They removed most of the armor, guns, and avionics to make if faster and lighter. You're right about the parachutes.
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It was also clearly because they did not have a semiconductor industry tor other tech to keep pace.
LABS was standard for for many early nuclear attack aircraft, including the A-4.
V-2 could not reach orbit.
Vacuum tubes and mechanical gauges are highly resistant to EMP. The small yield of the weapons used against Japan also played a part. Russian jets, when inspected after the Cold War, were found to vacuum tube based avionics for this reason.pthe E-4b nightwatch uses some of these techniques to resist EMP.
Do you have a link... Or place to look. At this point I’d gladly except a job, though the main short term goal is just getting more exposure for my Kinja blog... http://jerryofgarcia.kinja.com/f-20a-a-tigers…
I’m not sure I’m qualified for a paying position but I would love to get a cross post. Some very so-so articles on FA get tens of thousands of hits in a day. My best posts get two thousand plus over a period of a month.
That's is awesome you really get the interrelation of all mammals.
Bat wings you say... http://jerryofgarcia.kinja.com/northrop-black…
There was talk of using these as drones... http://jerryofgarcia.kinja.com/b-58-hustler-c…
Here’s a post I did about the HH-43 fire fighting helicopter.
You’re right... Here’s some heavier stuff.