haniblecter
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Please, I know the article briefly compared it to the A10, but this example of interchangeable parts across teh "pond" will never touch the awesomeness that is the A10.
I've heard people argue that it was, but I've never seen hard specs for it published. A lot of the F-35's hard specs still are unpublished (to my knowledge.)Barbarian said:Let's just hope the X-32 wasn't the better airplane.
Nobody is comparing it to the A-10. It was pointed out that it can potentially have a loiter time similar to the A-10's, which is impressive. Nobody is planning to turn this into an A-10 replacement.haniblecter said:Please, I know the article briefly compared it to the A10, but this example of interchangeable parts across teh "pond" will never touch the awesomeness that is the A10.
Kurayami said:Nobody is comparing it to the A-10. It was pointed out that it can potentially have a loiter time similar to the A-10's, which is impressive. Nobody is planning to turn this into an A-10 replacement.
The A-10 is getting an upgrade, by the way. The first pictures of the A-10C pit were published a couple months ago.
Evil Light Bulb said:let's see them :]
I'll see if I can dig them up. I'm pretty sure that I saved them.Evil Light Bulb said:let's see them :]
Looks like Australia is wising up and going back to good old American equipment lately.Beren said:cool
No. I'm just a big fan of aerospace technology in general.Beren said:Kurayami - are you in the airforce, or plan on joining in the future? You seem to be plane crazy is all. Curious.
Geck0 said:I can't help but wonder where all this fly by wire shit will end up - it sounds as though the platform would be pretty fucked if it got compromised by a virus / EMP / some other crazy shit not invented yet.
Well, even an F-16 is going to be pretty fucked up if it gets hit by an EMP.Geck0 said:I can't help but wonder where all this fly by wire shit will end up - it sounds as though the platform would be pretty fucked if it got compromised by a virus / EMP / some other crazy shit not invented yet.
Geck0 said:I know it's been around for 20yrs. Did you read the article? It said that manual flight was impossible because of information overload. What I'm getting at is that in a situation where the source of all that information goes away, can the platform function?
Will it be flyable at all? If so, how much use is a platform that needs all that fancy targeting info if it's not getting any?
Kurayami said:Looks like Australia is wising up and going back to good old American equipment lately.
Then again, I seem to remember Australia being very interested in Britain's upcoming export Challenger 2 upgrade. Tsk tsk.
No. I'm just a big fan of aerospace technology in general.
Durak said:do you know how many fucking safeguards they have? the fly-by-wire system is probably triple-redundant, probably as well as the rest of the plane
Geck0 said:Oh stfu Durak, like you'd know what was in the fucking thing or how it worked.