At the descent rates we’re talking about the gear would collapse, likely just piercing through the jet and damaging the integrity enough that it would start losing parts either before or as it entered the netting,” he continues. In this instance, the jets have to slam down into the deck immediately before the barricade.
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While the F-22 probably has the specifications to be able to land in the netting ashore, those are systems where the aircraft lands and then enters the gear a couple thousand feet later. While they could likely generate enough wind to get the approach speed down to one hundred knots, that’s still far too much energy for the landing gear to absorb. “Secondly, no carrier CO is going to risk massive damage to his flight deck (essentially a major component of his only offensive weapon system) by letting forty-five thousand pounds of nasty slam into it. It’s not a directly transferable skill (especially when it’s not designed to fly like that),” Hibbetts writes. While there are Air Force pilots who’ve cross-trained with the Navy and earned their carrier wings, they will be the first ones to tell you that you can’t just bring any old plane aboard without training on that platform. A barricade landing is at least five times more complex and dangerous. Without at least a modicum of training, there’s no way this pilot would even get close to the safe parameters of a normal trap. The Raptor performs both air-to-air and air-to-ground. Its combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, represents an exponential leap in warfighting capabilities. Use of various Russian/Chinese air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, anti-radiation missiles, laser-guided bombs and conventional drop bombs are assumed. The F-22 Raptor is the Air Forces newest fighter aircraft. You can’t wish yourself onto the carrier whilst smokin’ in at over one hundred knots (best case). Internal loadout rated up to 2,000lb, external mountings rated up to 5,000lb each (collectively 22,000lb of ordnance).
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This is a skill that is underappreciated in the question.
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“Let’s get the ugly facts out first: as awesome as they are at their jobs, Air Force pilots don’t train to land on carriers.