Heads-up fighter dudes — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over:
Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back:
Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM (article notes that initial releases said it was a HARM, but those references have subsequently been pulled back), so our SWO buds better not be chuckling too hard yet either…
Several years back I had the extraordinary privilege to get to know a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack who had been assigned to one of the gun turret crews onboard the USS Nevada (BB-36). As a junior "hinge" (O-4/LCDR) I was both captivated by the re-telling, first hand, of the accounts of that morning, and…
Your help is requested per the following comment found on an earlier post: SJS: Trying to locate NFO shipmate, Larry McMenniman, assigned to NAVPRO Burbank 1973 to 1976, came from the VP community, involved at NAVPRO in P-3C acceptance flying and S-3A developement and acceptance flying. May have gone on to S-3 Community following NAVPRO….
Green deck – post ’em here…
Today: … and one from the files for yesterday
A little over two years ago, China conducted the now notorious direct ascent ASAT shot on the Fengyun-1 satellite which was in a polar orbit. We’ve commented extensively at the time and a year hence on the issues raised by this shot. So where do we stand just past the second anniversary? Well, like rabbits,…
“Support our Troops” So says the ubiquitous magnetic sticker on yet another non-descript vehicle on the road up ahead – but one wonders if the driver/occupant knows of a program that directly, materially supports our troops in a life-changing way? That program would be Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops). The short story is…
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The USAF release I looked at (just now) seemed to indicate that it was a new high speed anti-radiation AGM associated with a Navy program. That would seem to indicate something associated with the HSAD, as this Ares article states.
Mike- from your article: “HSAD combines the seeker head and guidance electronics of the AGM-88 HARM with a wingless airframe and a ramjet propulsion system.”
The missile in the picture is not “wingless”… and I actually think it might be a Standard ARM. But I am not sure.