Northrop Grumman announces fighter bid

a reply to: penroc3

Some:

X-36

X-31 (in both configurations)

Advanced Tail-less Fighter Aircraft study by NASA

www.stormclimb.com... RF-24X.jpg&h=0&w=600&zc=1&q=100" target="_blank" class="postlink">The little brother of the rumored YF-24

These up here are all tail-less, in the sense that they lack both traditional elevators and a vertical stabiliser, but as Sammamishman pointed out, every flying wing design is a tail-less design, so planes like the B-2, RQ-170, X-47 etc. they are all tail-less.

IMHO this is the way to go: less drag, reduction in RCS and a reduction in weight. These are just three of the main advantages that pop up in my mind thinking about this kind of design.

Here are a two images of what NASA worked on. The HIMAT.
I don treally know if these are realated to the New Project.

Hmm a YF-24 looks like a f-14 but stealthier. Sweep wings would allow supercruise or supersonic and give it a variable RCS profile. also giving it two pratt and whitneys and the ability to carry redesigned pheonix missiles with enhanced manuverability and you might have a worthy replacement for the heavy fighter. Ive always wanted to actually see someone design multi warhead missiles. Imagine that in a BVR missile. one radar contact turns into 7 at one time. Juke? flare? or eject? lol.

a reply to: CiTrus90


the x-36 looks allot like the f-22 and i totally forgot about them making the www.luft46.com...
as well as www.fantastic-plastic.com...


the original war of the worlds movie used www.nationalmuseum.af.mil...

thanks for the sunday morning reading/research

originally posted by: yuppa
Hmm a YF-24 looks like a f-14 but stealthier. Sweep wings would allow supercruise or supersonic and give it a variable RCS profile. also giving it two pratt and whitneys and the ability to carry redesigned pheonix missiles with enhanced manuverability and you might have a worthy replacement for the heavy fighter. Ive always wanted to actually see someone design multi warhead missiles. Imagine that in a BVR missile. one radar contact turns into 7 at one time. Juke? flare? or eject? lol.

Are you saying you've seen a yf24 before?

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If we won't hear from Yuppa ever again, then i think that would be a dead give away that he HAD seen the real deal

Hmm a YF-24 looks like a f-14 but stealthier. Sweep wings would allow supercruise or supersonic and give it a variable RCS profile. also giving it two pratt and whitneys and the ability to carry redesigned pheonix missiles with enhanced manuverability and you might have a worthy replacement for the heavy fighter.

Well. The YF-24 is/was/should be a single seater, light weight, single engined, fixed wing, fighter. That is, if the Boeing sheets show the real thing.

So, unless you're thinking about another YF-24, i don't really see the similarities with the F-14, which is a double seater, heavy weight, twin engined and with VG wings.

a reply to: CiTrus90

There was a picture floating around a while back he could of seen, it didn't have swept wings. Someone 'anonymously' sent it to me, I won't post it here though.

a reply to: B2StealthBomber

If it's the one I'm thinking of there was a lot of "oh crap" going on.

Doesn't look much like an F-14 though.

originally posted by: spy66
Here are a two images of what NASA worked on. The HIMAT.
I don treally know if these are realated to the New Project.

They look like Cap'n Scarletts Angel Interceptors!!! A bit............
duckduckgo.com...

a reply to: Zaphod58

Yeah maybe he caught onto the banter going on at the time about certain things being swept and thought it was the wings lol

originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: Zaphod58

Yeah maybe he caught onto the banter going on at the time about certain things being swept and thought it was the wings lol

nope. it was posted here on ATS actually. google search for yf-24. click on images. then look foe a picture looking like a f-14.

Here. Luke S. posted a picture of one of the designs.



www.abovetopsecret.com...&mem=

originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: CiTrus90

There was a picture floating around a while back he could of seen, it didn't have swept wings. Someone 'anonymously' sent it to me

Pfffft, pics or it didn't happ...

I won't post it here though.

D'oh!

originally posted by: CiTrus90

originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: CiTrus90

There was a picture floating around a while back he could of seen, it didn't have swept wings. Someone 'anonymously' sent it to me

Pfffft, pics or it didn't happ...

I won't post it here though.

D'oh!

Zaphod58 had a link to the YF24 somehwere. But it never looked like an f-14. It was a single engine light attack Aircraft.

Image:

a reply to: spy66

recheck my post above. i edited the link in

originally posted by: yuppa
a reply to: spy66

recheck my post above. i edited the link in

I see, that aricraft does look like a biffed up F-14.

a reply to: yuppa

Yeah sorry that doesn't look anything like the actual aircraft.

originally posted by: yuppa
Hmm a YF-24 looks like a f-14 but stealthier. Sweep wings would allow supercruise or supersonic and give it a variable RCS profile. also giving it two pratt and whitneys and the ability to carry redesigned pheonix missiles with enhanced manuverability and you might have a worthy replacement for the heavy fighter. Ive always wanted to actually see someone design multi warhead missiles. Imagine that in a BVR missile. one radar contact turns into 7 at one time. Juke? flare? or eject? lol.

Thats the Macross Missile Massacre:

tvtropes.org...

actually i think i saw something similar to this on Ft Hood a couple of decades ago at a j something or the other display for vips and congress critters. An Apache fired a single rocket that went out some distance and popped a little while later at a further distance a cluster of pops followed by what was described to me as a cone of aircraft shredding flechettes from each separated and murdalized anything unfortunate enough to be in the huge area of effect.

i am not certain but i think it was called a hydra rocket because of the multiple munitions in it; like the multiple heads of a hydra.

I thought the YF-24 was a concept plane that lost to the F-22? I'm all confused now...

You mean no one has caught on to the bigger picture yet?