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Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Should've gone to a 4dx theater.

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Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
An F-15 with Phoenix missiles?

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

well that'll never work, it's upside down!

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Radar cross section trainer. Huh, I didn't know that was how they did that.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Phil Moscowitz
Feb 19, 2007

If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

...because I was inverted

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

ded posted:

An F-15 with Phoenix missiles?

The brown/white missile up front is an AIM-4 Falcon...I never knew they were mounted on F-15s. The dark-bodied missile is the AIM-7 Sparrow. I don't know what the white w/dark nose is, I'm guessing some kind of ECM pod but I can't see enough of it to figure it out.

That's a weird setup...it looks like an F-15A with conformal compartments?

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Godholio posted:

The brown/white missile up front is an AIM-4 Falcon...I never knew they were mounted on F-15s. The dark-bodied missile is the AIM-7 Sparrow. I don't know what the white w/dark nose is, I'm guessing some kind of ECM pod but I can't see enough of it to figure it out.

That's a weird setup...it looks like an F-15A with conformal compartments?

I don’t know what they are, but I’m pretty sure those outboard missiles are NOT Falcons. Falcons have a detached trailing fin and much smaller forefins than that. They’re twigging my memory hard, but I can’t find a cross reference.

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?
Here's another angle, if it'll help anyone:

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Found it.

GBU-15

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

I wonder why they're not presenting the turbine fan blades in the engine nacelles? I thought those were a pretty important part of RCS?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Force de Fappe posted:

I wonder why they're not presenting the turbine fan blades in the engine nacelles? I thought those were a pretty important part of RCS?

I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

MrYenko posted:

I don’t know what they are, but I’m pretty sure those outboard missiles are NOT Falcons. Falcons have a detached trailing fin and much smaller forefins than that. They’re twigging my memory hard, but I can’t find a cross reference.

I think you're right, not a Falcon. It does look familiar though.

MrYenko posted:

Found it.

GBU-15

Yarp. Good find.

mlmp08 posted:

I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion.

They have many facilities. That one is probably used for the weird angles that are tough to replicate elsewhere.

Godholio fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 2, 2018

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyY2Q37sYQ

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

literally slavic top gun

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler
Slavic?

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


EBB posted:

slavic

Phil Moscowitz
Feb 19, 2007

If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
Swedoslovakia

Elendil004
Mar 22, 2003

The prognosis
is not good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY

War Aesthetics did an F-14 video. I am a huge sucker for the F-14. Please show me other F-14 videos.

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

mlmp08 posted:

I had the same thought and wonder if they have a separate test facility to look at fan blades in motion.

As mlmp08 alluded to the thing about the fan blades that causes them to have a “high RCS” is not their geometry really, it’s their Doppler returns. The fact that it is moving at a rate characteristic of its engine and it is ducted back toward the source makes it such an important reflector. Really the RCS head on of a fighter with a straight tail is probably smaller than the side profile, but the Doppler shift will give it away.

While I’m sure they do engine on measurements, I would guess that they’re done in flight test or from limited angles versus a static mock up. You will know the gain from your Doppler shift versus frequency based on intrinsic properties of a radar system.

Stimson’s intro to airborne radar is a good text for this.

Sexual Lorax
Mar 17, 2004

HERE'S TO FUCKING


Fun Shoe

Elendil004 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY

War Aesthetics did an F-14 video. I am a huge sucker for the F-14. Please show me other F-14 videos.

You've already seen this, but it's the best:

https://youtu.be/QCmEFrWDAUY

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Elendil004 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY

War Aesthetics did an F-14 video. I am a huge sucker for the F-14. Please show me other F-14 videos.

https://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E

Nice and hot piss
Feb 1, 2004


We would occasionally see fighter jets take off/land when I was working air-medical in El Paso.

Dudes were always inverted.......

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

EBB posted:

literally slavic top gun

That ain't no slavs, son.

I wonder how much of an increased risk of a bird strike there is when you skim the treetops like that.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
If you go fast enough, they don't spook until after you're past.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

:negative:

I am dumb.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Sexual Lorax posted:

You've already seen this, but it's the best:

https://youtu.be/QCmEFrWDAUY

Every time I hear Baba O'Reilly I think of this.


Elendil004 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asmQkKYTvoY

War Aesthetics did an F-14 video. I am a huge sucker for the F-14. Please show me other F-14 videos.

This guys whole channel owns.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://i.imgur.com/Jm2XeNn.gifv

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!



Pperfectly normal reaction to being woken up by the #1 cannonerr pylling the lanyard and not everyone yelling Fire Mission! at the start of a mission.

MrDesaude
Sep 10, 2013

Have you tried lighting incense and praying to the Omnissiah?

Steezo posted:

Pperfectly normal reaction to being woken up by the #1 cannonerr pylling the lanyard and not everyone yelling Fire Mission! at the start of a mission.

Aaand that's 10% Disability... hope he had earpro in...

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1000794061865795585

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



That's awesome, backstory?

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

The addition of triangular sonar reflective plating to submarines during the Cold War was a major advantageous development for the fleet, in some uses making them completely invisible to enemy detection. Interestingly enough, the same research into acute-angle reflectation would be later used to spur the designs of many of the stealth fighter jets in production today.

Burt
Sep 23, 2007

Poke.



DoktorLoken posted:

That's awesome, backstory?

It really is quite something

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

Blind Rasputin posted:

the same research into acute-angle reflectation would be later used to spur the designs of many of the stealth fighter jets in production today.

Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

CarForumPoster posted:

Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth

I think it was a joke

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

CarForumPoster posted:

Ehhhhhhhhh I mean yea shaping is an important thing but there’s a lot more to EM waves versus acoustic waves particularly when you’re dealing with wavelengths from HF -> mm wave versus sonar which is rather limited in usable bandwidth

loving lol

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Ygolonac
Nov 26, 2007

pre:
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CLUTCH  NIXON
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The Hero We Need

Awwww, I was hoping for an Akula.

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