Definitely not a reaper if its flying at M1. The image shown is a Global Hawk which (according to wikipedia) does not fly near M1 speeds, but does have an operational ceiling of 60k ft. Might not be unmanned at all if it's on radar and being tracked.
Theoretically. But not likely. Air flow gets weird around the sound barrier. Each blade wound generate a sonic boom potentially damaging other blades. It’s just super impractical since we have jet turbines.
Never been done, but I think the prop driven Thunderscreech was designed (though never built) to go 1,000 mph, or mach 1.3. A Tupolev back in the 60s went 550 or so (about mach 0.7).
If you're asking "can you hit mach 1 for a brief period in a propeller airplane"? The answer there is "absolutely, just have fun crashing because the controls become weird". You can store energy in height, and then do a dive.
Sustained M1? Possible yes, practical, not really.
To make a long story short: "ideally" you want your engine to output an infinite amount of air at exactly your forward velocity (or near-infinite at just over your forward velocity). You have to kick back air at at least your forward velocity (otherwise you're not producing any net thrust at all). (Why? If you kick back air faster, you could be more efficient by kicking back more air, but slower.)
Now, obviously in practice you can't do that. There are compromises required - e.g. you can't really increase the size of an ungeared high-bypass turbofan as much as you'd like.
A standard propeller is designed for subsonic tip speed, and substantially subsonic flow as a result. You can build propellers for supersonic flow, but generally at that point it looks an awful lot like a turbine instead. (It's also loud, and tends to be rather inefficient due to adjacent blades interfering with each other.)
So all told, generally speaking you end up with propellers being great for relatively slow subsonic speeds (as they are slow, but can have a wide area), turbofans being good for higher speeds (they can have a higher exhaust velocity, but suffer from input area limitations due to materials issues), gradually shifting from high-bypass down to less and less bypass, and then true jets. (And then eventually ramjets and scramjets. A jet suffers from having to slow down the incoming air significantly, which hurts efficiency at higher speeds. Ramjets do too, but to a lesser extent. A scramjet doesn't nearly as much. Ramjets and scramjets have other issues, however. Notably, they tend to have terrible thrust-to-weight ratios.)
(A jet needs to slow down the incoming air to subsonic relative to the aircraft. So if you're moving at mach 3, a jet immediately does -2 mach numbers worth of "wasted" work that it then needs to overcome again. It's much more complex than this due to e.g. varying mach number with pressure and temperature, but that's the general gist of it. Kinetic energy being proportional to velocity-squared, if your scramjet is accelerating the air from mach 3 to mach 6 it's doing, say, 6^2-3^2 = 27 units of work, whereas a jet is taking air at mach 3, slowing it down to mach 1 (the energy of which is largely wasted. Not entirely, but largely.), and then having to accelerate that air to mach 6 again. So the jet is doing 6^2 - 1^2 = 35 units of work. As the speed increases, this becomes more and more of an issue.)
...though actually now that I look at it the accounts of hitting mach 1 in a dive are all "unverified" now. So you could probably argue that it hasn't been done.
"In December, a kilogram of pork cost about 22.50 yuan, or $1.46 a pound, according to Beijing-based BRIC-Agri Info. By last week, a kilogram of pork had jumped to 42.46 yuan, or $2.75 a pound"
They do, they scam each other just as much as they scam everyone else. It's the way of business in China, if they think they can get away with it, then they will do it.
What gets me about LARPS like this is they write about topics they have no idea about.
Could we go to war with China, certainly but there isn't some secret aircraft carriers that have will magically appear. It's so fucking childish to think that the world works that way.
Idk. I tend to believe what you wrote. But Trump said they were going to release a bunch of big news over the next 8 weeks. Maybe one of those times "new" aircraft will be revealed. Probably not, but I like to pretend these things can happen.
That's because the wet markets had nothing to do with COVID19. If they did then China would keep them shut down. But they know it was an engineered virus straight from their Wuhan lab.
Exactly. That's why our military needs to stop them before it's too late. Imagine them making a new virus that is actually deadly (to people under the age of 60).
It doesn't matter if it isn't the Chinese citizens doing it. Their government is still doing it and needs to be stopped. I don't want anything bad to happen to the majority of Chinese people.
Engineering a virus is incredibly hard. Go look at the list of bioweapons - not a single one is an engineered virus. We literally do not have the capability to just "program" a disease. And even if you sat there painstakingly growing cultures in a dish and letting them mutate, it would take years. This virus has been growing in millions of human hosts and has barely mutated at all, how long do you think it would take to do that when only working with as much virus as can fit in a petri dish?
And if the Wuhan Institute did engineer the WuFlu... really? Really dude? They fucking did one of the most impossible things in bioscience and they made a fucking sniffles virus that is only dangerous to people that are 103 years old? Really?
Conspiracy theorists really like their LARPs.
The Chinese people are three things:
Stupid
Disgusting
Greedy
Put all three things together and the real story is probably that some stupid disgusting janitor stole some fucking lab bats and brought them to the market to sell.
Even if the Wuhan lab was trying to engineer viruses, if the best they could come up with Covid-19, what a joke. There's not even a point to this conspiracy that it was an 'engineered virus' if the virus is so laughably pathetic.
He's also 100% full of shit. How the fuck would anyone notice an "uptick in activity" on a military base? Like literally what does that even mean?
Pendleton is also six hundred billion square miles and the base itself is five miles deep into a bunch of mountains. How is this cocksucker noticing anything without breaking onto the government property?
The Air Force base near me had several huge transport planes this past week. Normally they might get one or two in a month, there were about 7 this week alone.
And significantly more helicopters coming and going.
Go ahead and tell us what "uptick of activity" means. Tell those of us in the military so we can fact check how total nonsense whatever you're about to tell us is.
Also tell us how you would even notice anything when Pendleton itself is like 2 miles deep into a bunch of mountains and you can't actually see into the base from anywhere outside it. Did you just admit to trespassing on a military facility to spy on it?
Pendleton itself is also like six hundred square miles of terrain they train on. Are you flying drones with IR cameras over to spy on what they're doing?
Are you sitting in a lawn chair outside the gate pounding Natty Lites and counting cars?
...
Or are you just full of shit and want people to pay attention to you? Go save it for the Q-tards on Twitter.
Well that depends on who you think will join China. Me I doubt that Russia or North Korea would help China in a war like this. Plus globally pretty much everyone hates China it’s just people are afraid of throwing the punches at it. But if we have a few superpowers along side of us we could no doubt be China.
Funny part is, you could have seen all of this from the old Google Earth Satellite Pics. Their entire water table had been infiltrated by seawater decades ago. They aren't the only one's in trouble though. Even here in the US, the Ogalalla Aquifer that feed most of the Midwest, Texas, and Mexico, has been dropping for more than 40 years, by hundreds of feet at points in Mexico. China's problem is amplified by the Dam saturating the ground, whereas our problem is amplified by pulling the water out. China's water is mixed with seawater, can't use, and ours is simply drying up because we're farming deserts. Our's is fixable. Desalinate, move water to the headwaters, refill, take about 20 years. But what a project that would be.
I get that aspect. But if this is a military aircraft incursion, this display already makes them look incredibly weak. Blatantly flying military aircraft over a sovereign country (assumed without permission), is particularly brazen for escalation. They get bent out of shape when we run warships through their contested south China sea area.
My assessment, is this is either nothing oooooorrrr, we are looking to enter a world war to stave off a civil war here? China does piss Russia and India (among other countries) off something fierce, a global conflict isn't something far fetched.
As for nuclear payload drones, probably not the safest or even practical delivery system. Nukes have a very purposeful "hand on the button" delivery. Not only that we have far better methods for surgical strikes to hamfisted BOHICA sledgehammer delivery. I just don't see it on the mosaic warfare front.
I just don't get a brazen rando incursion for funsies.
My assessment, is this is either nothing oooooorrrr, we are looking to enter a world war to stave off a civil war here?
There's other possibilities. I'm guessing here, but this might be The Donald telling China "I know you're weak; I know you can't actually do anything about this". Forcing China to decide whether to keep being a dick and risk getting humiliated again, or tone down their bullshit in order to save face.
We can only guess at the motive for that drone flying in there, but I do know one thing: this was NOT "random". :) It may LOOK random, but somebody flew that thing in there for a reason and has an agenda.
I think China is flooding itself or faking the flood.
Wuhan flu arose right after China reluctantly signed phase 1. China never intended to buy the required amount of American goods under phase 1 since that’s impossible. Wuhan flu was their out.
Trump said phase 1 is still on though, and wuhan flu didn’t garner any sympathy as the commies had hoped. Now they’re going to bust the dam and kill millions to avoid the tariff hike that will follow breach of phase 1.
This Pede knows his shit.. Coupled with the decreasing strength of the Heliosphere, those cosmic rays are more dangerous than in past times... there is some evidence of seeding clouds but also coming closer to earth and impacting life.. including things form mental states to cancer.. colliding with other particles and creating other molecules that have chain effect that change our atmosphere..
There is also the fact this all lines up with 12,000 year catasphropy that is recurring through history, the earth comes loose, the earth turns over, the seas come on the land.. cities found under the ocean near coasts.. there is plenty of science to prove past civilizations got wiped out..
Is all this connected? do the DNC and deep state know what's coming.. is this why the world is going crazy, what is coming and impact to mental state from center of universe where cosmic rays come from..
Some even speculate part of our evolution, changes us into new beings.. etc..
crazy shit. Watch Youtube Channel suspicious observer for all latest real science
A Reaper. They can see everything. They can be armed.
Definitely not a reaper if its flying at M1. The image shown is a Global Hawk which (according to wikipedia) does not fly near M1 speeds, but does have an operational ceiling of 60k ft. Might not be unmanned at all if it's on radar and being tracked.
You seem to know planes. Is M1 possible without a jet engine, e.g prop, turboprop?
Theoretically. But not likely. Air flow gets weird around the sound barrier. Each blade wound generate a sonic boom potentially damaging other blades. It’s just super impractical since we have jet turbines.
I graduated in aerospace engineering a year ago. Still working on getting a job though.
Just get in at Space Force and Make space great again
Just apply to Boeing as a tranny and you’re sure to get hired.
It’s hard to work up the confidence, but I can’t give up on myself.
Never been done, but I think the prop driven Thunderscreech was designed (though never built) to go 1,000 mph, or mach 1.3. A Tupolev back in the 60s went 550 or so (about mach 0.7).
1000 knots is about mach 1.5.
Never built that we know of. I bet the US military has had planes enter service and retire that we will never know about.
The only thing I know of that comes close,still flying today, is the Russian TU-95.
If you're asking "can you hit mach 1 for a brief period in a propeller airplane"? The answer there is "absolutely, just have fun crashing because the controls become weird". You can store energy in height, and then do a dive.
Sustained M1? Possible yes, practical, not really.
To make a long story short: "ideally" you want your engine to output an infinite amount of air at exactly your forward velocity (or near-infinite at just over your forward velocity). You have to kick back air at at least your forward velocity (otherwise you're not producing any net thrust at all). (Why? If you kick back air faster, you could be more efficient by kicking back more air, but slower.)
Now, obviously in practice you can't do that. There are compromises required - e.g. you can't really increase the size of an ungeared high-bypass turbofan as much as you'd like.
A standard propeller is designed for subsonic tip speed, and substantially subsonic flow as a result. You can build propellers for supersonic flow, but generally at that point it looks an awful lot like a turbine instead. (It's also loud, and tends to be rather inefficient due to adjacent blades interfering with each other.)
So all told, generally speaking you end up with propellers being great for relatively slow subsonic speeds (as they are slow, but can have a wide area), turbofans being good for higher speeds (they can have a higher exhaust velocity, but suffer from input area limitations due to materials issues), gradually shifting from high-bypass down to less and less bypass, and then true jets. (And then eventually ramjets and scramjets. A jet suffers from having to slow down the incoming air significantly, which hurts efficiency at higher speeds. Ramjets do too, but to a lesser extent. A scramjet doesn't nearly as much. Ramjets and scramjets have other issues, however. Notably, they tend to have terrible thrust-to-weight ratios.)
(A jet needs to slow down the incoming air to subsonic relative to the aircraft. So if you're moving at mach 3, a jet immediately does -2 mach numbers worth of "wasted" work that it then needs to overcome again. It's much more complex than this due to e.g. varying mach number with pressure and temperature, but that's the general gist of it. Kinetic energy being proportional to velocity-squared, if your scramjet is accelerating the air from mach 3 to mach 6 it's doing, say, 6^2-3^2 = 27 units of work, whereas a jet is taking air at mach 3, slowing it down to mach 1 (the energy of which is largely wasted. Not entirely, but largely.), and then having to accelerate that air to mach 6 again. So the jet is doing 6^2 - 1^2 = 35 units of work. As the speed increases, this becomes more and more of an issue.)
uhhhh
are you making shit up or where do you get your info from?
Personal knowledge gained in collage, mainly.
If you want more information, https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes/node79.html is a decent starting point from a quick glance. Didn't see anything obviously wrong flipping through it quickly.
...though actually now that I look at it the accounts of hitting mach 1 in a dive are all "unverified" now. So you could probably argue that it hasn't been done.
Okay.
For anyone wondering, 1000kt is about mach 1.5 or 1,150 mph
Fucking COOKING
I was thank you pede
Thats a global hawk in the pic.
Yeah, and I think that photo was taken from wikipedia. Is this story legit? Are they just using that particular photo as a place holder?
Our fastest known military drones go like 400mph this is going over 1000 mph this is something new
The XQ58-A is no secret.
I do not think this is the xq58a
Nor do I, because no one is dumb enough to run a spy plane with ADSB turned on.
I fucking hate Twitter for garbage like this.
However you stated "Our fastest known military drones go like 400mph", I wanted to point out this is far from true.
you turn it on to let them know they are fucked
Reapers are slow as shit.
if the Damn goes.. its going to set china way way back
Even without the damn failing they have major crop failures and food shortages in their near future.
I'll be your damn guide. Please don't wander away from the damn tour. If you have and damn questions, please wait until the end.
the party is also taking land from farmers as a result
And this is on top of the massive pig famine that has hit them hard over the last year or two
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/chinas-pork-shortage-could-give-us-farmers-a-chance-to-cash-in.html
"In December, a kilogram of pork cost about 22.50 yuan, or $1.46 a pound, according to Beijing-based BRIC-Agri Info. By last week, a kilogram of pork had jumped to 42.46 yuan, or $2.75 a pound"
Dam*
damn dam
haha good catch
They do, they scam each other just as much as they scam everyone else. It's the way of business in China, if they think they can get away with it, then they will do it.
What gets me about LARPS like this is they write about topics they have no idea about.
Could we go to war with China, certainly but there isn't some secret aircraft carriers that have will magically appear. It's so fucking childish to think that the world works that way.
Idk. I tend to believe what you wrote. But Trump said they were going to release a bunch of big news over the next 8 weeks. Maybe one of those times "new" aircraft will be revealed. Probably not, but I like to pretend these things can happen.
I still want the Ghost Hawk declassified just to see what it looks like. We know it exists, we saw the tail!
That's because the wet markets had nothing to do with COVID19. If they did then China would keep them shut down. But they know it was an engineered virus straight from their Wuhan lab.
Exactly. That's why our military needs to stop them before it's too late. Imagine them making a new virus that is actually deadly (to people under the age of 60).
It doesn't matter if it isn't the Chinese citizens doing it. Their government is still doing it and needs to be stopped. I don't want anything bad to happen to the majority of Chinese people.
Better parties than the Chinese have tried and failed. And given up, so there’s no one to copy.
Sorry but this is retarded.
Engineering a virus is incredibly hard. Go look at the list of bioweapons - not a single one is an engineered virus. We literally do not have the capability to just "program" a disease. And even if you sat there painstakingly growing cultures in a dish and letting them mutate, it would take years. This virus has been growing in millions of human hosts and has barely mutated at all, how long do you think it would take to do that when only working with as much virus as can fit in a petri dish?
And if the Wuhan Institute did engineer the WuFlu... really? Really dude? They fucking did one of the most impossible things in bioscience and they made a fucking sniffles virus that is only dangerous to people that are 103 years old? Really?
Conspiracy theorists really like their LARPs.
The Chinese people are three things:
Put all three things together and the real story is probably that some stupid disgusting janitor stole some fucking lab bats and brought them to the market to sell.
Even if the Wuhan lab was trying to engineer viruses, if the best they could come up with Covid-19, what a joke. There's not even a point to this conspiracy that it was an 'engineered virus' if the virus is so laughably pathetic.
I’ve noticed an uptick of activity at Camp Pendleton but not sure if it is a planned exercise or prep for something big.
Keep your pants on. Some random Pede on .win isn't giving away any State secrets to the Chi-coms..
Without a doubt, any large military installation will have multiple Chyna operatives keeping tabs and reporting dutifully back to their masters.
As well, our lovely media propaganda outlets will be certain to broadcast to the world any upticks in activity, because that's how they do.
Be aware that the military should be aware of that fact. Not saying our military is infallible.
He's also 100% full of shit. How the fuck would anyone notice an "uptick in activity" on a military base? Like literally what does that even mean?
Pendleton is also six hundred billion square miles and the base itself is five miles deep into a bunch of mountains. How is this cocksucker noticing anything without breaking onto the government property?
https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/Portals/98/Docs/Noise%20Reports/Noise%20Report%2018-24%20%20JUL%202020%20(1).pdf?ver=2020-07-14-120644-427
I can hear the bombing from my house. Looks like in fact-checked it for you, sweetie.
Loose lips sink ships
Doesn’t necessarily mean much at all. Exercises are common.
I've noticed unusual movements recently near me, too.
The Air Force base near me had several huge transport planes this past week. Normally they might get one or two in a month, there were about 7 this week alone.
And significantly more helicopters coming and going.
Go ahead and tell us what "uptick of activity" means. Tell those of us in the military so we can fact check how total nonsense whatever you're about to tell us is.
Also tell us how you would even notice anything when Pendleton itself is like 2 miles deep into a bunch of mountains and you can't actually see into the base from anywhere outside it. Did you just admit to trespassing on a military facility to spy on it?
Pendleton itself is also like six hundred square miles of terrain they train on. Are you flying drones with IR cameras over to spy on what they're doing?
Are you sitting in a lawn chair outside the gate pounding Natty Lites and counting cars?
...
Or are you just full of shit and want people to pay attention to you? Go save it for the Q-tards on Twitter.
Well they will need more American Soy Beans and crop after this.
Hong Kong will be ours
Ooh, that would be so awesome... But definitely the start of WWIII
Well that depends on who you think will join China. Me I doubt that Russia or North Korea would help China in a war like this. Plus globally pretty much everyone hates China it’s just people are afraid of throwing the punches at it. But if we have a few superpowers along side of us we could no doubt be China.
Looks like the ChiComs fucked around and are gonna find out
Chinese democracy nao!!
Some Twitter goon thinks spy planes run ADSB.
1000kt is like, 3 times the top speed of a Globalhawk.
Fun fact: I used to track SR-71 flights going up the coast of China by intercepting their tracking system. I was 18 years old at the time.
Good times, good times.
Funny part is, you could have seen all of this from the old Google Earth Satellite Pics. Their entire water table had been infiltrated by seawater decades ago. They aren't the only one's in trouble though. Even here in the US, the Ogalalla Aquifer that feed most of the Midwest, Texas, and Mexico, has been dropping for more than 40 years, by hundreds of feet at points in Mexico. China's problem is amplified by the Dam saturating the ground, whereas our problem is amplified by pulling the water out. China's water is mixed with seawater, can't use, and ours is simply drying up because we're farming deserts. Our's is fixable. Desalinate, move water to the headwaters, refill, take about 20 years. But what a project that would be.
I can only imagine all the juicy goodness taking place behind the scenes in the Trump admin, unreported by hostile media.
Not to be a Suspicious Aloysius, but wouldn't a military aircraft incursion into China have caused them to flip shit by now?
Basic military strategy: never reveal weakness.
China IS flipping shit right now. They're just not showing it.
Meantime, I'm wondering exactly how big that drone is........and whether a nuclear warhead might fit in that nose........
I get that aspect. But if this is a military aircraft incursion, this display already makes them look incredibly weak. Blatantly flying military aircraft over a sovereign country (assumed without permission), is particularly brazen for escalation. They get bent out of shape when we run warships through their contested south China sea area.
My assessment, is this is either nothing oooooorrrr, we are looking to enter a world war to stave off a civil war here? China does piss Russia and India (among other countries) off something fierce, a global conflict isn't something far fetched.
As for nuclear payload drones, probably not the safest or even practical delivery system. Nukes have a very purposeful "hand on the button" delivery. Not only that we have far better methods for surgical strikes to hamfisted BOHICA sledgehammer delivery. I just don't see it on the mosaic warfare front.
I just don't get a brazen rando incursion for funsies.
this
There's other possibilities. I'm guessing here, but this might be The Donald telling China "I know you're weak; I know you can't actually do anything about this". Forcing China to decide whether to keep being a dick and risk getting humiliated again, or tone down their bullshit in order to save face.
We can only guess at the motive for that drone flying in there, but I do know one thing: this was NOT "random". :) It may LOOK random, but somebody flew that thing in there for a reason and has an agenda.
Someone forgot to turn off their ADS-B out.
I'm confused what we're seeing here, is this a recon plane or something else?
So semi-serious here.
Don't we have a tool that gives us power over the weather?
Is this UAV controlling clouds to make China flood?
I think China is flooding itself or faking the flood.
Wuhan flu arose right after China reluctantly signed phase 1. China never intended to buy the required amount of American goods under phase 1 since that’s impossible. Wuhan flu was their out.
Trump said phase 1 is still on though, and wuhan flu didn’t garner any sympathy as the commies had hoped. Now they’re going to bust the dam and kill millions to avoid the tariff hike that will follow breach of phase 1.
Interesting perspective.
I know something strange is going on. Ever since we changed our trade deals with China, the world has gone absolutely to hell.
Unless you believe in coincidence, an association between those two events is indicated.
This Pede knows his shit.. Coupled with the decreasing strength of the Heliosphere, those cosmic rays are more dangerous than in past times... there is some evidence of seeding clouds but also coming closer to earth and impacting life.. including things form mental states to cancer.. colliding with other particles and creating other molecules that have chain effect that change our atmosphere..
There is also the fact this all lines up with 12,000 year catasphropy that is recurring through history, the earth comes loose, the earth turns over, the seas come on the land.. cities found under the ocean near coasts.. there is plenty of science to prove past civilizations got wiped out..
Is all this connected? do the DNC and deep state know what's coming.. is this why the world is going crazy, what is coming and impact to mental state from center of universe where cosmic rays come from..
Some even speculate part of our evolution, changes us into new beings.. etc..
crazy shit. Watch Youtube Channel suspicious observer for all latest real science
https://youtu.be/B_zfMyzXqfI?t=42