TomcatViPEurope has Stealth research by the bucket load, in production High Energy weapons (Rheinmetall) and tonnes of UAV experience. What Europe lacks is a huge black budget to develop things and keep them out of public scrutiny. So there are a few US UAV projects other than Predator/Reaper that are in production, plenty have died along the way.
Is the Avenger dead or has it gone black for example? Its just not a valid comparison.
BAE’s Mantis was rumoured to have been tested in an operational context before most of its AI went into the Taranis programme. And if we are talking about genuine UCAV designs where are all the acknowledged US and Chinese operational unmanned fast jets?
UK is not Eu. What have been achieved at a national level could not have happened at a Eu level. This is not an easy goal anymore. Period. By recurring to a partnership at Industrial level, perhaps on a step by step basis.
Look what happens now with a mandatory 50% share of work for the next generation UCAS. This is not what the Eu industrial project was for. There is no future for the R&D in Eu with that form of Socialist planing. We had Concorde that was a champion only seen through the eyes of centrally planned economy. There are no place for this kind of project anymore at the age of broadside worldwide competition… And certainly not with UCAV that will be procured as a PRODUCT for a variety of reasons. The dynamics does not allow the type of planing inherited from the ages of centrally planned economy.
Now what are the real motives for a partnership? Capital, national security interests and secured Industrial know how or capabilities.
At the age of a web based economy, when the most majority of products are sourced cross-countries and (as a related fact) defense posture are projected across the globe, what are the national interest with developing partnership only with co-geo located parker? NONE. It is in fact counterproductive to keep those kind of thinking at the age of mass migration, depleted resources etc…
Think global. Don’t feel hostage to the old world. If your partners in Eu are refracting to such ideas, don’t jeopardize your future.
Look at it with cold eyes today. It is sad that the Eu Union is a failed project. But the Unions of tomorrow are temporary aggregates (this does not includes the social, agricultural or heavy industry projects were close proximity brings obvious synergies.
Korea, Italia, Finland Australia, Canada (a country industry that can only rebound)… England can enjoy today a dominant position to seek alliances. I do not see why you should bargain. And contrary to what recently said the German Chancellor, it’s time for a bit of Brits arrogance!*
*I added Italy but the scheme is similar for that country
TomcatViPNice read. Thank you.
TomcatViPMoney and not seen as a priority.
Not seen as a priority, long ago, perhaps. No money, that’s not simply correct.
TomcatViPclearly a “shaped stealth disciple”
My ex would have say “Donuts shaped”… Dohooo 😉
Sorry didn’t read you clearly
TomcatViPIs there any particular reason why Europe has stagnated?
Dysfunctional R&D, cronyism, kickback culture, monolithic industrial landscape, lack of competition, lack of real incentives for private venture, no capital risk, vacuum of responsibilities or any critical bodies, absence of safeguards with the merging of private intelligence gathering and industrial competition, denial of evidences, willingness to structure the market around existing products…
Wew, the list is so long.
TomcatViPTomcatViPNot really mil news but how long time before we see a mil application of this scalable technology?
TomcatViPThere is one more thing, which is strange. Considering, that the fuel depot and helicopters are in fire at the same time, it is strange that the wind over fuel depot blow in the opposite way than the wind over helicopters place, which is few hundred meters away. And nothing is damaged in between.
That’s not correct. See the pic enclosed with this post
TomcatViPTo change to subject a bit, if Trump is elected would he cancel the F-35? Would he cancel the 3 variants? Maybe he would keep the B as there is no harrier replacement, and keep producing the SH, restart the F-22. Would the USAF be interested in the low RCS of the SH? How about making a land variant of the F-18? If they could make a new ‘land’ wing without the crappy canted pylon the SH wouldn’t be a draggy pig. Mmh don’t know.
I heard that Carter* as pleaded for a squadron or two of Rafales. The US Navy is also adamant to ditch the F35C for the Dassault design. In the interview, it was also reported that the A400 could found his way to Edwards. As stated, the cracks are a good way to prevent more OBOG related accidents and “there is anyway enough Crackheads in California to not hamper the statistics until we build the wall“. He summoned also the poor choice of the Navy, saying that, ergonomically, the central yoke did not fit as well their best pilot’s hands as the French jet does with its mini stick…
Source:
The Hotshot Heralds
*During the phone interview, the Trump like accent and language manner were strikingly noticeable
TomcatViPAn official from the Egyptian investigation team on Friday clarified that the beacon information was from the day of the crash, May 19, and that no new signal had been found. An Airbus official said he was unaware of any ELT received or given to the Egyptians.
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EDIT:
More informations (28th of May)
ELT, began radioing an automatic distress message at 2:36 a.m. local time, Lieutenant Jason Wilson, an operations support officer at NOAA, said in an email.
Five satellites relayed signals from the beacon to a ground station in Cyprus, said Wilson, whose agency monitors such distress signals, and a document prepared by the French government that was obtained by Bloomberg. The satellites provided a location of a probable crash site in the Mediterranean Sea that is accurate to within about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles).
[…]
A U.S. ground station in Maryland also was alerted that satellites had “received two bursts from the beacon, but was unable to make a location,” Wilson said in an e-mail.Encoded information in the distress signal linked it to the specific EgyptAir aircraft involved in the accident, Wilson said. Airlines and other users of ELTs register them with NOAA and other agencies that monitor the signals.
[…]
EgyptAir’s emergency signal came about six minutes after the plane stopped transmitting its location to radar at 2:29:33 a.m., according to the flight tracking website FlightRadar24.
So:
– the plane’s transponder stopped transmitting at ~2:30
– 6 min after, the ELT transmitted two bursts of signals that were identified by the ground stations before the signals was interrupted
We can asses either:
– A series of unknown events led the plane or the plane’s debris to take 6 min before reaching sea level from ~10kft
– The plane fall quickly to the sea and post impact, it took some minutes (~5min) for the ELT to activate itself (the ELT is generally activated upon impact, triggered by the deceleration force)
Note:
– there is a manual triggering system on the ELT
– It takes ~1min for a human sized debris to fall from 10000ft to the ground
– On PPrune, one poster signaled early that one ship seemed to have entered in a search pattern immediately upon arriving on Zone
PMS Burullus spent a day moving at a snail’s speed in a classic zig zag course coverign an area about 1Km by 1Km. Its position has not been updated for nearly 24 hours – at least on the “free” version of the tracker I have used.
TomcatViP[..]
Chances are that the Viper fleet will soldier on for a very, very, very loooong time, we kept the F-86 Sabre in active service till 1980, the F-16 will follow the same route (there will be Vipers flying with the USAF by the 2030´s, so…)
Don’t forget the Fiat G91!
The last G.91 was phased out and retired by Italy in 1995[…]
Portugal finally phased out the last of its G.91s in 1993.
Source:
Wiki
TomcatViPSearchers Detect Emergency Signal of EgyptAir Plane
Egyptian search teams have detected an emergency signal from the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804
the detection of the signal by satellite narrowed the search zone for the main body of the plane to a radius of about 3 miles.
CNN later sourced Airbus as the one who detected the signal
Earlier Bloomberg was briefed about how the ELT signal work:
An aircraft ELF emits a radio signal — separate to the flight recorder pings — detectable by satellite in the event of a crash, though the beacon wouldn’t normally function underwater
Note that if true, this is a quite lucky occurrence as the device emitting the signal is reported as not successfully separating from the plane upon impact 70%* of the time and does no transmit if immersed (read the MH370 thread). It has to be floating on a piece of debris.
The signals from emergency locator transmitters can be picked up by satellite. It is not immediately clear when Airbus received these signals, but they are more commonly identified a few hours after impact — not a few days later.
Source:
The Wall Street Journal
CNN.com
*from my memory only
TomcatViPWhy don’t they IOC with new built Block F instead of waiting for the conversion of early airframe?
TomcatViPNoticed today in the news:
Helgesson says challenges include deciding how to prepare pilots to operate the service’s future fleet of Gripen E fighters, as it will not acquire any two-seat trainer examples of the type.
or
Meanwhile, the air force’s fleet of eight aged Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transports – including a tanker – are being put through a service life-extension programme which is expected to conclude by 2021. This will enable the service to continue operating the aircraft until 2030, Helgesson says. Flightglobal’s Fleets Analyzer database records the Swedish airframes as being between 35 and 51 years old, with six in operational use.
How do you call in Swedish a 2b$ E-fantasy?
Source:
FlightGlobal.com
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