From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #285 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Wednesday, 31 May 1995 Volume 05 : Number 285 In this issue: Commanche Stealth... Re: Commanche Stealth... See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Corey Lawson Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Commanche Stealth... From: wizard@sccsi.com (John F. Regus) Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 07:28:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Helicopter Reality I think everyone's concern about what type of helicopters they had been seeing that were silent were laid to rest yesterday when the Army rolled out the Commanche to the public. They state the helicopter has stealth capability. It will be used for observation and will lightly armed. - --------- "Stealth" in this case means low IR and Radar signatures. - -Corey Lawson |Sorry...I'm just...it's starting to csl@booster.u.washington.edu |hit me like a umm...t-ton of...heavy thing." - -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- We got a clue, so should you! -- KXRX FM 97, Kenniwick WA...an oasis of fine Rock & Roll in the desert of C&W and BibleThumpers that is Eastern WA. ------------------------------ From: kuryakin@arn.net (Illya Kuryakin) Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 19:05:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Commanche Stealth... Corey Lawson had the audacity to say: +From: wizard@sccsi.com (John F. Regus) +Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 07:28:05 -0500 +Subject: Re: Helicopter Reality + +I think everyone's concern about what type of helicopters they had been +seeing that were silent were laid to rest yesterday when the Army rolled out +the Commanche to the public. I think not. The type was definitely an H-60 of some variety. That shape is impossible to mistake for a Comanche. The _real_ question, though... is just what kind of helicopter/vtol is flying at Tonapah. Could they have fielded the V-22 already? Is there another beast flying? A UAV? + +They state the helicopter has stealth capability. It will be used for +observation and will lightly armed. The Comanche is a two man bird... and does not have the capability to rappel troops from the passenger compartment... IE there _is_ no passenger compartment in the Comanche. Nice try, no cigar. Rick Pavek +--------- +"Stealth" in this case means low IR and Radar signatures. + +-Corey Lawson |Sorry...I'm just...it's starting to + csl@booster.u.washington.edu |hit me like a umm...t-ton of...heavy thing." +-------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- +We got a clue, so should you! -- KXRX FM 97, Kenniwick WA...an oasis of fine +Rock & Roll in the desert of C&W and BibleThumpers that is Eastern WA. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #285 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).