Forum: General F-35 Forum

How about this for a weapon ruse?

I'm sure some will know before someone spills the beans.

Or you could fake the whole aircraft?

TEG

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F-86s would actually be fairly useful in the GWoT, in all honesty.

But really now...
Is that an INFLATABLE F-16?!?!?!?!?

I WANT ONE!!!! Twisted Evil

Beware THE SWARM!

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... QIMGV5vtd4

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Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics. Special thanks to Professor Daniel Lee for his support."

Actually, the USAF should buy many inflatable JSFs. They'll make great kills for expensive enemy ballistic and cruise missiles. Nothing like safety in numbers, real or imagined.

arkadyrenko wrote:

Actually, the USAF should buy many inflatable JSFs. They'll make great kills for expensive enemy ballistic and cruise missiles. Nothing like safety in numbers, real or imagined.

Sounds like a move out of the D-Day play book. Divisions of inflatable tanks, trucks and more were stationed to make it appear the invasion would be somewhere other than Normandy.

Spazinbad-
That swarm video is pretty cool. use them in room clearing operations, if nothing else it will scare/distract whoever is in the room.

Sufa Viper

I'm liking the idea of inflatable fighters. It's old school, but it will sure work against enemy satellites that can't tell the difference. If an enemy launches an airstrike on a forward air base we won't lose anything of value! Cool

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tacf-x wrote:

I'm liking the idea of inflatable fighters. It's old school, but it will sure work against enemy satellites that can't tell the difference. If an enemy launches an airstrike on a forward air base we won't lose anything of value! Cool

Ditto. Put a bunch of these at every airbase, load it with some explosives/fuel so they won't know the difference when it gets hit. And watch the hilarious reaction when we still have several hundred usable aircraft in-theater Laughing

The inflatable fighters get even better, when you realize that the Chinese will be wasting ballistic missiles to hit those targets. And those ballistic missiles come from a fixed (or very slowly growing) war stock....

Nothing like making the enemy waste expensive munitions on dirt.(Though the USAF should worry about that...)

southernphantom wrote:

F-86s would actually be fairly useful in the GWoT, in all honesty.

Look closer at that first pic...

Remember we're talking about weapon ruses. Things done for show.

TEG

That_Engine_Guy wrote:

southernphantom wrote:

F-86s would actually be fairly useful in the GWoT, in all honesty.

Look closer at that first pic...

Remember we're talking about weapon ruses. Things done for show.

TEG

First one is RC?

Yes, well RF... Going to clue him in or let him figure it out?

Shrug

TEG

Do inflatable ruses register on SAR?

Do inflatable ruses register on SAR?

popcorn wrote:

Do inflatable ruses register on SAR?

I know some of the better ones would, not to mention they had 'heaters' blowing the air into them so they appeared on IR like a real aircraft.

As for the post I had at the top of this page on the lines of 'fitting weapons for show'...

The RF-86F "Haymaker" had it's gun-ports painted on the nose, no guns were fitted.

The North Koreans figured out if there were no ports on the nose of a Sabre it was Recee version, so they'd attack it. Without guns the Haymakers were at a bit of a disadvantage.

False gun-ports were painted onto the nose so that opposing pilots would have a difficult time distinguishing between the Haymaker and the Sabre.

BTW I love derailing troll threads...

Keep 'em flyin' Thumb

TEG

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F-35 useless against Iran?