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[Overbom]

These production boosts are nice, but what happens after several years of production at these rates? Assuming not large military conflicts happen, wouldn't stores of missiles become a burden? Do they shoot more missiles off in training exercises to justify production rates?

They will flood China's neighborhood (valued alliesTM) with US armaments. Same thing they did to Russia

 

[gpt]

They will flood China's neighborhood (valued alliesTM) with US armaments. Same thing they did to Russia

RE license

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Three RQ-170s parked inside a hangar.

[Edit: Number correction.]

 

[thingymabob]

Two RQ-170s parked inside a hangar.

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3 in fact, there's one lying in the shadows behind the one on the right with its engine cover still on

 

[AlexYe]

How are we gonna get Fallout IRL if you can’t get the basics to work? Do better please!

To be fair in fallout the bombs fell oct 2077, so they got time. Curiously in fallout verse Canada got annexed by US a couple of years before the 'end' (right after Tel-aviv got nuked), specifically to take complete control of the resources and had internment camps and everything.
Hell they even called canada 'big 51'

I do wonder of all the possible verse's in fiction if we are on the 'fallout path' instead of.. idk star trek... (though star trek also had ww3 happen during 2040's-2050's)

but reading around I found some more info that points to more extensive production capacity for other munitions.

Ukraine war prob helped/caused this too, the war of terror didnt really consume interceptors or amrams on a big scale, Ukraine war prob helped revitalizing some us productions of many of these munitions to start up again, then 12-day iran-israel war happens and us spends up half of its supply of thaads globally. At current production level it would take like 2 years just to stock up US's own numbers, not even counting the overseas ones.

 

[SlothmanAllen]

How does the MQ-25A get air into the intake? I have never understood how the intake can be placed flush with the top of the airframe and somehow it can generate enough air to transition from a standstill to take-off and through all flight regimes?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017288778012840197

 

[valysre]

How does the MQ-25A get air into the intake? I have never understood how the intake can be placed flush with the top of the airframe and somehow it can generate enough air to transition from a standstill to take-off and through all flight regimes?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017288778012840197

The simplest (and likely true) explanation is that the range of the MQ-25A's flight regime is quite limited.

 

[broadsword]

How does the MQ-25A get air into the intake? I have never understood how the intake can be placed flush with the top of the airframe and somehow it can generate enough air to transition from a standstill to take-off and through all flight regimes?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017288778012840197

Look is deceiving

 

[subotai1]

How does the MQ-25A get air into the intake? I have never understood how the intake can be placed flush with the top of the airframe and somehow it can generate enough air to transition from a standstill to take-off and through all flight regimes?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017288778012840197

You are assuming that air goes in as the vehicle moves (like a shovel). That is not how jets work (especially at low and stationary speeds). Jets create what is essential a low pressure area in front of the fans that causes air to rush in. So that opening doesn't really need to generate air. It just needs to allow access to it.

 

[Broccoli]

3 in fact, there's one lying in the shadows behind the one on the right with its engine cover still on

I remember when it said that RQ-170 was that kinda project where only one or two are going to be build, but looks like it has become some kinda workhorse drone. Gotta wait few decades so we get to know where these things have flown.