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I'm not so sure anything in space is safe if shit really kicks off

Problem is none of these manned platforms are survivable if WW3 kicks off. UAS constellation and space are the only viable long term solution (speaking specifically to maintaining capes we need whilst in a shooting match with the PRC).

The staff and lower level leadership will make the numbers work. It's the long term where the truth data becomes apparent.

Al Asad AB under attack.

The U-2 is awesome but for this vapor ware plane I’m talking about and referencing the -57, it would be twin engined for size, weight, power and cooling. Twin engines for running probably 2 radars and links simultaneously, maybe lifting 4 AIM-174s to the high ground for very long shots, maybe jamming a wide area, etc… I just mentioned above 55k as a notional very high altitude, open source says it could fly in excess of 60k in the sensor configuration NASA used for it, a new build would easily get well above 60k with some performance left in the bank Why the strong opinion on having a plane that swings both ways (sts)? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why not just keep the U-2 fleet instead of trying to build a platform that can’t even fly above Class A and failing anyway? And the concept of optionally manned is worthless.

Thoughts and prayers for Lockheed stock after the sheeple see this photo…

The Israelis have now gone too far. Attacking the island nation of Lilliput, the Lilliputians will now have to respond in kind. They might be small, but they are fierce! Apparently, tiny people with tiny radars can overcome stealth technology. I bet the engineers at Lockheed Martin didn't see that coming.

It's crazy the modifications they had to make to satisfy the B model.

Is that why they call it “Fat Amy?” I had no idea it was that big!!

I find this only slightly less obnoxious than all DCS gameplay videos being grained up and shared as footage from the Ukraine-Russo war. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bro, that's obviously fake....this one should be sobering for Western nations. If Iran can get to our F-35s, all bets are off.

This is getting serious. Iran has an air defense capability that reverses your vertical stabilizer, powers your afterburner post crash AND sits you down gently in the grass!

Over areas that would only be permissible with tacit approval of the Sunni states in the region that get something out of this. That’s probably the biggest part of this not being discussed by critics of Israel and the current administration, because this shows the Abraham accords and other normalization efforts were far more useful than publicly acknowledged. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wonder how far the Israeli tankers are pushing up this far in.

"At a distance of approximately 2,300 kilometers, the Air Force struck an Iranian refueling aircraft a short time ago at Mashhad airport in eastern Iran. The Air Force is working to achieve air superiority throughout Iran. This is the farthest strike since the operation began."

What's it say in English?

*looked like Appears the queen is dead.

Also any number of the high altitude persistent glider platforms that could function as relays. If a big wing drone can sit up there for 30-72 hours to function essentially as BACN, it can probably do other things with passive or active sensor systems. Seeing what some of the new multi spectral cameras paired with AI can do, I’m starting to wonder if Radar isn’t going to be displaced in the level of importance it plays or at least be much more of a codependency to other methods of tracking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah I know, I should’ve said like or inspired by the -57, an aircraft operating at extreme altitudes, I’d call that 55 and above, effectively is a LEO satellite but way more flexible in dynamic employment My opinion is to have both, one primary and secondary to give options if all or most of said satellites are destroyed or disabled Only if king for a day and if money were almost no object… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We could waste billions on resurrecting a 50s era aircraft like the WB-57 for C2... or we could use... space..

Yup, modified biz jet in production now probably would be the only thing feasible if the powers that be said yes this is a valid way of providing C2 that is at a risk level we will tolerate but… if king for a day I’d propose a successor platform for the U-2, a compliment to the E-2/3/7, E-11 while bringing new capabilities. A modernized and larger WB-57 C2, arsenal, sensor, link and drone controller platform that could be optionally manned. LOS at 55k is 270+ NM, outside the WEZ of all but the biggest systems and at the extreme range of the ones that could conceivably engage this system when on station. Problem is how many tails, would need to be enough to avoid the problem of low volume high acquisition and high support costs.