Donald M. Fort, a Defense Constultant for Analytic Services, Inc. and formerly the Rand Corporation, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the US Air Force, wrote an article titled "Ultracarrier" in Proceedings of the US Naval Institute that appeared in its December 1978 issue. In this article...
I remember hearing that Grumman had serious problems with the A-6 on the production lines due to it's highly advanced electronics and it having both air-to-air and air-to-ground radars.
Assuming it is not classified, does anyone have any specifics on the problems or how serious it was?
KJ Lesnick
The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's.
One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...
aircraft carrier
cold war
cold war ii
commonwealth of independent states
early 20th century
imperial russian navy
navalaviation
nuclear powered vessels
post-cold war
red fleet
russian empire
russian federation
russian navy
soviet navy
soviet union
ussr
v/stol
vstol carriers
Found at NASA Glenn Research Center ImageNet site
Title says VARIABLE STEAM CONTROL ENGINE - MCAIR MCDONNELL AIRCRAFT V/STOL VERTICAL SHORT TAKE OFF LANDING - RI V/STOL - BOEING V/STOL that questions whose stuff it is
The pic below is from a Northrop promotional handout at the 1991 Dayton air show. It is a screen shot so it isn't very clear(I can't find the original handout). I've identified them here:
#1 Top_ High Reliability Fighter
#2 Top Right_MRF-RFI also ALF
#3 Bottom Right_F-16 Derivative
#4...
Searching infos on the losers competitors in the VAL contest (1963-64) I stumbled in AW&ST issue Aug 12 1963 on a notice regarding the VAX competition, then just cancelled. VAX was started in 1962 and asked for a supersonic all-weather replacement of the A-4. I asked for photocopies and I'll...
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
cold war
navalaviation
north atlantic treaty organisation
united states
united states navy
v/stol
vstol carriers
vtol
1970s
1980s
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
cold war
electronic warfare
grumman
navalaviation
united states
united states air force
united states army
united states navy
v/stol aircraft
vtol
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