I think (hope actually) that it winds up like the F-111 and F-14. The F-111 was intended to serve as a interceptor and a long range bomber. The F-111 was a passable bomber and strike aircraft, but a terrible fighter. That lead to the F-14, which took the engines, radar and weapons intended for the F-111’s fighter…

To be fair, the Bradley has matured into a capable and reliable platform. Sure, the development was a clusterf*ck, and several different vehicles specifically designed for each application would have been better, but it’s not utterly useless. Even the much maligned Stryker that followed has it’s uses.

Awesome picture. I’d use this as a wallpaper if it was higher resolution.

I’ve heard reports that they’ve hired Ukrainians as maintainers for their MiGs, like most dysfunctional African nations do.

That’s a good question that I can’t really answer - by the time I joined the project, the touch screen type had been settled on and most discussion I heard about the touch screen type revolved around EMI issues with a capacitive system. The only thing I could think of is that the packaging of the laser/infrared…

I watched part of it’s development cycle, where fairly late in the game Boeing changed the decompression test spec from reasonable (which the previous design used in the KC-767 aerial refueling officer control/display unit passed without issue) to absurd. Touch displays operate in one of several ways. One of the most…

Fun fact - that is a touch screen. Do you know what’s hard to do with a touch screen that big? Make it survive explosive decompression tests. Ask me how I know.

California seems to ban everything fun, and tax the crap out of everything in the same time zone as fun.

Camouflage paint schemes and colored roundels need to make a comeback.

So, it’s like an Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar, but used as a communication antenna. Neat.

I’m not going to lie - that bugged more than the awful and forced love story.

A-wing goes here.

Without context, this would be terrifying to see.

This, though I suggest you go to a school rated engineering school, especially one in Michigan or nearby. I went to a well known school on the east coast, but they had no active relationship with the auto industry, so all of my harassing went nowhere.

He’s debating which part of it he wants to smash with a baseball first.

This reminds me of the current Focus wagon with a better nose. I love it.

Am I the only person who hates Alcantara? It’s looks so cheap to me, and I can’t imagine it wears well.

And now the Hungarians fly SAAB Gripens, which are about as off-road friendly as Western aircraft get. Speaking of, does the Gripen have any built-in FOD protection? I can't imagine they expect rural Swedish highways to be clear of debris, so I imagine they have some protection system in place.

Why take the engine out of the jet - just take the tail off and rock and roll! You can even use the cockpit as a control stand!

So...SpaceX can build a ship that can survive a rocket landing on it, but the US Navy can’t build a carrier that an F-35B can land on without melting the deck? Maybe we should be outsourcing more things to Elon Musk. /s