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Basically yes.That makes a lot more sense. I guess SSgtC assumed I said that because it made sense, unlike my idea.
Basically yes.That makes a lot more sense. I guess SSgtC assumed I said that because it made sense, unlike my idea.
Look up the ASF-14. It actually was planned to use the F119 or F120 engines when they became available. With those engines, it was estimated that the Tomcat could supercruise at over Mach 2. Which, thinking about it @Burton K Wheeler this actually could help you get your 700 Raptors for the USAF. With many, many more airframes using the same engine, it should help bring down the unit costs of both the F-14E and F-22Huge boost to the F-14 would be imcorporating f-119 or f-120 engines (same as for f-22) development costs might drop dawn and user base widens.. Plus f-14 will gain more POWER.
Look up the ASF-14. It actually was planned to use the F119 or F120 engines when they became available. With those engines, it was estimated that the Tomcat could supercruise at over Mach 2. Which, thinking about it @Burton K Wheeler this actually could help you get your 700 Raptors for the USAF. With many, many more airframes using the same engine, it should help bring down the unit costs of both the F-14E and F-22
Yeah, it would. You can't go getting too radical here. Otherwise you might as well give up all pretence of it being a derivative. And at that point, Congress will kill it. You can't butterfly the Legacy Hornet at this point. They're already in the fleet. And at the time, the Navy actually did need them. The Midway was too small for Tomcats and the F-4 was aging rapidly.As for how to get there.. Dorito is killed earlier and Navy does not buy Super Bug or Bug at all. NATF is seen as " we might not go there, but we like.." MDD helps with engine testing by putting those engines in f 14s and it turns out that it is great move.
How radical would be to put V tail from yf23 on f14? Would it screw up structure that bad?
IIRC, that's basically what the ASF-14 would have been, a Raptor in a Tomcat's shell. With a better radar. The plan was to completely replace all the internal subsystems, thicken the wing root, install F-110 engines originally, then the F-119 or F-120 as they became available, add thrust vectoring and replace some of the aluminum and titanium with carbon fiber. The freed up internal volume and weight was to be used for increased fuel capacity. There were also plans in place to reduce it's RCS. Things like radar baffles over the engine intakes and edge aligned doors and access panels. It basically would have been the best fighter in the world when it was built. And short of a full up stealth aircraft, nothing would have beaten it. Even then, with as powerful as the radar would have been, it's possible the ASF-14 could have still gotten a lock on at long range.No V tail, bur using F-22 systems on super tomcat would drive dawn the cost. But radar could have more elements that in F22
I think BKW's TL has the US reaping a smaller Peace Dividend after a worse Gulf War and the Military having bigger budgets and retaining it's traditional high/low mix instead of small numbers of insanely high end (and high cost) platforms.Congress handed out project cancellations, like M&M's in the early 1990's. No one has satisfactorily explained just how they would agree to provide funding for multiple new projects.
Congress handed out project cancellations, like M&M's in the early 1990's. No one has satisfactorily explained just how they would agree to provide funding for multiple new projects.
Congress handed out project cancellations, like M&M's in the early 1990's. No one has satisfactorily explained just how they would agree to provide funding for multiple new projects.