US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Jura The idiot
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Wednesday at 7:29 AM
"The transcript notes the sounds of Khashoggi's body being dismembered by a saw, as the alleged perpetrators are advised to listen to music to block out the sound."
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"The transcript notes the sounds of Khashoggi's body being dismembered by a saw, as the alleged perpetrators are advised to listen to music to block out the sound."
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Imagine for a second you are driving a Lamborghini, you have a huge amount of getup and go under the lightest tap on the accelerator pedal.
Now imagine that you are driving behind a horse and buggy.
And for some reason you are not allowed to pass this Omish Sports cart. In fact you have to tail gate it.
That is a overly simplified description of a F/A18 trying to tank from a KC130J.
The F/A18 is a twin engine Jet afterburning super sonic fighter bomber. Designed to fly fast.
The KC130J is a flying tanker truck. Powered by 4 turboprop designed for work not speed.
To tank off the KC130J the fighter has to basically fly at the edge of a stall. To tank the fighter the KC130J is pushing petals to the metal cranking the engines for all they are worth.
The fighter is trying to keep from falling from the sky like a rock and keep under control well being buffeted by the air stream off the turboprop.
The tanker is ball to the wall, drag racing in a school bus.
What's that?
Jura The idiot
General
Very little -- for example no programme has been made public with associated funding that you would expect for such a programme. Little to no political quibbling over it. So on.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Which doesn't nessisarily mean anything. Most of the quibbling starts when the program moves from studies to hardware demos.
As for
That has in fact started. But because we are still years away from prototype it's not as loud.
I don't think that's true. The funding situation is known and much more is also available if you look for it.
No, I'm aware of the funding that has been allocated to it so far, however based on what has been funded I think they are still in the fairly early R&D phases of it and years away from a prototype or even demonstrator.
Putting it another way, in terms of the R&D cycle I consider the US PCA/NGAD/whatever it's called to be behind that of other 5th/5.5th gen programmes like Tempest, F-3, FCAS, based on what has been publicly released at least. It's possible that work might be done in the shadows and to only reveal it once it is in a much later stage of development, but I consider it unlikely at this stage.
So 10 billion USD over five years is just early stages of R&D?
What about statements of a rapid acquisition process and iterative development, even an interim engine?