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originally posted by: TrueBrit
The craft itself does not ordinarily require special systems for self destruction, as far as I am aware, because of the nature of the craft itself. The chances are that it is going to go to the ground, with enough fuel inside it to cause a hefty blast when it hits the ground, all but making certain that most of the critical components (which, these days, tend to be electronic as opposed to purely mechanical), are destroyed or damaged beyond the ability of an engineer to pick apart, or identify for that matter in many cases!
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: JIMC5499
Do you suppose that would happen with things like the Eurofighter, the F-22 and the F-35?
Many of the current generation military aircraft, are designed to be aerodynamically unstable from the outset, meaning that loss of power to the computer systems, for example, causes the craft to become utterly uncontrollable, unlike a light aircraft, or even a large passenger aircraft, which could potentially be glided to a safe stop, with difficulty perhaps, but not insurmountable difficulty.
Modern combat aircraft though, as far as I have been led to understand, merely plummet groundward when significantly damaged, because of their design. I cannot see an F-22 dropping out of the sky to a relatively clean halt, in the event of a systems failure.
originally posted by: Forensick
IIRC an Australian AP3C Orion had to make an emergency landing in China, excuse my limited knowledge but it had Link 14? Systems on board, once in China's hands, link 16 was introduced.