Thanks for the article NICO!
via Aviation Week.
Started development after the F-35, made it to the carrier before the F-35, has a higher degree of stealth than the F-35 (this is my layman's view .... I read somewhere that tail-less designs are more stealthy) and for a Marine Corps view of things can set up orbit over a squad of Marines in contact and provide support until no longer needed or relieved (assuming that they integrate aerial refueling for these planes...really a no brainer...if you can land on a carrier then refueling in air shouldn't be difficult).
Now tell me why the Navy needs the F-35 again,
NOTE: Follow the link to check out some of the vids that Amy "Wonder Woman" Butler posted.
via Aviation Week.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt returned to port last week after hosting the X-47B for more at-sea trials.A robotic attack airplane.
The goal was to test the aircraft's interaction wiht the ship in off-nominal wind conditions. Nominal conditions are winds up to 25 kt. right down the runway on deck. Testers were looking for 35 kt. of relative winds and crosswinds up to 7kt.
Here are a few statistics from the tests:
26 total deck touchdowns
21 of those were touch and gos
five catapult launchs and five trap landings
five wave offs (two planned and three owing to software logic the automatically conducted a wave off owing to extreme wind conditions).
Started development after the F-35, made it to the carrier before the F-35, has a higher degree of stealth than the F-35 (this is my layman's view .... I read somewhere that tail-less designs are more stealthy) and for a Marine Corps view of things can set up orbit over a squad of Marines in contact and provide support until no longer needed or relieved (assuming that they integrate aerial refueling for these planes...really a no brainer...if you can land on a carrier then refueling in air shouldn't be difficult).
Now tell me why the Navy needs the F-35 again,
NOTE: Follow the link to check out some of the vids that Amy "Wonder Woman" Butler posted.
