yeah, a million cruise missiles pissed away on cellphone towers, totally worth it

Or HARM. Means to an end. Using SAMs against cruise missiles is just as unrewarding in terms of cost exchange. I also suspect the antennae aren’t that cheap and cell phone towers certainly aren’t.

I didn’t think ships ran on coal anymore.

What is this?

What they should have made instead of Eurofighter.

Wind tunnel model of a British Aerospace design meeting the Future Carrier Borne Aircraft (FCBA) and JAST requirements. Fact it’s ‘British Aerospace’ and not ‘BAE SYSTEMS’ indicates pre-99.

On a side note I noticed HMS Duncan has had two quad Harpoon launchers fitted when shadowing the ships.

Yeah, the harrier in flight is fugly (especially the sea harrier)

But the Harrier GR4/9 get a much a higher score in “originality” and “coolness” because it is not a boring design like the su-25

The Su-25 flies like a brick though. It shakes above 800kph.

Photonic radar is when insead to product radio waves using a klinstron or a TWT a laser is used to produce photons and they are converted into them once they reach the radiating elements. Something they used the acronim PhAESA photonic active elecronically scanned array but they tend now to drop the active as radio waves are not generated directly.
It seems to sport enormous avantages above actuals ones.
First of all it is Software definited: A,C, L, X or K band emission all from the same radar.
Add an extremely crisp signal also a great distances, with an image like resolution and a complete elimination of the ambient noise.
Several thousand of signals emitted in a tenth of second, so to gain both doppler beam sharpening and LPI at the same time.
Putting all of those things together, a real scourge for stealth planes.
And worst to all, actually we just had the first one of them operational.

http://www.phodir.eu/

http://www.ircphonet.it/research/publication/private_pdf/papers_621.pdf

So if they’re using photons, is that the same as quantum radar, or is that different because that uses quantum entanglement of photon pairs.

Su-25 more elegant in flight than a Harrier. The Su-25 isn’t even much more elegant than an C-130.