The War Zone - High Tech

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For us techie guys, here is a website that is about mostly the newest military planes and ships
Lots of new in design high-tech

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The unmanned 180-foot-long, 240-metric ton Defiant is now set to “undergo extensive in-water testing, both dockside and at sea” and is scheduled to depart for a multi-month at sea demonstration

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The Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) was developed as the last line of automated weapons defense (terminal defense or point defense) against anti-ship missiles (AShMs), including high-g and maneuvering sea-skimmers.

The basis of the system is the M61 Vulcan Gatling gun autocannon.
Consisting of a radar-guided 20 mm (0.79 in) Gatling gun mounted on a swiveling base
The CIWS is designed to be the last line of defense against anti-ship missiles.

Due to its design criteria, its effective range is very short relative to the range of modern ASMs, from 1 to 5 nautical miles (9 km).
The gun mount moves at a very high speed and with great precision.
The system takes minimal inputs from the ship, making it capable of functioning despite potential damage to the ship.

 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Those F86 sabres ? Look great. One of my favourite jets. A great film with them in is The Hunters starring Robert Mitcham and a very young and handsome Robert Wagner.
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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In the film the hunters, I always like the shots when all four planes drop their external fuel thanks before combat.
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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One of a number of early jet fighters that just looked right........however for me there can only ever be the one truely brutal overpowered hot rod of the skies - and English too!
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antijam

antijam

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My father was a wartime Mosquito pilot and post-war was flying Gloster Meteors. Early jet aircraft were part of my childhood and in the '50's we were living near Waddington RAF Station in Lincolnshire. I was a Cub Scout and our meeting hut was actually on the airfield. In those days aircraft from America's Strategic Air Command (SAC) were regularly based in the UK and I can still vividly recall sitting outside the hut one evening eating crisps (the sort with the salt in a separate blue bag - remember those? ) with my friends when a B36 'Peacemaker' suddenly passed over us at a few hundred feet. We couldn't believe our eyes, it was like something from another world.
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This enormous aircraft was powered by six 'pusher' piston engines, supplemented by four jet engines in underwing pods..... "six turning, four burning"
You can imagine the impression this made on a group of ten year olds!
The B36 was the USAF's main nuclear bomb delivery aircraft until replaced by the B52 in 1955 - another amazing aircraft still in service today and expected to remain so until 2050, a service life of just short of a century!

The B36's and B47's of SAC were the subject of a glossy Hollywood film with James Stewart. The excerpt below shows the B36 in action.
 
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Nassau65

Nassau65

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Always loved the F4 phantom
( the big ugly or double ugly)
A horrible nickname for a great plane
Yes, very very thirsty, but could take a beating in combat.
A friends son started on F4’s before moving onto F16’s
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Chuffer

Chuffer

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Roscobbc said:
One of a number of early jet fighters that just looked right........however for me there can only ever be the one truely brutal overpowered hot rod of the skies - and English too!
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Now that was an awesome aircraft from back in the days that Britain could still produce quality engineering all of it`s own .
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Supersonic jet air power meets sub sonic V8 power . F14 Tomcat and my Marcos Mantara V8 Spyder at Duxford Air Museum . The aeronautical connection is that the creator Marcos cars sleek shape was Frank Costin who had been an aero DSC_5184.JPGdynamasist at De Havilland .
 
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Chris Sale

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I came across the book How Meteors Hit the Ground, by Geoffrey Higges, a few years ago. The accident rate for Meteors was astonishing. Between 1945 and 1957 almost 800 (yes, eight hundred) Meteors were written off and close to 400 pilots were killed. The worst year was 1952 when on average a Meteor pilot was killed every four days. These numbers really are incredible. Maximum respect to people who flew Meteors and survived.

Another fascinating book is The Quick and the Dead, by former Gloster Chief Test Pilot Bill Waterton. Hard to believe the battles he had with Gloster designers to make the Javelin fit for service. They seemed to be reluctant to accept that anything they had designed could possibly need changing or improving.

Chris Sale
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