BladeLWS

Indeed they are. I would not doubt that the drone was locked up by every fire control radar within 5 miles and half a dozen Phalanx cannons. They could of blown it out of the sky whenever they wanted.

What do you mean? We do have an F-15E, the Strike Eagle.

P&W F135, 40,000 lbs of thrust in AB during the test, most ever from a jet fighter engine. Also P&W has just upped the rating of the engine to 43,000 lbs capable. http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Mighty_F_35_Lightning_2_Engine_Roars_To_Life_999.html

FYI the Raptor has provisions for a IRST and a side mounted phased array radar if the Air Force ever decided it would need it.

The Iowa class was the worlds last true capital ship, nothing today compares in looks, speed, and firepower. The Nimitz class has speed and firepower but a Iowa has the look of meanness!

This one takes the cake, best military flying video OF ALL TIME.:joystick: Hornets for life! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7705039587536161508&q=swiss+air+force&pl=true

Polish divers looking for oil deposits have found Germany's one and only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zepplin. The Polish navy has confirmed it is the ship! Gotta add this to the list of places to visit when I retire. :thumbup: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,428857,00.html

How about neither flies inverted and the weapons are held in a bay on top of the delivery aircraft. The receiver flies over, autopilots in the two aircraft sync, and the computers do the rest. In this day of age it's quite possible with the technology we have, practical, I don't know. Rearming UCAV's in midair would be practical.

http://whileyouweredeployed.com/squadron_histories_the_mutha.php

*cough* F-111 landing wheels up a few posts down *cought*

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1077446/L/ :pilotfly: OVT = pwnted by n00b pilot! :joystick:

That's because it is, a post a while back on the avsim.com forums went with this. They're faked, at least the second one is.

I think he's refering to this one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvel2UEtPs&search=bourget

The Super Hornet can land on fully automatic, but general routine is by hand. I'm not sure if others are full auto capable. Basically the aircraft comes off the marshall, comes at the carrier from the left, doing a left hand turn. It lines up with the strip, and the pilot follows the meatball and the LSO's directions down. When it hits the pilot goes to max power incase he/she misses the wire. The aircraft handler on deck then signals the pilot to power down, and the wire pulls the aircraft back. (The reason they do this is because the pilot can't visually see if the hook has fully engaged the wire as it could slip out if the pilot throttles down right when he feels a grab... The pilot then raises the hook to let go of the wire, folds the wings up, and goes on his/her merry way.

Looks like they took the engine off a SR-71 :D Cept this engine has no reheat, and has six times the thrust that the old J58's on the Blackbird :thumbup: http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/04/Navigation/177/207615/Mach+3+missile+advances+.html

Yep... Oh and about the radar. The Raptors radar beam changes direction, power, and shape so fast that RWR's have a hard time finding it. It won't matter if they detect the radar on an RWR anyways, as the Raptors radar will direct a full power beam of energy at the bandit and effective turn his plane into a WW1 biplane from overloading the sensors. ;) Thats at least whats been published about it, and that's only 10% of its capability I bet ya.

Those missiles have there own built on radar, effectively "fire and forget". You can fire then break lock and they SHOULD hit their target.

So was the Janes F-15E manual, took me a few days to read through that, it was great. But now companies are pinching pennies and writing them in PDF format or not even including a manual. And usually its just how to install and troubleshoot, almost nothing on systems and weapons.

Whats so special is that it went at m1.5, at 50k, dropped a freefall bomb 24 miles from its target, and made a direct hit. SO bascially the Raptor will be able to stay over friendly skys, and hit targets 24 miles behind enemy lines, while staying out of enemy airdefenses. Even though it won't matter because the Raptor has stealth... I wonder what kind of range they could get with a JSOW?

Yea yea, another JDAM test. But this time the Raptor was a 50,000 feet, at mach 1.5, and dropped from 24 miles away! Nice standoff capability for a freefall bomb... :D http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060612/dam039.html?.v=68

All you guys that think its fake... This comes from the USS Ranger organization photo gallery... Now I don't know about you, but there is a guy next to him taking a photo of it, and everyone on the flightdeck (lower left) staring at it. I don't think thats fake... Also out in the distance above the BUFF, is the SH-3 Seaking that took the photo of it passing the ship. I have just pawned all the unbelievers! :megalol:

Oh? So that'd make the Su-27 its manslave then? :megalol:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-nuF35_30bus.ART.State.Edition1.1351c695.html What do you guys think? F-35 Lightning II is my pick! :joystick:

oooo, new desktop wallpaper! ;)

What about landing to refuel on some of the cruisers and destroyers?