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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike
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vegita1220
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What if we mounted lots of deathrays on one? Then give it an AEGIS system to run its deathrays and BOOM we get an invincible dirigible. Oh wait, it might fight off a swarm of missiles but it can't do anything against a stream of 20mm cannon shells. There goes my idea.
kevin
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good point...how about sharks with frickin laser beams. they could attack the carriers and sink em before the planes could even take off. no wait, back to the original idea....i think the dirigible is too vulnerable. how about hot air balloons. the pilot could be equipped with the helmet mounted cueing system and a picnic basket full of grenades. 360 degree attack capability, baby!! that kind of reminds me of the guy who strapped 40 weather balloons to his lawn chair in an attempt to see if he could get off the ground. well he did, and and in the process dropped his bb gun that was supposed to act as "altitude control". he ended up at 16,000 ft and a steep fine for violating airspace.
How about this for enlightenment. If you can fly slower, the other guy will go out in front of you. So unless they can shoot out of their ass they quickly become a bullet sponge. Plus, the more AOA you can pull for a given airspeed the smaller your turn radius will be. This alows you to bring the nose (which, by the way, is the direction the weapons point) around more quickly to get a shot. So it seems that the ability to sustain high alpha in a fight is quite advantageous, especially fighting something that won't fly slow. Like an F-16. I would go to less airshows and read more about ACM if I were you.
Jedj
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outeez? not sure what that is, not trying to be condescending either. sarcasm, however, is part of life. Out of curiousity Patmack, how much flight time do you have. and do you have anything constructive to say about ACM tactics or are you just going to try and cut on those that you "think" have no flight time or experience reguarding the subject.
Ryoukai
The Chief doesn't like cheeky humor...at all
Lowslow, if you're the most sarcastic person you know...well, you must be quite the little socialite. Jedj, let's look at the two people discussing ACM here...we have a 15 year old kid and an instructor, now, of those two who do you think will know a bit more on the matter? I think senor Pat is just pointing that out.