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October 6th, 2005 10:12 AM #162
Originally Posted by bad driver
AS OF APRIL 2005
F/A-22 RAPTOR
Boeing is teamed with Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and the U.S. Air Force to develop the F/A-22 Raptor as a replacement for the F-15. The fast, agile, stealthy F/A-22 will take over the air superiority role with the Air Combat Command starting in 2005. The Air Force has said it requires a minimum of 381 F/A-22s to meet air dominance needs for the future.
The F/A-22 program’s outstanding teaming arrangement has allowed unprecedented industry cost-sharing and taken advantage of the different companies' strengths in advanced technology, production capability and systems integration.
Boeing Work
Boeing in Seattle, Wash., builds the Raptor’s wings and aft-fuselage, as is responsible for avionics integration and test, 70 percent of mission software, the pilot and maintenance training systems and the life-support and fire-protection systems.
Hardware Deliveries
As of April 2005, Boeing has delivered 61 sets of wings and 66 aft-fuselages to team partner Lockheed Martin for mate with the plane’s fuselage in Marietta, Ga. The deliveries include wings and aft-fuselages for eleven test vehicles supporting the program’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase, eight production representative test vehicles that will be used for operational test, evaluation and tactics development, with the remaining deliveries being for the first production aircraft.
anyway, very interesting thread!
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October 6th, 2005 10:56 AM #163
Originally Posted by yebo
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October 6th, 2005 11:09 AM #164
Maganda pa din ang M16 kung performance. Tried the others malakas ang sipa. M16 below was smooth and minimal kick. Kaya lang nga, durability wise, pag madumi na, ipit na.
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October 6th, 2005 11:21 AM #165
naka muzzle brake kasi yung m16 dun sa picture kaya low recoil. try mo unit na flash hider lang.
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October 6th, 2005 11:50 AM #166
Originally Posted by yebo
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October 6th, 2005 01:00 PM #167
Going back to the airforce...
Won't Rutan style aircraft fit the PAF's requirements for airsupport aircraft? They are cheap (many are kit planes!) and can be modified to military use with some imagination. And others are military aircraft.
http://www.cas-cozy.nl/corporate/1-5.html
http://www.aerofiles.com/scaled-ares.jpg
rutan's fighter concept
http://www.aerofiles.com/adam.jpg
this push/pull twin engine plane could be modified into a ground support & observation aircraft.
http://www.cas-cozy.nl/corporate/images/Image3.gif
http://www.aerofiles.com/longEZ-NOAA.jpg
http://www.aerofiles.com/rutan-longez.jpg
The Rutan Long-EZ can be modified into a daytime light ground attack aircraft and, with nightvision equiptment, can used at night attacks too. From the design, it seems easy enough to modify it to fit some machine guns and bombs on this type of plane.
The big plus about Rutan kit planes are that they are (relatively) cheap and easy to build, maintain and fly.
To make them more durable against ground fire, some (lightweight) kevlar based armour can be wrapped around the vital areas of the planes like pilot area, engine and fuel tanks.
Do I make sense or am I just crazy?
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October 6th, 2005 01:01 PM #168
Just imagine a squadron of Rutan based fighter planes coming in for attack!
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October 6th, 2005 03:30 PM #169
Kaya nga sayang Rutan didn't go through with his "Mudfighter" concept. Rutan has a knack for creating very cheap and very sturdy and very WEIRD aircraft which fly VERY well.
The Mudfighter concept was very interesting. A low power jet-turbine set at the end of the fuselage, with the intake on only one side and a 20mm cannon on the other side. This is so that misfires and vented gases from the cannon would not foul the engine. Since it's all composite, it could very easily be reinforced with a couple more layers for resistance to small arms fire, and since the engine is small and electronics are minimal, it shouldn't be hard for even our airforce to maintain. And all at $1million. For the cost of a secondhand F5, we could get a bunch of these.
Ang pagbalik ng comeback...
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October 6th, 2005 04:36 PM #170Originally Posted by zeagle
To address this NATO issued the SS109 round (Belgian round by Fabrique Nationale, sometime in the early '80s) for the M-16 : heavier ball mass; cartridge had higher grain count, lower muzzle velocity to improve long-range performance but with increased rifling for more stable bullet flight.
For the M-16 to take in the new round, the receiver was the same but the barrel was changed to increase the rifling. If my memory serves me right, I think it was one twist every 9-inches instead of 1-twist every 12-inches. After all these changes, the new M-16 was re-badged M-16A2 and the SS109 round is still used til today, I think.
Diba Armscor made Strike-3 ammunition for the M-16, (yung 3-balls in tandem in 1 cartridge) tapos yung spread pattern is pretty tight. Na-try ko na to sa Camp Bagong Diwa early this year. Favorite ko pa rin 12-guage shotgun, kasi parang kanyon hawak mo. My bro.-in-law has a Valmet na naka choke for horizontal scatter. . . awesome.
If you will drive mostly in the metro, go automatic because of the stop-and-go traffic. If mostly...
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