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Better have a boatload of these spread out. It’s a marginally Mach aircraft by a search on its characteristics. It’ll take all of its range and speed to conduct a tail chase intercept on a 8:20 departure to Kansas City that’s gone NORDO. |
Originally Posted by Bob Viking
(Post 10571454)
This is me we’re talking about. What do you think I was flying?!
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Salute! Best chance U.S. had for a national air defense-only plane was the F-20, and Northrop's last ditch maneuver was to get USAF Air Guard equipped with that rascal in order to get a few hundred sold. The countries that could have used it wanted the big dogs for their President's birthday parade. I was one of the three pilot experts on Northrop's legal team in 1985 for their suit vs MacAir on propietary stuff on the F-18 and F-20. So I had many sim hours in a cosmic sim there, plus some time in the F-18 sim at St Louis. The other two were a F-18 OT&E guy and Chuck Yeager. Gums sends.... |
Etudiant is right.
A threat model should be defined first in detail. "Homeland Defense" sounds a bit vague. Drug smugglers, self-made drones, what else? |
Could it tail chase one of those Gulfstream thingies down at 50k, because that's what the cartels will use to avoid interception, unless roe says shoot before ID...that's REALLY high up and they MOTOR...I have actually seen one (confirmed by fr) from the ground here in PERTHSHIRE tiny, tiny dot on a thin, thin contrail....
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Originally Posted by weemonkey
(Post 10572014)
Could it tail chase one of those Gulfstream thingies down at 50k, because that's what the cartels will use to avoid interception, unless roe says shoot before ID...that's REALLY high up and they MOTOR...I have actually seen one (confirmed by fr) from the ground here in PERTHSHIRE tiny, tiny dot on a thin, thin contrail....
Imho, the US drug problem reflects both high volume imports of high priced drugs by airplane as well as mass volume of cheap drugs by boat. Do note this excludes the home grown Purdue Oxycontin delivery system. All is probably fixable in an enhanced surveillance state, but it is less clear whether the public is on board for that. |
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