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Pentagon wants ideas for flying aircraft carrier
Got an idea on how to make a flying aircraft carrier? The Defense Department wants to know about it. The Defense Advanced Research Products Agency has a request out for ideas on how to develop an airborne platform that could both launch and recover other aircraft. But before you start looking for schematics of the Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) or Battlestar Galactica, or how you might levitate the USS Nimitz, think a little smaller, like B-1, B-52 or C-130. (www.cnn.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
After all the comments about reading/not reading the CNN blurb, here is a link to the RFI:
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=9b030256f6cad6fb20554ce7319144ad
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=9b030256f6cad6fb20554ce7319144ad
There seem to be a lot of folks who are wedded to the way things are and way to few who understand aerodynamics. This DARPA RFP is really not that hard nor far fetched. In fact I may send them a response.
Back in the early 80s, there was a proposal for a 747 carrying Firebee type drones that were launched from the forward freight bay and recovered via a modified refueling boom. Given the vast improvement in airframe, capability & cost, you'd have to think that expendable drones would be the way to go.
Stealth rocket, with disposable UAVs fitted into warhead. Could launch and deploy UAVs on a moments notice.
Why acrft carriers, missiles are the future as are unmanned acrft, manned fighters will be gone someday, and sooner then many will believe. The argument for keeping them holds no logic and like the battleship will cease to exist. War machines are at a crossroads, much like at the turn of the last century. Only egos and profits are standing in the way of a total transformation.
Reminds me of something you'd see on one of those sci-fi Japanese cartoons