What did Yeager say?

Why it does not match, Hercules Poireau would have said

A fine analysis by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

notice that in part of the Fr specialized web, the finger pointing game has started with the usual suspects (the Indian bureaucrats and the Amerikans).

I think it’s incremental as it’s has been pulled on the left. A latter project would have been more radical and perhaps too much to be conceived (understood) nowadays.

V24/7 a new tiltrotor unmaned project by Bell for the US Marines

“When I have V-22s in there, I have a 450-mile radius airplane, air refuelable,” Davis said. “I’ve got my F-35 that has a 450-mile radius and air refuelable. I have CH-53 (a heavy lift helicopter), which has about a 350-mile combat radius and air-refuelable.” Davis said. What the Marines need to go with those aircraft is an armed UAS with equal range and much greater endurance, he added..

“The normal sea base operates about a 12-hour day flight ops,”Davis said. “What I’d like to be able to do is, when I’m getting ready to secure flight ops, launch one of these beauties and it’s refuelable.”
Jon “Dog” Davis, Marine deputy commandant for aviation

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For now, Bell is calling this previously unrevealed tiltrotor the V-247, the numbers standing for the duration the Marines want one or more to be able to stay on station – 24/7. Bell plans to officially reveal the new concept at a Washington news event next month.

Source:
breakingdefense.com

Anatomy of a CV22 crash

nice and instructive read.

Crash safety feature is a must today. There are no reasons anymore that you’d enjoy better safety in a 20k$ Korean made car than on a 85M$ plane.

Source:
Aviation Week.com

Tomcat, the Syaaf kept on bombing Hasakah, US special forces nearby was relocated in another place, a cohomprensive agreement was mediates between the two parts by, guess who, the russians.

So, not a great micromanagement, it seems me.
Also because I didn’t get at all the part about f-16 wouldn’t get it: do you really think that the would have fired to an US plane whatsoever?

you are absolutly right to temper what I have said. I tried to outline basic concept here.
but two remark:
– isn’t the relocation more a prudent move? Yed
– have Syrian AF overflown US SF? No
– Was RuAF unable to counter the Su shotdown by the F16? No they adapted their tactics.

Also, US administration rely heavily on Ru mediation for several reason. One being that they do not want to be dependant of Assad’s agenda. They don’t need it and are better without on the contrary to the Russians.

Breaking havoc and sewing a foreign policy are today two distincts things. I am sure you regret the politic of the gun boat but some countries have reshaped their foreign policy and even evolved. An F22 give them increased lattitude to operate in the heavily contested scene of modern foreign policy.
Two days ago, a pair of F22 gave a clear sign to the Syrian regime that part of his own territory was none if his business! I am sorry but you don’t do that with an F16 (see Su24 shotdown), latest model, or a Rafale.

This what is all about tactical deterrence: a tool to micro-manage big foreign policies…