TriggerTreats

4/6/15

Because everything that makes that Super Eagle a Super Eagle - the avionics, the FBW, the built in IRST, the TV - makes it almost as expensive as an F-22, but it'll still be just as vulnerable to SAMs as 35 year old legacy Eagle would be.

Edit: I don't think you can put F119 engines in an F-15, the engine bay in the…

4/6/15

Democrats didn't kill it, Secretary of State Robert Gates did because he kept telling us that the F-35 was soooooo much cheaper and could do the same job as the F-22 just as well as the Raptor could.

4/6/15

Air power, be it a supersonic bomber or a piston-engine open cockpit biplane, doesn't determine the outcome of a COIN.

4/6/15

This program was notoriously bungled by the Air Force and the DoD, and what should have been a high-priority, rapidly procured capability, turned into just another big stumbling defense program, with losing contractors challenging the winning contractor decision time and time again.

3/27/15

3/19/15

Why is this song used in so many GoPro videos?

3/17/15

50 years to develop the V-22?

OK, so the XV-3 convertiplane began the test flight research into tilt-rotor technology between 1955 and 1962. The program that begat the XV-15 was started by NASA in 1971 to test and evaluate the concept's high speed performance over conventional helicopters. There were two competing…

3/10/15

Not to get too far into the upcoming post, but how delayed? If the weapon won't reach IOC until 2017 (a year after F-35A reaches IOC, a year or two before F-35C's IOC and the F-35B total force is a fraction of a fraction of the total US air power, plus they don't even have their full force of F-35Bs delivered as of…

3/10/15

Crucial hardware within the F-35B's weapons bay interferes with the full contingent of eight SDBs being carried, thus the bay needs to be redesigned to accommodate this very necessary loadout. As a result, the F-35 program has delayed the integration of this key weapon as a whole until 2022, at which time…

2/19/15