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One of the questions I've had lately is that, "do Interceptors from the early-mid Cold War potentially have a roll in the modern US Air Force?".
I am thinking of something along the lines of the North American XF-108 or the like? The US needs aircraft that can fly long distances at high speed and altitude. Just looking at their history, it seems like the late 50's through early 70's provided some great concepts for very high supersonic flight with good range.
Have modern radars simply made such systems obsolete, or have designers and manufacturers been overlooking an avenue of design in pursuit of pure stealth?
I am thinking of something along the lines of the North American XF-108 or the like? The US needs aircraft that can fly long distances at high speed and altitude. Just looking at their history, it seems like the late 50's through early 70's provided some great concepts for very high supersonic flight with good range.
Have modern radars simply made such systems obsolete, or have designers and manufacturers been overlooking an avenue of design in pursuit of pure stealth?
Interceptors idea was more against strategic bombers. Not sure if it's still useful on the US side. Right now with cruise missiles, bombers will drop their payload before interception is feasible and fighter will go more after the payload. Loitering time, detection and payload could be more important for interception of these than long range and speed. A B-21 loaded with AA missiles would be great for that.
The F-14 could be seen like the last of lineage from the cold war with his long range missile payload, high range and speed. But relying on tankers is clearly the direction that the US have gone. F-15 or F-22 with auxiliary tanks have nice range and speed.
Would have been interesting to know if it's energy feeded by the engine or it just have a reserve and spend it. We are going slowly in the direction of laser weapons, could be interesting for defence suit if they become small enough. It will be quite strong to blind troops and civilians...
Feeding by engine will be a bit slow. From what I know capacitors will be charged ahead of time.
Yeah for sure, was more talking about what was charging the capacitors... it's a test rig, maybe the wiring is still not there to give enough juice to recharge them.
F-35B crashing in Fort Worth Texas. Seems to be coming in fine for a landing and then... just kind of looses control? The plane doesn't seem destroyed, but I cannot imagine that will be cheap to fix! Pilot is okay I believe, he ejects right near the end.
My uneducated guess:
The plane landed too rapidly (due to pilot's actions/wind/mechanical error/etc), causing the plane to bounce.
The pilot probably panicked when realizing either the plane has descended too fast right before touchdown or the plane has bounced, and mishandled the engine throttles to balance the plane or to go around.
Gave me some Fedex Flight 80 vibes.
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Maybe the floor mat caused the accelerator pedal to get stuck
Look like he hit the ground a bit hard,
1) it disengage the transmission for the lift fan or screw up flight computer,
2) the engine rev up creating more thrust at the rear because it's not driving the front fan anymore,
3) the airplane flip to the front.
4) He ejected, that's kind of funny !
That's sad, probably screwed the plane,
A long list of damages... eots destroyed, cockpit busted, wing damaged, front landing gear collapsed, nose and radar damaged, possibly the transmission too. eaten a ton of dirt, engine possibly need refurbishment. That plane gone.