Why don't all aircraft designed after the 90s have single piece canopies for maximum visibility?
Is it a cost thing?
Why don't all aircraft designed after the 90s have single piece canopies for maximum visibility?
Colton Mitchell
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Jaxson Cooper
It's probably really expensive to make, a bit more fragile and visibility isn't that important anymore. Iirc in stuff like the Typhoon (and with the new helmet), you can project the external view directly on the HUD, basically seeing through the walls and bottom of the cockpit
Nathaniel Green
Because then you can't fly with the top down
Cameron Gutierrez
sure you can, you just need a really good helmet
Anthony Peterson
~20 years ago a pilot ejected from an F-16, and the plane crashed into a farmyard next to our town. Then I saw the planes canopy, it was intact. As a child I was very impressed seeing something glass falling from the sky and not breaking into pieces...
Jonathan Butler
I didnt know the Su30 came in a cabriolet option from the dealership.
Benjamin Perry
The F-35 in particular has full spherical sensor field of view.
Connor Cooper
Without something to duck down behind, you get buffeted around the cockpit a lot.
Brandon Martinez
Because it's a useless overpriced gimmick.
Isaac Flores
fox = russians
monkey = US MIC
grapes = bubble canopy
Ian Rodriguez
fug
Joseph Sanders
well the fox is right after all.
grapes is a shitty food with poor nutritional value.
Justin Diaz
cringe
Ryan Gutierrez
>you can project the external view directly on the HUD, basically seeing through the walls and bottom of the cockpit
holy shit for real?
that would be freaky
Blake Adams
Wine, nigger.
Liam Perry
Short answer is yes. Long answer is that it requires extensive engineering to be structurally sound and maintain good aerodynamics while not enhancing the radar signature the jet has. Single piece canopies also require a different construction process and are exponentially more difficult and expensive to replace than multiple piece canopies in the event of damage. While the molding process is the same for every individual canopy, extremely minute differences in construction (think thousandths of an inch) could necessitate the scraping of the entire thing.
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Isaac Ramirez
That would be because the "glass" isn't really glass. The shit can resist some small arms fire.
Joshua Adams
Wine is for faggots.
Nolan Taylor
I was going to point out that most ancient ass-kickers like Rome and the Greek city states drank wine, but then I relized that doesn't help the case against it being for faggots at all
Caleb Miller
it's a region exclusive
Christopher Morris
Watch top gun. Single piece canopies are killers.
Joshua King
RIP
Brody Murphy
It's a weight thing actually. An one piece canopy is significantly heavier than a two piece one.
Maintenance is also way more expensive.
Adam Kelly
based
Jayden Rivera
>Why don't all aircraft designed after the 90s have single piece canopies for maximum visibility?
reminder
Jaxon Peterson
>muh over a trillion dollars
By 2070, retard. Meanwhile, unit cost is down to $80 mil per aircraft and it seems to shit all over everything else in the US inventory except for F-22s.
Mason Cooper
You are now aware that the Pyrex® cooking pots you use everyday was actually developed for for the canopy of the SR-71 blackbird.
Dylan Murphy
Haha imagine being still mad at the F-35 in 2019 when it's already proven to be a successful fighter.
Carter Peterson
My father has some kind of techno-boner for this plane.
>it's got the latest and greates cutting edge technology. It's loaded with computers and yada yada yada
He didn't spend much time in the chairforce.
Joshua Harris
>it's got the latest and greates cutting edge technology. It's loaded with computers
This is correct, though. Even a cursory glance at the pilots' responses to the airframe's increased performance over other fighters would suggest that the tech works quite well.
Robert Torres
Armor the fixed front piece, the back movable piece kept flimsier and lighter and can be ejected through, most of damage is going to come on the front, your welcome.
Jack Gutierrez
Amazing, almost every single point in that article is wrong
Brayden Powell
>except for F-22s.
soooo, why do we not just have a giant fleet of those by now?
Mason Jenkins
>"Service officials had originally planned to buy a total of 750 ATFs. In 2009, the program was cut to 187 operational production aircraft due to high costs, a lack of clear air-to-air missions due to delays in Russian and Chinese fighter programs, a ban on exports, and development of the more versatile F-35."
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I guess it didnt have any real competition and they think 195 operational is enough with the 400 f35s.
Considering china only has 28 J-20s and russia only has 10 Pak-50 prototypes, it really doesnt have much competition.
Especially considering its 1997 tech and everyone is looking at 6th gen fighters including America.
Charles Lopez
>spend hundreds of billions on brand soanking new super advanced fighter
>already looking to spend 10x the precious cost on a brand spanking new super advanced fighter plus 1 gen
What a fucking joke the country is, that’s one of the reasons.
Noah Gutierrez
>brand spanking new super advanced fighter
The F22 is 20+ years old now and the F35 is multirole and was never considered to be the air superiority fighter for the US.
The F22 and F/A 18 and the F16s will need replacements soon and with the rest of the world creating 6th gen programs, its about time the US create a new air superiority fighter to maintain its superiority.
Also it doesnt matter that much when 47% of the USAF budget goes to classified R&D.
The only thing thats pathetic is Russia and China only having 28 and 10 fighters respectively of near F22 status 20 FUCKING YEARS LATER.
Aiden Nguyen
Pyrex is shit now, and only uses the brand name. It's a damn shame, too.
Jonathan Morales
Gavin Diaz
The truth is that not being faggots is for faggots