That first pic smacks of a scramjet design I saw a few years ago.

Maybe the USAF are planning to make a plane that will whip the ole SR-71 Blackbird in terms of speed.

S&F

Thanks, fellows. I suppose I do see the usefulness. That would be a hell of a ride down to nap of the earth.

Yeeehah!

Fancy that when in scratchy time did they get the blue prints for that

They would be better off to simply use the lessons learned from flying wings and lifting bodies and forego the whole 'stealth' idea. Radars, today, are sophisticated enough to pull relevant returns out of absolute chaos. The cost/effectiveness is going to go right out the window with a "stealth cargo" aircraft - with the overwhelming majority of its missions not benefiting from Low Observable technologies.

Looks pretty cool to me, kind of reminds me of the drop ship the colonial marines use in aliens!!
Sweet!

Thanx for the info OP. Just booking mah seat so I can come back. Keep em coming.

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Man... I came up with a similar concept about 6 years ago for a semi-stealth lifting body cargo plane. I still have one of the drawings right here:



That sucks nuggets. Looks like I missed out.

Awesome concept but I feel its unneccesary. With the trillions of dollars in unaccounted for defense spending, the government should have a satelitte capable of shooting a laser torpedo up the ass of anybody on this planet.

thats awesome! Looks like spooky just got spookier. C-130's do a lot of support for ground troops. especially SOG guys in places like afghanistan. Having one be stealthed out to the max would make it even harder for the bad guys to shoot at it. Especially if they make it so the incoming mortar rounds are hard to see too. Doom on you. Sweet.

Any discussion of any aerospace super-duper craft should never stray far away from what we know as real hardware. And that is described in a couple of words: "Black triangles."

If you cannot encompass the evidence for these craft--I have seen one moving low, slow and silently, then you have no valid argument for any advanced, yet typical, form of jet aircraft or rocket spacecraft that flows from the conventional aerospace industrial sources.

Definitely looks like a cool aircraft, but I seriously doubt it will look much like the model if they do decide to go ahead with a replacement for the C-130.

Originally posted by _Del_
I don't see the point of pouring that kind of money into a stealth airframe for the transport role. It's a neat idea. They may even get a concept demonstrator up, but the money doesn't make sense.

From 1991 forward all the various military of the world have moved towards stealth. For an analogy about it being useless. Painting vehicles the appropriate camouflage for the area of operations doesn't really do much against detection by electronic means. yet, it's still done. So even though "Stealth" is being perceived as "obsolete" by some it is the way pretty much all new designs are headed.

If just one Stealth C-130 survives it's mission due to it's stealth design then it was money well spent. Lastly, the more projects employing stealth the cheaper and more cost effective it becomes in the long run with various new developments and advancements being discovered along the way...


Win-Win