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ah, thx, you reminded of another clip I asked one of my buddies about. There's a clip of one of the tictacs that seems to grow and shrink several times. I asked my buddy if the pilot was just going through a zoom cycle or something and he said 'no. According to the HUD, the pilot is chasing the object at about 500 kts, when the tictac suddenly increases speed to several times that of the Hornet, apparently instantaneously or nearly so, then flies back towards the Hornet at about the same rate, then assumes the same speed/course as the Hornet .' The tictac performs this maneuver several times in just a few seconds in the clip. I asked my buddy how many Gs he thought it would take to perform such a maneuver, and he said, 'dozens, maybe as many as a hundred.' The F/A-18, a front-line USN fighter plane, is capable of just 30-odd Gs (the airframe, longitudinally, not the crew. humans can only survive a dozen Gs or so, and just for a second or a fraction of a second).
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Exactly. As well as tracked by the CVNs operating in the areas.
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