Why the F-35 Fighter Jet Is Only as Stealthy as Its Tankers
At first glance, the F-35’s six to eight-hundred-mile range doesn’t seem bad compared to conventional fighters like the Super Hornet or F-16.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Stealthy drone tankers might fit with a ‘distributed’ refueling strategy in which multiple drones draw fuel from a large, conventional tanker ‘mothership’ and then zip forward into to provide refueling for stealth fighter in contested airspace. However, such a chain-refueling scheme could crash catastrophically should the un-stealthy mothership tanker be targeted by adversaries.
The United States has devoted billions of dollars to building stealth fighters, stealth bombers, stealth cruise missiles and stealth spy drones. Surely a stealth tanker for refueling aircraft midflight would be an extravagance too much?
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A Beijing without carriers?
Here s What You Need to Remember: Varyag was not China’s first foreign acquisition. In 1985, Chinese shipbreakers purchased HMAS Melbourne, an Australian Majestic-class aircraft carrier. The PLAN scavenged equipment from the ship, and reportedly studied the hulk extensively.
In 1998, a Chinese businessman bought the incomplete hulk of a Soviet aircraft carrier. Fourteen years later that hulk became Liaoning, the first fleet carrier of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Thus did China’s navy become the blue water force it had long aspired to be.
But much could have gone wrong during this process. What if China had never acquired Varyag? What would China’s blue water navy look like today?
President Harry Truman made a decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But did a U.S. victory have to come with such a high price?
Here s what to expect if a secretive military aircraft comes down in your backyard.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Out on Highway 525, Massy’s son spotted a Sheriff’s Office vehicle and ended up handing over Mills to Deputy House. Had the project still been a major secret, the evidence would have literally been scattered around a trailer park in plain view. Thankfully for the Pentagon, the crash didn’t appear to let any remaining undisclosed information slip out.
Sitting in her trailer home fewer than 20 miles from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, Carolyn Massy didn’t think much of it when she heard a military jet fly overhead. But on the hot summer night of Aug. 4, 1992, she heard one loud bang and then another.