11-08-2015, 07:17
|
#2
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Hope Mills, NC
Posts: 2,808
|
I'm sure it could be. I wonder if they would show up on RADAR?? They're pretty small.
One could most likely use this...for good...or bad...Fly up to a plane and breach it....or blow it up?? Who know's
__________________
Out of all the places I've been, this is one of'em....
You haven't lived...until you've almost died...
|
|
glebo is offline
|
|
|
11-08-2015, 07:29
|
#3
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,465
|
Upgrading delivery from trucks to wings, in no time at all!!
|
|
Penn is offline
|
|
|
11-08-2015, 07:36
|
#4
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
Posts: 11,901
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by glebo
I'm sure it could be. I wonder if they would show up on RADAR?? They're pretty small.
One could most likely use this...for good...or bad...Fly up to a plane and breach it....or blow it up?? Who know's
|
I think these are useful, but not in a weapons context.
120mpg is just about stall speed for most modern aircraft. Much easier to use a MANPADS, like the FIM-92 Stinger.
I think the stinger has a 23K ceiling and 1200mph speed???, giving it lots of flexibility.
__________________
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
Last edited by JJ_BPK; 11-08-2015 at 09:02.
|
|
JJ_BPK is offline
|
|
|
11-10-2015, 17:14
|
#5
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,465
|
I don't know, low level interception would be the best use of such a platform, whats take off speed for a jet, 150-200 MPH. 2-300 ALT and everybody dies.
|
|
Penn is offline
|
|
|
11-10-2015, 17:27
|
#6
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
Posts: 11,901
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Penn
I don't know, low level interception would be the best use of such a platform, whats take off speed for a jet, 150-200 MPH. 2-300 ALT and everybody dies.
|
I checked the A380 and its stall speed is 140, so I'm guessing it needs 150 or better to lift.
I suspect that when the filming was going on the A380 tracked left/right and inside banked turns to maintain stability,, but not altitude..
__________________
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
|
|
JJ_BPK is offline
|
|
|
11-11-2015, 11:57
|
#7
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington
Posts: 2,064
|
These guys have to jump out of an aircraft, so they can't launch from the ground like a MANPAD. The nefarious weapons system potential for these powered wings, and the un-powered wing suits, is as an air launched precision ground attack munition on sites with large, contained crowds like stadiums without roofs. However, I think they will lose most of the good flyers during practice.
__________________
Grando autem duodecimo hominis
|
|
Divemaster is offline
|
|
|
11-11-2015, 13:30
|
#8
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Western Carolina in the rainforest,4000' along the Eastern Cont. Div.
Posts: 1,427
|
This thread conjures up the old " Mig Hunter" poster. I hope those jet pack boys don't run into any of them 
__________________
"It is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly...that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again." Sir Francis Younghusband
Essayons
By Dand
"In the school of the wilds,there is no graduation day"Horace Kephart
|
|
Golf1echo is offline
|
|
|
11-13-2015, 20:08
|
#9
|
|
Asset
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 6
|
JATO
Just need a JATO to get up to speed
|
|
Tippy is offline
|
|
|
11-13-2015, 21:25
|
#10
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Orange, Ca.
Posts: 4,950
|
I don't know, low level interception would be the best use of such a platform, whats take off speed for a jet, 150-200 MPH. 2-300 ALT and everybody dies." Penn
That's how we shot down the Me262's in WWII- Waited until they went in to land, came in from behind and lit them up.
|
|
mark46th is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 19:04.
|
|
|
Linear Mode
