Terrorism is always a good thing when they win and actually take over - depending on what historical accounts say.... Hell the US wouldn't be a country had it not been for "terrorist" acts such as the Boston Tea Party. The biggest issue of whether it's considered terrorism is which side you support and how many innocent lives are lost in the process - the latter appearing to be more of a modern thing. One man's terrorist is another man's patriot depending on how history wants to write it. Perspective always matters. If you lose somebody you know to "terrorism" you might not think it's such a good thing. But if you think it's only "bad guys" getting killed you might agree with it.
I think the best definition for how it gets interpreted is "situational ethics"
You might get the function of basic controls but I actually got to take a spin in a combat simulator once (long time ago) and was surprised at how badly I sucked at flying combat maneuvers because I did fair at video games. Ended up learning a bit about energy and how maneuvers bleed airspeed and realized just how complex flying a plane could be. Used to know a Marine who ended up flying for Southwest and he'd talk about how he was just a "simple Marine pilot" but he'd been a TRAINER for Harriers.......... Yeah. Simple my ass........
I never really cared much for Gnome. KDE has certainly bloated over the years but I tend to use it more because I've used it for so many years but am hunting for a better one but so far just keep bitching about KDE for some reason...... Kinda like the ex-wife. I could move on but still keep bitching about her because I've not found anybody to settle down with yet........
That's about right. Never forget some friends went to England once and got grilled in customs by a couple of Indians and were wondering if they were in the right country......
My dad had Beta VCRs running for years after most people had forgotten it had existed because he was still trying to transfer stuff he'd filmed in Beta over to VHS. I have no clue at this point if he ever even tried to move it to DVD. He was a staunch defender of the higher quality of Beta although he tended to use more commercial grade type stuff so was probably even more noticeably different than the low end consumer oriented stuff.
I heard of one incident where an F-4 briefly took 12 G and the plane didn't feel much better than the pilot did after that but took him home. I'm with ya on the UAV as that kind of stuff ain't really a good thing to put a person into. Although John Stapp took over 40 G in some of the rocket sled tests he did and lived to tell about it but not sure just how good his condition was as over the years.
Having actually been in the Air Force a long time ago in a galaxy far far away I can appreciate your use of "Fighter Mafia" and am going to remember that one for future entertainment......:)
Carrier-launched drones could potentially have an advantage in more direct communication thus elminating a lot of lag for satellite communications which would give the pilot realtime control.
I'm curious why there's so much conversation here about sustained G capability because because even a missile isn't sustaining high G for any real length of time. No maneuver I can think of a drone (or piloted plane for that matter) would realistically do that would involve sustained high G due to the significant loss of speed. A missile is out to try to be where the aircraft is going to be and the aircraft's goal is to be where the missile ISN'T going. And it's really quite an interesting tradeoff between speed and maneuvering and trying to find that magic balance to achieve your goal without bleeding off too much speed.
And since a drone doesn't need to worry about G limits of a pilot only what the airframe can take they have the potential of being even better at evading a missile under the same circumstances. And I'm curious why the summary mentions 15 G since TFA doesn't mention it and there's no reason why a drone couldn't be built to exceed that although that tends to bleed speed rather quickly. But, again, a drone could handle higher G than a pilot for acceleration so if it had enough engine could overall be considerably more nimble than a piloted fighter so missles would have to get smarter to deal with a decent drone.
True. Guns will remain essential for so long as aircraft bleed off speed while doing any significant maneuvering. The F-4 was designed without guns due to its top speed being literally "faster than a speeding bullet" apparently under the misconception that it would remain at that speed during combat but reality hit pretty quickly during Vietnam. The kind of maneuvers to try to avoid a missile lock or to try to get one on somebody who's trying to avoid one tend to bleed speed rather quickly so the bullets quickly become faster than the planes and a spread of lead in close quarters is sitll quite effective and will remain so for quite some time to come.
He's probably still trying to figure out why his EMP gun he built from plans on the internet isn't fuctioning as desired.........
I've seen a B-52 tested for shielding against EMP. If the planes that drop the nukes aren't shielded it makes the bombing run a one-way trip for anything remotely modern.
Hell I've never even had high school physics and while I don't claim to be an expert on EMP I know you're most likely correct that ID10T is stupid:)
Yeah at that point we ARE in world war 3. Although typically those transmitters aren't hit with artillery anyhow but missiles that can lock onto a fairly brief signal and go ahead and hit the transmitter even if they've powered it down. Obviously if there are a large number of transmitters in an area it would take an equal number of missles (at least) to take them all out but it's doable and, unless they put them inside houses, probably with minimal casualties in the general population. Sadly there's no real way for anything resembling war to keep non-combatants from being killed but we've actually done a fair job in more recent ones in keeping the numbers down compared to years past.
Flesh is the integumentary system - the largest organ in the body and it does indeed absorb MANY things applied to it or transdermal medication wouldn't work.
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Terrorism is always a good thing when they win and actually take over - depending on what historical accounts say.... Hell the US wouldn't be a country had it not been for "terrorist" acts such as the Boston Tea Party. The biggest issue of whether it's considered terrorism is which side you support and how many innocent lives are lost in the process - the latter appearing to be more of a modern thing. One man's terrorist is another man's patriot depending on how history wants to write it. Perspective always matters. If you lose somebody you know to "terrorism" you might not think it's such a good thing. But if you think it's only "bad guys" getting killed you might agree with it.
I think the best definition for how it gets interpreted is "situational ethics"
You might get the function of basic controls but I actually got to take a spin in a combat simulator once (long time ago) and was surprised at how badly I sucked at flying combat maneuvers because I did fair at video games. Ended up learning a bit about energy and how maneuvers bleed airspeed and realized just how complex flying a plane could be. Used to know a Marine who ended up flying for Southwest and he'd talk about how he was just a "simple Marine pilot" but he'd been a TRAINER for Harriers.......... Yeah. Simple my ass........
I tried SO HARD to forget that movie....... Only part I liked was seeing Keanu Reaves having blood squirting out his ear.........
I never really cared much for Gnome. KDE has certainly bloated over the years but I tend to use it more because I've used it for so many years but am hunting for a better one but so far just keep bitching about KDE for some reason...... Kinda like the ex-wife. I could move on but still keep bitching about her because I've not found anybody to settle down with yet........
That's about right. Never forget some friends went to England once and got grilled in customs by a couple of Indians and were wondering if they were in the right country......
Wales?????
My dad had Beta VCRs running for years after most people had forgotten it had existed because he was still trying to transfer stuff he'd filmed in Beta over to VHS. I have no clue at this point if he ever even tried to move it to DVD. He was a staunch defender of the higher quality of Beta although he tended to use more commercial grade type stuff so was probably even more noticeably different than the low end consumer oriented stuff.
I heard of one incident where an F-4 briefly took 12 G and the plane didn't feel much better than the pilot did after that but took him home. I'm with ya on the UAV as that kind of stuff ain't really a good thing to put a person into. Although John Stapp took over 40 G in some of the rocket sled tests he did and lived to tell about it but not sure just how good his condition was as over the years.
Having actually been in the Air Force a long time ago in a galaxy far far away I can appreciate your use of "Fighter Mafia" and am going to remember that one for future entertainment...... :)
Carrier-launched drones could potentially have an advantage in more direct communication thus elminating a lot of lag for satellite communications which would give the pilot realtime control.
I'm curious why there's so much conversation here about sustained G capability because because even a missile isn't sustaining high G for any real length of time. No maneuver I can think of a drone (or piloted plane for that matter) would realistically do that would involve sustained high G due to the significant loss of speed. A missile is out to try to be where the aircraft is going to be and the aircraft's goal is to be where the missile ISN'T going. And it's really quite an interesting tradeoff between speed and maneuvering and trying to find that magic balance to achieve your goal without bleeding off too much speed.
And since a drone doesn't need to worry about G limits of a pilot only what the airframe can take they have the potential of being even better at evading a missile under the same circumstances. And I'm curious why the summary mentions 15 G since TFA doesn't mention it and there's no reason why a drone couldn't be built to exceed that although that tends to bleed speed rather quickly. But, again, a drone could handle higher G than a pilot for acceleration so if it had enough engine could overall be considerably more nimble than a piloted fighter so missles would have to get smarter to deal with a decent drone.
True. Guns will remain essential for so long as aircraft bleed off speed while doing any significant maneuvering. The F-4 was designed without guns due to its top speed being literally "faster than a speeding bullet" apparently under the misconception that it would remain at that speed during combat but reality hit pretty quickly during Vietnam. The kind of maneuvers to try to avoid a missile lock or to try to get one on somebody who's trying to avoid one tend to bleed speed rather quickly so the bullets quickly become faster than the planes and a spread of lead in close quarters is sitll quite effective and will remain so for quite some time to come.
He's probably still trying to figure out why his EMP gun he built from plans on the internet isn't fuctioning as desired......... :)
I've seen a B-52 tested for shielding against EMP. If the planes that drop the nukes aren't shielded it makes the bombing run a one-way trip for anything remotely modern.
Hell I've never even had high school physics and while I don't claim to be an expert on EMP I know you're most likely correct that ID10T is stupid
Oddly enough we couldn't seem to do anything about Iraq gassing people but we could invade over suspicions of WMDs.........
Hence the reason there is genuine concern they might be out to develop nuclear weapons.
Yeah at that point we ARE in world war 3. Although typically those transmitters aren't hit with artillery anyhow but missiles that can lock onto a fairly brief signal and go ahead and hit the transmitter even if they've powered it down. Obviously if there are a large number of transmitters in an area it would take an equal number of missles (at least) to take them all out but it's doable and, unless they put them inside houses, probably with minimal casualties in the general population. Sadly there's no real way for anything resembling war to keep non-combatants from being killed but we've actually done a fair job in more recent ones in keeping the numbers down compared to years past.
If I had $50 million I could assemble one in my backyard. Well actually my friend's since I don't have a backyard.......
Yeah I wore mine out playing that game too........
There is a difference as I have to blink twice as fast at 120fps...............
It's even worse when they're combined although sometimes the porn seems more natural that way.......
Um... You just described slashdotters in general thus contributing to redundancy........
He sold his soul to Bill Gates..............
Flesh is the integumentary system - the largest organ in the body and it does indeed absorb MANY things applied to it or transdermal medication wouldn't work.
Tell that to people who always post wikipedia links to prove a point............