis]

Terminator, too, will be baaaack.

[TC Rider]

Does this plot sound familiar? Anyone remember War Games with Matthew Broderick?

I must be older than you, "War Games" reminded me of "Fail Safe".

[Red Badger]

I don't think that thing could actually fly even if it were real.........The plane, that is.......

[azhenfud]

"maybe in 50 years someone will get that to work."

Prolly, but much above 100k could rip the control surface out by the roots.

[BluH2o]

I doubt it's real. The Navy has no female pilots capable of flying (and landing) such an aircraft off a carrier.

That was my first clue that something was amiss as the pictures of the aircraft downloaded. Based on female performance when it comes to flying jet aircraft off Navy carrier decks no way a women is going to be entrusted to fly this $50 million airplane ... she may be attractive but she looks positively bewildered.

[camle]

yeah, well you can get in the plane. at my age i'd prefer another kind of cockpit...

[epluribus_2]

The Talon is already a beautiful bird T-38 that trains our best fighters and is the humble and deadly bad-guy at Top Gun and Red Flag.

[Renegade]

Sent the URL to my LIBERAL-ANTI-WAR Buddy. He went from Catholic, to Methodist, and now Quaker . His son was in Iraq carrying one of the portable missle launchers and HE was out protesting the war with his numnut crowd ..

Added caption:

"Science Giveth, and Science Taketh Away!!"
AWESOME MACHINE!! ( No tailgate problem with that pilot --She'll kick your a$$)

[finnman69]

[Little Ray]

Sounds like they are doing "Day of the Cheetah" (Dale Brown) but don't want to pay him royalties.

I wish, instead of a "Frankenstein" type movie, Hollywood would do one of Keith Laumer's Bolo stories as a movie. "Honor of the Regiment" would be a good contender, as would some of the new Bolo stories that Baen books is putting out.
For those who wonder what Bolos are, they are giant super-tanks - Continental Siege Units - controlled by sophisticated AIs. Far from running amok, they live up to very highest standards of military courage, discipline, and honor and are the shield of humanity against a hostile universe in the far future.
Humans being shamed by the virtues of their creations would make a interesting departure from the usual "machines running amok" tales.

[KellyAdmirer]

Ok, I'll play, too: "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970).

[cinFLA]

A 4000 nm range? Let's see, that's 4 * 10-9 meters,

That's nautical miles.

[KellyAdmirer]

Now that one looks more like the one Uncle Martin rode in "My Favorite Martian."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nah.

(BE CAREFUL OF PREJUDGING FLYING ABILITIES ....)

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Now, what did alert me that this was a "fake" was the loose cockpit canopy, loose "stealth" anti-reflective "teeth" in front of the canopy (that creates air draf, the real ones aren't built like that.)

Wing tips too low for clearance.

Chains and chocks? Good call!

Pilot's "name" was used below the canopy, rather than call-sign.

[OXENinFLA]

The movie cameras, that I didn't see when I 1st looked at these, kinda gives it away too...........

[krb]

How much time have you spent on carriers, again?? Yeah, thought so...

Why can't you chest beater types just refute assertions without dragging the knuckles around?

[Liberty Valance]

"Sounds like they are doing "Day of the Cheetah" (Dale Brown) but don't want to pay him royalties."

I used to love reading Dale Brown's stuff, Flight of the old dog was a favorite. :o)

[TalonDJ]

The Navy has no female pilots capable of flying (and landing) such an aircraft off a carrier. The women fixed-wing aircraft pilots on carriers have been a disaster.

I can't speak for the Navy but my sister does just fine landing on carriers with the Marine Corps.

[TalonDJ]

Hollywood would never do a Bolo movie because they prefer to portray robots and dangerous things that will someday go crazy and kill you. They even managed to make the robot on that Lost in Space remake run amuck. One of the reason Japan is so far ahead of us in making humanoid robots is Americans are to busy being scared of the idea.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Or shooting?

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/10475.html

Or just in-flight refueling .... Risking collision/fire day-in and day-out every shift keeping the other guys flying?

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/9209.html