Re: DARPA reinventing the Harrier?

On Oct 7, 1:51 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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dhssresearc...@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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John Dallman, j...@xxxxxxxxx, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.

There was a system in the Falklands, Harriers hooked up to an arm that
had some sort of mating mechanism atop the aircraft. Not sure how much
it was used but there was something out there.

We were pretty impressed with how Harriers were used by UK in the
Falklands. Much better tactically than how the US was doing it.

I'm sure the Argentinians were impressed with them also....
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