the most shitious aesthetics of any airplane (operational or prototype) at least in my lifetime. I remember a few years back I started a thread about the ugliest planes....
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F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)
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See picture.
And jmcquate you can actually do some damage with a sonic boom, don't know if you can kill a man but at least you can break his china
Profile seen... looks barren, is that your point?
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He was telling Tomsonx to look at pourts' and jmcquate's profiles.
I think the point is that your 5 gun pod idea isn't particularly well informed.
If it works....it works
http://sgp1.paddington.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1536.asp
SQUADRON COMMANDER PAUL: We requested that an aircraft, an F14, come and do a low fly in order to break the sound barrier. The effect of this was a sonic boom - a massive explosion. We actually thought he had detonated ammunition inside the facility. That wasn't the case. It broke in several windows. And the result was that people came running out with their arms up.
I'm not an engineer and I've never flown a plane (let alone a fighter jet) so you could say my idea isn't well informed. But just looking at it, it doesn't seem too far off to think about attaching more, maybe smaller gun pods to the other external hard points. With the Air Force version that would be a total of 6 guns.
Again I'm not a pilot so I'll admit I don't know how practical that would be but I think it would be a cool sight to see, almost like a throwback to those WWII planes where they just had 6 guns built into the wings.
You kind of redeemed yourself with the funny picture, and then you started talking about the 5 gun pods again. I know, I know, other people kept bringing it up. But for your own sake just drop it.
On a side note, has anyone else ever been in a foreign country and had some locals from said country try to extort money from the US government by claiming "sonic boom damage" after they saw US fighter jets flying around? Even if said jets were at 20,000'. Even though photos showed the "sonic boom cracks" had multiple layers of cobwebs inside them. Just curious.
The hard points are for when you would not need 'low observability', like Afghanistan or after and IADS is destroyed/degraded.
Any time we fly near any kind of foul farm (chicken, pheasant, etc) the local Base Ops gets to write a check for ever dead chicken in that guys pen. It's so prevalent at Rucker that they've established a 1km RAZ around any and all chicken coops and for those of you that have never flown over southeastern Alabama that's about every other damn farm.