>VSTOL was solved in ww2just had a rocket to your jet
>>65336560now land
>>65336857it almost worked, only 3 weeks after the idea.only failed due to pilot error.butt the main idea is to get airborne from distributed locations. Big factor is not just distributed but easy to play shell game and decoys. Set up big tents everywhere for buggies to be rolling in and out. worry about refueling and landing, then re-mount to launch buggy.Steve will explain it to you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HFQgIDaGAReally should be a baked-in feature of next lightweight fighter, and be able to mount on merchant ships and everything down to frigate size, if not LCS.Use two support vehicles about size of 16 wheel Russian ICBM buggy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MZKT-79221 One would be launcher and other would carry a mesh steel rolled up instant runway. Both would have bull dozer blades and graders/rollers. By the time the jet wants to land they'd have a runway.Make launch rail extend at least 2x the length of buggy and spin flywheel to power cat-launch. Just have the chain first wrap around small end of spool, then progressively larger diameter. Safe, simple, cheap, reliable, precise.Have RATO that can be programmed to fire front or back (yes that is doable). They could fire to rear for extra boost to evade SAM, or fire forward as super-airbrake or landing aid.
>>65336560Zell was a way to get a nuclear strike in after all your airfields were being nuked.Cold war European bomber pilots did not expect to have a base to return to.There are people here that think a four minute warning is for boiling an egg.
