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Going by their earning reports Boeing is doing very well.Boeing rides commercial jets to 29% earnings jumpBoeing rides high on Big Mo

The tilt-rotor concept is actually pretty old, it just the Osprey is the first tilt-rotor aircraft to reach the production phase. Even once the V-22 does get pass the "teething problems" it'll still have the of having little internal space to transport hardly anything except troops. Osprey’s Cargo Capacity Driving Weapon Designs Something of interest India’s quest for fighter could cost losers dearly

Going by this page, F-8s can fly with the wings folded up. Whether the information on the site is completely accurate or not, I wouldn't know.

Fighting bombers is quite different from fighting other fighters, or interceptors. I suggest you read up a bit on the Lightning here.

For the USN and USAAF they could afford to pull experience pilots from the front and have their train new pilots everything they know.

One company is experimenting with 20mm polymer tip inert rounds which react rather rather explosively when hitting a plane.

I'm still waiting for it and iirc I ordered it on the same day you had mentioned it.

not to sound stupid, but what's that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding#The_Kerrigan_attack

Looks like Japan is interested in buying the F-22 if no one pulls a Tonya Harding on it. link

Anyone here got an old dubbed Iczer One vibe when the old guys started talking?

Excellent in curing insomnia, as it was dreadfully boring, well the old dubbed version was.

AND the 105s..... obviously the 40mms in use today are newer vintage, but during vietnam, there was still plenty of weaponry (and soldiers) from WWII fighting. 389785[/snapback] I'm talking about AC-130s in 2005 and 2006 using the old 40mms.

Could you throw us a bone and list some or all of the problems with the C-130J?

Iirc weren't the 40mm BOFORS cannons and ammunition WWII vintage?

C-17 are too few and valuable to misuse as a gunship, and adding turrets just make the whole project even more expensive and pointless when all ACs need to do is circle-strafe (I need it is a overgeneralization) a target. Again V-22 is too small to mount anything of value and then it is well within range of MANPADS which even AC-130s are vulernable to. Link to an thread on the ACH-47 prposel. AChttp://63.99.108.76/forums/index.php?showtopic=15536 Aging C-130 will just be replace by newly built C-130s.

Do a search for "A Very Bootyful Christmas" over at AMV.org to find it.

V-22 internal space is microscopic compared to similar sized helos and too expensive, fragile and short ranged to use in such a manner. There was a Viet Nam era proposal to use CH-53s as gunships but the expense and the arrival of the AH-1 Cobra killed that idea off immedatiely.

The sighting systems was nearly worthless as the designers didn't know the the contours of the planes is distorted (right word???) from flying low to high attiude. One positive benefit from a greatest military blunder in the war. Attacking islands with little or no staregic value while skipping high value undefended islands only to attack after they've been heavily fortified. Yup and and it show U.S. casualty estimates to be woefully naive and optimistic had Operation Olympic occured. All of the above was suppose to send an overwhelming number of kamikazes at the landing forces, targetting mainly the transports.

Cheaper and easier from a beancounter and REMF point of view to have one "jack of all trades" aircraft, AFV and etc. instead of mutiple types of single, dual, or triple role aircrafts, AFVs and etc. to payed for and maintained. Nevermind what the what the people doing the fighting have a say in the matter.

Accurate bombing reduce the need to keep sending bombers to bomb the same target cause the earlier wave miss it. B-17s suffered immensely as the B-24s already alerted the Germans the B-17s coming right after them State your source on this one. Other than the early model P-38s, there was no Allied fighter in the ETO with the range to ecsort the bombers to their destination until the P-51Ds enter service. Badass airforce ended going through the meatgrinder over and over again when attacking the bomber formations and later their ecsorts. Huge problem against sucidial pilots in the PTO had the kamikazes actually bothered to go after bombers. For everyone with a shred of self preservation, a horde of HMGs is usually enough to make the Axis pilots keep their distance until they make their attack run. Hence the the development and deployment of heavier and heavier HMGS, autocannons and AtA rockets to deal with the bombers. B-29s got lucky as the Germans had already surrendered and the Japanese were starting to save up on their planes, pilots, AAA for the invasion of the home islands.

HMGs and light autocannons have too short of range to be of use, nevermind making the aircraft even more complex, heavy (reducing amount of ordnance and fuel) and costly implementing in the systems. Secondary once the guns start shooting then all of the hostiles in the areas know you're there.

I thought the line was "Over specialization leads to extinction?"

Why does she want to play with Roy's boys with she already have Max's boys in her grasp? Probably explains why they only had daughters.

I thought he just inherited Roy's after he, I mean you, kicked the bucket. 382371[/snapback] Shame Hikaru didn't remove them while the body was still warm.

Odd they mentioned there when Desert Punk (Sunabozu) been listed at their online store for a couple weeks now.