1. EOTS in fact has superior resolution to first gen Sniper ATP. There is a YT video which highlights the capabilities of the AAQ-40, tracking individual hotel windows in Vegas while some 40 miles away, and another which shows an AAQ-33 pod looking at aircraft on the ramp from around 12nm and the Sniper is noticeably…

The real issues here are two fold:

1. The USAF F-16s I know about are all vanilla Blk.50s, with the youngest tail number being from the 1990s. The 2000s era Blk.50+/.52+ are the ones which have the CFT structural hardening and plumbing built in. Methinks it would not be a simple mod and it would be an addition to a 20 year old jet which is already…

A pod must go on the centerline to have adequate FOR across the entire lower hemisphere without masking from the fuselage (See: F-18D with G5 Litenings in place of a centerline tank).

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You try and sing the economy of force hymn but then make the serial mistake of a ‘universal sermon’.

The navy has wanted out of the F-35 program since Greenert came onboard in the early 2000s. Losing 250 F-35Cs would be a crippling blow to the JSF program acquisition scalars. Yet anything other than this (as another multyear block buy of Supers) is putting PR ahead of combat capability when it comes to a BA…

Brimstone Hellfire/JAGM: 10-12km CEP = <.5m

It’s actually a very poor traditional tank design with a high silhouette courtesy of it’s IFV roots which, coupled to the added topweight of a full turret will make it not only easy to spot and hit but also very prone to rollover in elevated terrains.

You will not see a 737 doing SOJAM because 100nm is not enough to beat a 48N6E3 or a 40N6 missile. It needs to be remembered as well that the F-35 is going to come in 500nm, go feet dry, and then fly another 400nm to reach it’s target (more if AAR is available). It’s that over the beach part which basically…

That F-16AM is carrying 1,100lbs of CATM and maybe a centerline 310. The F-15 doesn’t appear to even have drill rounds (though the full screen magnification is not the best in my current setting) and it doesn’t mount a centerline which was all but mandatory in the glory daze of Bitburg/CNA.

It’s not paint. It’s not G-con. It’s an active light source. Look at it relative to the intensity of the exhaust plumes.

Never fails to amaze. Almost like a bad superhero movie. If a system doesn’t work because of X factor. Retire the system and start all over with new potential for failure in Y factor.

Which is why FFPs are illegal on any high risk program or one worth more than 25 million dollars because they in fact create both a Fraud In The Inducement Phase (unknowable unknowns) and a potential loss of capability which results in the government having to pay, twice, to keep the contractor base and/or redevelop…

Read _The Five Billion Dollar Misunderstanding_. Cheney was told, in a private briefing less than a week before the Congressional hearings, what the real figures were and his statement, from the witness stand of the subsequent trial, is nothing less than a CYA _lie_ based on the need for the government to not be…

Google, Northrop Grumman Firestrike Gamma. It's a 100KW SSL or Solid State Laser. It uses electricity passed through rare earth doped glass 'slabs' to create a very stable, very low acoustic threshold beamfront in comparison with equivalent (MTHEL, Nautilus, Guardian) Fluorine chemical equivalents. These 'slabs'…