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According to this picture form the Northrop Grumman press archives, the ECU is detatchable, and the mounting bolt pattern looks pretty symmetrical, so perhaps it's possible to flip the ECU?

Nuclear thermal rocket engines use (or to be more precise; used, since all experiments with these ended decades ago) fission reactors to generate heat, which they, in layman's terms, do quite well. Radioisotopes do not. They are fine for powering RTGs in Soviet lighthouses, deep-space probes or NASA's latest Mars rovers, but they provide nowhere near enough thermal energy for the proposed use.

Some interesting aspects: 52 Trillion zeros = 0, just with unnecessarily many digits. Plutonium, cobalt and barium melt (and boil!) at temperatures considerably lower than 4000°C. Turning 1kg of water at 100°C into 1kg of steam at 100°C requires 2256kJ of energy, so if you want to vaporize 1kg of water every second, you need 2,256MW of thermal power. Pu-238 produces a decay heat of approximately 570W/kg, so you'll need 4000kg of Pu-238 to produce a mass flow of 1kg/s of steam. And no, I don't have anything better to do in the evening than to disprove trolls/nutjobs on youtube.

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Looks more like two lift engines in the front to me: ...but the rear nozzle swing mechanism is nearly identical:

You fire two in case the first one misses the target. At short ranges you don't necessarily have the time to re-engage if your first missile doesn't hit.

The list you posted is a mix of DME reply frequencies, Localizer frequencies and VOR/VDB frequencies. Everything before channel 17X is a DME reply freq., between 18X and 56Y every even channel number is a localizer frequency (with the odd numbers being VOR), 60X-69Y are all DME replies, and 70X and up is VOR/VDB.

You are confusing VOR and DME. VOR is completely incompatible with TACAN. A TACAN receiver can interrogate a DME beacon and vice versa, giving the range between the two.

The F-16C doesn't have a VOR receiver.

TOR-M1 (9M330?) debris, allegedly found near the crash site. A reverse image search shows no hits older than 24 hours, so the pictures may be legit, but they could of course be from somewhere else.

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It's almost impossible to figure this out. Someone should invent a search engine so we could look up stuff on the internet.

There's nothing secret about 1553B. The specifications have been available for decades.

https://pcpilot.keypublishing.com/the-magazine/view-issue/?issueID=7968 A TL;DR: There are two WW2, and a free modern day Pacific region theatres in development. One of the WW2 maps is the channel map, which includes parts of southeastern England, northeastern France, and the low countries.

P(Y) compatible receivers generally only use the C/A signal for time synchronization when acquiring the P(Y) PRN code.

AGM-114.

No copying or pasting, but it is a screenshot from the JF-17. I haven't seen any screenshots showing the current state of the DBS mode, so it gives an indication of what we can expect when we get the same features in the 18.

I think you may be onto something:

Set a headwind (e.g. 10kt) in the mission editor.

The DCS mission editor doesn't operate with METAR messages (which, just for the record, I do know how to read) as input/output. Ideally it would, but it doesn't. The point is that you have an arrow showing the wind direction in the mission editor. The arrow shows the direction the wind is blowing, and you cannot claim that this is wrong just because the bearing indicated by the arrow is contrary to a standard that the sim doesn't use.

Wrong how? The arrow on the wind direction knob shows the direction in which the wind is blowing. No weather report I have ever seen has an arrow pointing towards where the wind is coming from...

The ILS is interlocked, so if the wind direction is wrong, the ILS for the inactive runway direction is switched off. Set a headwind (can't remember what the threshold is, but around 5-7 knots), and you should be good to go. IRL ILS availability for inactive runways is usually up tp the local ANSPs to decide for CAT I or lower, but CAT II and III systems are always interlocked.

Aerial rockets converted with guidance kits are often classified as guided rockets (case in point, the AKPWS).

That video demonstrates nothing other than the 3d animation skills of the people at ciaas.no