Stuff that never saw production but is still cool AF. This was a render for something called the ASTRA program but was shown off at the 2015 US Air and Space conference as art for NGAD.
>>65229052This is an old ass teledyne ryan stealth drone
>>65229052yes goy it was shut down don't worry about it
>>65229061There are NO black triangles or deltas in the sky except the F117 and it was decided there is NO KNOWN USE for a high altitude, high speed recon penetrator. UNFUNDED and CANCELED.
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>>65229269This would be cool as fuck. They need to make bulletproof blimps with sectioned ballasts so that if a missile hits it, only part of it pops and it can gently go into the sea. That or have internal backup uninflated balloons that you can quickly fill to replace destroyed sections
>>65229323Isn't this just harrier jump jet..
>>65229052Huh... reminds me of this;>In late August 1989, while working as an engineer on the jack-up barge GSF Galveston Key in the North Sea, Chris Gibson saw an unfamiliar isosceles triangle-shaped delta aircraft, apparently refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers. Gibson watched the aircraft for several minutes, until they went out of sight. He subsequently drew a sketch of the formation.
>>65229347I have a cool idea for ground effect craft that I'd love to sell to some techobro billionaire. But alas I am too poor to even talk to them.
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>>65229402Cool, swing-wing dual engine X-32
we used to be a country
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in the 1980s if you were a scifi novel writer the government would literally pay you to think you some cool shit
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>>65229330Yup. Av-8B is partially cut off at the bottom
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>>65229070This post absolutely GLOWS.
>>65231732Where are the intakes?
>>65231799I think under the wings near the engine?
I wish we still knew how to dream big and crazy.
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