Could this be what President Trump was talking about, when he said “We have stuff the Chi-Com’s and Russia know nothing about.”
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking...e-fighter-jet/
Could this be what President Trump was talking about, when he said “We have stuff the Chi-Com’s and Russia know nothing about.”
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking...e-fighter-jet/
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
With the muddle that exists in his head--who knows. I am sure, whenever classified information is revealed to trump the "owners" of that information begin to pray that he either doesn't hear it, doesn't understand it and forgets it
To the more important part of your post---I'd like to know much more, but from my read of that piece some of that (actually a lot of that concept) has and is being done in private industry already. Done well it is a game changer---but Boeing has had a few stumbles along the way.
The mention of Musk was possibly more insightful than the author realized, and I am sure not wasted on the "old guard" builders of war planes.
It is a brave new world
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
What the new aircraft will deliver to the enemy is every bit as important as how it gets there...The AIM-9X spoken of in the article is a further refinement of the exact same AIM-9 (Air Intercept Missile) that I loaded under the wings of F-105's and F-4's over 50 years ago...Even then that missile was already 20 years old in its development...It may be the most successful air-to-air combat platform ever built...An intact unexploded AIM-9 became lodged in the fuselage of a Mig-17 which was recovered by the Chi-Coms who smuggled it out to Russia, where it was reverse engineered into their own version of the air intercept missile, the Vympel K-13...The Air Force is preparing to arm its F-35 with a new, all-weather course-correcting air-dropped precision bomb able to destroy moving targets from distances as far as 40 miles.Sorry to interrupt this important Trump bashing opportunity with any factual history, but you folks know how I am...Please continue......BenGennadiy Sokolovskiy, later chief engineer at the Vympel team, said that "the Sidewinder missile was to us a university offering a course in missile construction technology which has upgraded our engineering education and updated our approach to production of future missiles.
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
If it doesn’t have a tail hook it can’t go where the action is, quickly.
If it has been publicly revealed then "It" has been in service for years and the bad guys know about it. Just from my experience in the industry on the MFG supply chain side
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
So.. you were “an Ordie “ (Aviation Ordenanceman).. I heard an Ordie Senior Chief (E-8) state that his load crew deserved credit for mission success.. the Senior Chief pointed out to the pilot.. when you get a good pizza.. do you give credit and praise to the guy who made the pizza or the kid who delivered it?
We called it Weapons Maintenance, but we were all just gun plumbers, samo, samo...I started on a load crew, uploading then downloading nukes and conventionals on F-105's - b-o-r-i-n-g...I had a chance to crosstrain to Weapons Release when we transitioned to F-4's, then I could work on actual problems when the driver said, "bomb no workey"...A lot more fun, and less spitshine, but a lot more brainwork too......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
I think you are confusing him with Biden..
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...ed-information
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ult-to-mainta/
"Illegal Immigrant" is not a race....
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams