Thread 64497572

How would it protect itself from long range missiles?

>>64497572 (OP)
>How would it protect itself from long range missiles?
Sudden and unannounced preemptive saturation bombardment with ICBMs carrying multiple megaton-level warheads against any country that may pose a potential thread.

>>64497572 (OP)
No clue but this picture got me wondering how big a plane could get before it falls apart due to its own weight. I dont think something the size of picrel would be able to actually exist with earth's gravity. I wonder if the c5 galaxy is close to the upper limit with current technology.

>>64497572 (OP)
How would the missile launch platforms protect themselves from the F-4 Swarm?

>>64497572 (OP)
My question is how would aircraft development be stunted if that thing was built? Would we still be flying phantoms as to not waste the giant bird?

>>64497614
A camo net?

>>64497572 (OP)
>Cruising at .9 mach instead of 30 knots
Imagine how much the Navy would seethe if the Air Force could project power like that.

>>64497610
Just build it in the air at speed.

>>64497572 (OP)
Better yet, where could it take off and land?

>>64500444
Just make it a xbox heug flying boat

>>64497610
planes are extremely light (for their size) for obvious reasons. The main limit is thrust/fuel.

But just strap some nuclear propulsion on that big boi and watch it fly around for months on end.

>How would it protect itself from long range missiles?

It's not a problem if you get paid to develop the jet before their widespread adoption. This would have looked great in the 1950s where the plan was to bomb the USSR with waves of strategic bombers that would mostly get shot down in the first few days and the lessons being taken on were from WWII escort fighters.

Now that'll be $1mil in 1950s money and a stay at your finest Californian resort with inclusive flights on Pan Am.

>>64500444
Muh dick.

>>64497572 (OP)
Plane too big. Missile just bounce off, make small poke at worst. Plane will be fine.

>>64497572 (OP)
The most important issue is how to rearm the planes after each sortie.

>>64497610
Skyscrapers exist.
Dinosaurs existed made of flesh and bone including the flying Pterodactyl.
With titanium alloys and aluminum alloys and especially with modern composites such things are physically capable.

It isn't even bigger than a WW1 Zeppelin.

>>64500864
>how to rearm the pylons of pylon mounted phantoms
Wingwalkers

>>64497610
WIth nuclear power, it can.

>>64497572 (OP)
How would it protect itself from long range missiles?

>>64497610
The Saturn V rocket is pretty big, 137 tons dry weight and there were much larger rocket designs made by guys that knew their shit.
I think 200m + wingspans would be possible if you really wanted to build it.

>>64502083
That's the neat part, it doesn't

>>64500737
But OP's mom is already on your dick

>>64497572 (OP)
>How would it protect itself from long range missiles?
With DEWs of course? It's got a nuclear reactor, power isn't an issue, and lasers are very effective at altitude with extremely long LOS, thin atmosphere, and no clouds in the way. Probably auto turrets and micromissiles would be good tertiary defense as well just in case, but AAMs are going to lose to powerful lasers pretty badly.

Though I think if anyone was doing a serious capital nuclear air fleet you'd actually want more then just the stratocarrier, as with a surface fleet you'd probably want the big carrier and then a few nuclear escort aircraft focused even more heavily on anti-air and maybe some level of powerful anti-ground/ECM as well.

>>64502083
>carrier criticism
>AI slop
it's uncanny how this keeps happening

>>64497572 (OP)
It unironically wouldn't have to as long as mission planners don't fuck up and put it too close to the enemy

The longest range S-300 has a maximum range of 400km. Air-to-air missiles have much shorter ranges than that.

An F-4 has a combat radius above that when launched from an airfield. The actual combat radius would be even higher since the plane is getting launched midair, which gives it a boost in potential energy.

The only way to shoot it down is to sneak a SAM system past enemy lines (fucking hard) or get past its fighter screen with your own fighters (also fucking hard)

>>64497732
Poor birdie :(