Posted on 10/12/2011 9:15:11 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
If the maintenance side is as impressive as the capabilities, I'm for it.
/johnny
Unfortunately, our war fighters are forced to wait while Beech plays a game of catch up. There was a unit ready to deploy last year in the Super T until the Kansas congressional contingent put a stop to it.
They should redeploy the 50 mm cannon on fighter/bombers which McNamara eliminated. The pilots loved them and they can do the job much cheaper than rockets in many cases. It doesn’t have to be either or, it can be both.
As far as congress screwing up a perfectly good weapon system for political reasons, go back to Sec. Stanton, under Lincoln. Or before. Sigh...
I just want our guys on the ground to have good support. I hate that the AF hates the A-10, and that is part of the reason I think (most of the time) that the USAF should be the USAAF again. I despise the fighter mafia.
They could screw up a wet... anyway.... politicians are rarely correct.
/johnny
With these drones...any need for pilots these days? That is non-key board pilots.
This AC would be great for what we face today.
Not very sexy for Mach 1+ pilots, but they do work for us.
/johnny
Yes. because some day we may have to fight where people have effective jammer equipment.
I have wondered what a large spark gap transmitter would do to the data link to a drone. Its brutally low tech but it hits almost all bands and is well dirt cheap to build.
The deployment plan was a mixed units from the two services.
Ooo... I just remembered I need to check my blood pressure, because when I saw Mc's name, I saw red.
He was a one person cluster f***.
He's still alive, last I heard. I'll dance and sing when he rolls snake eyes.
/johnny
Not much. I won't go into details, but really, not much. I've got an arcing insulator out on the street near me (that the electric company won't change, 20db over S9), and I have electronics to get around that listening to faint morse code from South Africa. And my gear is commercial crap.
/johnny
I just got erased for two sentences.
/johnny
Generally digital signals are broad band and redundant. The spark gap hits all bands, but not all bands at once. Noise would affect a few 10s of bits per seconds, but if you are sending out 10,000 bits a second, and you have cyclic redundancy checks to both detect and correct any errors, you mostly can ignore the jammer.
If they put 10,000 spark jammers out there, they would be likely to hit the same bits multiple times, rather than just hit the ones they missed. Further, a jammer is a beacon. If you broadcast vs. the US, you may have a loud noise coming your way.
Both aircraft run PT-6’s I believe and the version I work on has a 400hr borescope interval, with the bore scope being 5mm in diamater - the video scopes work great. As for tear down our hot section inspection is every 2500hrs and every 4000 hrs the engine is pulled for overhaul.
Nope, McN died Jul 06, 2009.
These planes represent progress outlined from Stage II to Stage III in the State Dept document “Freedom From War” Publication 5277.
It's sounding better and better.
How long does the 100 hour maintenance take?
/johnny
I'll have a belated party later today for the event.
/johnny
I understand frame relay etc...
and yes jammers draw attention !
But I dont think Harm/Alarm/Sidearm/Standard could focus on it. but LGB / Iron / cluster could do the job.
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