So, you’re one of the world’s 2 remaining superpowers, and you need young recruits to fight the evil commies. How do you get a disillusioned youth on board?
Well, if you’re USAF, you take a couple of already awesome pieces of Detroit steel, and ram them full of state of the art fighter plane tech! Along with more usual mods like gull wing doors and a souped up engine, these showpieces have radar reflective paint, targeting systems and ejector seats.
Knight Rider would be proud
Surprise news today, as it looks like USAF may eventually take a ‘no more nukes’ stance. Why? Because now they have frickin laser beams instead! A succesful test was made at Edwards Air Force base in California of the Airborne Laser System, a billion-KPH beam designed to be mounted on a conventional 747 or “similar” aircraft (By similar, I’m assuming they mean no first class section). Apparently the idea is to use this as a missile defense system, but I give it a year before they mount this mutha on an F-21.
LINK (BBC)
