Your Nation's Air Force Mark II:

[Vancon]

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

Sure.

I have an irrational hatred for drones.

[Gig em Aggies]

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

Sure.

I have an irrational hatred for drones.

R u being a sarcastic?

[Spirit of Hope]

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

No. Unmanned planes can do a very limited number of jobs, mainly reconnaissance and limited ground attack. Drones are susceptible to jamming, they can not engage in advanced maneuvers and the controller has less situation awareness than a regular pilot.

What this all means is that a regular fighter could easily out outmaneuver a drone fighter, and shoot it down. Additionally your opponent could just jam the drones link, and watch them all become useless junk.

[Vancon]

Sure.

I have an irrational hatred for drones.

R u being a sarcastic?

Nope.

I just don't like the fact that there is some dude halfway across the world dropping bombs via remote.

[Vancon]

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

No. Unmanned planes can do a very limited number of jobs, mainly reconnaissance and limited ground attack. Drones are susceptible to jamming, they can not engage in advanced maneuvers and the controller has less situation awareness than a regular pilot.

What this all means is that a regular fighter could easily out outmaneuver a drone fighter, and shoot it down. Additionally your opponent could just jam the drones link, and watch them all become useless junk.

Basicly this. We agree on something for once!

[Virana]

Anyone know the advantages between the Scorpion and the JHMCS? I'm trying to decide which one to put on my fighter fleet (excluding my F-35s).

However, I might end up using a version of the F-35's helmet.

Shameless bump.

Both JHMCS and Scorpion work and are essentially used for the same role, iirc. The only problem is that it's sort of difficult to find detailed information about either system, but they're both addons for existing helmets that allow cueing for high off-boresight missiles; I probably wouldn't say there are any significant advantages or disadvantages of going either way.

[United Allied Earth Federation]

B-1 Vs B-2

[Yukonastan]

B-1 Vs B-2

B-2 slow and hidden, B-1 swing-wing, fast, and not as hidden.

B-52 superior, because massive bombers are awesome.

[Spirit of Hope]

B-1 Vs B-2

Very different planes with different missions.
The B-1 was a low altitude high speed penetrator.
The B-2 is a high altitude stealth bomber.

THe answer is what do you want?

[Yukonastan]

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

Sure.

I have an irrational hatred for drones.

Likewise.

I personally don't see drones propagating far beyond surveillance and ground attack, since they have a connection to a command centre hundreds or thousands of kilometres away, which means there's a slight delay between your action, the drone doing it, and you getting the response that the drone is doing it. In case of a dogfight, that is a MAJOR weakness.

I personally think that there is a niche role for drones, but that's about it. Until we get better computers, so the drones become autonomous and fly themselves.

[Padnak]

B-1 Vs B-2

B-2 slow and hidden, B-1 swing-wing, fast, and not as hidden.

B-52 superior, because massive bombers are awesome.

Some day I'm going to create the most huge overkill but still possible bomber and I shall sell it on GE&T and I shall make a fortune

its going to be able to carry multiple HOGs

[Padnak]

Nope.

I just don't like the fact that there is some dude halfway across the world dropping bombs via remote.

Something about it seems morally off

At least when you're on the battlefield firing sarin filled 155mm shells at the poor sods 20km away, they can fire 120mm rocket barrages back

[Gallia-]

B-1 Vs B-2

B-2 is better.

[Imperializt Russia]

Just a curious question, but could a typical WW1 plane ever hope to shoot down an F-22 in a dogfight?
I just figured since this thread is filled with air cadets and whatnot, a detailed take on it would easy enough.

No the bullets from the ww1 plane wouldn't even dent the F-22 armor.

What armour?

The likely threat that the F-22 faces is 23mm and 30mm autocannon shells of varying types and shell splinters.
Armour will not protect an aircraft from much of this at all and will hinder some of its capabilities.

Does the biplane have a metal engine?

I bet you a F-22 could get a radar return on a biplane. The problem is that it probably couldn't use its guns to shoot down the biplane because of the speed differences. So you would be using a million dollar missile to shoot down a thousand dollar plane.

I wonder ... would doing a close pass at supersonic drive the little weak plane to the ground?

It can cause a woman to miscarry.

Seeing as more IRL nations move more towards unmanned systems and with games such bloops 2, ghosts, and COD AW. Would an airforce with a majority of unmanned planes lets say 75 or 80% be as effective as air forces right now?

Call of Duty titles are no reference to anything.

[Spodystan]

What would be an effective utility aircraft in the An2 class that is modern.

[Spodystan]

Also how effective would the Boeing 777 be as a tanker.

[Padnak]

What would be an effective utility aircraft in the An2 class that is modern.

as a general utility aircraft its pretty good

nothing amazing but not horrible

nice and cheep and can use garbage runways-

[Vancon]

What would be an effective utility aircraft in the An2 class that is modern.

An 225-Largest transport ever

Also how effective would the Boeing 777 be as a tanker.

It'd be better if you got a designated tanker, but it would be possible. It'd be like eating soup with a fork. It would work, just not even close to how much better a designated tanker could.

[Padnak]

What would be an effective utility aircraft in the An2 class that is modern.

An 225-Largest transport ever

Also how effective would the Boeing 777 be as a tanker.

It'd be better if you got a designated tanker, but it would be possible. It'd be like eating soup with a spoon. It would work, just not even close to how much better a designated tanker could.

you're supposed to eat soup with a spoon...

[Vancon]

An 225-Largest transport ever


It'd be better if you got a designated tanker, but it would be possible. It'd be like eating soup with a Fork. It would work, just not even close to how much better a designated tanker could.

you're supposed to eat soup with a spoon...

[Chistanad]

Just a curious question, but could a typical WW1 plane ever hope to shoot down an F-22 in a dogfight?
I just figured since this thread is filled with air cadets and whatnot, a detailed take on it would easy enough.

The machine gun on a ww1 fighter plane is like shooting the F-22 with a 9mm pistol.

[Padnak]

Just a curious question, but could a typical WW1 plane ever hope to shoot down an F-22 in a dogfight?
I just figured since this thread is filled with air cadets and whatnot, a detailed take on it would easy enough.

The machine gun on a ww1 fighter plane is like shooting the F-22 with a 9mm pistol.

MG's in WW1 where quite powerful actually...

[Chistanad]

The machine gun on a ww1 fighter plane is like shooting the F-22 with a 9mm pistol.

MG's in WW1 where quite powerful actually...

A typical ww1 fighter:
Made out of wood and paper
Has a 7.92mm machine gun

F-22A:
Made out of composite metals
Has a 6 barrel Gatling gun

Just going by armor and weapons the F-22 wins.

[The Corparation]

Also how effective would the Boeing 777 be as a tanker.

Probably as well as any other commercial airliner tanker conversion works.

[Gvozdevsk]

A typical ww1 fighter:
Made out of wood and paper
Has a 7.92mm machine gun

F-22A:
Made out of composite metals
Has a 6 barrel Gatling gun

Just going by armor and weapons the F-22 wins.

Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure planes save for CAS craft that will be exposed to ground fire like the A-10 stopped having armour when jets and missiles started to become common. So the 7.92mm machine gun on a biplane could probably seriously ruin a F-22's day. And get enough 7.92mm holes in a F-22 and it's going to show up on radar.