mattOriginally posted by crobato
You can probably do 10G on an ME-109 by diving to maximum speed, then suddenly pulling the nose up for the steepest and tightest turn possible, and the plane might just disintegrate right there.
No you couldnt because the Aircraft would have stalled before it go to a stage where it can pull 10g iirc.
mattOriginally posted by crobato
It seems to me you really don’t know what G rating is. You seem to think its a measure of maneuverability, but boy oh boy, you’re erroneously grossly missing the mark. G limits are expressed within the context of the aircraft’s weight.
Also hint at the turn rate or mouvres an aircraft can carry out, please read up on this it might help you.
mattSorry but does hollywood have style?
and yes it is getting rather annoying to see these movies, my favs are always the ones no matter what country the film is in the good guys are always have an american accent and the bad a British one, even if the good guy was British in the film.
mattSorry but does hollywood have style?
and yes it is getting rather annoying to see these movies, my favs are always the ones no matter what country the film is in the good guys are always have an american accent and the bad a British one, even if the good guy was British in the film.
mattI dont understand this, they might use principles they learnt on the yak 130 but theirs no real need to keep the airframe, to make a combat aircraft they might be better of by starting on a clean sheet and only using some of the parts from the 130 like its landing gear and actuators etc etc..
mattOriginally posted by google
Not a Chinese ICBM- besides, the DF-41 was cancelled. Furthermore, this is an AVIATION FORUM!:mad:
How do u tell the difference???
not questioning u , ur prolly right but how did u tell ?
mattSingapore army, air force may use training facilities in India
02/04/2004 at 07:18:42
Date line: NEW DELHI
Singapore will be able to use Indian territory to train its air force and army personnel, in the first such arrangement India has worked out with any country, a diplomatic official said Friday.
The plan was finalised when Defence Secretary Ajay Prasad met his Singapore counterpart, Peter Ho, in the city state last week, the official, who did not wish to be named, told AFP.
The move would signal growing closeness between the two countries and ease Singapore’s problem of having insufficient territorial area to carry out armed forces training.
“New Delhi was asked if Singapore could conduct their training exercises in India and the green signal was given,” another diplomatic official said. “The first exercises for Singapore’s air force will be in October.”
The defence and foreign ministry spokesmen declined comment.
India and Singapore have also agreed to conduct joint military exercises, one diplomatic official said.
Both officials said a fleet of five Singapore fighter aircraft could be allowed to train in Gwalior in central India where India and the United States staged joint aerial combat exercises last month.
Singapore’s army could also be allowed to train in Pokhran in the western desert state of Rajasthan where New Delhi detonated five nuclear devices in May 1998, the official said.
Bilateral defence ties have grown steadily since the mid-1990s with regular exchanges of visits by ministers and high-level military officials.
The two sides’ navies have since the mid-1990s been exchanging information on gun-running, piracy and narcotics trafficking.
mattNavy to ‘lose two carriers’ in cutbacks
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 01/04/2004)
The Royal Navy is to lose two aircraft carriers after Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, lost his argument with the Treasury, defence sources said last night.
The ships will be “withdrawn from operational service” amid attempts to cut the defence budget. They will be moored at Portsmouth before being sold, the sources said.
“We will stand them down, which means they’ll be held in operational reserve,” one said. “They are not going to be scrapped, they can be up to full readiness within 50 days. In the long-term they will be sold but in the short-term they could still be needed.”
The two vessels to be withdrawn are Illustrious and Invincible. Ark Royal, the newest of the carriers, is to undergo routine maintenance. It will be kept on, contrary to reports that it is to be permanently mothballed.
The carriers are just the first of a series of cuts, the sources said. A number of other pieces of equipment will go as the MoD seeks to save up to £1 billion to address cash problems caused by a new accounting system and the Iraq war.
Despite assurances from the Treasury that the war will be funded in full, the MoD had to borrow £500 million from budget funds due to be paid out on the Eurofighter programme to cover short-term costs.
The money was borrowed in the belief that the Eurofighter programme would be delayed but there were no delays and the MoD now needs to find the money. The MoD dismissed any suggestion that two carriers were to be removed from service. But the sources said there was an urgent need to cut some existing equipment to save new programmes.
Mr Hoon told the Commons Defence Committee yesterday that “difficult choices have to be made between existing equipment and equipment we will need in the future.”
He also refused to rule out any cuts in the number of infantry regiments, amid widespread rumours that Scottish regiments, including the Black Watch are to be scrapped.
There would “inevitably have to be adjustments in numbers” and to give “an absolute blanket assurance would not make sense”, he said. It also emerged during the hearing that the new £200 million Defence Medical Centre in Birmingham is to be scrapped.
Sir Kevin Tebbit, the head of the MoD, told the MPs that this was “the result of a reprioritisation of defence medical services” and not a result of the need to make cash savings.
Discussions with the Treasury on the MoD’s budget shortfall were continuing, he said. However, defence sources said that there was no sign of any new money rather than a continued commitment to extra funding announced two years ago and already taken into account.
mattOk if you say so, although i am pretty suprised..
and what project was “Russia” talking about when it said it was good to co-operate due to HAL’s foot in the composite door? (just curious)
mattOriginally posted by aerospacetech
Russia has the software and expertise to calculate RCS. They have experience in RCS reduction using RAM to treat hot spots, and have designed several reduced-RCS aircraft.I would say they could indeed design the shape of a stealthy fighter. However, I don’t believe that the required accuracy and quality of manufacturing is achievable without a lot of investment in tooling, etc. They are also lacking in experience of composite materials.
Dont be so sure on the last count, I doubt the Russians are that far behind any one in terms of composite materials.
mattThe JSF is not necessarily heavy due to stealth and the F/A/B/C/X-22 (or what ever designation is needed to pass it through congress) maybe have issues unknown to us..
Stealth is usefull but its not the be all and end all…it iINT the all encompassing all power full omnipotent (hmm LOL..getting carried away here..)..other things do account for something, and you have to realise that the situation has changed, no longer does the US need to Ensure that it can penetrate Russian defences and visa versus if a nuclear holocaust is to occur….
mattWhat about the Mig 1.4 i am sure that , that aircraft will have a lot of input, i mean if the tech it had was obsolete then it would have been presented in some musuem would it now?
what did the mig 1.4 offer?
mattIf they are built localy in India then a bit of the money would be pumped..
mattIndian airforce chief’s “goodwill” France visit to buy warplanes: report
30/03/2004 at 14:17:32
Date line: NEW DELHI
India’s Airforce chief is scheduled to visit France next month amid reports that he will seek additional Mirage-2000 jets to replace the country’s ageing fleet, officials said Tuesday.
Defence ministry officials described chief S. Krishnaswamy’s Paris trip from April 3-9 as a “goodwill visit”, but The Times of India said his talks would focus on the outright purchase of 18 Mirage-2000 jets, to be followed by the licenced production of 108 units in India.
India has already finalised the acquisition of 10 second-hand Mirage-2000 jets from Quatar, but the airforce, which will soon be ditching a section of obsolete Russian-made MiG-21s, is desperate to bolster its combat capabilities, the officials said.
The airforce, the world’s fourth largest, has acquired two squadrons or 24 of the latest Sukhoi-30 MKIs from Russia and is preparing to manufacture 140 more, but it needs smaller combat planes to fill the vacuum that will be created with the phasing out of MiG-21s, experts said.
Earlier this month, the airforce clinched a 1.45-billion-dollar deal with the British Aerospace for the acquisition of 66 military trainer jets that can be used in combat.
mattIndia test-fires two anti-aircraft Sky missiles two minutes apart
29/03/2004 at 13:29:51
Date line: BHUBANESWAR, India
India on Monday twice test-fired medium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles within two minutes of each other from a site in the eastern state of Orissa, a defence official said.
One Akash (Sky) missile was fired from a mobile launcher at 3.55 pmin India’s Chandipur-on-sea testing site, 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of Orissa’s state capital Bhubaneswar, the official said.
Another indigenously-built Akash was fired at 3.57 pm (1027 GMT) and successfully hit a target that was air-dropped from a military aircraft, the official added.
Monday’s tests of the 650-kilogram (1,430 pound) Akash bring the number of times it has been test-fired so far to eight. It carries a 50 kilogrampound) warhead and is designed to travel 25 kilometres (15 miles).
India’s other anti-aircraft missile, the Trishul (Trident), can deliver a 15-kilogram warhead up to nine kilometers.
The Trishul has also been tested eight times and will soon enter mass production.
Both the Akash and Trishul form part of India’s ambitions to develop an air defence and assault system that also includes a 5,000-kilometre (3,100-mile) ballistic missile that can transport a one-tonne nuclear warhead.
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