Can we have a Cool designs that were never used thread?
>>29974578
![cddr_mda-ngc-bae_006[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/heiX2zz.jpg "cddr_mda-ngc-bae_006[1].jpg")
>>29974578
McDonnell Douglas JSF
I still think the maritime version of the F-117 would have been sex
Swing-wing and VLO really don't match up well with one another.
Nor does swing-wing and naval aviation. Or F-22 era RAM for that matter.
>>29974664
Yeah but it looks good
>>29974578
>>29975819
>Even the canards have flaps
THIQQ
>>29974578
>>29974578
>>29975961
Weapons in troop quarters lmao.
>>29974578
>>29976008
>Ramp
>>29976652
>>29975961
>X-wing fighters
>>29976497
Now that thing is cool looking
>>29975961
Other than the lack of defences, why didn't this idea go anywhere?
>>29976790
End of the Cold War probably.
Lockheed CL1201. 1100-foot wingspan, crew of 845, powered by an 1800-megawatt nuclear reactor. Would have carried 22 fighters, been able to stay in the air for 40+ days, and most insane of all, was to be VTOL-capable, using 182 lift engines to take off.
>>29976939
I think that's probably the most out-there plan yet - competing with >>29976891 at least - submarine aircraft carriers existed, but a pykrete ship would have been pretty nuts
>>29975866
You gonna be cruising around still MACH 3, you're gonna need some control surfaces.
>>29976790
It had defences: by far highest top speed of any production aircraft and huge operational ceiling
speed and altitude was a dead end after U2 got shot down and russians finally managed to make a missile fly like it is supposed to
>>29977001
Alright man, you can't fucking post Project Pluto and not say anything about it.
There is nothing ever devised by man more awesome or diabolical.
>>29977100
Give me the short and dirty of it?
>>29976790
Damn hard to keep ready for action. The leak like a sieve when cold and sitting on the tarmac and are maintenance hogs otherwise. The Blackbirds were great recon platforms, but made lousy interceptors. The YF-12 did lead directly to the SR-71, so there's that.
>Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the US and UK declare war on the USSR to stem the advance of the Red Army across Europe
>After a over a year of fighting, the US has pushed the Red Army forces all the way back across Germany, and now fight to retake Berlin
>0800, June 19, 1946
>Just inside the city limit of Berlin, Germany
>Two T30s and three M26E1s of one of America's numerous newly formed Armored Heavy Assault Divisions roll past numerous burned out structures
>All is quiet as the commander of the lead M26 scans ahead of him, supporting infantry following behind the column
>Two flashes, one less than a second after the other, are seen about 800m ahead
>The second tank, a T30, is hit first. The round bounces off the mantlet
>The second round hits the turret ring of the lead M26, instantly killing the gunner and commander
>Infantry scatters as the surviving crew of the stricken M26 abandons their vehicle.
>The now lead T30 commander identifies a bunker at the end of the boulevard, occupied by a pair of 100mm Mod.1944s
>Another shot rings out, this one hitting a structure to the direct left of the T30
>The Commander gives the order to fire.
>A deafening roar and a massive fireball scream from the muzzle of the 155mm T7
>Not a second later the bunker is raped by the 155mm high-explosive shell
>All that remains of the emplacement is rubble and a fine, vodka-scented mist
>The T30 crew pushes forward, using the bulk of their vehicle to push the wrecked M26 aside
tbc...
>>29977121
>Infantry start to move up through side alleys as the vintage thunder run makes it's way up main street of town
>The unit, in their haste, soon outpaces their infantry support
>Passing by an alleyway, the lead T30 trundles carelessly into sight of a well hidden T-34/85.
>The T30 Commander orders the driver to move the vehicle
>The massive tank careens into the opposite curb and into a structure as the Panther fires
>The tank is hit, propellant cooking off as the crew hastily abandons their vehicle
>A second later the ammunition detonates, sending the colossal turret flying into the building with the force of a crashing aircraft
>The T-34 is dealt with quickly as the infantry moves up, easily flanking the hidden tank.
>However, by now a second tank, an IS-3, has rolled into the path of the armored column
>The tank fires, the D-25-T cannon tearing a hole through the number two M26, directly into it's upper glaces
>The second T30 rolls around, using the wrecked M26 to cover it's hull as it opens fire.
>The 155mm HE shell the front turret face of the IS-3
>The tank's mantlet is torn off and the turret itself pushed back on the hull.
>The driver’s hatch implodes from the force of a direct 155mm HE round hit.
>What crew members that aren't decapitated by the force of the impact are subjected to a swarm of metal fragments flying around the inside of the vehicle
>Having not seen the tank brew up, the crew of the T30 fires a second shell, this time one of the newly designed armor piercing rounds
>The massive projectile easily punches through the pike nose of the Russian tank, the plates cracking apart along weld lines
>Fire quickly engulfs the vehicle as the Americans continue up the street, the T30 easily shrugging the IS-3 to the side as it passes by.
And that, /k/ is how I get off
>>29977132
>420mm shell screams from the barrel, the blast illuminating the night.
>moments later, 30km down range on the other end of the Fulda Gap, a battalion of soldiers are vaporized
>The crew begins step one of the reloading process; repair the suspension.
>The unit commander stands on the top of his vehicle, watching as a flash glints in the distance, followed by a low rumble
>Realizing the magnitude of what he's done, he murmurs to himself
>"420, blaze it"
>>29977119
>>29977063
>>29977119
Not the (missile armed) blackbird predecessor I posted, the ship I linked to >>29975961 (though your points on those are good, most I knew, but thanks for sharing)
>>29977114
Okay, so a jet engine doesn't need the source of energy to be jet fuel, you just have to add energy to the compressed air, heat it up.
This was the 60s, so someone got the idea for nuclear-powered jet engines - a B36 and a russian Bear both were used as testbeds, but the reactor shielding was very heavy.
But if you make a missile it doesn't need shielding - you have a very powerful jet, but it kind of leaks radiation, but that's okay you're flying over the enemy anyway.
Like I said, powerful - there's enough energy to make it not just a jet-powered missile, but a ramjet powered missile - it goes at Mach 3+
And it was designed to fly at low altitude, at mach 3+ causing devastating shock waves wherever it went, and, don't forget, spewing radiation.
Then, because the reactor is Big you have a lot of space in the missile body, so they gave it about 20 or so multi-megaton warheads to launch.
And, as a final fuck you, it could crash into something at mach 3+, optionally detonating the reactor, though that might have just been a consequence, not something that was built in.
Never built, thank god, as IBCMs were the more reasonable and "less antagonistic" design, once they worked out the computers and shit
>>29977132
>T-34/85.
>the Panther fires
>>29977264
They even got as far as a live test of the Tory-IIC nuclear ramjet at the Nevada Test Site in 1964. The rig required to fire a ramjet engine in a stationary test stand included 25 miles of pipe, four gigantic air compressors borrowed from the Navy, and a heap of oil-burning heaters to bring the air up to a realistic operating temperature. The heat tolerances were absurdly close, parts of the engine would auto-ignite if the temperatures were even 150F higher than estimated. The whole fucking thing was that radioactive that everything involved in handling it was automated, and even then the observation station had a two-week supply of food and water in a fallout shelter, just in case.
>>29977341
My opoligies. I wrote two versions of the story
>Extended WW2 scenario, Panthers and Tiger IIs
>Early Cold war-goes-hot with T-34-85s and IS-3s
I saw the typo as well. Figured things were going in a more cold war direction so I went with the latter.
>>29974578
The planned nuclear powered bomber.
They only got as far as testing out the reactor before the program got killed, if I recall.
>>29977397
>NB-36H
It flew 47 times. It was, however, not nuclear powered. It simply carried a nuclear reactor for the purpose of seeing whether or not one could be mounted on an aircraft.
>>29977364
Didn't know about all the stuff, just knew that they tested the jet.
That makes "testing" a lot more impressive
>>29977397
As mentioned >>29977264, there was also a russian one, the Tupolev Tu-95LAL, which also did about 40 research flights, but not while actually powered by a reactor (not sure if the reactor was running for flights by either plane)
>>29977500
My understanding (with the NB-36H, at least) is that the reactor was running, but not powering anything. It was a test to see if you could fly a plane with a working reactor onboard, not actually hooking it into the engines to provide thrust.
>>29977522
Yup. There's never been an aircraft actually powered by a nuclear reactor - just testbeds with reactors running in flight.
Convair did have some more complete proposals, however, that made it as far as wind-tunnel testing.
>>29974582
this is pure sex
>>29976891
This is some sci-fi comic book shit right here; the cold war sure was a weird time to be alive in.
If we spent more money on education and Healthcare rather than trying to murder each other with spaceplanes we would be in a much better place right now.
It's just boggling that our tax dollars go into people brainstorming more ways to kill human beings. It's pretty sickening if you think about it.
>>29977825
/k/ is not the board for you
>>29977753
It's a pretty unfeasable concept, but you're not wrong
>>29977825
Its necessity. People rag on America for playing world police, but if they didn't, the world would be a p horrible place. Why has Russia not annexed Sweden yet? I'm telling you now, its sure as shit isn't because of the swedes, its because America is standing behind Sweden waving some of the biggest meanest sticks the world has ever known. Why did Russia never bumrush the Fulda gap? It wasn't because they were even remotely intimidated by the Bundeswehr, it was because it was overlooked by multiple US armored divisions. If America didn't spend untold trillions on weapons of war, countries like mine would be able to piss away millions on welfare for Somalis. If you take it back to its source, American protectionism is ultimately the only reason that countries like Sweden and Germany can afford their world class healthcare systems. If it weren't for the stabilizing influence of the US war machine, everyone else would need to fund much larger armies and dentistry for beneficiaries would not be so cheap.
>>29975961
>>29975961
That's a lot of fucking dakka.
>>29976008
>miss the arresting gear on landing approach
>crash into the ramp
There is a reason why carriers have off set landing approaches.
>>29975961
I really, really like this boat.
>>29975961
>Battlecruiser
oh dear
>>29976790
>why
Politics. Much has been written about it but those responsible deny all.
Thoughts on giant flying lasers?
>>29979782
If I recall correctly they had that on an episode of dogfights and it killed two SU-27s before getting the fuck out
>>29977977
To be fair, 80% of that money doesn't go to actually building an army. It's mostly retarded payoffs for projects that are known to be dead ends to begin with, but employ looots of defense companies.
If all that money weren't squandered for payoffs, there'd be a lot more, much cooler, and more efficient machines out there today.
>>29976497
>taking off to the rear
>not launching forward and landing from the rear so you can launch at speed
Just a reminder that the USN could have had an operational stealth bomber in the late 1990's if Cheney hadn't shit-canned it. As it stands, the USN still can't into stealth aircraft.
>>29977146
lmao step 1 repair suspension
>>29974578
>>29977397
that thing is at the Pima air and SPace museum in tucson AZ
>>29980444
>>29977825
>we would be in a much better place right now.
We would not have the amazing shit the MIC has created, like the large hand in the internet.
Kill yourself, creatin, you should be bowing to the MIC gods for bestowing upon you this first world life.
>>29976891
it only cost as much as 10 countries to build
>>29976790
Uh, lol can't turn, plus my crew has to pre-breathe pure 02 for a couple of hours to purge nitrogen from their bloodstream, otherwise they get the bends.
