You mean if the components (engines, radar etc) are taken care of? They don't have the ability to do that kind of engine right now, and I say that as a huge SpaceX fan. Rocket engines are much, much easier than high performance jets.
Actually though that'd be interesting if they took the iterative, hardware rich test early and hard approach honestly. If only because it's been so long since the US did that. But assuming for some reason he was taking it seriously, it'd take a solid 15-20 years to see results, they'd build up just like at SpaceX, do trainer jets and so on first. They didn't do Starship day 1, they did Falcon 1. To be designing an ASF now they'd have to have started doing jets in the mid 2000s.
Another issue would be the need to manage a lot of subcontractors and integration. SpaceX and Tesla have both gone big on vertical integration, but that doesn't work for fighters at this point. Nobody can do it all. He doesn't really have the right personality for that.
Still would be interested in theory to see what designs they came up with using a SpaceX (ie, US in general in the 1950s and 1960s) development methodology, with the aim of mass producing and ironing stuff out in real flight early. But we never will.
>Tesla Model-J >Li-Ion jet >developed in record speed (10 weeks
) >chinese parts >somewhat similar to Nighthawk in shape >"your troony diversity hires at Boeing can't match the excellence of Musk" >fails 99 out of 100 tests >never enters service >shills still call it a success
>made entirely out of lithium >is subsidized by the government >design is flat-out stolen from someone worth a damn and they're threatened with litigation if they dare say anything
Musk is on record as believing unmanned fighter drones will replace manned fighters due to pilot G limits, human pilots can't hang with a continous 12g turn
It's an easily quantified metric for normies to understand compared to networked sensor fusion which privileges AI even more. I'm not saying Musk doesn't legitimately believe some dumb things, but he does deliberately dumb down his dialogue when addressing the masses.
>Has glaring vulnerabilities allowing Russians to take control of it >He does nothing despite despite widespread outcry and white supremacists using the same exploits
>Has glaring vulnerabilities allowing Russians to take control of it
Yeah but then he just openly sells it to the chinese anyway because I can't stop deepthroating Xi.
A fully unamnned design without space for a pilot.
He focuses on a super duper missile that can kill air and ground targets.
First day of invading a sand people nation it teamkills a patriot radar because it locked onto it to interrogate.
FighterX declares that a human pilot was actually more likely to do this mistake anyways actually.
The more quotes I read from this guy the more of a nutter I think he is. It seems like all his successful endeavors are the ones he's currently not involved in.
>Musk designs a 6th gen fighter. >Describe it.
Bad copy of a harrier that blows up on take off and has every brainlet calling him a genius over. It will be funded by a gofundme for dildos shaped like elons dick that will be bought by every gme and dogecoin holder on earth
Elona hypes it up, says it will be rocket powered, AI-driven and capable of reaching mach 20, capable of coordinating air strikes with starlink anywhere in the world. Then after 5 years he quietly sweeps it until the rug. Next gen jet? What jet? Check of these le e/b/in doge menes!
It's stupid, sucks, is a tax payer money pit, but for some reason people will see it as part of their identity politics nonsense ans defend it no matter what because that Kaffir-lover has a cult of personality around anything he does.
>It's actually four different fighters >The first is actually just a chink produced sukhoi airframe with a xboxhueg jammer strapped to the bottom >subsequent models are actually original designs (quality debatable) >After 2 years of production all control system redundancy and any radar capable of detecting terrain features is stripped out to save costs >designed to autonomously avoid terrain despite not having any terrain sensing radar (and it automatically turns off 1 second before impacting the ground) >will sometimes decide to cut the throttle and apply full brakes during takeoff because a rabbit moved one nano angstrom too close to the runway >naval version does it too for some reason >No stick, throttle control or pedals to be seen, you will control the craft purely based off of eye movement and a touch screen >FRICK SMOOTH SURFACES WE HYPERION IN THIS b***h
He probably just buy some small-medium aircraft company that is trying to pioneer something radically new and try to use it to larp himself as a great innovator.
bonus point: the range possible on the hardware is artificially limited if you don't pay a dumb goyim tax
It'd probably look like your classic saucer UFO, be equipped with a completely untested MARAUDER plasma gun and designed to pass the karman line. The first 20 or so would also explode in very public launch attempts.
Optionally manned, VTOL, smooth style stealth, really fast, precise maneuvering, extremely good computer systems, escape pod rather than traditional ejection seats. It'd be more like the SpaceX Falcon 9s than any of his Tesla offerings.
First prototypes explode one way or another during testing. These would be used to iron out problems and figure things out. The first eventual successes aren't just a regular success, but downright amazing first of it's kind historical milestone type successes. During early years a few production fighters explode but nothing explodes while actually manned. After enough time no more planes of that model explode instead working shockingly well and with longer successful lifespans than you'd expect. The next model starts life largely the same as the last however but with less explosions due to previous lessons learned.
>looks
omg it's just like in my marvel movies >price
apple tax tier >reliability
what's that lol >weapon systems
none, but promises all sorts of outlandish shit that never materializes >adopters
poos, probably, if they can afford it
>seems awesome in every way >entire fleet gets btfo at the same time by some new EW thing or crashses due to a bug due being built with agile >he says not to worry, they will send out an update and you'll win the next war
It's like any other fighter but shit.
Go back to your SpaceX thread loser
Like the f-35 only this time all the chink and russoid propaganda about it is true.
Blows up 4 minutes after takeoff
>flies up
>explodes
>everyone is clapping
3rd gen fighter
Vaporware
It explodes if you don't pay your Twitter checkmark.
You mean if the components (engines, radar etc) are taken care of? They don't have the ability to do that kind of engine right now, and I say that as a huge SpaceX fan. Rocket engines are much, much easier than high performance jets.
Actually though that'd be interesting if they took the iterative, hardware rich test early and hard approach honestly. If only because it's been so long since the US did that. But assuming for some reason he was taking it seriously, it'd take a solid 15-20 years to see results, they'd build up just like at SpaceX, do trainer jets and so on first. They didn't do Starship day 1, they did Falcon 1. To be designing an ASF now they'd have to have started doing jets in the mid 2000s.
Another issue would be the need to manage a lot of subcontractors and integration. SpaceX and Tesla have both gone big on vertical integration, but that doesn't work for fighters at this point. Nobody can do it all. He doesn't really have the right personality for that.
Still would be interested in theory to see what designs they came up with using a SpaceX (ie, US in general in the 1950s and 1960s) development methodology, with the aim of mass producing and ironing stuff out in real flight early. But we never will.
>Tesla Model-J
>Li-Ion jet
>developed in record speed (10 weeks
)
>chinese parts
>somewhat similar to Nighthawk in shape
>"your troony diversity hires at Boeing can't match the excellence of Musk"
>fails 99 out of 100 tests
>never enters service
>shills still call it a success
>dismal reviews
>writers of negative reviews get called pedos and have their blue icons removed
Forgot to add:
>covered in LED lights that serve no function
>Ends up with more bullshit mythos than the Avro Arrow
Markets it as the new frontier american exclusive fighter, then sells it to both Russian and China
Something like a A-10 but half as fast and zero computers on board, ya know to keep it simple.
Unmanned high altitude stealth missile barge
>delay delivery
sorry bruv its so stealth we cant find inventory
>readily stolen by high schoolers with card skimmers
>Has an associated meme cryptocurrency that he pumps and dumps
>made entirely out of lithium
>is subsidized by the government
>design is flat-out stolen from someone worth a damn and they're threatened with litigation if they dare say anything
Musk is on record as believing unmanned fighter drones will replace manned fighters due to pilot G limits, human pilots can't hang with a continous 12g turn
>Musk fell for le supermaneuverability
Glad to know I'm smarter than him in something
It's an easily quantified metric for normies to understand compared to networked sensor fusion which privileges AI even more. I'm not saying Musk doesn't legitimately believe some dumb things, but he does deliberately dumb down his dialogue when addressing the masses.
something like picrel
>Has glaring vulnerabilities allowing Russians to take control of it
>He does nothing despite despite widespread outcry and white supremacists using the same exploits
>Has glaring vulnerabilities allowing Russians to take control of it
Yeah but then he just openly sells it to the chinese anyway because I can't stop deepthroating Xi.
A fiery ball of scrap metal
A fully unamnned design without space for a pilot.
He focuses on a super duper missile that can kill air and ground targets.
First day of invading a sand people nation it teamkills a patriot radar because it locked onto it to interrogate.
FighterX declares that a human pilot was actually more likely to do this mistake anyways actually.
>plastic rudder pedal snaps
it has all sorts of crazy sci-fi shit on it, but never gets built because mid way though he shifts focus to an unrelated project.
Supersonic
Electric
reusable rocket booster
Leather interior
Available to civilians on preorder
Beta testers get ai autopilot
It looks like nothing because Musk doesn't design anything, he's not an engineer, just some dude with a lot of money and some business sense.
comes from the factory with afterburners but you have to pay extra to unlock them
The more quotes I read from this guy the more of a nutter I think he is. It seems like all his successful endeavors are the ones he's currently not involved in.
Doesn't come out
>Musk designs a 6th gen fighter.
>Describe it.
Bad copy of a harrier that blows up on take off and has every brainlet calling him a genius over. It will be funded by a gofundme for dildos shaped like elons dick that will be bought by every gme and dogecoin holder on earth
Elona hypes it up, says it will be rocket powered, AI-driven and capable of reaching mach 20, capable of coordinating air strikes with starlink anywhere in the world. Then after 5 years he quietly sweeps it until the rug. Next gen jet? What jet? Check of these le e/b/in doge menes!
anyone that refuses to buy it gets a "pedophile" tag on twitter.
A stealthy V-22 except larger than a B-36
Multi-apex-referenced vector parralax technology.
It's stupid, sucks, is a tax payer money pit, but for some reason people will see it as part of their identity politics nonsense ans defend it no matter what because that Kaffir-lover has a cult of personality around anything he does.
It's just a missile.
>It's actually four different fighters
>The first is actually just a chink produced sukhoi airframe with a xboxhueg jammer strapped to the bottom
>subsequent models are actually original designs (quality debatable)
>After 2 years of production all control system redundancy and any radar capable of detecting terrain features is stripped out to save costs
>designed to autonomously avoid terrain despite not having any terrain sensing radar (and it automatically turns off 1 second before impacting the ground)
>will sometimes decide to cut the throttle and apply full brakes during takeoff because a rabbit moved one nano angstrom too close to the runway
>naval version does it too for some reason
>No stick, throttle control or pedals to be seen, you will control the craft purely based off of eye movement and a touch screen
>FRICK SMOOTH SURFACES WE HYPERION IN THIS b***h
He probably just buy some small-medium aircraft company that is trying to pioneer something radically new and try to use it to larp himself as a great innovator.
bonus point: the range possible on the hardware is artificially limited if you don't pay a dumb goyim tax
Has 3 engines because freemason
a piloted kamikaze lithium battery.
flies prototypes into cliffs until they work
still cheaper and better than lockheed's or boeing's offerings
If he wanted to he could make the best jet engine ever made but he won't because he can't sell them to normal people
The runway has to be rebuilt after takeoff, because he has skimped on the groundwork.
It can land vertically on its ass
It'd probably look like your classic saucer UFO, be equipped with a completely untested MARAUDER plasma gun and designed to pass the karman line. The first 20 or so would also explode in very public launch attempts.
Optionally manned, VTOL, smooth style stealth, really fast, precise maneuvering, extremely good computer systems, escape pod rather than traditional ejection seats. It'd be more like the SpaceX Falcon 9s than any of his Tesla offerings.
First prototypes explode one way or another during testing. These would be used to iron out problems and figure things out. The first eventual successes aren't just a regular success, but downright amazing first of it's kind historical milestone type successes. During early years a few production fighters explode but nothing explodes while actually manned. After enough time no more planes of that model explode instead working shockingly well and with longer successful lifespans than you'd expect. The next model starts life largely the same as the last however but with less explosions due to previous lessons learned.
>looks
omg it's just like in my marvel movies
>price
apple tax tier
>reliability
what's that lol
>weapon systems
none, but promises all sorts of outlandish shit that never materializes
>adopters
poos, probably, if they can afford it
>it has 4 cup holders
>seems awesome in every way
>entire fleet gets btfo at the same time by some new EW thing or crashses due to a bug due being built with agile
>he says not to worry, they will send out an update and you'll win the next war
It will be out next year.