Australia is making unmanned 'loyal wingman' to accompany their air force which they unveiled at the Avalon Air Show...

anyone else gonna be at the Avalon Air Show
I am, should be good as usual
>tfw once after a show the B-1 did a low flyby over the top of my house

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Will this be the first supersonic UCAV?
Still has kinda spindly wings, so I assume internal ordnance bay...

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MD merged with Boeing after their JSF/JAST proposal wasn't considered, this seems like they're recycling the planform

At what time will parking be hard to find?

The article says that they have to be able to keep up with the f35 soooo...

First combat aircraft to be designed in Australia in more than fifty years.

abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/combat-drone-secretly-developed-by-raaf-and-boeing-unveiled/10851000

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I've never had an issue with parking but I always get there pretty early
Just get there ASAP

>we will finally have a plane to shitpost about that isn't the boomerang
happy days, but never forget our glorious aviation history of 1 (one) fighter type that was actually pretty decent
youtube.com/watch?v=-9-luVivamY

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Looking forward to the second Emu war now.

>Nuclear
It's powered by a rectenna reeeeeeee

The CA-15 would have been the class of piston fighters had it been pushed out a little faster. Better than an MB5, even.

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stupid mutts copied

Certainly looked pretty mint, too bad it was right as jets came in that we developed it. What could have been

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And they scrapped her :-(

Thats why I said nuclear, unless you want to take several decades building a space elevator ofc

The amount of prototypes from all over the world that got scrapped is sad, at least more aircraft survive than ships though.
Suzy-Q is still going strong, god it looks small compared to the CA-15

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>Cheeky chinese hackers make the "loyal wingman" shoot down the Aussie fighters
Sounds like a good idea.
Seriously though, the time of drones has been and gone aslready. They are retardedly easy for near peer opfor to jam or take control of, as Iran (with russian help probably) has already demonstrated.

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And? While Chang is busy trying to take control of the drone the fighter it's escorting is blowing him up for inattentiveness or has its own literal wingman inside wresting for control, while it's assumed that 1 on 1 even an F-16 would shoot these things down in a straight fight.
They're meant to be a force multiplier that gives the enemy something to shoot at, that isn't manned.

It does make a lot of sense. Do any armoured forces currently use drones to get a birds eye view?

Aussie contribution - drinking VB and grilling prawns on the barbee

It's so iddy biddy

lol poos and pakis bragging about theyr plane fight while meanwhile in australia we are inventing our own pilot-less jet drone thingy.

>goddamit Jow Forums please make india and crapistan go 2 all out war
>i want POOklear hellfire

These two planes look SIMILAR from ONE angle. This is the biggest meme conjecture Jow Forums likes to spout since Sprey

rpv's are kind of cool

Go back to your Pakistan threads, Pajeet.

The design capability in Australia is laughable and so is the manufacturing capability/capacity. Everything done in Australia is about ten times more expensive than anywhere else in the world and takes 3 times longer. By the time this project is done it will be obsolete and or simply not do what's promised. Australians are fiercely defensive about their awesomeness and how the whole world looks up to them (militarily and in all other respects) and they are delusional. They have let high tech slip through their fingers many many times and the power of the bureaucrat there is G-d like. They think that if they say it to be so it will be… and if it isn’t just throw more money at it. Boeing is probably doing this for tax reasons.

the boomerang was hella cute aint gonna lie

Not been able to find info. What exactly will this do? Does it carry any munitions? Or is it just to act as a Jamming Unit with wings? Or fly ahead with a radar?

aside from the B-2, the F-117, BAE replica, BAE Tempest, FCAS, the B-21 etc...?

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well I think they're playing off the placement of the wings, but that's because both have a lifting fan, and that shifts the center of mass to the same place and so the wings and tail need to be where they are.

It took a long time huh? I thought we'd be doing this well before now, just radio fly a second jet/plane.

>1546583882087.png
From the other threads:
Aint going to waste my time to write an answer to this picture, straight from the archive:
A little list of stuff that is fishy on a short glimpse in this picture alone >Yak uses dedicated vertical thrust jets not a lift fan
Obvious difference hence why they lie about it.
>work of Petr Ufimstev was deem to be useless for soviets and so it was allowed to be puplish publicly
American making stuff work russians could not.
>the picture of the YAK-43 is according to wikipedia from a site for vector graphics that is offline, great source
On top of that every vantik like you would have shitted all over me for using something from wikipedia, while almost all the text on the picture is from there.
>there is no source at all for the YAK-43 using s-ducts
Inb4 "but YAK-40 and YAK-42 had them". Yeah they had them but they are fucking civilian airliners and entire different planes

Heading in today and probably Sunday. First time, grandad was supposed to take me to one when I was younger.
>tfw he never will now

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Whats wrong Chang, are you mad that we can make a better drone than you despite the fact that your country literally has more aviation specialists than we have people?

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Probably all of the above, I could see drones being used to scout ahead to give the F35's jamming cover and scouting information and I can see heavily loaded drones flying behind to missile spam once the pilot locks on to a target.

Vatnik cope.

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The Russians are developing this, the Uran-9 series “teletanks” to be drone partners to the manned MBT fleet.

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>when your big bro king hits some rando down the boozer

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For Air 7003, are we getting Reaper or Protector?

Well Aussies have quite a few FA/18 E Growlers for their air jamming to back up the current FA/18's, but will be getting 72 F35's.

From what I heard already, this new drone will be mainly reconnaissance and surveillance, so I assume it'll be used in screening and detection for jets and awacs. They did say it could easily carry munitions in the future.

>ayyyyy nice one mate
>fucken oath that dog cunt went jack on us
>MPs enter the boozer
>commence power tripping
>night unfolds spectacularly
>new mandatory training package on violence

I can't be arsed dealing with melbourne again, i'll just catch it's derro cousin in darwin next year

>loyal wingman

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Aussie here, this is true.

We can't even manufacture a car domestically any more for shits sake

huh? we're actually producing an interesting piece of tech domestically? i don't believe it.

>Australians are fiercely defensive about their awesomeness and how the whole world looks up to them (militarily and in all other respects) and they are delusional.
All anglophone countries are exactly like that, even fucking India.

It happens from time to time, you just need to keep your eyes open.

Like the EF88 I suppose?

The f-35 is notoriously slow. It can only go supersonic for a few seconds before running out of fuel.

>It can only go supersonic for a few seconds before running out of fuel.
Is this actually true or just a meme? Link?

It makes a lot of sense for the RAAF, given their significant manpower and airframe limitations. They've got what, 100 combat aircraft and another 50 coming in the form of F-35As?

In all fairness the Saber was totally redesigned by CAC to fit British engines here.

>Australia is making unmanned 'loyal wingman' to accompany their air force which they unveiled at the Avalon Air Show. Ace Combat is now.
Honestly, this isn't a bad idea actually. Having slaved wingmen drones actually takes cares of a LOT of issues when it comes to autonomous flight, especially the sort that has to shoot at people.
If all an automated drone has to do is to keep up with another airframe and stay in formation, and if it stays off the trigger until the Master-Plane says it's okay to burn some towelheads, then yeah. I can evidently see the use. The closest thing I can think of is playing Arma 2 with an AI squad following you about. This is the same, but in the air.
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