Russo-Indian 5th-gen fighter to commence flight tests in January.

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Technology is getting to the point that human pilots can't endure much more acceleration or manueverability. The future will be in unmanned aircraft, as bitter of a pill as that is to swallow for pilots.
 
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IPorange said:
Technology is getting to the point that human pilots can't endure much more acceleration or manueverability. The future will be in unmanned aircraft, as bitter of a pill as that is to swallow for pilots.
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Since we just indefinately shelved our new USAF satelite that was supposed to be launched last November, your thesis may be quite problematic in the near future at least.

The SR-71 could litterally kill a man but computer limitations were programed in to keep it from exceeding certain g-forces etc., and it is now retired as being obsolete.

Funny too, the Indians wanted a two seater version, they afraid one can't fly it, or do they think one might steal it and give it to Pakistan??
 
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gsvol said:
Since we just indefinately shelved our new USAF satelite that was supposed to be launched last November, your thesis may be quite problematic in the near future at least.

The SR-71 could literally kill a man but computer limitations were programed in to keep it from exceeding certain g-forces etc., and it is now retired as being obsolete.
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My uncle worked for Lockheed in Marietta, Ga for about 40 years. Once he told me that a Lockheed built spy plane landed there. And evidently he got a break to go watch the company's airplane, maybe to boost morale.

He said it went down the runway, left the ground, went almost straight up out of sight and came straight back down. Then it scrubbed the wheels over the runway, kicked in the hyper-drive and vanished into the sky.

I would have liked to have seen that.
 
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I think unmanned aircraft, have brought a whole new dimension and capability to the battlefield
 
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MWR said:
My uncle worked for Lockheed in Marietta, Ga for about 40 years. Once he told me that a Lockheed built spy plane landed there. And evidently he got a break to go watch the company's airplane, maybe to boost morale.

He said it went down the runway, left the ground, went almost straight up out of sight and came straight back down. Then it scrubbed the wheels over the runway, kicked in the hyper-drive and vanished into the sky.

I would have liked to have seen that.
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I would like to have seen that myself.

There are some amazing SR-71 stories in the 'compendium' thread.

Last summer I was next door and there was a low level flyonver by a formation of some kind of small jets doing about Mach-1, (or more), I knew to look in the opposite direction to catch sight of them but still didn't even see them.

One guy said they were F-15s, (as if he had the first clue). I asked; "did you see them?" (I knew he didn't.)

He said no, so I said they had their new cloaking devices turned on and kept a straight face.

That dumbass is probably going around telling everyone we have cloaking devices that make our planes invisible now. :birgits_giggle:

Maybe we do, how would I know?
 
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vol_in_il said:
I think unmanned aircraft, have brought a whole new dimension and capability to the battlefield
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What do you think of unmanned soldiers??

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gsvol said:
I would like to have seen that myself.

There are some amazing SR-71 stories in the 'compendium' thread.

Last summer I was next door and there was a low level flyonver by a formation of some kind of small jets doing about Mach-1, (or more), I knew to look in the opposite direction to catch sight of them but still didn't even see them.

One guy said they were F-15s, (as if he had the first clue). I asked; "did you see them?" (I knew he didn't.)

He said no, so I said they had their new cloaking devices turned on and kept a straight face.

That dumbass is probably going around telling everyone we have cloaking devices that make our planes invisible now. :birgits_giggle:

Maybe we do, how would I know?
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Did you tell him that the USAF stole the cloaking device from the Romulans?

We have a lot of F-15s and F-16 fighters and B-1 Bombers and the new cargo plane (C-17?) and an occasional C-130 fly over Stinking Creek. The fighters come thru the hills very low. I suppose they may be testing their terrain related ablilties.

My brother was 4-wheeling on his ATV when one went flying by. He was high on the mountain and said he could see down in the cockpit. That's a tall mountain, or a low flying jet, or both.
 
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I think the F-15 is one of the best looking aircraft around.
 
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vol_in_il said:
I'm for any technology that kills the enemy, and protects soldiers
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Then I recomend you shoot a congressman. :p

MWR said:
Did you tell him that the USAF stole the cloaking device from the Romulans?

We have a lot of F-15s and F-16 fighters and B-1 Bombers and the new cargo plane (C-17?) and an occasional C-130 fly over Stinking Creek. The fighters come thru the hills very low. I suppose they may be testing their terrain related ablilties.

My brother was 4-wheeling on his ATV when one went flying by. He was high on the mountain and said he could see down in the cockpit. That's a tall mountain, or a low flying jet, or both.
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Talk about flying low, they used to do mock intercept maneuvers that went over my mom and dad's farm frequently.

Don't know where they were flying out of but they would always take the same route that came right over the barn and it was always an F-16 chasing an A-5.

If you heard them coming from one direction, you had better look quickly in the opposite direction or you wouldn't see them at all and they would be flying below tree top level through the hollows and valleys.

I recall one time standing next to a USAF pilot watching a big cargo plane come in for a landing, he banked sharply, slipped it down smoothly and touched down without even the slightest bump.

I remarked to the guy next to me; "Man, he landed that thing like a fighter plane."

He said; "Yep all those MATs pilots are frustrated fighter pilots."
 
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