Sturgeon Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 Should have called it the "MiniBronc". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 http://www.janes.com/article/64993/cobham-to-develop-vars-for-mv-22b V-22 aerial refuelling system under development. Modifying the system used on the Herc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 14, 2016 Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 Tu-160 Apparently in Kazan the hardest part to produce - as "Business Online» learned, schedule of manufacturing the most important part of plane was signed - the central beam made out of titanium. Unique technology began to be recovered at the Kazan aircraft plant named after Gorbunov - a branch of "Tupolev". It is a vacuum annealing and welding of components made of titanium, and electron-beam welding (ELU-24) and annealing (UVN-45). Against the backdrop of the news lull on the resumption of production of the Tu-160 reported by the factory newspaper "Forward!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted November 14, 2016 Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 Interesting. The wing box on the F-14 was a big electron beam welded titanium structure as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 Ohshit. Carriers are hard. Pilot got out. https://sputniknews.com/military/201611141047428380-mig-29-russia-med/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 15, 2016 Report Share Posted November 15, 2016 Interesting UAV, capable of detecting some materials from distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted November 18, 2016 Report Share Posted November 18, 2016 Have Dash II was an early 1990s attempt to try some new things in air to air missiles. The missile body was trapezoidal, rather than round, in cross-section, and was coated with radar-absorbing material so that when attached to a fighter, the missile would contribute less to radar cross section. I frankly doubt that these measures would have been enough to get the ultra-tiny RCS figures American aerospace engineers were aiming for, but perhaps in the early 1990s that wasn't common knowledge. Another very interesting idea tested in this design was the bank-to-turn autopilot. This is one of those ideas which has large theoretical advantages, and gets engineers excited, but has proven for one reason or another to be a bear to get to actually work, and has thus been seldom utilized (although the MDBA Meteor does use bank-to-turn to avoid choking the ramjet). Airplanes have a preferred orientation when performing maneuvers; they can pull more Gs pitching nose-up than they can by pushing the nose down or than yawing left or right: This is in part because humans have a preferred orientation; they can take more positive Gs (blood rushing into feet) than they can take negative Gs (blood rushes into head). But this also improves the structural and aerodynamic efficiency of the airplane. The structure can be lighter if it only needs to be rated for high G loading in a particular direction, as opposed to being able to take that loading in any direction. The control surfaces can also be smaller; the rudder doesn't need to be big enough to generate a 9 G yaw for instance, which means less drag as well. So, in order to turn an airplane particularly sharply the aircraft is rolled so that the preferred maneuvering orientation lines up with the direction the pilot wants to go, and then they can start a coordinated turn in that direction. Air to air missiles don't work like this. They have no preferred orientation for maneuvers, and skid to turn. This means that the fins that cause a pitching motion have to be just as big, draggy and heavy as the ones that cause a yawing motion, which is why all air to air missiles have cruciform fins: At least part of the reason that bank to turn has been seldom used is that some early air to air missile sensors would become confused if the missile rolled. The reticule seekers used in early heat-seekers would return incorrect angular measurements to the target if the missile were rolling, so the AIM-9 (and several of its clones) used these nifty little air-driven gyroscopes to prevent them from rolling at all: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Iran Airshow 2016. Russian Knights participated in it for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Someone is trying to tell me that gun pods can be/are mounted on the A-10's wing hard points. Before I tell him he's stupid wrong, are gun pods even used anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Gun pods do exist for many jets and helicopters, one was developed and tested even for F-35. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Someone is trying to tell me that gun pods can be/are mounted on the A-10's wing hard points. Before I tell him he's stupid wrong, are gun pods even used anymore? In premise you could mount a gun pod on an A-10, but I am 99% sure that none were ever qualified for use on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 In premise you could mount a gun pod on an A-10, but I am 99% sure that none were ever qualified for use on it. Yeah, and you already have a gun that's going to put out a ton more firepower than anything you can put on the wings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 Maybe the minigun pods but the USAF gave up on most gun pods due to inaccuracy/deflection issues especially with larger caliber (20mm+) models. both the Harrier pods and F-35 pods are purpose built pods attached specifically to the air frame vs podded on standard hard points. I'm not even sure how many of the bigger 20mm pods the USAF would still have in inventory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted November 19, 2016 Report Share Posted November 19, 2016 The only place I know of where classic gun pods are still used is on LittleBirds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 In premise you could mount a gun pod on an A-10, but I am 99% sure that none were ever qualified for use on it. I've seen a loadout chart illustrating the use of gun pods on the '10, but I find it dubious they were ever mounted. If I manage to get to the book I saw it in while sorting my trash, I'll post the images. The pods for the most part can be hung on anything that can lift them, being basically self contained. The mounting of any gun pod on the '10 though, would be "pretty fucking silly" on the overall scale of "dumb shit you can sling under an aircraft". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 I think the most common use of them was on the Phantom before the variants with the internal Vulcan were produced. There was also an attempt to fit a 30mm gunpod to the F-16. http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article18.html It worked poorly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 I think the most common use of them was on the Phantom before the variants with the internal Vulcan were produced. There was also an attempt to fit a 30mm gunpod to the F-16. http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article18.html It worked poorly. Yeah that's the baby Avenger. IIRC it had some 'vibration' issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 Cockpit video from Su-34 that flipped on landing a while back; http://defense-watch.com/2016/11/20/cockpit-video-from-flipped-russian-su-34-emerges/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 Qatar approved for FMS of 72 advance F-15 variants. Kuwait also getting 40 SuperBugs. http://www.janes.com/article/65606/us-approves-usd31-2-billion-of-fighter-sales-to-the-middle-east Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 Qatar approved for FMS of 72 advance F-15 variants. Kuwait also getting 40 SuperBugs. http://www.janes.com/article/65606/us-approves-usd31-2-billion-of-fighter-sales-to-the-middle-east ^Iran is in trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 But Boeing is very happy! Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFR5t4h-d0A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 PLANAF Z-9D helicopter spotted for the first time operationally with a YJ-9 AShM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 J-16 with new huge AAM (?) spotted ... anyone with an idea ? Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted November 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Iran's new Jet trainer supposedly nearing flight testing status. http://www.janes.com/article/65725/iranian-shafaq-jet-trainer-nears-prototype-testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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