air superiority

As we know, drone air combat is currently being developed at a rapid rate, and it is a good time to speculate and form designs for drone air superiority aircraft. The main lesson from drone air combat is that air combat works with different tiers and there is no universal air superiority...

Part 1 - December 1969 to August 1972 In 1965, the technical research department at OKB-51 Sukhoi received the first information about the start of development of a prospective tactical fighter programme for the US Air Force from US periodicals. No specific details were published of what its...

Two General Dynamics designs are now known for this competition. I don't have any details about the requirement. Clearly STOL/ VSTOL, air-to-ground mission. Larger copies at Codeone website as usual. http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=114...

While going through a January 1982 Lockheed report under contract for NASA, entitled Systems Study of Transport Aircraft Incorporating Advanced Aluminum Alloys - Final Report, I happened on these, two diagrams depicting none other than the Northrop Versatile ATF (with conventional instead of...

Hi All! Give a short history of this competition: 12 December, 1952---Issued a General Operational Requirement on December 12, 1952 for a lightweight air-superiority fighter to replace the North American F-100 in the Tactical Air Command beginning in 1956. Submitted by: Lockheed...

Has any-one pictures or drawings of the proposed GAU-7 caseless ammo gun for the F-15? I can't find any :'(

"Clearly, ATF was going to be superstealth and not a cousin of YF-12 or SR-71," explains Osborne. "I stopped the YF-12 derivative effort, and we started working on an F-117 derivative for ATF." The design submitted in the Lockheed proposal looked like a larger and elongated F-117 with some...

McDonnell-Douglas VG concepts [Images removed - better scans below - Admin]

Fairchild F-15 (model number unknown) Early VG configuration Final submission- fixed wing

in this competition, the main contenders were:- 1-Boeing model -----? 2-Northamerican-Rockwell NR-349 3-Vought V-483. 4-lockheed CL- -----? 5-Grumman G-300. 6-General Dynamics model -----? 7-Fairchild-Hiller (Republic division) model ----? 8-McDonnell-Douglas F-15 model ----? can anyone...

Thread to discuss McDonnell Douglas pre-ATF and ATF studies If you have something to share, please post it here.

Thread to discuss Boeing pre-ATF and ATF studies If you have something to share, please post it here.

Thread to discuss Rockwell pre-ATF and ATF Projects. Merged with existing Rockwell ATF threads by Overscan If I knew how to add a pic, I'd attach it, but in a 1981 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, there was a page of sketches of ATF designs. One that's had me intrigued is a Rockwell...

Northrop pre-ATF and ATF studies. Scren captures are from 'YF-23 Black Widow II Declassified' documentary (c) West Coast Images

From Flight International 23-29 May 1990 Bell-Boeing Supersonic combat tilt-rotor. Dual-mode engine incorporating folding rotors and employing jet exhausts. A high speed subsonic version also proposed. In the same page (29) there is information about US Army beyond LH program for an advanced...

First a whole load of concepts from 1979. A "high mach" supersonic cruise optimised fighter Sources: Aviation Week & Space Technology Jan 17 1979 TsAGI Technical Briefing on ATF Program, 1984 Internet Michael J Taylor -Jet Warplanes, The Twenty First Century