F35 vs. A10?

[heydaralon]

Nobody can flatten out a can full of Moebius strips, in any dimension it seems.

Have you ever seen Lost Highway?

One of my favorite Hank songs. Did they make a movie or TV show about it?

David Lynch movie from the 90's. Has one of my favorite covers of all time.



Great film, check it out. I learned what a Moebius strip was from watching it.

[Fife]

Yeah I was kidding. Suicide bombers are actually pretty funny. Good movie.

I learned about moebius from my Childcraft books. I remember making my first strip like it was yesterday. When did they stop publishing Childcraft anyway?

[heydaralon]

Yeah I was kidding. Suicide bombers are actually pretty funny. Good movie.

I learned about moebius from my Childcraft books. I remember making my first strip like it was yesterday. When did they stop publishing Childcraft anyway?

Well before I was born, because I've never heard of it. I was born in '90 and I don't know our age difference, but in between when you were a child and when I was one.

[Speaker to Animals]

USN realizing they are really fucked hard with no real air superiority fighter.

“Another type of new aircraft required is an air superiority fighter,” states a recent Hudson Institute report titled Sharpening the Spear: The Carrier, the Joint Force, and High-End Conflict , which is written by The National Interest contributors Seth Cropsey, Bryan McGrath and Timothy A. Walton. “Given the projection of the Joint Force’s increased demand for carrier-based fighter support, this capability is critical.”

The report notes that both the Super Hornet and the F-35C are severely challenged by new enemy fifth-generation fighter aircraft such as the Russian-built Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA and Chengdu J-20. Indeed, certain current adversary aircraft like the Russian Su-30SM, Su-35S and the Chinese J-11D and J-15 pose a serious threat to the Super Hornet fleet. It’s a view that shared by many industry officials, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and even U.S. Marine Corps aviators. “Both F/A-18E/Fs and F-35Cs will face significant deficiencies against supercruising, long-range, high-altitude, stealthy, large missile capacity adversary aircraft, such as the T-50, J-20, and follow-on aircraft ,” the authors note. “These aircraft will be capable of effectively engaging current and projected U.S. carrier aircraft and penetrating defenses to engage high value units, such as AEW aircraft, ASW aircraft, and tankers. Already, the F/A-18E/F faces a severe speed disadvantage against Chinese J-11 aircraft, which can fire longer range missiles at a higher kinematic advantage outside of the range of U.S. AIM-120 missiles. ”

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-b ... -the-25206


Maybe it's time for an F-14X too..

[StCapps]

J-20 can't hang with F-35, what a complete load of horseshit.

[Speaker to Animals]

Wow. You must be a speed reader to get through that whole article so fast.

Also, you wouldn't know what any of those jets are if they bombed your mother's basement from 200 feet. Stop pretending like you know fuck all about jets.

[Smitty-48]

I don't get J-20, canards on a stealth jet makes no sense.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don't get J-20, canards on a stealth jet makes no sense.

LOL, what??

What difference does it make to stealth if the thing has canards in the forward fuselage or stabilizers in the aft fuselage? You need those control surfaces in either place.

[Smitty-48]

Those canards are not stealth. It's not a stealth fighter, it's fake.

[Speaker to Animals]

In general, there is a design theme in which engineers go with more instability in flight in order to get better maneuverability. That's what they seemed to have done here. The Russians did some of this back in the 1990s as well. American designs typically don't do that at all.