The Brand-new F/a-22 Raptor
7Bistromath
Join Date: 2003-12-04 Member: 23928Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-12-04 Member: 23928Members, Constellation
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But how did someone find that...
I mean, who spends all their time looking for these things...
Last time I checked people didn't look to modern military aviation for comedy...
Some people have too much luck/and or time. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
BTW: I'm sleightly afraid of the future of the military...
Best one-line post ever.
--Scythe--
That was....err....crapfully AWESOME!!!!
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You don't know who Strong Bad is?! Click <a href='http://www.homestarrunner.com/firsttime.html' target='_blank'>here</a>, nublet <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.hostultra.com/~warmachines/planes/tu-22m/tu-22m.htm' target='_blank'>Linky</a>
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Strongbad > whatever you said. The point isnt the plane, its the pilot.
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Can't hit what you can't see, man. Unless there's something on the external hardpoints, the F/A-22 is the least visible thing in the sky until it's got the missile bays open and ready to fire.
Laf. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Oh just go watch your Unscrewed, Martin.
on topic:
The F-22 is the shiznite! Phear me and my raptor. rawr.
PS: What's up with strongbad in the F-22? I mean how can he fly with those boxing gloves on. (for that matter how does he type with them on) I like the Cheat the best.
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Can't hit what you can't see, man. Unless there's something on the external hardpoints, the F/A-22 is the least visible thing in the sky until it's got the missile bays open and ready to fire. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
LOL no aircraft on this planet is truely a stealth plane; the F-22 by design is less of a stealth plane in fact than the F117 Nighthawk or the B-2 Spirit.
The Tu-22s radar would still detect the F-22 just as it detected the B-2 at a recent Farnbourgh airshow. You can never prevent a plane from showing up on a radar screen you can only try to minimise it as much as possable by refracting or deflecting or absorbing away as much of the radiation as you can but it's impossable to get it all.
Failing that it would certainly show up on a thermal imager.
Just for the record tho the F-22's missile bays open inwards as far as I am aware to again minimise the planes profile.
<b>No.</b> <i>Stealth is a relative term.</i> (ie: I stealth-walk up behind you and say "tag" in your ear) If you are talking about cloaking (invisibility) that's different. Everything is stealthly to a point. Even a Romulan warbird can be detected if neutrino radiation is flooding the area by looking for the shadows.
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<b>Yes.</b> Absolutely true, but it has some stealthly aspects of it. Being harder to find and see it is an major advantage for a combat plane. It's designed to exceed the current F-15e in many ways, as it is supposed to become the US's main fighter plane in the future.
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<b>No.</b> <i>Stealth is a relative term.</i> (ie: I stealth-walk up behind you and say "tag" in your ear) If you are talking about cloaking (invisibility) that's different. Everything is stealthly to a point. Even a Romulan warbird can be detected if neutrino radiation is flooding the area by looking for the shadows.
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Yeah I suppose your right there but you saw what I was getting at, I just wanted to point out that the whole "Stealth" thing that people rave about in the US doesn't automaticaly mean invisably like far to many people think.
I think even the US has given up on trying to make a Truely invisable plane because with the likes of the F117 an the B-2 they ended up designing the plane round the "idea" and came up with what was really a very expensive aircraft that couldn't really do anything better than it's non "stealth" counterparts.
With the F-22 the US have taken the good ideas from from those 2 previous projects and added them to a very well designed aircraft as an added bonus this time they have designed the technology around the aircraft and come up with something that's a lot more useful an cost effective.