J-15 carrier-borne fighter thread

by78

General
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plawolf

Lieutenant General
Just a random thought, but has anyone tried using magnets (electric or rare earth) to aid mid-air refuelling?

That means once you get the probe within a certain range, the magnets would finish the connection for you, reducing the difficulty and improving the speed of refuelling.

With electric magnets, you have amp up the power to create bigger effective range, which you can then shut off once you are done without needing to worry about beefing up the probe and dough to take the extra pull stress.

With rare earth magnets, you get less complexity and potential for malfunctions.
 

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
at one point it looks like its going right in and yet it misses by a few inches, so hard to do this

ever harder at night over the sea on a moonless night with a helicopter imagine that, USN do it
 

Intrepid

Major
at one point it looks like its going right in and yet it misses by a few inches, so hard to do this
There are reports here in the forum about a Chinese study, how one can achieve a less dancing behavior of the basket by changing the length of the hose.

The Chinese must have experimented a lot. They were not satisfied with what Western countries invented.
 

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
There are reports here in the forum about a Chinese study, how one can achieve a less dancing behavior of the basket by changing the length of the hose.

The Chinese must have experimented a lot. They were not satisfied with what Western countries invented.

its nice to see China doing things for what works for China

really good to see China making progress in these fields

these are not easy tasks
 
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