9/20/2004: New stealthy fighter prototype [er, movie set]

tw · 09-21-2004, 09:03 PM

Actually it is a very badly designed fighter. Pilots learned even in Nam that a cockpit without fully round visibility is not a very good fighter. This fighter is the classic example of a bad fighter design. OK for a bomber. Bad as a fighter.

4000 nm. Lets not forget what F-18A/B fighter bombers could do when American aircraft carriers had no offensive abilities. 200 miles. IOW the F-18 could not even attack outside of the carrier's defensive perimeter. Without mid air refueling (which means a nearby friendly land base), the carriers had no offensive ability. 4000 nm is excessively fictional.

09-21-2004, 09:03 PM	#14
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Actually it is a very badly designed fighter. Pilots learned even in Nam that a cockpit without fully round visibility is not a very good fighter. This fighter is the classic example of a bad fighter design. OK for a bomber. Bad as a fighter. 4000 nm. Lets not forget what F-18A/B fighter bombers could do when American aircraft carriers had no offensive abilities. 200 miles. IOW the F-18 could not even attack outside of the carrier's defensive perimeter. Without mid air refueling (which means a nearby friendly land base), the carriers had no offensive ability. 4000 nm is excessively fictional.

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