Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
RASCAL pod innovation enhances test capabilities
By Christopher Ball, 412th Test Wing Public Affairs / Published July 15, 2016
...One of the current projects the pod is facilitating is the exploration of alternate navigation systems. Most electronic navigation systems rely on GPS. Should this, for any reason, become unavailable, then a backup system is always helpful. According to Carroll, this new method involves the aircraft looking at the stars overhead to help determine its position, much like sailors traditionally used a sextant, and simultaneously looking at the ground like Google Earth.
http://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article- ... pabilities
The [tunisian] force saw its first action against extremists in the autumn of 2011 with an intensive operation along the border with Algeria. The op resulted in several airspace violations —five by L-59Ts and another by a C-130— in an area close to Algeria’s Ouragla air base... Algerians were thus surprised by the intensity of Tunisian operations and suspected the involvement of non-Tunisian military forces.
After several diplomatic protests, an Algerian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter-bomber was scrambled in reaction to the Tunisian flights. However, the type [Su-30] proved entirely useless for quick-alert duties. Its highly complex nav/attack system requires up to 30 minutes to spool up before take off, and thus the Tunisian L-59 that the Su-30 was supposed to intercept was already back at the tarmac at Gafsa by the time the big Sukhoi got airborne.
https://warisboring.com/tunisia-waged-a ... .mhrum4l1m
Orel escribió:Bien, pues uno de los experimentos que están probando con él es navegación alternativa al GPS, suponiendo que éste no está disponible... y hablan de guiarse por las estrellas, como los marinos! Pero bueno, ¿y para qué están los inerciales (INS)? ¿Y los TACAN, VOR, DME? ¿Y la navegación por referencia del terreno (TERPROM)? ¿Y los mapas en piernógrafo, y el uso de brújula y cronómetro, ya yéndonos a lo "más clásico"? ¿De verdad ahora hay que gastar dinero también en guiarse por las estrellas? Curioso:
¿Y los TACAN, VOR, DME? ¿Y la navegación por referencia del terreno (TERPROM)? ¿Y los mapas en piernógrafo, y el uso de brújula y cronómetro, ya yéndonos a lo "más clásico"? ¿De verdad ahora hay que gastar dinero también en guiarse por las estrellas?
Orel escribió:¿Alguna idea de si eso es cierto, para los Su-30MKA operados por Argelia? Dice que tardan 30 minutos en tener su aviónica a punto para despegar, con lo que son inútiles para tareas de alerta rápida (QRA):The [tunisian] force saw its first action against extremists in the autumn of 2011 with an intensive operation along the border with Algeria. The op resulted in several airspace violations —five by L-59Ts and another by a C-130— in an area close to Algeria’s Ouragla air base... Algerians were thus surprised by the intensity of Tunisian operations and suspected the involvement of non-Tunisian military forces.
After several diplomatic protests, an Algerian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter-bomber was scrambled in reaction to the Tunisian flights. However, the type [Su-30] proved entirely useless for quick-alert duties. Its highly complex nav/attack system requires up to 30 minutes to spool up before take off, and thus the Tunisian L-59 that the Su-30 was supposed to intercept was already back at the tarmac at Gafsa by the time the big Sukhoi got airborne.
https://warisboring.com/tunisia-waged-a ... .mhrum4l1m
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