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originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: 727Sky
If a war started tomorrow without nukes would our less than 872, F22s be able to maintain a mission readiness against all the new Russian aircraft that have been made or upgraded (1400 was the count last year that I read) in the last 3 years ? Yes our air force has one heck of allot more than just F22s and the almost (but not quite yet) F35s.... A kill ratio of 5 to one or 10 to one seems to be the current thinking ?
The last time I was within earshot, I heard a confident voice state that no modern US jet could be taken down ... except by chance. IIRC, that same conversation mentioned the use of 'missile trucks' to minimize the exposure of US fighters to radar. That, and kill so much of an adversary's countermeasures as to make Desert Storm look like the training mission that it was. There was a real old acronym I might not be remembering correctly MFLP (massive, furious, lethal, precise).
Zaphod is in-thread and certainly has a more well formed opinion than mine. I know strategy and tactics rule over technology and sustainable numbers. Far less aware these days of the presiding opinions on air strategy. Even a general overview would be great to hear.
originally posted by: 727Sky
I personally would not underestimate advances in the infrared spectrum.
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A new USB stick computer uses Google's machine-learning software to give drones and robots the equivalent of a human eye, and add new smarts to cameras.
Movidius’ Fathom Neural Compute Stick isn't your conventional PC. It is instead designed to analyze pixels and provide the right context for images.
Fathom provides the much-needed horsepower for devices like drones, robots and cameras to run computer vision applications like image recognition. These devices alone typically don't have the ability to run computer vision applications.
Fathom uses an embedded version of Google's TensorFlow machine learning software for vision processing. The device can be plugged into the USB port of a device or a developer board like Raspberry Pi, which in turn can power a drone or robot. It needs a 64-bit Linux OS and 50MB of hard drive space.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
"....it looks like all the heat signature is below the tail, so somehow the nose is being held up without much heat signature.