Re: DARPA reinventing the Harrier?

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dhssresearcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx (frank) wrote:

On Oct 7, 10:36 am, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We built lots of big flying boats that were able to land in open
ocean and it wasn't all that big of a problem.

In rough weather? Sometimes very rough weather? And UAVs will be much
smaller than those big flying boats.

Depends on the sea state. Probably a better way would be to work some
sort of recovery system like the Brits had on their harriers where the
AV flew near a recovery tower and was latched to that they brought
aboard.

That system was never actually built. According to _The Hybrid Warship_,
it was a British Aerospace sketch design, which probably means that it
was aimed at getting some research funding. That's quite a long way from
being a fielded system.

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