As specified, the aircraft was to be capable of reaching 670 km/h (417 mph).
The RFP also specified an aircraft with a maximum speed of 460 mph, takeoff distance of 4000 feet, external load of 16000 pound, 285 mile mission radius, and a unit cost of US$1.4 million.
The colonel did not specify whether aircraft were engaged in airstrikes involving the use of missiles and bombs.
NATO requirement NBMR-3 specified a VTOL aircraft, but one with the performance of an aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom II along with VTOL capability.
I would get frequent-flier points and a seat on the aisle toward the front of the aircraft, as specified in my data profile.
To assess and ensure safety, it would be useful to be able to be able to predict the visibility, to a human observer, of an aircraft of specified size, shape, distance, and coloration.
However, there are already well-developed models for these atmospheric effects, which can calculate the reduction in contrast of the aircraft image at a specified distance under specified atmospheric conditions [6], [7].
The specified loadings were four distinct aircraft spectra: (1) "modified" center-wing spectrum performed as part of this study; (2) fighter aircraft maneuver spectrum; (3) lateral gust spectrum; and (4) pressurized fuselage gust and maneuver spectrum.
The report did not specify whether the aircraft was Israeli.
It has laid out guidelines for drone users that specify that unmanned aircraft must always be flown within the "line of sight" of the pilot, which it generally measures at 1,600ft horizontally and 400ft vertically.
At the end of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union, whose pilots regularly engaged in the same sort of aerial confrontations, signed an agreement detailing procedures for peacetime encounters between their forces, though it did not specify distances intercepting aircraft should keep.
