Comments by "Old Guy Gaming Network" (@CRAZYHORSE19682003) on "Sandboxx" channel.

  1. I wish the SR-71/A-12/YF-12 would come to flight simulator.
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  2. Well I will give you a few examples of DEI in the military that ARE happening. In the US Navy black people were lagging behind ALL other ethnic groups when it came to promotions. The reason for that, they did the WORST on the rate advancement exams. What did the Navy do, it ELIMINATED the exam so they could promote more Black sailors who WERE NOT QUALIFIED for the position. In the Army, physical standards for female soldiers are LOWER than their male counterparts FOR THE SAME JOB!!!!! The Air Force as ACTIVLY working to reduce the number of white males in their ROTC program where a lot of their officers come from. All over the military, identity politics have taken hold where your skin color is more important than your qualifications. Where your gender is more important than your qualifications. It has been like this for a while.
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  3. That flight featured in the opening sequence of the six million dollar man was going great until they had a blowout in damper 3.
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  4. I heard an SR-71 pilot say that they were cruising at MACH 3.2 and they had several SAMS fired at them. He said they just bumped the throttle a bit and accelerated to MACH 3.5 and pulled away.
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  5. Think about it, this tech has its roots all the way back in the 1930's with the German V-1 Buzz Bomb.
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  6. I will also say this X-Plane was developed entirely with digital engineering. Meaning the Air Force has advanced software that allows them to build and test equipment virtually. Not only test it they can massively accelerate time and simulate an aircrafts entire lifespan of 40 years in a matter of hours or days. This software is so advanced that once they build the aircraft in the real world, it performs identically to its virtual counterpart. If they wanted to push this aircraft into production they could. This same digital engineering software was used in the new ICBM program. Over 5000 designs were "Built" and tested virtually including full life cycle simulations leading to the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM winning the contest without anyone having to build and test a prototype in the real world.
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  7. The Aurora was a program back in the 90's and they built some flying prototypes. The problem was it was incredibly expensive to build, fly and maintain. The program was canceled in the late 90's when a radical breakthrough in propulsion technology happened making Aurora obsolete. It was replaced by the TR3B.
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  8. The Road Runner seems like it will work not only against drones but helicopters and small boats as well.
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  9. LOL Someone doesn't know anything about aviation I see.
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  10. While the HO-229 was not designed with Stealth in mind, the flying wing design did in fact have a much lower RCS than typical fighters of the day. It would have cut reaction times for the RAF in half.
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  11. What is strange is that adaptive cycle engines are not new. the General Electric YF120 Adaptive cycle engine powered the second YF-23 prototype and was flying in the 1990's.
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  12.  @richardweernink9050  Can it fly at MACH 3.2?
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  13. There are different types of low observability. Electronic, magnetic, visual, EM, etc. The Allies used a series of lights along the front and wings of aircraft to match daylight intensity which made them nearly undetectable visually until they were very close. The Germans lost a lot of submarines because they didn't see the aircraft approaching until it was too late.
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  14. I don't know if you are joking or not but the Horton brothers had NO KNOWLEDGE of stealth. They designed their plane to be as efficient as possible and it was their belief that the flying wing was the optimal shape for an aircraft.
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  15. If you read defense journals you would have known about this years ago. People said I was crazy when I was telling them a 6th gen fighter was flying in 2020 in secret.
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  16. Ferrari? Will they fix the flaw in the tail section that keeps them from flying supersonic for more than a few minutes?
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  17. I think the F-117's internal bays are larger than the F-35's but I could be mistaken.
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  18. I hope they adapt it to be fired from MK-41 VLS systems. It sounds like they might be able to duel pack them or maybe even quad pack them in the VLS cells.
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  19.  @bushgreen260  Direct knowledge.
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  20.  @bushgreen260  The engines for example are gone, they were good for one flight only. The Avionics, gone. It was known that as technology caught up to the vision of the original program they would be retrofitted so all they needed was the airframes to act as advanced technology testbeds. They could have been pulled out of storage and tested rotary pulse detonation engines, electro optical skins that change color on the fly to blend into the sky around them making them visually stealthy. Advanced AI powered electronic warfare systems than can hack into enemy systems and inject malicious code into the system making their systems think they are tracking and targeting enemy aircraft when they are not. An entire new type of CPU that uses fiber optics instead of transistors. Using micro pulses of light to process information vs the inherent limitations of transistor technology. The airframes themselves are so radically advanced and cost so much to manufacture, that was the important thing to preserve.
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  21.  @bushgreen260  I had no part in the airframe itself so I don't know what it was made of. Things were pretty heavily compartmentalized back then, you worked on the area you were responsible for and didn't ask questions. As far as downtimes all I can say is that each prototype only flew every three to four months. As far as code names, I don't know, I was not on the budget committee. As far as altitude and range, again I could not say, I was never in the control room during flights and I knew better than to ask. If you did your clearance would be yanked and you would never work in the defense industry again. As far as the fiber optic CPU, I can say it was on order of many thousands times faster than a transiter CPU. I don't know who built it and I didn't ask.
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  22. Companies like Lockheed Martin have so many secret projects and mature technology locked away, if needed they could introduce multiple advanced weapons systems that are generations ahead of anything seen today. They don't for one reason...MONEY. There is so much money to be made from existing technology and they will allow this secret tech to slowly trickle out over time to maximize profits.
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  23. As a veteran of both the USN and the US Army, when young people ask me about the military, if they are white males I tell them to avoid it at all costs. As a white male in the military you will be passed over for promotion by less qualified soldiers time and time again as checking off the identity boxes is more important to the military than promoting the best people.
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  24. Last I checked it was $729.25 million per aircraft. About 1/3rd the cost of the B-2. Without runaway inflation it was supposed to be 550 million per aircraft.
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  25. The "Small" object was a bird that flew in front of the camera.
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  26. I predict the NGADF will be about 2/3 the size of the B-21 with a similar shape. It will carry a MASSIVE amount of fuel and 20 AAM's minimum and have four to six times the range of the F-22. It will have a high supercruise capability.
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  27. The Aurora was flying back in the 90's but it was retired when it was rendered obsolete by the TR-3B.
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  28. Well the upgrades are designed for the F-22 to KEEP its dominance while our enemies are fielding more and more advanced fighters.
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  29. This is all on the defense contractors and their desire to gouge the DOD and the American taxpayer. They have enjoyed 50 years of overcharging for everything by a factor of 5 to 10 and just having the DOD say ok. Weapons programs need to be totally revamped. Contractors should not get billions of dollars to develop a weapons system. Put out a requirement and let the contractors develop their own systems and COMPETE for contracts. Without the free gravy train we could have had F-35's for about 20 million a copy.
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  30. The Pentagon needs to change the way it does contracts. Making cost overruns the responsibility of the CONTRACTOR, not the DOD. Cost overruns are just a method contractors use to STEAL from the American tax payer with cooperation of their partners in crime in the DOD.
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  31. LOL That thing is a flying coffin. It is not even a fighter per say. It is a long rang fighter they will use to go after tankers and E-2 Hawkeye's. It handles like a bus.
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  32. I am assuming they would split the kill. It seems like the only fair thing to do right?
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  33. Jack Northrup was designing flying wings in parallel in the Horton Brothers. He was not influenced by their work at all.
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  34. The problem is that the MIC uses these programs to STEAL from the American people by charging 1000% profit margins. These companies don't care about America, just about lining their pockets at our expense.
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  35. Is that the one the Iranian's hacked and brought down safely in their territory?
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  36. I am sure it could hit MACH 3 for short periods of time but the heat friction would damage it.
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  37. It is powered by two non afterburning variants of the Pratt and Whitney F135-PW-100.
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  38. The B-21 was built using off the shelf technology. There will be no technology maturation like we have seen with the F-35.
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  39. Close in dogfighting is as obsolete as battleships were at the end of WW2.
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  40.  @jmjones7897  I agree, I think the F-117's have been used as a testbed for advanced technology. I also think they are keeping them in storage for one reason, if a near peer conflict between the US and Russia or China breaks out the F-117's will be pulled out of storage and returned to duty rather quickly.
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  41. I know the Airforce is talking about an Electronic Warfare variant of the F-15EX Eagle 2. They should just buy Growlers for cost reduction purposes. Add on the conformal fuel tanks for more range and I bet they would save BILLIONS.
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  42. Aurora was going to be the next spy platform replacing the SR-71. There was a breakthrough in propulsion technology that made Aurora obsolete. That breakthrough resulted in the TR3-B which has been operating in secret since the late 90's.
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  43. Adaptive cycle engines are nothing new in the US. The second YF-23 prototype was powered by the GE-YF-120 Adaptive Cycle Engines.
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  44. To everyone in California, elections have consequences. Stop voting Democrat.
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  45.  @Triple_J.1  You would be incorrect, when tested against radars of the time the HO-229 had a much smaller RCS than the BF-109 for example.
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  46. While the HO-229 was NOT designed with Stealth in mind, the Horton brothers believed the flying wing was the most EFFICIENT form for an aircraft. That does not change the fact that the HO-229 had a much lower radar cross-section than most aircraft of the day because the flying wing has a much lower RCS than standard aircraft.
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  47. This nonsense about a 5th plus gen is nothing more than a face saving measure to reassure stockholders.
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  48. You can have a incredibly effective aircraft and still have a failed program. While the F-35 is a game changer, the program itself was a debacle.
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  49. The ME-262 is the jet fighter that could have changed the war, if Hitler had allowed it to be developed as a fighter from the very beginning instead of insisting that it was a blitz bomber, delaying its introduction into the Luftwaffe as a fighter by 18 months.
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  50. All I need to know is that shortly after getting their first F-35I's, Israel increased their order for the aircraft.
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  51. I can attest to the Aurora existing. Only three prototypes were ever built but they did fly at speeds just north of MACH 5.4. The problem was the technology was simply not ready at the time. While they could get it to fly, it is hideously expensive PER FLIGHT to operate the Aurora and it was deemed too expensive to continue the program in its current state. The three aircraft were dismantled and put in long term storage in 1998.
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  52. What the Iranian General doesn't know or won't admit is our F-35's fly with radar reflectors deployed so they can be detected to avoid air to air collisions. Also flying in areas where there are potential enemies like Iran they fly with their radar reflectors deployed in order to PREVENT adversaries like Iran to get signals intelligence on the F-35. In a actual combat situation with those radar reflectors retracted they can fly over Iran with impunity.
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  53. Can you imagine a F-15EX Eagle 2 with 30 of them lol.
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  54.  @Cryosxify  I can tell you that the AIM-260 has a range well in excess of 200 miles.
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  55. If you really think Russia or China have these weapons you are a total mark. It is called propaganda! China can't even make a decent RELIABLE turbofan engine for their fighters and yet you think somehow they have mastered hypersonic flight hahahahaha. Russia's hypersonic missiles are simply air launched ballistic missiles, nothing more. Also by the way the AIM-54 Phoenix was a hypersonic missile and it was designed in the 1960's. Hypersonic is nothing new, it is just a buzzword the military industrial complex uses to scare funding out of congress.
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  56. There is a reason the MIC is trickling out technology and it isn't to avoid suspicion. It is all about MONEY, they have the tech locked away to jump our society ahead several hundred years in the blink of an eye. However, there is trillions of dollars to be earned in the technology leading up to it and they are not going to simply throw it away.
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  57. This would be the perfect use for directed energy weapons. They are talking about a directed energy pod is very close to being deployed.
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  58. Instead of stealth how about the develop ultra long range missiles of all types.
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  59.  @thecommentator3732  Say you had an F-15EX, not a stealthy aircraft but it had AA missiles of 260 miles in range. It doesn't matter if it is stealth or not, its weapons outrange anything the enemy has.
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  60.  @thecommentator3732  Doubtful, the F-15EX's radar is light years better than anything they have. I will also like to say that I am not 100% anti stealth only that all fighters do not need to be stealth. F-15's paired with a low observable aircraft providing them with situational awareness and targeting information is how I would see them working together.
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  61.  @thecommentator3732  Can I suggest you go back and actually read what I said. I said PAIRING the F-15EX with a low observable plane like an F-22 or F-35. I never said the F-15 was low observable. I do that a lot when skimming comments on YouTube.
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  62. Lockheed Martin has so much advanced technology locked away behind patents they could jump us HUNDREDS of years forward in the blink of an eye. They don't because there is still so much money to extract from tech that is obsolete. If there was a actual WW3 and the US was in danger of losing there would be a sudden introduction of weapons so advanced they could eliminate the threat in hours.
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  63.  @e.s.5529  Crude but effective.
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  64. The F-22 was canceled because from a technology standpoint it is already obsolete by our standards. The USAF has already designed, built and flown a 6th generation Air Dominance fighter that will replace the F-22 and most of the F-15's.
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  65.  @nexpro6118  And the F-22 STILL lacks a helmet mounted sight. From a technology standpoint it is littered with dead end and obsolete technology.
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  66. The F-117's are all kept in special storage in flying condition. They are taken out from time to time and flown. There are even hints that four F-117's were used in Syria. The reason the F-22 will be retired is it is already obsolete from a technology standpoint. The USAF already has a 6th gen air dominance fighter that has flown and are building a second one.
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  67.  @jeffpotter2934  Actually you would be incorrect sir. The B-21 was designed and tested in a totally digital environment. In the digital stage they flew hundreds of different prototypes and made thousands of adjustments. The one you are seeing there is a FULL PRODUCTION aircraft. All the bugs were worked out digitally. It is a new technology the DOD has been working on and we will see Aircraft with development cycles of 5 years or less instead of decades and at a fraction of the cost because they don't need to build physical prototypes and do extensive real world testing. In the digital environment they can build test, deploy and simulate a 30 year service life in a matter of hours.
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  68.  @jeffpotter2934  I will also point out that the B-21 was built with all off the shelf technology so there will be no cost overruns associated with immature technology. The F-35 debacle has changed the way DOD goes about systems acquisitions.
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  69.  @raulduke6105  Want to bet what?
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  70. In the background of Robert Behlers office, you see a model of the SR-71 and there is a model of an unknown aircraft next to it. Could that possible be the Aurora?
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  71. This by no means is a new technology. They have been flying secret aircraft this tech for a while. The famous contrails that look like donuts on a rope come from this tech. Earth Quake sensors have tracked these mysterious aircraft flying the SW United States for a while.
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  72. Fun fact, the B2 has an identical wingspan as the YB-49.
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  73. A couple of minor corrections. The F-35 vs F-16 Dogfight was not even an actual dogfight. What they were doing is testing the flight control laws and flight envelope to see where it could be expanded safely. When the 3I software upgrade which came about in part because of tests like this one it expanded the F-35's flight envelope from 7g's to 9+ G's. Today an F35A carrying an identical fuel and weapon load as an F-16 can out maneuver it in the traditional turn and burn fight. it can outmaneuver the F-18 and F-15 carrying similar fuel and combat loads. It may not have the eyewatering ATA performance of the F-22 but it is still one of the most effective dogfighters in the world.
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  74. These guns are going to be USELESS against these small drones we are seeing in Ukraine. You can't even see the damn things until it is too late.
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  75. It is all about making money, why do you think the Ukraine war started just two years after we pulled out of Afghanistan? The military industrial complex that runs this nation needed another war to facilitate the sales of weapons. Why do you think the USA has been perpetually at war since WW2? War is great for business and the profit margins are HUGE.
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