the view put the super hornet almost looking straight down on the raptor. can someone actually read the data from the HUD.liked air speed and the position the F-18 is in?. also in the the first pic the altitude is at 1000 feets the second at 900 feets. is this correct?.

Here’s the enlarged Picture. The Red circle shows the altitude of 15,090ft. the Hornet is currently pointing down at ~30 degress as the yellow circles on the elevation ladder show. It’s also banking right as it’s dropping the nose to pull around on the Raptor’s tail. Opposite to Altitude indicator is the airspeed indicator (I didn’t circle it since it is right on top of the Raptor). Note that it shows how slow the Hornet is going- 183Kts. From the angle the Raptor is flying at it looks like he’s decending almost vertically.

Someone else asked if the blacked out square on the top left was the G meter. It’s not. The G meter is circled in Brown on the lower left. The top number is the current G, while the number below is the max G during the flight. As you can see, it’s already at 7.6, so this wasn’t just a cruise.

Sorry, my mistake, I was writing in a hurry…

Iran, of course. That is assuming they would be in a possesion of such device. But anyway, what effect would it create?

Not much. B-2’s are nuclear hardened since their original job was to deliver free fall nuclear weapons which would still leave them in the EMP effect range. They could potentially knock out some systems that were operating at the time and possibly make it a ‘mission-kill in that the crew couldn’t complete their mission, but it would not bring down the plane. They’d likely do more damage to their own country’s power and defense infrastructure than to a B-2 and leave themselves even more open to a follow-on strike (potentially with nuclear weapons since they used nukes againt us first).

So, the Iranian stealth wonderweapon is a copy of the ground effect skimmer I first saw in a Popular Science magazine back in ’92? We’re in trouble deep. :rolleyes:

Last one.

IIRC, these are actually the special ops outfitted MC-141’s.

Still one of the best -141 pics I’ve seen:

According to the USAF Website, there are 522 active F-15’s (A’s and C’s) in Active Duty and Air National Guard service.

There are 217 Mud Hens in active duty service at this time.

Edit- Crap… Bring it on brought it before I could.

Here are some pics from Syria, Dumayr AFB, An Nasiiryah AFB and Al Qusayr AFB.
I can’t recognize all of the aircraft types, so all of you, have a look and try to identify them.

The middle row looks like Mig-23’s. The top left, I’d say is a Su-17/20/22. The one above the bottom pic is definately Mig-25’s.

For a conventional aircraft, the rearward position of the wingtips would adversely affect stability when the AAMs were fired. Aircraft with wingtips near the Centre of Gravity don’t suffer from this. However, in the days of FBW, this should be fairly trivial to compensate for.

Rafale?