They are reviving the Convair X-6!!!!!! This was the first and ONLY nuclear powered jet aircraft ever invented.
Likely this is due to unrelenting gas prices for the foreseeable future.
*HAPPENING*
Charles Roberts
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Ian Wright
wasn't nuclear powered
just carried a reactor onboard for research, but it didn't power the plane
Logan Gray
>25 year flight distance
can’t wait to put one in my rv8
Chase Allen
you're retarded. GOD I fucked hate this board. It was 100% absolutely being researched for air powered jet turbines
Cooper Bennett
How well nuclear reactor even works in a plane where you can't get much waster for cooling/heat exchange compared to submarines/powerplants?
Dylan Hall
I believe USSR had one too but the crew kept dying during ground tests so it never flew. Shielding was too heavy
Benjamin Richardson
it's very cold at high altitudes so cooling is easy
Hudson Evans
Oh boy
I can't wait for radioactive chemtrails
Isaiah Green
No shit, but they just tested shielding protection on the NB-36H. They found that the weight of the shielding alone took up 90% of the munitions carrying capacity, so they scrapped it, rightfully. They continued work on the indirect cycle engines, though, culminating into the HTRE-3
Tyler Peterson
They tested a TU-95 with a direct cycle reactor with no shielding. All the pilots got fucked. But, they chose pilots old enough as to not have them produce mutants.
Jonathan Scott
Would thorium perhaps work better?
It would still require an initial nuclear sustaimer but it would be far less plutonium/uranium
Also why couldn't they jsut make it into a tug that pulls a glider that carries all the passengers and cargo like WW2 gliders, that would mostly solve the radiation issue as you only need to cover the cockpit
Perhaps the glider can even have an engine so it can take off and hook onto a nuclear tug flying nearby
I realy just wish the nuclear era would actually come
Cooper Bell
Good lookin plane. They should bring back chrome fighters too.
Justin Thompson
Everything has to be covered with a layer of gay grey stealth coating nowandays
Parker Gomez
Nuclear aircraft aren't all that practical. However, there is an alternative. And the Russians are actually flight testing this.
Cameron Stewart
Brayden Thompson
Maybe not.
Grayson Smith
Nuclear ramjet is such a dumb weapon.
Caleb Flores
Mason Rodriguez
That's pretty fucking hot but i don't think they'd ever send such a thing into service
Unless they somehow invented a shiny stealth coat but that seems unlikely
Daniel Richardson
it's my impression that a nuclear reactor + fuel rods are rather heavy. could one small enough to fit on a plane even produce enough energy to take off and maintain flight? i'm not sure there was ever such a thing as a steam powered aircraft either.
Joseph Parker
Oh hey it's that meme plane the based Serbs BTFO.
Ian Perez
The F-22 is the test bed for the NGAD (6th gen fighter) stealth coating. It's pretty much exactly what will be on the production NGAD. The F-35 is being tested, too. It changes color from shiny silver to dull black, depending on viewing angle.
Cope.
Sebastian Morris
Hudson Watson
Ryan Roberts
link?
Carter Jenkins
Landon Gomez
Dominic Clark
Adrian Perez
F-35A
David Torres
Depends on how advanced the reactor design. Even small reactors can generate stupid amounts of power if they’re not basic bitch test reactors
Thomas Sanders
Jonathan Nelson
wouldn't the lead shielding needed to protecc the pilots be heavy as fuck though?
Lincoln Wright
Oh i didn't know that yet
That's pretty cool
Cooper Williams
how would you generate power without a supply of fresh water for steam? i suppose you could have a condenser and re-use the same water, but then you'd need batteries and electric motors for flight? i don't see how this would work.
Carter Cook
>shoot it out of the sky
>nuclear winter now rapes the continent
Dominic Lopez
You could use newer shielding methods like bismuth trioxide composites for lightweight shielding, along with ~4 inches of water. Or, just remove the pilots and make it a UAV, like the Navy is testing with the MQ-9 ;)
Christian Turner
>how would you generate power without a supply of fresh water for steam? i suppose you could have a condenser and re-use the same water, but then you'd need batteries and electric motors for flight? i don't see how this would work.
cont.
well, i guess it would be more practical to just have turbines directly powering the jets.
Landon Richardson
So a proto cloaking device?
Levi Brown
They're going to crash this as a cover for nuking some city.
Jacob Thompson
The problem isn't the water, you can always use the same water over and over of you have a high enough flow rate
The main problem is getting enough cooling to do so
Luckily planes have huge planes, their wings
And if those pass through the freezing cold stratosphere at subsonic speeds they can be used to displace what i'd imagine is a lot of heat
That assumes jt it is even driving a turbine for electricity, most designs directly pipe the heat from the reactor into an engine to rapidly expand air to convert it to thrust