| Landing Gear on aircraft create one hell of a | | | | cruise efficiency.How could this be done? |
| lot of drag, which if you are trying to slow | | | | Well it should be fairly easy. If we use |
| down to land can be a very good thing. But if | | | | cradles to hold the UAVs this could work. You |
| you are trying to get to flying speed and | | | | roll the UAVs onto the cradle and then put up |
| climb or maintain take off weight off a | | | | the landing gear. The lead aircraft would |
| carrier, well it might be good to not have | | | | take of with a 10% angle of attack, the |
| that drag hanging out there. In fact if we | | | | second with 16% and the rear UAV at 26%. This |
| could get rid of the landing gear on take off | | | | keeps them out of each others slipstream and |
| then we maybe able to launch several Large | | | | wake turbulence. The larger carriers with |
| UAVs at once. If we could launch three UAVs | | | | side catapult launch would do the same thing |
| on each of three catapults then we could send | | | | 15 seconds later and then the other front |
| up set up delta formation swarms of three, | | | | catapult in 15 seconds after that. You just |
| threes of nine controlled by one. The sooner | | | | launched 9 UAVs to handle the net-centric |
| they make formation the faster we could use | | | | battlespace grid in 30 seconds. Once away, |
| the aerodynamics of those tight formations to | | | | then you can flip unhook the cradles and get |
| save fuel and increase range. Additionally we | | | | busy launching your commander chase plane |
| would receive another benefit of fuel due to | | | | with the pilots to handle the strike to meet |
| the military power takeoffs, which could go | | | | them. We can do this. Think on it. |
| literally immediately to best climb and | | | | |