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"dano" wrote in message ...
Predicting the future...Who'd a thought this little nugget sensor operator would have gone from chasing Soviet subs in the North Atlantic to flying ISR mission over Afghanistan - in less than 20 years At least what has been put out publicly, due to survivabilty considerations, the MMA won't be doing overland ISR. I am heartened a little by the recent DHL incident - I always thought that a MANPAD was 100% fatal. It was a miracle that the DHL wasn't fatal. They had no hydraulics, and the after spar was only moments away from failure. If they had taken a good gust load the outcome would have been much worse. Like I said before, those guys need never play the Lotto because they used up every bit of luck they may ever have. Of note, the second VP-26 loss sounds like it was a spar failure caused by fire too. Hydrodynamic ram induced fire I'd bet. Better protection from hydrodynamic ram fires should be a priority for large aircraft both military and civil...And of course its a bad idea to expect large aircraft-especially large aircraft designed for civil use-to survive over hot battlefields, your OEF experience notwithstanding. How much of a maintenance headache has the fuel tank foam been Dano? Backfitting survivability is always problematic and expensive. MANPADS are not the only threat. There is this capability coming on the export market: "Russian guided-weapons builder Novator is continuing to work, albeit slowly, on an ultralong-range air-to-air missile, with a version on offer for export to a select customer set. Designated article 172, the weapon was included on a model of the Su-35 derivative of the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, on display during the Dubai air show. The export version, known as the 172S1, has a 300-km. (186-mi.) range, compared with 400 km. for the original version specified by the Russian air force. The missile, which is also referred to (perhaps erroneously) as the KS-172, is intended to engage specific high-value targets such as airborne warning and control aircraft, air-to-ground surveillance and tanker platforms." |
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