Most feasible flying aircraft carrier

Concept is called arsenal bird btw

>>32446764
Announcing reports is a bannable offence.

Why not build one in the same area of atmosphere as satellites and drop the planes by means of gravity? Same effect as what you have but maybe more expensive. Still it could be better.

>>32446524
But why?

>>32446775
Reported for implying a report.

>>32446784
Pretty sure sending it to space would make it harder to resupply those drones and would require costly maintenance.

>>32446790
Drone swarms.

>>32446806
reported

>>32446524
>possible method
The ones that existed.USS Akron and the Zveno project.

>>32446784
>same area of atmosphere

Blegh, I don't even like sardines. But here I am shoving them in my mouth.

>>32446764
>>32446775
>>32446806
>>32446953
reported

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>>32446524
No, this is.

>>32446806
Vouching for the implication of banning

>>32448165
That mission was so hard till I used a10 with FAEB

>>32446968
Crimson Skies needs a remake

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>>32446524
>mfw no kilometer-long hydrogen-filled rigid frame zeppelin aircraft carriers or air-battleships will ever exist

Should I just /tg/ it up and run a campaign based on WWI and inter-war technology that could have theoretically been possible?

>>32448200
It took me a long-ass time to do that mission. I kept fucking up right near the end.

>>32448211
It sure does. Wonder why they dropped the brand, the game was awesome.

DARPA is trying to come up with a way to make this work. Good luck to them, because its going to be difficult.

Its simple enough to refuel midair, but rearming a UAV midair means the wingspan of the uav has to be short enough to fit through a bomb bay.

They'll either have to design uav's with shorter wings, or figure out a way for them to fold and unfold at 400mph.

>>32450085
What was that old jet fighter that had swing-wings? If they can manage to use those, I'm sure a UAV could do the same.

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>>32448873
Fuck your hydrogen bro. Helium for life.

>>32450314
>inferior lifting capability
>expensive
>can't be vented because expensive
>can't be made from water and electricity

Just think of how many more fighters, guns, and fuel the Macon could carry if it didn't have to have water-reclaimers for the engine exhaust gasses and had that extra ~12% lifting ability of hydrogen.

>>32450085
>They'll either have to design uav's with shorter wings, or figure out a way for them to fold and unfold at 400mph.
Slavs figured out a way in the 1990s, no one funded it in the end. He says he thinks the x-47 borrows some aspects from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MORIHfbRsmg

>implying public would allow an airborne nuclear reactor

God civilians are hilarious when they try to think of new military weapons

>>32450143
>forgetting the F-14 Tomcat

>>32451186
I'll be honest, I've never had much interest in airplanes. Tanks and guns are my main thing.

>>32446524
If only flight sims had an actual story.

>>32450143
You realize variable sweep wings change the stall speed when they're swept aft, right?

>>32451254
Yes, but the guy I was responding to was only really interested in having them fold for the purposes of being able to fit a UAV inside a compact service bay, then drop it and have it continue flying.

Hence the swing-wing idea.

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>>32446524
>>32448165
Real life is most feasible, well at least what we've had so far.

>>32450367
I think the Hindenburg has something to say about hydrogen and airships

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>>32451119
>>implying public would allow an airborne nuclear reactor

>God civilians are hilarious when they try to think of new military weapons

yeah.
something like that would NEVER be made...

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>What is a nation

>>32454073
Fuck off pixy

>>32454020
>project canceled before the reactor was actually used to power the engine
yeah, it wouldn't

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>>32454147

Would probably be easier to just deploy those drones from ground and have them fly under their own power, in swarms or not.

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>>32451119
>what is solar powered plane?

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>>32446524
Even in the ace combat universe there are much more reasonable airborne carriers (3's rigid airships)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5rV0mLMQo

>>32454409
>Unlike the planned Convair X-6, the three-megawatt air-cooled reactor in the NB-36H did not power any of the aircraft's systems, nor did it provide propulsion, but was placed on the NB-36H to measure the effectiveness of the shielding.
The reactor still worked, it just wasnt linked to the planes systems.
Do you know how to read?

>>32446524
A lifting body, hybrid airship with fully pitchable ducted fans for thrust and landing maneuvering.
No traditional planes, just a shit ton of drones.

Land anywhere like a helicopter, endurance like an airship, carry as much as a C-130.

Or you could go all out batshit insane and actually build the CL-1201. Because a 1/4 mile wide, nuclear powered plane flying at mach 0.8 is a fantastic idea. Especially when its carrying 1000t of people and materiel.

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>>32446524
>Drone Carrier=Aircraft Carrier

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>>32448200
>That mission was so hard till I used a10 with FAEB

Just like sinking the Scinfaxi.

>>32451119

In the games every big airship needed multiple tankers to have it sustain flight or a huge airbase for it to land.

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You just stirred the hornets nest, Darling

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>>32446524
The only use for a flying carrier is to mass transport ground troops more quickly than transporting them via traditional ships. Even then, the carrier would have to fly to the location and then immediately fly home since it would be using shit tons of fuel and couldn't provide any sort of air support except for the initial drop-off, which wouldn't be practical. It'd have to be nuclear and be able to land in water.

Long-range drones are the future. There isn't much use for a carrier in modern warfare desu, it's the reason why only the US really bothers with them; they have such an absurd budget that they can afford to appease the dumbasses up top that order them.