jhungary
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Was talking to an Ukrainian friend this morning, he raise a very good point.I think I've said it before the Iranian Shahed fly straight and level at about 3,000 ft over preprogrammed waypoints until it arrives at its target. Fast air isn't really ideally suited to the task of guns only intercept. If I were flying the latest block F/A-18 E/F, I'd simply use my radar to fry the radioshack electronics on the Shahed. Don't get me wrong Guns intercept is possible but you have to get low and slow behind the flying moped and expose yourself to ground fire.
I think we should be supplying Ukraine with armed Super Tucano or similar ...useful for these pesky drones and close air support for ground troops. Thoughts @jhungary ?
There is a reason why Russia did not even try or attempted to attack troop concentration, even without guidance, they can still swarm Ukrainian frontline troop or armour. Then why the Russian did not do it? It's because most Ukrianian Anti-Air Asset is in the frontline protecting those troop. Which the Russian know if they started targetting them with drone and cruise missile, they would have minimal result. Which is why they target city center.
This drone attack really did reveal the weakness of Ukrainian Anti-Air Defence, because most of them are forward deployed. and they just don't have enough to go round, which mean our priority number one should be increase Ukrainian anti-air capability so they have enough system to strategically deploy within Ukraine rather than using them tactically.
On the other hand, in Super Tucano case, I would argue we should either go big or go home, we should send the Ukrainian some A-10 Thunderbolt instead, there are no point to muck around now, we need to end this quick, imagine what 24 A-10 can do to a Russian front.
X-47 is a demonstration program for UCLASS, it's not cancelled or suspended, in fact, Navy has said they kept the X-47B in operational readiness for future assessment (whatever that mean) which mean as of now as I wrote, Navy still can place X-47 into operational readiness, if they had not done so already.The troll said that the US has nothing equivalent to S-70 close to operational. You replied with "ever heard of the X-47".
The X-47 is not close to operational. In fact the X-47 is cancelled. Has never been operational and will never be operational. So your response to him is hilarious and incorrect. Sit down boy because you need to get smart first.
On the other hand, UCASS program are not cancelled, it has been pushed from 2020 to 2023. We are expecting to see Boeing, which awarded the UCASS contract back in 2018) to come up with something later this year or next year. Which is now in the form of MQ-28 or formerly known as Loyal Wingman Program
Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat - Wikipedia
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