It’s really rare but I could swear I’ve seen it on some occasions.
The “SMALL” targets I’m talking about are invisible to the naked eye (I flew to some to find out what they were). You just fly past them and there’s nothing except air while they’re effectively standing in the air or slowly falling (like chaff). Or ghost targets are now detected and identified via NCTR :D
Anyway, as chaff should have a large RCS (larger than the plane carrying them) it’s curious that they’re displayed as “SMALL”.
First time I hear about a navalized EFT. I always assumed the front landing gear structure would be too weak to handle catapulting and hook arrested landings, at least not without some relatively major modification of the air intake
Yeah that makes sense. That’s one of the issue with this design of air intakes. Also the possible issue of FOD, idk if it’s that much of an issue on aircraft carriers but it looks like it’s a consequent danger on them as crews make 2 (?) sweeps of the deck everyday to check for them
