MarocMirage, I’m sure these aren’t the regular air bags you can find in your car…
I guess it is made of a very strong material.
Currently it’s only over the CH-53s…
The IDF/AF is testing for a few years a crash survival system for its CH-53s, based on air bags at the buttom of the helicopter. So far the tests are succesful.
Thanks Hyperwarp, but this picture is already my wallpaper for 4 hours before I saw your post 😀
Some more pictures of the Israeli fighters in Red Flag:
http://www.hydepark.co.il/hydepark/upload04/040829_133737-698_040829_032357-537_1047383.jpg
http://dlr.omgf.net/info/red_flag04-3_07.jpg
http://dlr.omgf.net/info/red_flag04-3_06.jpg
http://dlr.omgf.net/info/red_flag03-43_2.jpg
Some of these links might not work on first press, so just refresh them (F5).
I see.
Thanks again.
The Green Pine system can locate the real warhead. How?
I don’t know exactly, but the last test showed it can.
And remember that the Arrow got a kill zone of about 50m so if the missile releases decoys they will be destroyed too.
Thanks.
It’s something between one piece and two, as it has a frame but it’s not splited like today’s two pieces canopies.
Does anybody know how will the canopy of the production F-35s will look?
Will it be two pieces as now, or one piece as the F/A-22?
And, by the way, the article about the Python-5 is translated from the IDF/AF Magazine, so no place for claiming it’s unreliable.
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/air_missiles/python/Python5.html
Quating Israeli-weapons.com:
By definition, the Python 5 is considered to be a short range air-to-air missile, yet its range exceeds regular air-to-air missiles, and is more close to what is technically called BVR (beyond visual range) missiles. Those missiles can be shot upon targets which are not visually seen at the moment of launch, and are acquired by the missile itself during its flight path.
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If it really cant hit simple and 50s Scuds then i wonder how it would cope with modern BMs like the Iskander and many others, especially those fast ones.
As mentioned in the link I gave above, it wasn’t a Scud but an American SRALP target missile.
But again, the target missile’s type doesn’t have anything to do with the Arrow’s interceptor’s failure.
The idea behind the test was to discover whether the Arrow system can identify and lock on a war head spliting from its missile, and it did.
Some more info here:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/469946.html
The missile identified its target, the warhead, and started to approach it. It was only then the missile failed. The IAI currently believe something went wrong with the systems on the missile that were supposed to drive the missile to the route of interception of the missile.
Notice that it’s only a technical problem on the missile, the interceptor, and not a failure of the entire systems, that worked well. We hope to find the problem of the interceptor, and learn from our failures towards a better operational missile.
Ofcourse, but the ISA (Israeli Space Agency) was officialy established in 1983 😉