had the USSR not imploded in '91 you would've seen the mass procurement of every single project the US Armed Forces cancelled because of the budget cuts, including both in picrel.
This photo was from 2020 at like 6am at Tonapah before the raider’s first official flight.
Love turkish phantoms. Wish they’d gone all the way with that upgrade program. Would have been 85% of F15E for 30% of the cost.
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>>65570750wtfis that lead sled hyper-maneuverable?
>>65570753That's not a B-21
>>65570703jets are GAY as FUCK
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>>65570883Digital fly by wire test bed. Only slats and canards were fly by wire, rest of control surfaces remained as original.
I think you're underestimating how big of an issue the budget was at the time. I know it seems quaint now but a few billion of debt was once a serious issue with bipartisan efforts to resolve it.
>>65571240>>65570947Good taste doesn't outweigh practical necessities. Otherwise we'd still be flying Electras and Connies. Jets rule the roost for a reason.
>>65575117>Otherwise we'd still be flying Electras and Connies.I can only get so hard, anon.
>>65570897Drone prototype?
>>65577066idk, but the control surfaces are clearly different from a B-21
kind of makes me sad that fighter jet development had basically almost entirely stopped across the world up until a few years ago
Robbed of the timeline where the MiG-1.44 and Su-47 continued in development. The J-20 just does not scratch the itch.
>post aviation kinook
>>65570703Yf 23 is pure kinoclass art l. So flat and refined.22 looks more conventional F16 like
LOVE me some rollin' coal Soviet aerial shitboxes
Not as bad once they're actually in the air.
So much awesomeness in one photo.
>>65577066RQ-180. The ISR UAV counterpart to the B-21. Built by the same company (NG), with a lineage from the older Sensorcraft program.
>>65584020eight Central Intelligence Agency A-12ss/ns 60-6924 Article 121 (the first aircraft built), -6928, -6929, -6930, -6931, -6932, -6933 Articles 125-130with two Air Force YF-12A interceptors s/ns 60-6934 Article 1001, 60-6935 Article 1002 at far left of photos/n 60-6927 Article 124 "Titanium Goose" J75-powered two seater (later designated A-12B) is the 2nd aircraft in picflight line at Groom Lake, Nevadacirca December 196360-6926 Article 123, the third A-12 was lost on 24 May 1963 near Wendover Utah on an INS test flight, went into an inverted flat spin after the cockpit instrumentation was fouled by ice. Article 123 was the second A-12 to fly and the first to crash.60-6925 Article 122, the second A-12 may ? have been on flight test at the time of this group photo; a year prior in 1962 when it first arrived at Groom Lake it spent several months as a full scale RCS (radar cross section) pole-mounted airframe on the test range before having J75 engines installed in December that year.
Seems a janny took a knife to some of my posts.
