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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20. September | 175 comments (175 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: NATO rapid-response unit proposed (none / 1)

However, it is said airplane dogfights are passé, too: in a real aerial war, planes would shoot each other off the sky with rockets at a range of dozens to hundreds of kilometres.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Sep 20th, 2008 at 05:49:23 AM EST
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Re: NATO rapid-response unit proposed (none / 1)

The development of remote controlled aircraft, flying above radar acquisition - "drones" - armed with air-to-air smart missiles coupled with swarm technology - independent agents with cross-coupled communication - is leading to the potential obsolescence of manned attack aircraft.

AFAIK, this system is still in the 'talking' phase. Throw some money at R&D and it could be developed.

by ATinNM on Sat Sep 20th, 2008 at 09:43:29 AM EST
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Re: NATO rapid-response unit proposed (none / 0)

AFAIK the nightmarish (because enabling even more reckless wars by people behind screens) idea of automatic airplanes is a dream for two decades now, but it only produced expensive but aborted development projects (a lot of the newer X-planes).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Sep 20th, 2008 at 11:46:57 AM EST
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Re: NATO rapid-response unit proposed (none / 1)

Sometime - when I'm not exhausted - and I'll run through the problems and how I would answer 'em.

But not today.

by ATinNM on Sat Sep 20th, 2008 at 07:40:48 PM EST
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