cm_kruger

Seekers are quite specialized.  You can't shoot a heat-seeking air to air missile at ground targets, for instance.  The use of radar-guided SAMs against tanks in 1973 was an act of desperation by Egyptian SA-2 crews who were about to have their shit stomped by Israeli armor.  It did nothing, because radar-guided SAMs can't lock on ground targets, and the stomping commenced.

The AIM-9X has been tested against boats and vehicles. And back during Vietnam they messed around with using a version of the AIM-9B against trucks on the Ho Chi Minh trail at night, apparently the headlights/exhausts put out enough of a IR signature for a lock.

You can get laser guided and gps guided both pretty small now so on something the size of the SM-6 it's more of finding the room to cram it in to the existing shell without fucking with other functionality at this point.

I suspect that anti-radiation/home-on-jam for the SDB-II and Brimstone will eventually show up, as another mode to their radar guidance packages. (IIRC the Air Force and Raytheon have already worked on a version of the SDB specifically for killing GPS jammers)

I would naively guess the restriction is more on the kind of warhead it carries, though?

That and the missile's flight characteristics.

That's the SpaceX one right?

Though NASA is budgeting money towards new aeronautics research, so I guess we can look forwards to some cool new experimental designs.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/nasa-proposes-x-plane-revival-with-supersonic-subso-421736/

 

NASA plans a return to a decades-old tradition of developing and flying experimental aircraft projects, or “X-planes”, in order to achieve new breakthroughs in supersonic and subsonic aeronautics research under the Fiscal 2017 budget proposal submitted to Congress on 9 February.

 

The budget request reveals a 23% leap in funding for NASA’s aeronautics research division, rising from $640 million in Fiscal 2016 to $790 million next year. The agency also released a 10-year outlook with aeronautics funding peaking at $1.3 billion Fiscal 2023, when possibly two planned X-planes are scheduled to be operating.

 

“It felt like Christmas in January,” says Jaiwon Shin, NASA’s associate administrator for aeronautics research, recalling the moment when the agency’s final request was confirmed.

 

NASA will develop a preliminary design for a supersonic X-plane in Fiscal 2016, then launch a competition next year to develop and build the low-boon supersonic demonstrator (LBSD). Flight tests could begin as early as 2021.

 

NASA also will launch in Fiscal 2017 a preliminary design for a hybrid wing body, subsonic demonstrator. But the hybrid wing body will compete with two other concepts – a horizontally-aligned double-bubble airframe and a truss-braced wing – to be developed as NASA’s next subsonic X-plane.

The other TFB bit that caught my attention was the "Pour your own 80 percent lower" story. I understand guys wanting to be handy and making their own guns and figuring out new ways to do it. But I never really bought the argument about how these 80 percent lowers are great for "those wanting to avoid the prying eyes of the US Government."

 

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/08/cast-mold-your-own-ar-lower-receiver/#disqus_thread

 

Because it's not like the people buying these things aren't leaving a digital footprint with credit card purchases. And even if they buy the lower with cash, most are buying the uppers, bolt receiver groups, barrels, lower parts kits, buffer tubes and handguards with credit cards and via online websites, all of which leaves a glorious digital footprint.

People like to think they're getting away with secret squirrel stuff.

For example, there's a fairly good market for used analogue/digital radio encryption gear with certain groups of ham radio operators, stuff like Motorola SABRE radios and encryption key loaders, despite the fact that encryption isn't allowed on the ham radio bands. (Proprietary closed-source digital voice stuff like DSTAR is allowed, because in the eyes of the FCC since anybody can go and buy a DSTAR radio, it's not encrypted)

Clinton's biggest draw is that she isn't a Republican and isn't an old white guy. 

That and the internal party split between the leftist progressives and the centrists. I think a lot of the "republican with progressive characteristics" democrats are scared by Bernie. Tax reform, fair wages, universal healthcare, and racial justice? And he's gonna do this by closing tax loopholes for corporations/rich people, cutting subsidies to fossil fuel companies and actually raising/creating taxes? They probably think he's gonna make them drive Reliant Robins after confiscating their Lexera.

The newest F-15Cs were delivered in 1985. The last F-16 was delivered in 2005 while (IIRC) the last batch of 20 Super Hornets will be delivered this year. Boeing is shutting down the F-15E and F/A-18 lines in 2017 (barring further orders) and Lockheed is saying 2018-2020 for F-16 production.

187 F-22s and 2,443 F-35s will be replacing 291 A-10s, 192 F-15Cs, most of the Air Force's 957 F-16s, 314 Navy and 229 Marine Hornets, and around 130 Harriers. Plus 600 or so F-15Es and F/A-18E/F when those start getting phased out.

how is peatza eaten?

Trump fucking lost money running a casino.

"Moderate anti-zionists" claim they captured and repaired a Merkava.

"Hakeem! Start the engine!" *Flintstones running noises*

i thought you said not to post radio's

Amateur Radio Operation in the Soviet Union circa 1965

A general overview of amateur radio licensing and activities in the period.

And of course, there were cranks back then too:

Interesting article about how the US and UK broke encryption on video downlinks from Israeli drones.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/israeli-drone-feeds-hacked-by-british-and-american-intelligence/

It seems pretty small for a 5th gen prototype.

So the wests plan of letting former Nazis literally run the FDR is somehow better?

Pigfucker

And yet the east is still a hotbed of literal Nazis.

That's the magic of Remington!

R51 died on his way back to the factory after breaking down in Methtown.

Speaking of failed pistols, did the Boberg Bullet Puller ever get fixed?

Missing out on the 68er-Bewegung probably did East Germany no good.

Or denazification that wasn't "shoot a bunch of people, blame problems on 'Nazis in the west' and call it a day."

But then again, while the maps of unemployment and attacks on refugees correlate, it's not unreasonable to suppose that the refugees just happen to have gone where the unemployment is (urban areas).

On the other hand, there are more foreigners in the West.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/2015/01/09/the-challenge-of-responding-to-extreme-political-views-germany-struggles-to-address-pegidas-anti-islam-protests/

Nazis aren't exactly known for logical thinking.

Heatmap of NPD ("Moderate Euroskeptics", friends with France National and similar bald-headed shitlers) votes in 2013 by district:

Attacks against refugees in 2015 until late November.

It seems the "Valley of the Clueless" (term for areas that couldn't receive TV/radio from West Germany) still applies to Saxony.

 

"The crew and passengers were not to know that this aircraft, like every other aircraft within the Nimrod fleet, was not airworthy. What is more, the aircraft was, in my judgment, never airworthy from the first release to service in 1969 to the point where the Nimrod XV 230 was lost."

i would say the xenophobia and venture capitalism aspect of trumps campaign is more inline with the T-110 thread. But the buck stops there, they probably consider trump to be a "big meanie head" or "reincarnation of Hitler" or something like that and will most likely be throwing their support behind Bernie Sanders or Hillary, since Hillary's foreign policy sounds like it was written by Dai

 

But really, saying Trump supporters treat women like objects is such a broad and unproveable statement. Ya Trump has a trophy wife but thats about it in the "treating women like objects" category

 

and since when was having a trophy wife a bad thing? 

I meant "women as objects" in the Saudi sense.

The animea thread has veered off topic on to US politics.

 

Is this an improvement?

Well to get back on topic, Schwarzesmarken apparently had a character defecting to East Germany. I guess because they wanted to go beat up refugees in Saxony or something? I dunno. Muv-Luv is a terrible franchise from what I remember hearing of it.

I look forwards to Gunbroker users getting traumatized when somebody goes to sell one of those.

Trump supporters are scared by the world and treat women like objects.

Anime nerds are scared by the world and treat women like objects.

Yeah, it checks out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbWh4kBnkA

(HITLER ICONOGRAPHY!)

mighty krupskull never penetrated frontally by dinnerware.

And of course there's the question of why a ground attack aircraft would be operating without cover in the first place.

It's also being suggested that they're being designed for more, like experimenting with a weapon that can permanently fry electronic devices on infantry and those exposed on vehicles alike.

How seriously and by who? Actual engineers, or by "China greatest country!"/Ausairpower types in fantasyland?

It's not impossible (directional jammers have been showing up recently for security guards to "shoot down" drones) but I see a number of flaws in the concept. Range (HF can be easily jammed normally while VHF/UHF basically requires direct line of sight), that it would effect friendly equipment as much as enemy equipment and probably more so considering you're pushing enough power to burn up EMP-hardened equipment and your stuff is closer to the transmitter, and likewise the issue of RF exposure hazards for the operators.