Are torpedo's still in use or are exocet and cetera used for antiship missions? and what is the american antishipmisile accept the harpoon?

>>''You would NEVER intentionally go into a target area with fairly empty tanks. The more fuel the better.  You can always drop external tanks if need be.''<<I'm not going to get into a pissing contest, but you're just plain wrong about that.  Every fighter manufacturer has multiple design missions they have to meet, and one ...

First off, you MUST become a commissioned officer.Your best bet for that is to get into a service academy.  Talk to your guidance counselor and do all you can to make yourself competitive to get into a service academy.  But to put it into a nutshell, you need to take a heavy math and science load while in High School AND you must get

geeze, dosen't anyone here even have a guess?  All you people who are pilots should at least be able to venture a guess...I mean the very basics of flight are based on physics.  Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is extra credit for my physics class!!!!  HELP!!!

Just to clarify. When I talk about dogfight I mean a visual (merged) fight.

 KenV wrote:If you're going to hit a tanker on your mission, you do it mid-mission, much closer to the target area.  You plan to fly to your prudent limit of endurance taking into account alternate landing sites plus some margin, and that's where you schedule your tanker rendezvous.  Better yet, you fly into the target area with ...

>>''I am not talking about an overweight situation. Max weight and max T/O weight is not necessaryly the same''<<Indeed they are not the same.  Max T/O weight is linked to max zero fuel wt, which is a basic aerodynamic/structural limitation of the airframe.  Exceed that, and you place lots of restrictions on the ...

Here's some updated numbers on F-16XLF-16XL: Empty wt: 28,500 Max T/O wt: 48,000 Max internal fuel: 12,951 Max weapon load with max internal fuel: 6,549Max weapon load is based on max T/O wt, minus empty wt, minus full fuel wt.  Weapon load can be traded for fuel load on a pound for pound basis till weapon ...

Does anyone know why a plane needs 70% of its take off speed by the time it reaches the halfway point of its total take off distance???

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