drone landing on carrier

[bob10]

The future is here, Bob


X-47B UCAS Aviation History Under Way - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/embed/WC8U5_4lo2c?feature=player_embedded)

[Treads]

Meh, This is the era of Naval Aviation I'll always remember :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzQ3eBerHfM

[newhue]

so the future looks peaceful, trusting, and all about looking forward to building good relationships.

wouldn't it be nice if the US spent a 1/4 of its defence budget on getting it's own people to give up heroine. Maybe the next 1/4 on health, then the next 1/4 on rebuilding social structure.

I guess it's easier to say to the would, here stick this in your bum, we're still no1 on warfare.

[Reads90]

so the future looks peaceful, trusting, and all about looking forward to building good relationships.

wouldn't it be nice if the US spent a 1/4 of its defence budget on getting it's own people to give up heroine. Maybe the next 1/4 on health, then the next 1/4 on rebuilding social structure.

I guess it's easier to say to the would, here stick this in your bum, we're still no1 on warfare.

Yeah although they are the " world leaders " they still have some of the poorest people in the world

[Reads90]

When ever I see these sort of things it reminds me of something

I had a cousin who was in the SAS in the uk and I always remember what he used to tell me.
And that was if you see something new from the military in the papers or on TV then I am telling you it is not that new. They will say its new but had it for a few years. They won't invent a new weapon and tell the world about it straight if the bat. They keep it to themselves for a bit.
Don't know how true that is but seems to make sense. So as to keep the advantage against your foes.

[Naviguesser]

I have always worked on a theory of, "if that's what they are showing us, imagine the stuff they are not showing us".

[Reads90]

I have always worked on a theory of, "if that's what they are showing us, imagine the stuff they are not showing us".

Yeah exactly

[JamesH]

It would be nice if the US could slash its defence budget, and I'm sure the US would agree. The trouble is all the other crackpot loony thugs running countries or wanting to run countries in all the usual places would really stuff things up.

About as much chance of the world giving up violence as there is every one giving up heroin.

[Reads90]

It would be nice if the US could slash its defence budget, and I'm sure the US would agree. The trouble is all the other crackpot loony thugs running countries or wanting to run countries in all the usual places would really stuff things up.

About as much chance of the world giving up violence as there is every one giving up heroin.

Need to get rid of region before there will be no more wars. And that will never happen

[bob10]

Meh, This is the era of Naval Aviation I'll always remember :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzQ3eBerHfM


Treads, here is a bit of history, the USN pilots who landed on her said it was like landing on a postage stamp. Bob


Aussie Aircraft Carrier HMAS Melbourne - YouTube (http://youtu.be/2CpTQp9sI5c)

[bob10]

A bit off topic , but that hasn't worried me before. Bob [ I was there this night, On Vampire. ]


The Melbourne-Evans Incident (released 1975) - YouTube (http://youtu.be/8cK0kolfwUw)

[Bushie]

Interesting for an unmanned acft they still had the Flight deck officers (Yellow shirts) giving directions and hand signal to the acft. Hard (or not good practice) to break routine.


Martyn

[101RRS]

Interesting for an unmanned acft they still had the Flight deck officers (Yellow shirts) giving directions and hand signal to the acft. Hard (or not good practice) to break routine.


Martyn

There is still a controller of the drone - not in it but still needs to be told to get the drone to the catapault etc no different if there was a pilot onboard. The contoller will either be watching flight deck officer directly or via cameras on the drone.

[bob10]

Interesting for an unmanned acft they still had the Flight deck officers (Yellow shirts) giving directions and hand signal to the acft. Hard (or not good practice) to break routine.


Martyn


I believe the routine is carried on for the operator [ the man with the remote] to be in the loop, and for the deck crew to be comfortable with what is happening. As this develops, they will work their routines to suit. Bob

[Ratel10mm]

When ever I see these sort of things it reminds me of something

I had a cousin who was in the SAS in the uk and I always remember what he used to tell me.
And that was if you see something new from the military in the papers or on TV then I am telling you it is not that new. They will say its new but had it for a few years. They won't invent a new weapon and tell the world about it straight if the bat. They keep it to themselves for a bit.
Don't know how true that is but seems to make sense. So as to keep the advantage against your foes.

An aquiantance of mine got ambushed a long way into Angola in the ealy 80's. Got lost & missed the helicopter evac. So he walked out, which took him about 3 months iirc. Once he got back to a base in SWA/Namibia he was court martialled on the basis that he must have been colluding with the enemy, to have been in Angola that long without getting killed.
He was exonerated because his story of E & E was proved when they checked the satellite photos & saw him, where & when he said he was.
Remember, that's in the early 80's, that a single person could be recognised from a satellite photo!
It wasn't until the late 90's / early 2000's (iirc) that the media was talking about satellites that could do this.

On the other hand, an Uncle of mine tells this story; He was escorting some Russian Diplomat types who were being allowed to witness part of a tank exercise some time after WW2. (There had been some top level argument about this as you can imagine, since it was the early part of the Cold War). However, my Uncle states that the Russians were so impressed by the rate of fire achieved by the British tanks (thanks to the newly developed independant targeting system which enabled the commander to lay in & program the next shot before the previous had even been fired) that it completely put them off the idea of starting a shooting war - at the time a very real possibility, apparently.