Just in case the plane is not recognized immediatly, it’s the PW-MK.I from Project Wingman, cool video game, I recommend it for the planes, the music and the memes.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    puts credible defense hat on

    But you know, stealth isn’t the be-all, end-all, really. The Navy’s been dragging their feet on 35 procurement for a while, more heavily emphasizing Rhinos and Growlers. Growlers have an absolutely silly amount of extremely advanced ECM and EW hardware onboard. The general doctrine for USN in peer conflicts right now is to just jam the absolute shit out out anything that’s making unfriendly electronic noises around it and then kill the things with prejudice. Don’t need stealth when you just straight up blind the enemy. Definitely more of a brute force approach, but it’s absolutely valid.

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      281 month ago

      Problem is that makes the growler a huge target. It can’t really hide when it’s emitting so much. It can be somewhat further back, but it’ll still need to be pretty close to the action to be effective jamming.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        261 month ago

        Exactly. The growler is great when it’s emitters outrange the enemy missiles, not so much when they don’t.

        Now granted, I dont think I’m smarter than the entire US Navy, so they probably thought of this too, but it seems like a big issue to me.

        • @superkret@feddit.org
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          291 month ago

          I believe US doctrine is to overwhelm the enemy’s air force and air defense within an hour and establish air dominance. There is no way to do that stealthily.

  • Skua
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    261 month ago

    Is that art actually from the game? The cockpit and the rest of the plane aren’t at the same angle of roll, and the canards aren’t lined up

    Edit: no it isn’t, it’s from this person on deviantart who has a whole bunch of AI anthro pokemon waifus on their profile

    • Psaldorn
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      171 month ago

      That’s the extra gen. Wings roll, body stays upright. We are beyond science.

  • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    251 month ago

    Pffft… I’m building a 12th generation fighter in my garage. It’ll be called the F-9000 SuperThunderLightningHog. You just wait and see!

  • @bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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    231 month ago

    But they were all of them deceived. For in secret, another generation of fighter was forged. And in it he poured all his stealth, all his sensor packages, and all his missiles.

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    71 month ago

    It doesn’t matter how maneuverable a plane is when the human pilot is the limiting factor. UAVs are the future for air combat now.

    • @jimbolauski@lemm.ee
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      51 month ago

      A human can’t handle negative Gs, a computer can. That alone gives uavs a huge maneuver advantage.

  • @Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca
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    51 month ago

    Who needs fight jets when you have advanced missile with targetting system that cannot be fooled by chaff and flares?

  • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    31 month ago

    You forgot the story! Project wingman had me feeling like I just came back from cascadia when I took my headset off.

    • MaggiWuerze
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      21 month ago

      Is it comparable to the H.A.W.X Series? I really liked those but don’t have a elaborated controller setup