For 60 billion research cost, I want my LPI radar to be something like "a multi platform direct-sequence spread-spectrum radar...
Re: stress My bad if I wasn't clear enough in my post. He told me about the moment what happened to him 50 years ago, to me 15 years ago. And...
One look at my grandfather's eyes, after he told me how they ran out of ideas on how to silence a screaming and begging Russian prisoner in...
For Finnish air force, Gripen. The design goals for Gripen are exactly the same, that Finnish airforce actually needs. -The design mission...
The stealth difference between F-117 and F-22/35 is close to two decades. Modern signal processing made F-117 stealth less effective in the mid...
I was thinking about that when I wrote my post. I think none of the planes in the supporting packages would have survived the "AWACS killing trip"...
After F-111 and F-105 wouldn't that be a tad transparent? The rumour that I've heard goes, that back in the seventies, all black projects were...
USAF has started their F-117 Stealth Fighter retirement. There's currently 8 of the Nighthawks retired....
Bad wording. I blame the saturday evening beverages for that :) "Grand scale" means the age of how long the universe has been around and will...
As for cosmological standpoint, the cosmos is living its early 20s in human age. The first generation of stars has gone and we're now living the...
Yep, Ome_Joop, you are right. You people need to remember, that He-111 was a civilian transporter disguised as a bomber, while Ju-88 was a...
I've been trying to find the numbers for RAF and USAF 8th airforce to answer exactly that question, but to no avail. The most elusive figure is...
Yep, you're right, Allied (as well as Japanese, but not German) victories included strafing and damaged planes. Guess the reasoning behind was...
The list of the "superaces" that didn't make it alive is pretty grim. They flew alot and they died alot. Since I didn't have anything else to do...
Oh buggers, I made a biiig error there. Even though I said "Sorties/ per kill" in my text, I slipped a "K/S, Kills/Per sortie" in my actual list....
A quick look at the sorties/per kill ratios on different fronts: Hartmann: 352 kills and 1425 sorties, all East, K/S ratio 4.05 Galland...
Au the contraire, Majorwoody. Pilot rotation fought against a big deficit that the Luftwaffe (and the Japanese to the same extent) had: Rookie...
Sorties per kill ratio was pretty consistent between RAF, USAF and the Luftwaffe aces, so in comparison they're all at the same level.
Oh dang, I accidentally linked twice the same link, when the other link should have been this:...
I've seen a figure of 14 destroyed MiG-29s in the Balkan operations with 6 of them being shot down in the air. Acig.org shows 6 aerial...
