Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article describing the BAC X-Eleven "project" for a (then) new technology short-medium range jet airliner with CFM-56 engines. This "project" has a wider fuselage cross-section than the standard BAC 1-11. I believe this was the final attempt to make a stand-alone...
airborne early warning
british aircraft corporation
cfm international
civil aviation
cold war
great britain
întreprinderea de avioane bucurești
japan air self-defense force
japan maritime self-defense force
jsdf
maritime patrol aircraft
rolls-royce
royal air force
socialist republic of romania
Here's an anime concept showing underbody conformal tanks/bays for an F-16, to answer the complaint about dorsal missile carriage. Couple that with the diverterless inlet and F-16XL style large wing, and you would have something interesting to work with.
Just from a mission planning perspective. The current Anti Ship weapon planned for B-1 has a range that could be 2 to 3 times of this weapon (which iirc is 100-150nm class). This means the B-1s would need to get closer to a potential target, and also mean that you will need more aircraft to...
A fellow aviation collector I know in Japan posted this image to our forum and he tells me that it was some sort of full-size RCS test model for a proposed Japanese fighter design. I've never seen anything like this in the press before but it appears to be some sort of F-22-based model with what...
2010s
atla
experimental
fighter
japan
japan air self-defense force
japan defense agency
jasdf
jsdf
late 2000s
ministry of defense (japan)
mitsubishi heavy industries
trdi
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