And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I love the sight. That is over 20,000 pounds of raw thrust between the engine nozzle, the lift fan just behind the cockpit and the roll posts in the wings.
Larry, that is the landing configuration; the fleet would probably be very well defended. It is a total other story for stealth in flight configuration.
Supposedly the exhaust in flight mode is better shielded. Part of it is from external cooling and part is the vectoring of the nozzle, from what one of my prop-head engineers tell me.
One of the issues slowing fleet use of the F-35, and to a lesser extent the V-22, is that every ship it will land on has to be checked, and often modified, so that whatever is on the other side of the deck can handle the heat involved.
don't need napalm when you have this! would do a job on troops hidden in a forest. best way to defeat a heater is to make a big ground fire and hover over it. confuses the hell out of the seeker. lots of IR spread out. proximity sensing sees a rapid growth in target signature and logicly sees arrival at target...bang. wonder if that still works with multi spectral equipped sensors on the archers.
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ReplyDeleteWOW, an $85 million Zippo. And I though the diamond encrusted Gold & Platinum model was pricy.
ReplyDeleteA heater would have no problem homing on that signature!
ReplyDeleteI love the sight. That is over 20,000 pounds of raw thrust between the engine nozzle, the lift fan just behind the cockpit and the roll posts in the wings.
ReplyDeleteLarry, that is the landing configuration; the fleet would probably be very well defended. It is a total other story for stealth in flight configuration.
I doubt it with that engine. Why would it be stealthier just because the nozzle is inline instead of pointed down?
DeleteSupposedly the exhaust in flight mode is better shielded. Part of it is from external cooling and part is the vectoring of the nozzle, from what one of my prop-head engineers tell me.
DeleteLarry, I worked on the F-35 program. I can't say much therefore.
DeleteYup, that's a mighty fine Atoll AAM magnet.....
ReplyDeleteJust the thing for removing the snow and ice from your driveway.
ReplyDeleteOne of the issues slowing fleet use of the F-35, and to a lesser extent the V-22, is that every ship it will land on has to be checked, and often modified, so that whatever is on the other side of the deck can handle the heat involved.
ReplyDeletedon't need napalm when you have this! would do a job on troops hidden in a forest. best way to defeat a heater is to make a big ground fire and hover over it. confuses the hell out of the seeker. lots of IR spread out. proximity sensing sees a rapid growth in target signature and logicly sees arrival at target...bang. wonder if that still works with multi spectral equipped sensors on the archers.
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