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Electrical Power Flows Into First Lockheed Martin F-35

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Posted by DanNY 2005-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cool.
I have nothing to do with the airplane itself, but make the weapons that go into it.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-09 00:06|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-09 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Cool.
I have nothing to do with the airplane itself, but make the weapons that go into it.

damn...I'm a Civil Engineer - I build the targets, as they say

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-09 00:07|| 2005-09-09 00:07|| Front Page Top

#3

The Engineer knows a great deal about very little, and spends the course of his education and career learning more and more about less and less.

The Architect knows very little about a great number of things, and spends the course of his education and career learning less and less about more and more.

The General Contractor is a person who starts his career knowing just about everything about anything, but winds up knowing absolutely nothing about anything due to his association with Engineers and Architects.

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Posted by Gregori GC Spembelov 2005-09-09 02:23|| 2005-09-09 02:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Jackal-
I was USAF Ammo - everything fron nail-driver carts to Mk84s - what do you work on?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-09 07:11|| 2005-09-09 07:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike:
SW Engineer for Raytheon. I (plus a few hundred other people) do integration with the platform. I am currently working on the AIM-120D AMRAAM, plus some AIM-9X, and a couple other things. I used to do Maverick and HARM.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-09 09:35|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-09 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Love your work on the "Slammer" (AMRAAM) and look forward to the live fires (at live targets) of the 9X!

Also, I have seen some Raytheon billboards here in Colorado Springs. You located here, or somewhere else?

Posted by mmurray821 2005-09-09 10:17|| 2005-09-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 typical dry irony, Spembel!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-09 10:52|| 2005-09-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Right now, I hypothesize the eventual creation of a huge UAV air fleet, faster, more maneuverable, and more heavily armed than any comparable manned aircraft, and hopefully cheaper. Cheaper is very important, because unlike manned aircraft, UAVs should retain the essential character of being expendable.

But here is the irony. On top of that huge fleet of UAVs, wisdom demands that you also have a moderate number of very high performance *manned* aircraft. The UAVs play "the numbers game", and the manned aircraft pull off the "hat trick" missions, of which there are always plenty around.

The ultimate UAV is one that can be made on a rapid assembly line. One that could be made as fast, and in as great a number, as automobiles.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-09 11:21|| 2005-09-09 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Like Haliburton, Raytheon is everywhere.

Now if I could just get the darned browser cookie to stay right. (I disable 3rd-party ones, but allow regular ones.)

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-09 12:39|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-09 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Gregory Spembolov sounds an awful lot like Shipman to me. What catagory do I fit in? I'm a former Architect who now does Chemical Engineering. I also greatly admire your work, Jackal.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-09 13:47|| 2005-09-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 The ultimate UAV is one that can be made on a rapid assembly line. One that could be made as fast, and in as great a number, as automobiles

It's being done, at an R&D level already.

Small, composite-based, flexible manufacturing w/ 3-d cad so very limited expensive machining and molds ... makes anything from small to very big production runs cost-effective.

Posted by lotp 2005-09-09 15:06|| 2005-09-09 15:06|| Front Page Top

#12 That wasn't me DB, you'll note the sytax was flawless.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-09 17:16|| 2005-09-09 17:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Jackal-
My compliments, Sir! I saw the gun camera footage of the end results of your handiwork over the Balkans a few years back..the Slammer is one sweet weapon! Didn't get to see -9X, but would give anything to get up close to one for a few. Worked on and maintained Mav and HARM, and again they were impressive and lethal weapons.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-09 20:51|| 2005-09-09 20:51|| Front Page Top

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