fraud hornet talk to me when you get above 1.00 TWR
true king
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TWR(ratio) ratio is for babies, just slap more missiles on it.
F18 is nothing more than a Imitation of a masterpiece
If the hornet wasnt good why did they make a sequel to it?
cause they had nothing else F18 was a stop gap to hold on till F35 came out
The f35 isnt sexy
no it is not F22N would be cooler
You might as well say the x wing would have been cooler
its just a F22 with variable wings and tougher gear and other carrier landing kit
Basically an X wing
how ?
Flys
What’s that? F-24 Raptorcat?
Amazing design !!
Isn’t variable geometry antithetic to stealth ?
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If you wanna go into the semantics all stealth aircraft originate from a soviet paper from the 60’s or 70’s on Wave scattering that the soviet leadership disregarded as a gimmick (great mistake)
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yeah the prorotype? and first f22 prototype " YF-22" 1990 so… 20 year diference…
and first f22 prototype " YF-22" 1990 so
It’s extra stuff you have to be careful about when designing the aircraft. More interactions between wings and stabilators/rudders, more gaps to take care of, besides all the extra maintenance that made the F14 extremely expensive to fly.
you could optimise the variable geometry to specific flight regimes
so you could put a focus on high speed BVR when the wings are all the way back and make it as stealthy as possible there and dont focus as much on when the wings are fully forward which will only happen on take-offs and landings and during WVR fights and imo you dont need a stealthy aircraft for landing or WVR