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By: - 2nd May 2001 at 06:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
Try here for starters Min.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/acm.htm
Regards, Glenn.
By: - 2nd May 2001 at 07:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
No, or stealth technology will be compromised.
By: - 2nd May 2001 at 12:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
How will changes inside the missile (ie placing HE insead of nuclear warhead) affect the stealthiness(spellng) of the missile vortex??
banana Man
By: - 2nd May 2001 at 13:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
Vortex means that putting a conventional warhead in the AGM-129A and then using the missile would compromise the stealth TECHNOLOGY as there would still be quite sizeable fragments of the airframe and RAM coating, composite material structure, electronics etc. which could be pieced together etc. etc. etc. by the enemy. It's like crashing, say, the B-2 into the enemy's hands, the enemy could exploit the technology to their advantage. This technology would of course not survive a nuclear blast.
MinMiester
By: - 2nd May 2001 at 18:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
Or crashing an F-117 into the enemys hands!!!!
By: - 3rd May 2001 at 04:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
thanks back at you min
By: - 3rd May 2001 at 10:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
ok point taken!bit of a dumb ass question now i think of it min!!anyhow isnt stealth technology pretty well documented about?especially after that F-117 decided it didnt lke flying anymore!!??
By: - 3rd May 2001 at 10:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
The F-117A's stealth technology may well be well-documented, I firmly believe the reports that Russian/Chinese/(French?) technicians thoroughly inspected the downed F-117A in FRY, to think otherwise would be naive. However, the F-117A uses a completely different approach to stealth when compared to the B-2A, the F-117A is a stealthy airframe, the B-2A is not, the B-2 relies on it's electronics and RAM coating to hide itself, a bare metal F-117A is still a very LO aircraft (this is according to Gene Salvay, chief engineer behind the F-117A project and chief designer of the B-2A).
MinMiester
By: - 3rd May 2001 at 12:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
RE: AGM-129A
Well i persumed that (forgive if im wrong!), that it has a completely redesigned airframe so, therefor they must have designed it with LO in mind(just like the B2 with blended wing/engines), hence the sharpened(pointy even)redesigned nosecone to scatter radar emissions and the forward swept wings(would they decrease the observablity).But i take your point that they could use fragemnts of the missile to figure out chemical make up of RAM and therefor make there own. Going of the point of the AGM-129A,does the F-117 have much RAM on it at all?(apart from leading edges of wings and other places difficutlt to hide)as opposed to the B-1b which is covered in it.
Banana Man
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By: minmiester - 2nd May 2001 at 05:32
Saw a picture of this in a recent copy of Combat Aircraft. Anybody have some information on this thing? Also, can the AGM-129 be armed with a conventional warhead?
MinMiester