Comments by "" (@craigkdillon) on "Sandboxx" channel.

  1. Cool. Very cool.
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  2. All I could say is "Wow".
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  3. Going by that, Boeing is NOT qualified to build a fighter,
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  4. Do you enough info to compare and contrast the ECM, spoofing, and jamming defense capabilities of US planes vs Chinese and Russian planes??? IF so, I would love to see such a video.
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  5. I am not surprised the NGAD was shelved. On YT, I see developments in AI and Engines, like the Hermeus Chimera that can take planes to Mach 5+ Also, drone tech and drone doctrine are developing at a HUGE pace. So, I think the Air Force needs to step back and re-visit the basic definition of what a 6th gen craft and suite of tools will look like. What type of engine? Speed? Range? (Blended body/wings can allow more fuel for greater range. I think.) What type of drones? Size? capability? Range? Payload? And then avionics are developing fast. ECM, ECCM, decoys, spoofers, jammers, and stuff I am not aware of are expanding capabilities. What should be put on the NGAD? How to use them? How can they be foiled? I bet the Air Force has more questions than it has answers at the moment.
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  6. To be clear --- the real threat to the US Air Force is --- RODAN ! ! !
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  7. I don't understand you description of the SM-6 performance. How can it achieve Mach 5+ speed? Its doesn't seem large enough to carry the fuel needed for that, plus it doesn't have a scramjet engine. Can it really go hypersonic??
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  8.  @TonyChan-eh3nz  I see. going low tech.
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  9. As I understand it, Stealth is about not allowing the enemy to get a kill chain on your aircraft. Radar detection, tracking, and targeting is only a part of that, it seems to me. Same with infra-red detection and targeting. Isn't Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) and jamming part of it, too? Would decoys be considered part of Stealth??
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  10. Alex, I have questions regarding hypersonic aircraft and their using AIM missiles. Can a Mach 5+ aircraft still use current AIM missiles - AIM-9, AIM-120, and AIM-260?? (This is what I think). OR Does the Mach 5+ speed require all new AIM missiles to be developed?? OR One person I talked with felt that missiles cannot be launched from a plane going Mach 5+ at all. Is that true?? Seems to me that the speed that Hermeus is developing their tech, that Mach 5+ aircraft will be a reality very soon. So this will be a serious design issue.
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  11. The Combined Cycle engines like the hypersonic Hermeus will likely be used. The NGAD is not currently designed for that. I can see shelving the NGAD until those engines become better known.
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