Vehicles and equipment that never saw service but are still neat AF

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>>32179231
On the subject of the XB-70...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pye_Wacket

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fish gun always had a special place in my heart

>>32179251
that's neat as fuck, sometimes I miss the Cold War just because we developed so much cool shit

>>32179262
Man, you really just like kicking those poor h and k guys while they're down.

>>32179306
Which the G36 is basically an AR18 in a plastic shell.

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>>32179321
>mfw kraut spacemagic is just repackaged American engineering

>>32179383
The Mauser is a genuinely good design. I was just shitting on the G-36 family.

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Rockwell XFV-12A, an attempt at making a Mach 2+ VTOL fighter for the Sea Control Ship program. Lack of engine power meant it couldn't actually take off vertically, which killed it.

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The Arsenal Ship, essentially a remote-controlled VLS barge, possibly set to be commissioned as a battleship. Never built, instead a number of Ohio-class SLBMs were converted to cruise missiles.

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>>32179423
Ah. Yeah, totalitarianism tends to stifle innovation.

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A possible alternate design for the B-2 Spirit, for low-level flight instead of the high-altitude penetrator that was decided on.

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>>32179262
It's been to Iraq, and according to Wiki it's used by Malaysian Navy special forces

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The T249 Vigilante, Sperry's entry for the disastrous DIVAD program.

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Carrier-based F-22. Never built.

>>32179499
Nice airshit.

>>32179486
>that aircraft
Current B-2 is realistically more practical but holy shit that is cool

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>>32179499
Jesus christ that guy looks like a douchebag. Blackwater, right?

This is the Ares RDF-LT, an air-mobile light tank with an articulated 75mm autocannon, allegedly capable of killing T-72s with burst fire.

>>32179530
>tfw there will never be an F-21 supertomcat

>>32179530
Would love to see the maintenance cost of a swing-wing F-22 lol. Surprised an original version wouldn't be capable of it though with some strengthened gear. Thing has so much thrust and wing area, and with thrust vectoring can angle it's nose up with low airspeed with the stabilators still being ineffective. Easily controllable right at the end of the catapult launch.

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>>32179530
I'll see your naval F-22 and raise you a tailless F-22, the X-44 MANTA.

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>>32179231

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>>32179568
Would love to see the weight of it. Swing-wings are heavy AF, it would probably have been a bigger disaster than the Su-33.

>>32179571
Pic related, VERY early Lockheed concept for the ATF program. I even heard it was disinfo to fool the commies on the projected capabilities of the first fifth-generation fighter.

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>>32179555

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>>32179596
Meh, it was another of those post-USSR Russian tank projects that ran out of time and became dated even before being even revealed to the public. The T-95, Black Eagle, they all paved the way for the T-14, which appears to be seriously GOAT.

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>>32179605
>>32179555
>there will never be a USAF Tomcat

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>>32179636

>>32179597
Yeah, that's why I think a raptor with the only modifications being to gear and maybe some structural strengthening would've worked out well. On regular runways they require less TO distance than a hornet, Could easily work on a carrier... especially if an F-35C with it's far inferior T/W ratio and no thrust vectoring can do it.

>>32179231
I don't feel like summoning a pic from Google, but the motherfucking Comanche.

>>32179666
>Those digits

Hello Satan. I don't know how much of an improvement over the F-35 that would be. I had a chance to use the Lockheed simulator for the C variant and was able to, after trapping, go to full throttle and take off again without the catapult. The F135 is no slouch.

>>32179699
Woah, might be first time getting trips for me, I rarely post. Guess I'm being possessed tonight.

I also had a chance to mess around in the sim at the Fort Worth plant. It is pretty impressive but definitely beat in kinematics vs a raptor. Biggest thing F-35 has going for it is it's sensor and EW suite. Really impressed by how it all works, will be a huge player when it is fully operational.

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>>32179746
Oh, for sure in a straight up dogfight the F-22 will eat its lunch. But pic related, as you've mentioned situational awareness is potent, too.

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>>32179687
Fuck it, here's one.

>The cold war had to end
FeelsBadMan

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It was an answer to a question nobody asked, but damn was it cool.

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60mm electrothermal chemical gun.

>>32179944
Noice

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Sea Vulcan

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>>32179805
>manned gazillion dollar stealth attack helicopter for recon
Unpopular opinion here, but imo this was a dumb idea considering the drone revolution was right around the corner.

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Wish they would put it in a museum so I could lay my eyes on it.

>>32180270
>yo dawg

>>32179383
why are these guys smiling

>>32180341
German army in Denmark, they got off easy.

>>32180270
Is it still in storage at Edwards or something? I saw it there once, when I was a little kid and they still had their annual airshow. My parents might even have photos of it stashed away somewhere.

>>32180438
probably in a hanger somewhere, my fear is they scrap it.

>>32179251
thats some area 51 alien tech shit

why was nothing even remotely similar ever done again?

>>32179486
>it gives its maintainers cancer at rates 1000% higher than the F-117

What a success

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I've always had a hard-on for the A-12. To think we could have had a stealth naval attack platform operational in the late 90's boggles the mind. As it stands the USN can only barely into stealth in (almost) 2017.

>>32179405
we have the technology

>>32179251
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pye_Wacket
Pye Wacket, its delivery vehicle no longer available, is believed to have been cancelled soon after,[3] although the ultimate fate of the program remains classified.[2]
>although the ultimate fate of the program remains classified.

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Even with what a clusterfuck it turned out to be I'll always have a soft spot for the MBT-70 and that 152mm.

>>32180270
THIS is how Silent Eagle should have looked like.

>>32180738
>Test fly it a bunch of times.
>"Well it flies like shit/Something on it keeps breaking/It's too expensive/etc etc"
>Cancelled

>>32179231
>XB-70 Valkyrie
Glad to know I'm not the only one with a hard on for that plane. Turns out my grandfather was actually one of the program managers for it. Shame they only ever made two.

>>32182090
>canards
>stealth
It just was never meant to be, anon

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>TFW You love pusher configuration planes but the age of prop aircraft is over and none saw widespread combat service

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The 50s attempts/concepts for VTOL were probably the least practical designs developed. See the SHKval

>>32180803
For a moment I thought the side squares were entire rooms and I thought it was fuck-huge.

>>32179499
>used by Malaysian Navy special forces
>Navy
>fishgun

>>32180033
>he doesn't know it was just a testbed for heli stealth that was cancelled to hide the existence of US stealth helis
where do you think the stealth chopper that crashed came from

>>32180033
I just remember the game being fucking awesome, and it hyped me up for those things. Then I found out it was not entering regular use.

>>32180270

I wonder how much more maneuverable the cannards made it. F-15 was already excellent; did this make it even more beast?

>>32179914
Ah yes. The bastard child of an illicit one-night fling between an F-16 and an F-15E (yes, even though it was to compete against the Strike Eagle. That's what makes it illicit.) up there with the F-20 and A-6F in boner inducing what-ifs.

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>>32179555
>>tfw there will never be an F-21 supertomcat
TRIPS OF SADNESS

>>32180438
did you live there? I used to live right next to base in a town called Rosamond. Went to that airshow every year

>>32179779
What's that quote from?

>>32179231
>>32182158
I've walked around under the one at the Wright-Patt Air Force Museum several times, big plane. Too bad about the whole wing vortex thing.

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>>32183053
>>32180033
The navy still plans to use it.
My dad's been working on an automated sense and avoid system for it, trident, firehawk, and global hawk

>>32183418
The company I work for gets orders for helicopter exhaust that's super vauge
Like almost no information is available

Perhaps that's what it's for.

We already know the Us has stealth helicopters

>>32183395
Jurassic Park

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>>32183639
that's exactly what the aliums want you to think, goyim

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>>32179231
supersonic turboprop
all the instant speed change of a propeller with the power of a turbine

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>>32179231

>>32181222
Pye Wacket was incredibly maneuverable because it was literally a disk with rockets.

>>32183395

It's a reworded scene in Jurassic park, which makes me question your eligibility to buy cigarettes legally in the US

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>>32179231
Polyus was bretty neat

>>32184394
So what were its flaws? Shit looks like something out of Star Wars (which I guess technically it was)

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>>32182513
m8

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>>32179405

duct losses are what killed it

>>32179597
>Swing-wings are heavy AF

roughly 4% weight penalty, not as bad as you might think

>>32186710

only useful for very high speeds

b-70 needed it since it was a mac 3+ bomber

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Flying Dorito.

>>32186731
Why do you think they ditched the canards?

>>32186893
I'm waiting for a stupid kid to tell you it's because of the RCS

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>>32183395
really?

>>32183103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q179IcxZntA

https://youtu.be/ejxstV3sPhg?t=127
muh boner @ 2:08

>>32179262

Feels like it's a lot older than it looks because of how much it doesn't resemble the current AR rails and free-floating barrel and all that aesthetic stuff.

Like you showed that to me without any knowledge of the Xm8 and I'd think it's some 80s-90s-early 2000 parallel to the G36 and some of those other polymer heavy guns.

>>32186893
Because we can't have nice things.

>>32179530
You are a fucking idiot

>>32179605
Surprised there's no mention of engines other than TF-30s seeing as being underpowered was the main flaw in the tomcat airframe itself

>>32188294
The D models got the engine upgrade, if memory serves. Those upgrades would have continued had the aircraft not been retired.

>>32189526
fucking this

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>>32179596
It is not Object 195. It is Object 477. Here is Object 195.
>>32179622
No tanks with unmanned turret on this picture.
>>32179636
Object 477 has nothing to do with T-14, the only thing they share is having an unmanned turret. And Object 640 that you call "Black Eagle" is just T-80 modification that is unrelated to any unmanned turret development.

>>32190555
Who cares, nerd.

>>32189526
It's siblings saw limited service for a decade or so.

>>32190985
Contain your butthurt, pistolfag.

>>32179262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0enyMTjWmI&t=442s

You can build one if you're willing to drop a shitload of cash on it.

>>32184385

>a motivational poster in 2016

is this real life

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>>32179530
>standing under the Baghdad arch
>airshit
>>32179530
>>32179555
>>32179605
>>32179645
>>32183372
>pic related will never exist

>>32194602
Poster here. I was in that thread (obviously) and i am as surprised as you are.