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This gun kill picture is from the HUD recorder of a VFA-11 Super Hornet taken during a Red Air exercise. The black box on the top left is an event marker to show that the trigger was squeezed.
I read an article by one of the guys who designed the F16 and a military expert in which one of them said that the F22 had compromised its maneuvrability with its stealthy airframe. One of them claimed that alot of the 60s/70s designs (Mig 29, Su 27, F16 and F15) could outmaneuver it in a dogfight and that beyond visual range engagements suffered from a very low hit probability due to ECM, flares and maneuvering.
One guy said that since the F22 airframe was originally designed in the late 80s, surely theres a risk that fighter radar technology will soon be able to detect the F22 at long ranges
Transponder...I wonder how hawkeyes or awacs pick up a 22...
I heard that after the F-22 is gone, The USAF will simply switch to computer driven aircraft. No human pilots flying in the sky. Bummer.
Probably someday, a "hot-shot" pilot will be sitting at some military base and be looking at a computer screen with a vibrating joystick in his hand and instead of manuvering a Simulater plane he will be manuvering a real one over enemy territory.
Then it will really be the Chair Force.
Transponder...
I meant in terms of just using their primary radar to track an F-22... what kind of return it gets...
The screws that backed out actually pined the canopy down. To do any egress sequence would of probably meant a lot of damage to the plane and pilot - the right thing was done, hook an AC unit up to the aircraft and just cut him out.He could have used the "eject" sequence??!!
Seriously, or...err...is the "eject" in the ol' Raptor a single sequence of events? Pilot hits the button and its all over but the landing???
its fairly easy to entertain a pilot just jingle some keys or something similar and your good for hours
I meant in terms of just using their primary radar to track an F-22... what kind of return it gets...
That's highly classified. The F-22 is thought to have better stealth characteristics than the F-117 and probably as good as the B-2 at certain angles. I would guess that it would have to be pretty close to detect and closer still to track. At least I hope so. That is why it was built.
Have any of you heard this old story?
The Super Hornet guns down the F-22 Raptor - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
Alert 5 - Military Aviation News: F/A-18F guns down F-22A
Do you really follow aviation? Since Vietnam there has been dozens of dogfights - Bekka Valley in 1984 is just one example!!!! The Falklands, Gulf War 1, Angola, the Iran Iraq War, that's just off the top of my head!!!!I don't know exactly but I would say it was sometime during Vietnam that the last dog-fight occurred. Although after Vietnam small rag-tag militia and that did operate old prop aircraft so it is difficult to say when definately and be right. But Vietnam probably contained the last official recorded dog-fight.