Wednesday, March 4, 2009

New Plane Duds

Some of you may be familiar with the F-117 Nighthawk, which was the U.S. top military leader in airborne stealth combat but it waas retired in April 2008 and was replaced by what I am going to talk about today-the F-22 Raptor. So what's so amazing about this new plane? Read on.First of all, it has the new Radar Cross Section which is comparable to the size of a marble appearing on the enemy plane's screen. There's still more.The Raptor's smart designs include:

-twin supercooled turbine engines that enable it to jump to Mach speeds, which is the speed of sound-1,225 kilometres per hour without using fuel-guzzling and position-revealing afterburners.
-intakes aligned with wing edges and nozzles that deprive longer-wavelength radars of a precise they could previously lock on to.
-all tracking and electromagnetic-emitting sensors.
-weapons contained inside the body, not bristling from the wings.
-is "Beyond Visual Range" combat ready, meaning it can lock to a target, fire and flee before the target even knows its a target.


This Plane is probably the coolest that I have seen so far. Having its weapons inside the plane's body will enable the plane to fly more efficiently. The twin turbines will probably help the plane to fly to its destination in case of an emegency as quickly as possible. However, if this plane falls into the wrong hands, there will be trouble as this plane is able to wreak havoc. The person shall the nbe able to take over certain places with force. The inventors should learn to protect their technology and strive to use it against invasions.

4 comments:

  1. Wow, this plane is cool. I bet it costs a bomb. Is it used for war? I just hope that there won't be any world war 3. (*^__^*)

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  2. Hey, where did you get all this infomation from?
    Anyway, this is a great plane. The world is really advanced now. Will they ever have such planes in Singapore?

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  3. first, I got the information from Jonah. Second, I feel that there will be such planes in Singapore as like you said, the world would be rather advanced in the future. However, I am rather sure that more planes that are better than this would qppear.

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