Saturday, December 29, 2018

6th Generation

22-12-24 Race for 6th Gen Fighters - Drones, Lasers, Future Air Dominance - Perun >
23-9-24 Combat Drones & Future Air Warfare - Humans + Wingman - Perun > .
00:03:45 — Topics 
00:05:18 — Fighter Generations 
00:05:22 — The Naming Game 
00:06:18 — 1st Gen. 
00:07:05 — 2nd & 3rd Gen. 
00:07:48 — 4th Gen. 
00:08:33 — 4th Gen. Plus 
00:10:02 — 5th Gen. 
00:11:16 — Networking & Sensor Fusion 
00:13:12 — A Three Horse Race? 
00:14:19 — What makes 6TH Gen? 
00:14:30 — The Next Steps? 
00:15:21 — Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) 
00:16:28 — Adaptive Cycle/Variable Cycle Engine (ACE/VCE) 
00:17:33 — Directed Energy 
00:18:14 — Why Build Them? 
00:20:58 — The Challenge 
00:21:01 — A Development Starshot 
00:22:02 — The Combination Problem 
00:22:34 — Directed Energy Weapon Testing 
00:23:05 — Single Features are Easy 
00:23:28 — Enabling the Requirements 
00:26:18 — Counting the Costs 
00:29:01 — Solution 1: A New Way to Design Aircraft 
00:31:08 — Solution 2: Fleet Size 
00:32:08 — Solution 3: Mega Projects 
00:34:06 — Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) 
00:34:38 — The Tempest (UK and Italy) 
00:37:25 — The F-X (of Japan) 
00:40:42 — GCAP Merger 
00:42:21 — Program Goals 
00:44:29 — What to Expect? 
00:45:28 — F/A-XX (of the US Navy) 
00:45:36 — A New Generation Carrier Group 
00:46:40 — Tipping The Balance 
00:48:06 — What to Expect? 
00:49:12 — FCAS (of Germany, France, Spain) 
00:49:21 — A new European Fighter 
00:49:57 — The Requirements 
00:50:37 — The Concerns 
00:53:28 — Carrier Capability 
00:55:32 — NGAD (of the US Air Force) 
00:55:53 — A Different Beast 
00:57:26 — Growing Challenges 
00:59:11 — Refusing Parity 
00:59:55 — Rumoured Requirements 
01:01:02 — A Tall Order 
01:02:53 — Next Gen. Dominance 
01:05:46 — Questions 
01:07:47 — Conclusions

3D Fokker DVII Biplane, WW1

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How a WWI Biplane Works - Animagraffs > .

Air tactics: Boelcke, Mannock, Malan ..

Friday, December 28, 2018

Air Assault

23-9-17 Hx, Operations of Air Assault - 101st Airborne, Rakkasans - McBeth > .

Aircraft

de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide '34 >
Most Feared and Deadly Aircraft - AmV > .Aircraft - tb >> .


Timeline aircraft .

Airships

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23-8-30 Should Airships Make a Comeback? - Veritasium > .

Airships ..Dirigible Aircraft Carriers ..

Airships

"A curious British airship experiment" ~ R100, R101

Airship disasters

  • R38, crashed in the Humber estuary 23 August 1921, killing 44 out of 49 people on board
  • Roma, crashed in Norfolk, Virginia, during test flights on 21 February 1922, killing 34 people
  • Dixmude, crashed off the coast of Sicily, 21 December 1923, with the loss of 52 lives
  • R101, crashed in Beauvais, northern France, 5 October 1930, killing 48 people
  • USS Akron, crashed 4 April 1933 off the coast of New Jersey; 73 out of 76 crew killed - greatest loss of life in any airship accident
  • Hindenburg, crashed 6 May 1937 in New Jersey - 35 people died and one on the ground

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=44725.0

"Britain came late to the airship game, only developing larger rigid dirigibles after London had been bombed by Zeppelins starting in May 1915. Those attacks highlighted just how effective airships could be and with the threat of even larger Zeppelins on the horizon, the UK Government decided to accelerate its own development plans."

Graf Zeppelin 1929 Around Globe Trip, Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jq7oRxw-g

The Airships - Ship of Dreams (1923-1930)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkx5m4k8jgo

The Airships - Forced Landing (1931-present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Hz9p5yq_Q

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