Heatloss

I'll look.

Love all the detail. I've referenced this many times and will continue to do so

Maybe @aeck.bsky.social & @heatloss.bsky.social will like these.

My thanks to @massiasthanos.bsky.social for bringing to my attention this application on Ti on the A3J Vigilante.

A3J Vigilante - the gold plated, titanium giraffe🧵

The North American Aviation A3J (first flight 31 August 1958) was one of the most advanced aircraft of its time, especially in terms of manufacturing technologies.

I'll make a version for YT in a few days to weeks

I did a cool presentation

Conferences are fun and also exhausting

I was not the target audience but I laughed nonetheless

The app also hardly works for me lol half the time I can't open a post

I'm pretty done with social media, I'm moving to YT and the website more and more.

No. I didn't know people from Twitter were browsing here. I opened up this app after logging out of Twitter yesterday out of disgust

Ah yes cheering on someone's death because they're on the "other side" is such a civil and normal and not authoritarian at all response

This website prides itself on being better than Twitter but I don't really see it anymore

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I'm not seeing much support for Spain and Switzerland ditching. India deal is probably dead but this is also probably a good thing, we don't want to give free shit to the Russians.
But yes, Trump effect probably had something to do with that one

🧵 Footage of a Torpedo Testing Barge/Torpedo Trials Craft (YTT).

Probably YTT-2 at the Naval Torpedo Test Range, Piney Point, Maryland.

Note observation barge dropping its semaphore for signaling the moment that the torpedo crosses its line.

"Torpedo Testing"
🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/353747338

Not beating the kegseth allegations

Seafair time?

well, i am in law school

but i'd rather spend my time not getting paid enough but working with radars

The Case for the Spark Eagle We've been putting off the EF-15 for far too long.

New article is up on my website and my substack.
open.substack.com/pub/heatloss...
www.greatdefensesite.org/articles/the...

Work is all yours, though.

a fighter jet is flying through a cloudy blue sky with smoke coming out of its tail . ALT: a fighter jet is flying through a cloudy blue sky with smoke coming out of its tail .

MiG-23 turn rate🧵

One important fighter aircraft performance parameter, for close range air combat, is turn rate [ω, measured in °/s].

I will be comparing the maximum sustained & instantaneous turning ability of the MiG-23, with that of other contemporary fighters.

Mobile protected firepower was more to replace the Sheridan conceptually but without LAPES and the compromises made for that capability. I think that's still extremely relevant. Booker was just the wrong vehicle for the job.
I don't know enough about AMPV to comment.

Studies are done before new aircraft requirements are drawn up that determine whether or not an alternative like that would work. I expect that F-35 based alternatives were explored in depth and determined to not sufficiently meet requirements, much like with F-15's development.

That would require a significant redesign internally externally and require a RCS re-optimization. It sounds easy but in practice with modern aircraft it's really hard. 174 is also not the only thing they want in F/A-XX.

I hope I'm right too. There's a possibility I'm not, but I think it's by far the better of the two guesses to make in my opinion

CCA is a force multiplier. It's not really a "cheaper mass" approach. I don't know how to properly explain it.

I also trust their math mostly. A lot of this is built on existing infrastructure and tech.

If you do the math yourself, even with current costs, interceptors should still be cheaper than a warhead. Golden Dome isn't officially scaled and optimized for a peer threat *yet*, but I suspect this will change. It's also far cheaper than my math. I came up with ~500B.

I strongly disagree. This has been a common attack against non-missile-dominated warfare. But it never stood up to scrutiny. The most expensive BMD system ever proposed, based on Nike Zeus, was still a 1:1 exchange rate for warheads when the system was scaled to handle a strategic level threat.