Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
Dec 26, 2024 · Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir. We ask Jim Smith, former British aircraft technical liaison to Washington, his thoughts. The size is consistent with a multi-role aircraft with potential for strategic air defence and strike roles. The configuration is clearly aimed at low signature, particularly the absence of…
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Dec 26, 2024 · Posts about usa written by Hush Kit. Video of a new Chinese aircraft of novel configuration has caused a stir.
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RC-135 pilot interview: Cold War Spyflights - Hush-Kit
Dec 2, 2018 · The RC-135 has been quietly snooping and changing history for almost 60 years. Robert Hopkins flew the RC' in the heat of the Cold War, braving intercepting MiG-31s and other threats to eavesdrop on the US' potential enemies and hoover up vital intelligence for Presidents and generals. We met him to find out more. What…
Flying and fighting in the Lightning - Hush-Kit
Nov 18, 2015 · The English Electric Lightning was the most exciting jet fighter ever created. When it entered service, in 1959, it was the most formidable fighter in the world. For twenty nine years it thundered over British skies as a brutish deterrent to would-be attackers. Ian Black flew this over-powered monster for the Royal Air Force in…
Ten best air-to-to-air missiles (short range) - Hush-Kit
Dec 5, 2016 · Modern heat-seeking missiles are particularly nasty weapons. Long-ranged, fast, accurate and hard to fool - facing them is a sobering prospect for the modern fighter pilot. As the age of stealth fast approaches (and digital radar jammers become more effective), radar-guided missiles will become less important - the greatest air-to-air hazard to the next generation…
Cancelled F-4 Phantom II variants - Hush-Kit
Feb 13, 2019 · Everyone loves the F-4 Phantom, a brutal smoking Cold War monster that polluted the sky in an apocalyptic belch of black sooty thunder. As thrilling as the actual Phantoms that entered service were, a tantalising family even more exciting of F-4s almost made it into the real world. Several of them were cancelled for being…
Flying & fighting in the Sukhoi Su-30 ‘Flanker’: A pilot interview
Jul 20, 2019 · Described as a ‘royal merciless game-changer’, the Sukhoi Su-30 ‘Flanker’ is a monster: a long-ranged, well armed, unbeatably manoeuvrable fighter uniquely equipped with 3D thrust-vectoring control (TVC) enabling it to perform seemingly impossible aerobatics in the sky. We spoke to IAF Gp Capt Anurag Sharma to learn more about flying and fighting in …
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Mirage F1: The Tomcat killer - Hush-Kit
Nov 24, 2020 · An Iraqi F1 in service with IQAF in the 1980s. The superb French Dassault Mirage F1 was one of the most prolific killers of teen series fighters in the skies of the Middle East. The often over-looked French jet even racked up kills against the best-armed fighter in the world, the seemingly invincible F-14 Tomcat.…