[Stranger]

I have a cousin who works for DARPA. He's made comments about how we now have anit-gravity capability. Counter rotating discs with electro=magnets in a cone filled with mercury. It creates a magnetic field opposite the earths gravity. The pilots sit in a cockpit filled with super-oxygenated water to counter effect the g-forces (they actually breathe water). The outside skin is surrounded by a plasma field to keep it from overheating. Hi Tech stuff?

I totally believe it. Hopefully, it will become public in my lifetime.

http://www.esotericscience.com/Antigravity.aspx

[max]

I worked on design and development of this thing for over 10 years before Bush and Rumsfeld cancelled it. Man, it was a beauty.

[Stranger]

what office/service was in charge of this development project?

[max]

Army

RAH-66 Comanche

Joint Program Office - Boeing/Sikorsky

Flight Test Facility in West Palm Beach

[Stranger]

oh, that's the Comanche. I recall talk of that aircraft when I was in the APACHE PM Office during the early 80's. Is it supposed to be a stealth version of the AH-64 with better flight control, targeting and vision systems?

[Rams the Legends live on]

Just found this story
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-secre ... d=13530693
and this
http://theaviationist.com/2012/05/01/st ... -hawk-new/
and this
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/stealt ... sama-raid/

The rotor system on those modified Blackhawks must be incredible. Blades must spin at very low rotational speeds to eliminate the supersonic air chop that creates the really loud noise on the forward moving blades. Must have been cool flying in them.

I am a member of a history web site and we have Americans, British, Anzacs, Canucks and a few other nationalities there. So while we always argue over who has the best Army or special ops we all agree American bar none is the air power and air superiority of the world. It is really amazing what we have been doing since WW2 with aircraft.

America and America. Having working with other nations special operations, they're all very good, especially SAS, afterall that's who we modeled many of our special operations off of.

My experience though, American special operations are always less hesitant in combat, more lethal. The techniques are largely the same, and the equipment is as well, the biggest difference is that American forces were quicker to move forward and quicker to shoot on almost levels, which to me gives us an edge. We had the discipline to hold fire when needed and the balls to overwhelm the enemy with violence when necessary. Lethal combination.

Hooah bro, how long did ya serve? I like your break down bro and your take. I always at the end of the day have to give us the nod as to me the tech advantage is a big one and one that is noticeable so. Why many forces world wide buy our tech so they can include it in their kits and arsenal. Us in the west we are so civilized though. I am sure ya have had opportunities to watch other forces train as well. From my experience of forces I have seen train directly and some on film. The Russians are just brutal. The number of training deaths they have is something that would never fly in our country or any other western country. The Turks are another one who just train brutal after I would watch them train I could always walk away and say yea I can so believe every historical account I have read of the fighting prowess of the Ottomans after I would see them train.

Anyway if I recall correct I believe I read before ya was a Ranger so hooah there bro as that is no easy ground to chew. For those who have never served I don't think they ever truly understand how encompassing service is and how uncle Sam takes over every aspect of your life. So it takes a lot of fortitude to live the lifestyle uncle Sam molds ya into. So all respect bro to the life ya had to live and in fact the one ya will have to live henceforth as I once told a girlfriend what is often so problematic for us vets mentally is ya can never unlearn what ya have learned and ya can never unsee what ya have seen.

[Stranger]

by the way, the APACHE PM office was on Goodfellow in St Louis. Back then, I went to cardinal baseball and football games. how ironic that my childhood Ramsa would move in approx a dozen yrs later.

[Rams the Legends live on]

So while we always argue over who has the best Army or special ops we all agree American bar none is the air power and air superiority of the world. It is really amazing what we have been doing since WW2 with aircraft.

I spent my early career helping create that air superiority. I didn't realize just how special all that work was, until now... much later in my life. Back then, I was just a kid who loved everything that flew

Sometimes I wish I would have stayed in the field. I was on a pretty cool career path. But alas, I was young and stupid and had lots of other stuff I wanted to do

That is so cool bro I so understand as well as how young and stupid sure does make us look back one day and say dang what was I thinking when I made that other choice. Sometimes when I do as such I come away wondering did I hate me is why I did that...............LOL Anyway so call bro

[max]

by the way, the APACHE PM office was on Goodfellow in St Louis. Back then, I went to cardinal baseball and football games. how ironic that my childhood Ramsa would move in approx a dozen yrs later.

Yup. The Comanche PM office was there also in the 80's. It was called LHX back then and I gave a few briefings there, it was my first trip to STL. And the first and only time I went to the top of the arch.

I did a lot of research on the AH-64, during the 80's, that aircraft was a maintenance nightmare.

[bubbaramfan]

Appriciate your service bros. I served in the Army 10 years from '80-'91. MOS 12C (combat engineer). Basic in Ft. Leonard Wood. 293rd Combat Heavy Karlsrue, Gernamy. 864th Combat Engrs, Ft. Lewis. Deployed with 9th Delta Force to Honduras for 11 months to assist Contras against Sandanistas in El Salvadore. 13 months on DMZ Korea with 2nd ID at Camp Stanley. 3 years 52nd Combat Engrs Ft. Carson, Deployed '90-91 Iraq and Kiwait for Desert Storm-Freedom. Purple Heart,(shrapnel wound), Meritorious Sevice Medal, 2 Amry Commedation Medal. 3 Overseas Sevice Madals, and 3 Good Conduct Medals. I'm proud to have served,and would do it again if I were younger.