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2007-12-03 Science & Technology

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Posted by lotp 2007-12-03 12:04|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 . Bets are being made within the air force concerning ~~how long it will take~~ for how long the Chinese ~~to steal~~ have stolen this new technology.

Fixed for you.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-12-03 12:15|| 2007-12-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd say they'll have it delivered within 24 hours of Hillary taking office.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-12-03 13:01|| 2007-12-03 13:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm ignorant abou the details by why not design the plane so that the bomb pop out the back into the plane's wake rather than planes belly. It's not as if we're using primitive targetting sites, it shouldn't matter from that point of view where we dump it and I find it hard to imagine the wind sheer pushing the bomb forward, back into the plane the way it might from below.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-12-03 13:30|| 2007-12-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, if the Enterprise-D can separate the saucer section at warp speed, I don't see why this is such a big deal...

Posted by Raj 2007-12-03 13:56|| 2007-12-03 13:56|| Front Page Top

#5 rjs, there are aerodynamic and center of gravity considerations. Plus you would probably require an auto-feed to poop them out one at a time from the pointy rear of the AC. Could it be done? Probably, but I wouldn't want to be flying that AC as the bomb load rolls to the rear, 500 or a 1000 lbs at a time.

In addition you would have to design an entirely new AC to handle all of this at supersonic speeds. Not cheap!

Posted by Throger Thains8048 2007-12-03 13:58|| 2007-12-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Out the back's been done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-5_Vigilante

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-12-03 14:03|| 2007-12-03 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Yup. But not in a stealthed airframe.

Posted by lotp 2007-12-03 15:20|| 2007-12-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Not that long ago, there was a report that the JDAM guidance package has been refined so you can now drop accurately from sixty to a hundred miles out from the target and 'way high up.

Combine that with this, and you concievably could have a weapon released at Mach 2 from a long ways away and have it glide in for maybe a couple hundred miles on pure inertia--and hit within fifty feet of the aim point.

Ooooh. Nasty!

Posted by Mike 2007-12-03 15:29|| 2007-12-03 15:29|| Front Page Top

#9 The Viggie also had a problem that sometimes they would drop the (nuclear) bomb, and it would just follow along behind the aircraft, stuck in the slipstream.
According to Wikipedia, sometimes the bomb would fall out and land on the carrier deck during a catapult launch.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-12-03 15:42|| 2007-12-03 15:42|| Front Page Top

#10 TASER-capable/armed "FLYING SAUCERS".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-03 22:29|| 2007-12-03 22:29|| Front Page Top

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