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…
A couple of notes for the next few days — YHS will be taking a temporary (overnight) residence at Bethesda for surgery…and since it would be unseemly to try and post on recuperative medicine there will be a slight mod to the normal flight sched for Thursday and Friday while going EMCON ALPHA through the…
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It happens — sooner or later it happens that those of us who have managed to maintain ownership of our sports/performance vehicles are approached by our better halves with the question: “Hon…don’t you think it’s about time…?” And followed with something about a “practical” car or one that doesn’t cost so much to insure or…
“So when all else fails, when all the negotiations have broken down, when there is a missile in the air, you have to have the ability to destroy it. Because the only other ability you would have is to apologize to the relatives of those who died.” — —
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality – Albert Einstein If it’s green, it’s biology, If it stinks, it’s chemistry, If it has numbers it’s math, If it doesn’t work, it’s technology – Unknown Seems…
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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.