neither Russia or the Ukraine would need to benefit from nor be involved in Pilgrim’s solution. There was no security around the MH17 crash site so if someone really wanted a piece of that airplane, they could have walked off with it. Choosing a piece of a Malaysia Airlines airplane ensures that any paint or other…

actually, the concept may have been 75 years too early, e.g., disparately needed computer flight assist, eh. My comment was in regard to the prototype’s inability to fly well (yaw problem, poor handling in turns) and the reality that the engine technology just couldn’t push the airplane much past 400 mph, which in…

Really good post. Situational awareness is the key element in surviving. The time to look around and see your way out is NOT when something starts happening. I'm a concealed carry licensed citizen and I believe that there's absolutely nothing wrong with a "get the heck out of Dodge" strategy.

...of course the track record of the XP-67 may have had some influence on that delay...

and if Lockheed could work in STOL as well, that would be great.

noticed that the A-4 and F-16 were both carrying wing tanks or pods. Was this to even up the fight for the F-35?

and there is the case of the ROKS Cheonan which was “sunk” in 2010. Supposedly, a NK type CHT-02d torpedo exploded under the boat and broke its back.

or based on the lead picture in the post, ended up on the rocks somewhere...

ah, a classic...

one of these days the people on the Korean peninsula are going to light the fuse and not be able to get to it quickly enough to put it out.

the big ass bumper with a winch hasn't been installed yet.

I always thought the camel was the “ship of the desert”

kind of like putting PSP on the sides of an APC...

Jerry, your second paragraph, “The a-10 can only survive in what is called permissive airspace e.g. Air dominance has been established...” isn’t new news. The A-10 isn’t an airframe meant to contest air superiority. It would be interesting to see where you got the details for the 25% CAS take-up and the medium…

Jerry, how did you come up with the $350m per Raptor cost? The flyaway cost in 2009 was $150m each. Are you adding in an updated engineering cost and manufacturing start-up (or resumption as some would say) cost to your airframe cost?

say it isn't so...

sheogorath, probably right. The Chinese will probably try to invade Taiwan as soon as any sort of large scale conflict pops in the area.

facw, good video, thanks. Yep, the guys who produced the QE video missed the boat on their depiction of the F-35B taking off. Aside from the engine nozzle not swiveling, they missed the lift fan intake opening up.

using a straight line measurement, and judging distances between Shanghai and the southern part of Korea (Kunsan AFB) or Taiwan (Taipei), its about the same as the distance from Okinawa to China. So, if the Japanese kick us out, is enough of an infrastructure in place that we could go to either one of these other…

tried to watch the video but the triumphant music just became overwhelming.