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MQ-25 F/A-18E/F 777

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• sklargh 4y ago
  Tactical fighter aircraft are a bright spot but they aren’t long for this world.
• ceejayoz 4y ago
  The MQ-25 is a repurposing of a failed armed drone program. The F/A-18 is from the 70s, and the Super Hornet's from the mid 1990s. The 777 first flew in the mid 1990s. There's not much recent to brag about.
  • aunty_helen 4y ago
    X-37/B
    • ceejayoz 4y ago
      Started in 1999, and it's a little hard to gauge efficacy of a program we know very little about.
      • aunty_helen 4y ago
        Exactly so has existing almost entirely in the window we're talking about. But I think we can guage it by a, still going after 22 years and b, having exceeded design orbit duration by 3x. Obviously the air / space force / nasa etc have been sufficiently happy with the program to keep it going for so long.
  • ethbr0 4y ago
    IMHO, converting the carrier based armed drone program (UCLASS) into a carrier based refueling drone program (CBARS) is one of the most sane and prudent things military acquisition has done in recent times. Why push a cutting edge technology for which there is no immediate need into operational status? Why not instead harvest the low-hanging fruit, while simultaneously using it to refine carrier operations, and then restart UCAV development later when technologies have had more time to mature?
• rmk 4y ago
  The 777 entered service in '95.