WVUBetaHornet
Sweep the leg..
Certainly a fvcking brilliant system.
F-35 HMDS has a pretty awkward-looking helmet.
Hover the mouse over the image for a look at the night capability with sensor fusion.
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Myth : The days of dog fighting is over
- Thread starter AJB37
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Certainly a fvcking brilliant system.
F-35 HMDS has a pretty awkward-looking helmet.
Hover the mouse over the image for a look at the night capability with sensor fusion.
So how stealthy will the first stealth STOVL aircraft be with a gun mounted on the centerline?
Good enough for me...pass the Kool Aid please.It will be rated at 42 stealthiness units.
Brett
WVUBetaHornet
Sweep the leg..
Don't drink the Kool Aid..
WishICouldFly
UO Future Pork Chop
Is that a portable garbage disposal?
I'm with turnandburn on this one. FACs do call for the guns a lot. Even a 500 pounder has a pretty obscene kill radius when you're talking about MOUT. In OIF I we were trying to give whole divisions of F/W to the FACs, but they would just switch them back to us. Couldn't keep'em in the stack for no reason so we'd push them deep. The whole time, the facs were screaming their asses off for skids. It's so fucking frustrating telling guys in contact 2000m away that "they weren't the main effort" so we couldn't get helicopters to them. I had a problem with that for a long damn time...one of those things for when Im the ACE commander or hell, even the fragger.
Did I just go off on a mad friggin' threadjack?? Oh well, Im not erasing it.
Did I just go off on a mad friggin' threadjack?? Oh well, Im not erasing it.
No kidding. That's what, 2 or 3 seconds worth? You might as well put a little flag on there that sticks out and says "bang".
And I thought I was the only one that saw that movie
Let one Harrier from one section burp at your house and car with HE rounds and see if you start having a bad day or not.
Any more bullets and there wouldnt be enough gas to come play, you rarely get more than 1 maybe 2 passes from a Harrier anyway-they have enough gun. I hope the JSF can do a little more off a boat without tankers but who kows maybe the Osprey can do tanker duty.
Say what? You're confusing the gun with a FLIR "pod". Sniper competed for Navy ATFLIR contract (run by Boeing) for F/A-18 and lost. LMCO kept it alive, got an international sales effort underway and then got USAF interested in it as a LANTIRN replacement. The JSF "internal" arrangement takes the SNIPER components out of the pod and integrates them into the F-35 internally. No way it takes the place of the gun as suggested. It is a targeting device, not a kinetic weapon.