Posted on 09/22/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
It appears to me that if one really wanted to make it small...
The point of using the F-22 now is to assure that Syria behaves.
It wasn’t invisible because “stealth, as USAF sells it, is dead. In the 90’s, Russian and Chinese techs begain modifying radars to use shorter bandwidth frequencies that are better at detecting aircraft, regardless of shape or coating. In addition, there’s really no way to mask all of the ‘trons flowing from an aircraft.
They have to be broken in somewhere. Better sooner than later.
Are you sure about this? The first time?
You’re correct. Its first mission was during the United States invasion of Panama in 1989. During that invasion two F-117A Nighthawks dropped two bombs on Rio Hato airfield. November 1988 BG Tony Tolin brought the bird out of the black world into the white.
A-10s are still flying over Missouri.
I had fun with a libtard who I see sometimes at work...he was a Bush era war protester and I got to ask him when the protests were restarting now that his hero Zero was bombing with no war authority, backed by his mythical coalition of phantom allies.
Don't forget to ask about the exit strategy and the plan for winning the peace.
Well I did say “correct me if I am wrong.”
From what I have been getting dang near all modern F/As are nuclear capable...
We have met the enemy and he is us.
WOW!
Very interesting. Thank you. There have been some engineering problems to solve for making them smaller, mainly maintaining enough heat and keeping it localized for enough duration. [If correct, as that was delivered in the ‘80s during an astronomy class lecture. The instructor was a dedicated counter-culture Atheist with a PhD. in a small, Midwestern university that was more feminist than anything else.]
Yeah, more or less. Fighter carried nukes are pretty small so it does not required a fancy plane to carry one. The F-22 might NOT be nuke capable only because all of its bomb handling capability was added on after they were deployed. They might have skimped on the upgrade and not included tac-nukes in the stores management software. Or maybe they did. Not sure anyone that knows for sure would tell us.
To be fair the F-22 can carry external stores. Hence it may be able to carry that particular bomb.
That’s interesting, and it helps to show us generally why much R&D is going into other equipment.
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