Sure sure
Nothing to see here Citizen.....huh uh
Attempts by the US Air Force to keep up with its Navy pilot rivals in the fine art of contrail cock drawing is nothing of the sort, according to service flacks. This latest sky knob was the work of F-35 pilots flying from Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, and images quickly circulated online after it appeared on Tuesday. But a …
Yanks armed forces are looking at proposals to develop air superiority and ground support aircraft. In short, tacit acceptance of one size fits all has failed. Again. Rotary support proposals are also interesting with what look like two good proposals which are very different. I like the Raiden, simply because helicopters have lower disk loading. I digress.
However, Mach 6 aircraft are not on cards until hypersonic ram jets move from dodgy experimental set ups to reliable engineering. Even then, given both Russians and Yanks are both building very long range air to air rocket powered weapons, what would Mach 6 plus actually achieve other than a heat trail easily spotted from orbit ?
USN: Check.
"Two Navy aviators who used their EA-18G Growler to draw a giant sky penis over Washington State have been disciplined, according to Navy officials."
Thanks. Best laugh I've had in ages! You just couldn't write this stuff...
Using a "Growler" to draw a dick... Beaut! :)
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"Hah! We merely moved from dog fights to dick fights."
I'd say "pull the other one" but that could have its own consequences.
:)
(by the way, El Reg, could you maybe remove the trackers from URLs before you add them to articles? The functional part of one of the URLs ended at ".. base-says/")
It would be typical of our modern approach to technology that we build a warplane at an insane cost that's absolutely invisible to anything except the naked eye.
What's that's also telling us is that while we might not be able to see the things on radar we certainly will be able to see them -- sooner or later -- by looking at the atmospheric disturbances they cause. I also suspect these things might not be quite as stealthy as the marketing department suggests which is why the US government is going ape about countries flying them near Russian air defence systems. (The first time one of these things gets shot down.....)
Stealthy means hard to spot with X band radar beyond visual range, not invisible. The Russians fit imaging IR systems to spot and track them. The European and Chinese approach uses frequency agile ground radar and high speed data links to plane and missiles.
If anything does get within sight of an F-22 or F-35 then they've as good a chance of shooting them down as being shot down.