The test base is a scale-model F/A-18E/F that loses its starboard wing in mid air and uses the aircraft's INS and a GPS system to land the aircraft at the nearest friendly airfield.
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Taken its logical conclusion, this would increase the survivability of aircraft and their crew- catastrophic damage being relative rather than absolute as before. I suppose this is a very advanced development of the FBW systems found in the previous and current generations of Stealth aircraft and the F-16. It is truly a remarkable achievement.
I can only imagine than an A-10 equipped with this system would be more survivable than any of its contemporaries.
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Taken its logical conclusion, this would increase the survivability of aircraft and their crew- catastrophic damage being relative rather than absolute as before. I suppose this is a very advanced development of the FBW systems found in the previous and current generations of Stealth aircraft and the F-16. It is truly a remarkable achievement.
I can only imagine than an A-10 equipped with this system would be more survivable than any of its contemporaries.