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Looger · 09-27-2004, 06:17 PM

i like the idea of a scaled down raptor, that thing is a predator. its supercruise capability is particularly well-suited to canada's territorial oddities (ie. SIZE).

but 100 we do not need - one squadron of say 30 is plenty, leaving lots of room for a few squadrons of cheaper planes. here's where some old soviet vintage can slip in!

maybe we can even lease them out as agressors, someone's got to teach the next generation of american pilots that their potential chinese opponents are not into the "duck and cover" or "run and hide" form of air combat that their own agressors seem to be bent on telling them.

the americans are finally into deployment of a good passive IR, eh? hmmm... all they have to do now is develop a ship-mounted missile defense system that can actually stop that SS-N-22 sunburn, and come up with a super-cavitating torpedo design, and they'll finally have caught up to low-tech 25-year-old soviet 'junk'...

well, the super-cavitating stuff hasn't been really _deployed_ for 25 years, maybe stalled in this development phase for 25 years would be a more accurate description.

i wonder if israel is selling those hopped-up MiG-21's yet...?

shrouded exhaust has pluses but it's not a fix-all - diffused heat energy still shows up with a good enough receiver, it may help for the extreme range but word is one of the main reasons the B-2 was cancelled was it was startlingly easy to catch with passive IR from that MiG-29 flown to turkey in 1989.

but word is lots of stuff has happened that hasn't, so who knows.

09-27-2004, 06:17 PM	#16
Looger Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: insider trading in WTC 7 Exp:	i like the idea of a scaled down raptor, that thing is a predator. its supercruise capability is particularly well-suited to canada's territorial oddities (ie. SIZE). but 100 we do not need - one squadron of say 30 is plenty, leaving lots of room for a few squadrons of cheaper planes. here's where some old soviet vintage can slip in! maybe we can even lease them out as agressors, someone's got to teach the next generation of american pilots that their potential chinese opponents are not into the "duck and cover" or "run and hide" form of air combat that their own agressors seem to be bent on telling them. the americans are finally into deployment of a good passive IR, eh? hmmm... all they have to do now is develop a ship-mounted missile defense system that can actually stop that SS-N-22 sunburn, and come up with a super-cavitating torpedo design, and they'll finally have caught up to low-tech 25-year-old soviet 'junk'... well, the super-cavitating stuff hasn't been really _deployed_ for 25 years, maybe stalled in this development phase for 25 years would be a more accurate description. i wonder if israel is selling those hopped-up MiG-21's yet...? shrouded exhaust has pluses but it's not a fix-all - diffused heat energy still shows up with a good enough receiver, it may help for the extreme range but word is one of the main reasons the B-2 was cancelled was it was startlingly easy to catch with passive IR from that MiG-29 flown to turkey in 1989. but word is lots of stuff has happened that hasn't, so who knows.