Military Plane discussion thread - Let’s talk Fighter/Attacker planes.

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

Speaking of military aircraft, the next generation B-21 Raider is being revealed today.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Speaking of military aircraft, the next generation B-21 Raider is being revealed today.

That sure is something

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

That sure is something
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This is literally a flying saucer.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

I will say, the B-21 seems to have had a relatively untroubled development so far. That is in comparison to the more recent aerial acquisitions programs such as the clusterfucks that were/are the V-22, F-35, or the CH-53K. From what I have heard through the grape-vine, the B-21 program seems to be using traditional and effective engineering regime, not whatever the fuck the Nu-Concurrent Engineering regimes used in the building of the Ford Class and all this other shit was/is. So that is promising.

All that said, this aircraft has not yet even had its first flight. That won't happen for many months, deep next year is likely. At the earliest, it won't deploy until towards the end of the decade. This is not a publicly revealed a few months before bombing Panama situation like with the F-117.

Now that it is moving to flight testing, and final prototyping, it will be interesting to see if this devolves into a shit-show too, or if it bucks the trend.

 

[Fools Idol]

the B-21 program seems to be using traditional and effective engineering regime,

Is it? I read that the B-21 was fully digitally designed like the new Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Let's not talk about planes and instead talk about lighter than air aircraft.

WW1 observation balloon

German height climber, as a submarine is to water a height climber is to air

WW2 American naval airship, these used for submarine hunting
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Civil War hot air balloon (observation too)

 

[NerdShamer]

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[Buttigieg2020]

I like the white paint jobs on prototypes now.

 

[The Un-Clit]

I like the white paint jobs on prototypes now.

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Looks like it has canards. This bad boy is clearly built for agility and looks to be more of a successor to the f-22 then anything, though with its own squadron of drone wingmen. Air-to-air combat in the 2030s-50s is gonna be very video gamey methinks.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Looks like it has canards. This bad boy is clearly built for agility and looks to be more of a successor to the f-22 then anything, though with its own squadron of drone wingmen. Air-to-air combat in the 2030s-50s is gonna be very video gamey methinks.

It does have canards and it explicitly is an F22 replacement. I hope it’s a twin seater, or the whole drone control aspect will be difficult.

 

[User names must be unique]

I hope it’s a twin seater, or the whole drone control aspect will be difficult.

I think the plan in GCAP (the bong/jap/wop project plane) is to have advanced auto pilot control the fighter while the fighter pilot assigns duties to the drones.

But they also say they're going to put directed energy weapons on the thing so who fuckin' knows, they'll have it make you dinner, suck your dick and tuck you into bed if they can get some more investor nations.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

I like the white paint jobs on prototypes now.

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>glue together some hunk of junk
>call it “sixth gen”
>scare Americans
>they build an actual sixth gen fighter
>steal the data to make a real sixth gen fighter
Arr part of da pran

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

i made a stealth fighter in ksp

well, it only has room for 3 missiles internally, couldnt cram any more retractable hardpoints without fucking it up

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[The Un-Clit]

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Literally the one thing that would make me side with mudslimes would be Israel taking out all of the last F-14s still flying.

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[The Un-Clit]

Fuckin eye-ranians managed to shoot down an F-15E. Unfortunate, especially when Drumpf claims total air superiority over Iran, but not completely unexpected. It's a mighty plane both offensively and defensively, but it's not invisible nor indestructable. Some times, some things will get through. One crew recovered so far, the other is still being looked for by both sides.