RAPTOR potential shown.
Champagne anyone...?
Melchett01 - I appreciate that there are pinch points with what you do with the data and that teddies would get hurled from prams over who would get to play - that would just be for the adults to sort out and shouldn't be a reason to reject common sense options.
I suspect anyway there wouldn't be a requirement for a 24hr stream of data from an airborne camera - I'm merely highlighting the potential offered by platforms other than the pointy ones. Couple that camera with what is effectively a mini gunship, comms platform, pertol station, cargo and or people dropper and extractor and you get a very versatile and capable system without having to splurge loads of cash developing new platforms.
But, as I said previously, this sort of thing isn't attractive to our introspective little jet-centric airforce so we'll just carry on flailing about in our own, hilarious little way
I suspect anyway there wouldn't be a requirement for a 24hr stream of data from an airborne camera - I'm merely highlighting the potential offered by platforms other than the pointy ones. Couple that camera with what is effectively a mini gunship, comms platform, pertol station, cargo and or people dropper and extractor and you get a very versatile and capable system without having to splurge loads of cash developing new platforms.
But, as I said previously, this sort of thing isn't attractive to our introspective little jet-centric airforce so we'll just carry on flailing about in our own, hilarious little way
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Agile, Adaptable, Ar*e!
Two's In and Easy Street,
thanks for your responses. I find it disappointing that you appear to have missed the wider issues of concentrating ever reducing resources on pursuing single type/role assets. Surely, if we are to remain agile and adaptable, then better to have role-fit sensor packages that can be fitted to a wide variety of platforms, than having to wait until there's a spare UAV to blag?
thanks for your responses. I find it disappointing that you appear to have missed the wider issues of concentrating ever reducing resources on pursuing single type/role assets. Surely, if we are to remain agile and adaptable, then better to have role-fit sensor packages that can be fitted to a wide variety of platforms, than having to wait until there's a spare UAV to blag?
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Couldn't be a Nimrod left of centre could it?
This is quite an old photo and the aircraft is no longer with us. That central area now has the newer Pier 6 complex served by the passenger bridge across the taxiway from the North Terminal.
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Comet
I've seen ' clipped wing ' Spitfires, but that Comet must have had RATO and a landing speed to frighten the most hairy-arsed Lightning / Starfighter pilot, with rate of roll to match !
