Post some spooky intelligence aircraft.

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you will never fly a connie awacs

why even live?

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>>32638854
Do Electronic Warfare planes count?

Is Airborne Intelligence a fun afsc

>>32640746
No afsc is fun.

>>32640431
huh. I didn't know we had electronic warfare aircraft at some point in time.

>>32638854
Hey now P-3's have 4 confirmed Air to Air kills.
1 by Missile and 3 by Collision, one more and the platform gets ACE status prior to retirement.

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>>32638854

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Im cia

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>>32638854
Tu-214R

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>>32638854
Il-20, soviet Orion.

>>32642751
Those super elongated engines always get me. Has to be hell on the extra structural support needed for those mountings.

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soviet version of U2

>>32640746
Well, ground intelligence certainly isn't fun.

>>32640772
And this anon has it right.

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>>32642802
Probably not. Turboprop engines tend to be considerably lighter than an equivalent piston, and longer noses or cowlings on turboprop aircraft are common just to maintain a reasonable center of gravity. Have an extreme example (pic related).

Plus, pushing wing-mounted engines further forward can actually REDUCE overall structural mass, due to the flutter-inhibiting dynamics of mass distributed forward of the wing (reducing the amount of torsional stiffness required for the wing structure itself).

>>32642949
And here I am, taking a break from studying aeroelasticity to browse some 4chan. Thanks for ruining my break.

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>>32640431
Why not

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Swedish SIGINT and ELINT aircraft S102B, stuffed with all sorts of exiting equipment.

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>>32642401
more info pls

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>>32644478

Bonus picture of a Russian AF Su-27P getting a bit to close to a S102B...

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>>32640431

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>>32642751

>>32642751
Why are vintage soviet planes so fucking comfy?

>>32642549
I'm not 100% sure what's so special about this, aren't satellite images comparable quality, and done from even higher up?

>>32649027
ooh! i work in Wide Area Airborne Surveillance

sats cant freely move around, and often have limited coverage area. this covers that entire zoomed out area with the resolution you see zoomed in, without sacrificing the image area.

Sats are also expensive and often are in such high demand the hours are valuable. this can be organically attached at much lower levels then.

>>32649105
Cool, thanks for the info. Always nice to find someone knowledgeable.

>>32649164
yup no problem, always happy to help /k/ommandos.

oh and they probably get to record the area too.

thats what we do anyway.

AWACS above Wright Patt AFB i took, didnt have much time.

>>32640431
Power of voodoo

>>32644484
basically, chinks are as bad at flying as they are at driving

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One of these was shadowing KAL 007 that fatefull night.

I had a teacher in high school in the mid-80s who used to sit in one of these and listen to Soviet chatter during feint raids and penetration flights when he was in the USAF.

>>32651414
Aww shit. I just realized the RC-135's were passive detection & not active players. Or am I wrong about that.

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>>32650048
forgot pic

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>>32649027
>I'm not 100% sure what's so special about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
It's a 1.8 gigapixel sensor. That's GIGApixels. Or 1,800 megapixels. Satellites with extreme telescopic optics can magnify a small area and take a bunch of pictures over time and piece together a still mosaic of similar scale and detail, but they cannot monitor the whole area at once, in real time, at that level of detail (yet). ARGUS-IS can.

ARGUS-IS samples the entire region of view, a whopping 36 square miles wide (half the area of Manhattan), several times a second. This constitutes a truly massive amount of data - far more than can be transmitted via even the most advanced datalinks, let alone processed by human personnel - and so the system also employs an onboard supercomputer to process the data autonomously in real time, tracking all moving objects and automatically selecting which information and video may be important enough to stream to human operators on the ground. Human operators can then reject these suggestions, or prioritize them for further surveillance. From a single ARGUS-IS unit, operators can monitor dozens of targets at once, and track THOUSANDS, all in real time.

And what's more, even though only a tiny fraction of all this information is transmitted to the ground, ALL of it is cached in an onboard database. So if intelligence experts decide to come back and look at something that happened in that 36 square mile area that they didn't realize was important beforehand, it's ALL there for them to see. Every. Fucking. Movement.

>>32649105
don't they do this with fixed wing too? I remember hearing about a experimental program where they have a Cessna or something just circling over a area constantly taking high res pictures all, then if something happened in that area they can go back through the "footage" and get all the details they need.

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>>32654337
remembered the name. persistent surveillance is what it is.

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>>32640431
>black glossy paint with red and yellow markings

Fine AF

>>32646459
that looks like a giant metal duck

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If you want a "spooky" recon aircraft, this thing looked like a spaceship in the 60s.

>>32644478

> stuffed with all sorts of Somali cock

>>32655490

> sexy red pin striping

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ELINT has been spooky for a long time

>>32655790
The 1938 flight of the German airship Graf Zeppelin along the east coast of Great Britain is regarded as the first ELINT air mission in history. Lots of that going on in WW2, amazing stuff to read.

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RF-5E Tigereye of Royal Malaysian Air Force.

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>>32655855

Close-up on camera bay.

>>32651414
>>32646480
>>32646459
>>32644602
whats in the bulges

>>32644581
why would you put those things there, it better be able to do sea landings

>>32644485
fucken, not close enough

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>>32655863

RF-5E Tigereye high-definition camera load.

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>>32655871
Mostly radars, some communication equipment, some RWR's.

This is what you find inside the dome of an AWACS plane if you ever wondered.

>>32655886
>This is what you find inside the dome of an AWACS plane if you ever wondered.

i acutally never did, but im very happy you post this. ill do some digging to see more

thats pretty impressive

>>32642949
> dick status : MUHHHHH

>>32655855
Holy shit that nose

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>>32638854
Fuck P-3's. Only good thing about them was that they got me stationed in Hawaii and I didn't have to go on a boat.
T. Former P-3 mech.

>>32661373
Aww poor mech go bitch to the AEs to fix your shit now why don't you.

>>32661678
>AE's fixing all of the Mech's gripes
How have you not popped on your piss test yet. You're obviously fucking stoned.

>>32661745
We literally had to trouble shoot all of your gripes because you guys couldn't do anything past read the pubs list of potential problems.

Mechs are the epitome of people who don't know shit but complain like they have a solution.

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>>32654350
Consider me spooked as fuck.

>tinfoil intensifies