Oh nothing really just wanted to share

I struggle by with my 123.

 

Cajun Air Force?

 

I showed that to the WWII class at Purdue when I was a grad student.

"The Japanese originally planned to use a couple of really large dudes instead of risking their carriers."

 

I like the dude in the " bowler" hat !

 

Bowler Derby. (I had that pix projected on a movie screen for Purdue's WWI class one year.)

"The carrier attack was actually the second plan. The first one called for some really big dudes, kaiju level, to kick the crap out of the US Fleet."

 

Then why didn't they send Godzilla ??

 

Okay but I always thought they used the A-bomb as an excuse to cover up the fact Godzilla escaped his cage ?

 

Licensing issues, of course. They would had to send Gene Barry as well and nobody wanted that.

 

Gojira!!!!!

 

Ah So san. They just don't make movies like they use to. Miss seeing the wires !

 

For those that are interested:



With the unveiling of the B-21 Raider, speculation and interest in the new bomber have reached a fever pitch, with a first flight still to come in mid-2023.

But the B-21 won’t just be about the large, flying wing aircraft that rolled out in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 2. Air Force officials have frequently spoken about the Raider becoming the lead element of a so-called “family of systems,” and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has made defining that family of systems one of his seven “operational imperatives” for the department.

What exactly will be included in that family remains unknown, but a new research paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, informed by an unclassified workshop that gathered Air Force leaders, planners, and operators along with industry partners, offers some insight into what might be considered.

“What we haven’t heard much about is the family of systems that is going to accompany [the B-21]. Just dribs and drabs of information. So this report might actually help … get a handle on some of the capabilities that might be in that family of systems, including weapons, that could help reduce risk and increase the effectiveness of our combat forces,” said retired Col. Mark Gunzinger, the Mitchell Institute’s director of future concepts and capability assessments and a co-author of the paper.

The three-day workshop, held this summer, was meant in part to develop concepts for what the Air Force calls “autonomous collaborative platforms”—relatively cheap drones that can fly alongside manned aircraft, operating with some level of independence.

The most high-profile example of these ACPs has been the Air Force’s planned collaborative combat aircraft, intended mainly for fighters. But Caitlin Lee, one of the workshop’s leads and co-author of the paper, noted that in discussions with the Air Force Research Laboratory, officials have said they envision “a whole family of potential capabilities and a range of different mission sets that this could actually involve.”

The workshop was aimed at exploring one of those mission sets—the long-range penetrating strike mission that the B-21 will take on. Three teams of experts were tasked with designing up to three kinds of unmanned aircraft to aid the bomber in strikes against an air base, a maritime threat, and a transporter erector launcher in a hypothetical conflict with China in 2030.

In all three cases, no constraints were put on what kind of aircraft the teams could create, but none of them opted for an “exquisite unmanned fighter” or “exquisite unmanned bomber” that could match the B-21’s range, Lee noted. That’s in line with Kendall’s own comments this past July that the department had determined that a long-range uncrewed escort for the B-21 was cost-prohibitive.

Instead, the three teams created a mix of UAVs, most with a range of a few thousand miles, a few launched from other bombers. And the capabilities given to each varied as well—some designed to provide defensive counterair; others as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms gathering data; others for suppression of enemy air defenses; and still others as escorts.

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What Could Be Part of the B-21 ‘Family of Systems'? New Report Offers Some Insight | Air & Space Forces Magazine

 

Gamera crawling around on his knees.

 

Just for Schitt's and Giggles I took the online Mensa test. I was sitting here in northern Minnesota when it was Minus 25 degrees (minus 31.6 Celsius ) and was wondering if maybe there was something to the fact people said I was insane or put politely not that intelligent ! Missed my card by ten points. Should have considered taking more than Freshman Algebra in high school. The trigonometry tricked me up. But then again, I was in my Sixties and thought what the hell, at this stage of my life I'm not going anywhere. I was smart enough to not go outside, so that was a plus.