Reply to: Another MOD Cockup

[Gentile]

[sasguru]

Do stop being so camp.

[Gentile]

Don't worry your little head about it, luv. Now put the kettle on, there's a dear.

Stop being so camp.

[sasguru]

The thing I don't get about these 'stealth' planes is that (according to the BBC) they have the radar profile "of a golf ball". Whilst that is probably enough to keep them off of civvy ATC, I would have thought a profile that size would be more than enough to give them away to someone using specialised military selective radar. There can't be many golf balls that travel at 1200 MPH.

Don't worry your little head about it, luv. Now put the kettle on, there's a dear.

[Doggy Styles]

I bet this lad thinks they move pretty fast

BBC News - Rory McIlroy gives glove to boy hit by golf ball

Yes, if that had been a non-stealth fighter it would have killed him.

[SimonMac]

The thing I don't get about these 'stealth' planes is that (according to the BBC) they have the radar profile "of a golf ball". Whilst that is probably enough to keep them off of civvy ATC, I would have thought a profile that size would be more than enough to give them away to someone using specialised military selective radar. There can't be many golf balls that travel at 1200 MPH.

I bet this lad thinks they move pretty fast

BBC News - Rory McIlroy gives glove to boy hit by golf ball

[Gentile]

The thing I don't get about these 'stealth' planes is that (according to the BBC) they have the radar profile "of a golf ball". Whilst that is probably enough to keep them off of civvy ATC, I would have thought a profile that size would be more than enough to give them away to someone using specialised military selective radar. There can't be many golf balls that travel at 1200 MPH.

[Troll]

F-35 will be four times more effective than legacy fighters in air-to-air combat, eight times more effective than legacy fighters in air-to-ground combat, and three times more effective than legacy fighters in reconnaissance and suppression of air defenses – while having better range and requiring less logistics support and having around the same procurement costs (if development costs are ignored) as legacy fighters

Obviously it all depends on what you classify as a "legacy fighter"

But would these be put up against Sukhoi T-50s ?

[gingerjedi]

Found one

[NotAllThere]

Phew - I thought for a moment that my error had been discovered.

[Doggy Styles]

What happened to the Eurofighters we were supposed to be paying billions for?

Haven't heard much about them recently, so maybe they're the stealth craft.

There was one performing manouvres for the British Open golf crowd yesterday.

[doomage]

BBC News - UK receives first F-35 stealth fighter jet from US



Stealth fighter? But I can clearly see it in the picture!

You can see the dummy one. The stealth one is just above the one in the picture. Or below it. Or maybe a little to the left. Put on your tinfoil hat, it should appear.

[Mich the Tester]

KUATB!

tractor´s post was so stealthy I missed it. It works you see!

[SimonMac]

They wasted a trick here, they could have simply announced that they are spending 1 trn on them, then not bought them. No one would have known they are stealth fighters aren't they?

Surely you don't even need to buy stealth aircraft? Just fake some invoices and say you've bought 200 heavily armed stealth fighters and bombers and they will be stationed at secret locations around the world, ready to strike at a moment's notice. Nobody wil know.

KUATB!

[Mich the Tester]

Surely you don't even need to buy stealth aircraft? Just fake some invoices and say you've bought 200 heavily armed stealth fighters and bombers and they will be stationed at secret locations around the world, ready to strike at a moment's notice. Nobody wil know.