during the early phases of cold was europeans also concluded that their airports will not be able to hold up against Soviet attacks and they decided to pursue VTOL planes.
might be with modern solutions we can solve the problems europeans faced those days and use that concept.
it does not contradict my argument, you are bringing new argument up. that Kuwaiti newspaper claimed f-35 flew over several of our cities and i showed that it's not possible to fly over them and not being detected.
that news paper claimed the f-35 flew over bushehr, isfahan, shiraz and turned back toward israel. lets say our OTH radars didn't notice it...ok. but there are several radar sites and radars in that direction. this image shows that hs-3000, s band radar can detect an f-35 from 90 km away...
i hope it's true and we are producing j-79 but you should consider it that might be it's an overhauled preexisting engine and they are testing it's function. however it's definitely a j-79:
i have a crazy idea, what if we build a LO/VLO small drone with communication and data links and put some of our TICS-2 FLIR/IRST in three directions (forward and sides). or a more crazy idea, make a balloon out of kevlar/glass fibers and send it up with the aforementioned set of devices and...
it will be the next generation toophan, so it will look alike cobra. the difference will be in the amount of munition it carry's. two blade cobras (AH-1j) are not good for mountainous terrain and for a reliable flight usually they reduce the payload. with additional blades more lift will be...